Best Mystery games on PC
Games built around unanswered questions, hidden information, or events that the player gradually pieces together. Players explore, follow clues, and sometimes solve puzzles to uncover the story.
- Clues and hidden information
- Gradual story discoveries
- Exploration and puzzle solving
Related: Exploration, Story Rich, Adventure, Puzzle
752 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
1000xRESIST
Sci-fi adventure about a clone uncovering secrets through memories
94% positive
7,033 reviews
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Noir detective adventure about a missing boxer and consequential choices
83% positive
6,979 reviews
Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies
Romance visual novel mixing café life with supernatural mystery
98% positive
6,949 reviews
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
First-person mystery adventure uncovering secrets in a stormbound hotel
68% positive
6,906 reviews
The White Door
Point-and-click puzzle adventure built around daily routines and lost memories
94% positive
6,866 reviews
Depersonalization
Lovecraftian role-playing mysteries with dice rolls and branching endings
93% positive
6,851 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Linear mystery visual novel about deaths in a rural village
96% positive
Free
Syberia
Point-and-click adventure following a lawyer searching for an inventor
88% positive
6,832 reviews
Tangle Tower
Point-and-click detective adventure about a murder in a strange mansion
95% positive
6,804 reviews
The House in Fata Morgana
Gothic visual novel tracing tragedies across a mysterious mansion's past
95% positive
6,726 reviews
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Short point-and-click mystery about a duck investigating a sausage conspiracy
95% positive
6,719 reviews
Marie's Room
First-person story exploration uncovers an old friendship's secrets in one room
93% positive
Free
POOLS
First-person horror exploration through empty, maze-like pool spaces
95% positive
6,707 reviews
Serena
Short point-and-click mystery told through objects in a remote cabin
77% positive
Free
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water
Mission-based horror adventure where a camera fights mountain ghosts
83% positive
6,543 reviews
Call of the Sea
First-person puzzle adventure tracing a missing expedition across a tropical island
88% positive
6,415 reviews
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Choice-driven visual novel about witches, divination cards, and coven politics
93% positive
6,407 reviews
The Painscreek Killings
Unguided detective mystery built on exploring and connecting clues
91% positive
6,403 reviews
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Choice-driven narrative adventure about friendship, punk music, and mystery
86% positive
6,370 reviews
Feign
Multiplayer social deduction with secret roles and a drawing mode
91% positive
6,348 reviews
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Linear visual novel about investigating paranormal urban legends
88% positive
6,319 reviews
Machinika: Museum
Point-and-click sci-fi puzzle game about repairing alien machines
93% positive
6,317 reviews
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
Branching third-person horror adventure inside a trap-filled hotel
55% positive
6,283 reviews
Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5
Open-world stealth horror with puzzles and a stalking creature
87% positive
Free