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.
Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
Point-and-click spy adventure built around clues and linked puzzles
95% positive
6,259 reviews
Creaks
Hand-drawn puzzle platformer through a mansion of furniture monsters
95% positive
6,180 reviews
Hello Neighbor Alpha 4
First-person stealth horror about sneaking through a watchful neighbor's house
83% positive
Free
Owlboy
Pixel-art action adventure with flying, platforming, and companion combat
83% positive
6,130 reviews
The Pedestrian
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer about rearranging and reconnecting public signs
97% positive
6,119 reviews
Forgive Me Father
Retro horror shooter with comic-book art and madness-powered combat
84% positive
6,100 reviews
The Casting of Frank Stone™
Choice-driven horror adventure about a killer's legacy and branching fates
62% positive
6,006 reviews
The Thaumaturge
Isometric detective RPG in Warsaw with demons and turn-based combat
83% positive
5,969 reviews
The Ship: Murder Party
First-person multiplayer hunt where you kill while evading your hunter
86% positive
5,942 reviews
Threefold Recital
Mystery visual novel where three heroes' stories converge
98% positive
5,791 reviews
Persona 3 Portable
Story-rich school-year JRPG with turn-based combat and two protagonist routes
81% positive
5,748 reviews
The Council
Episodic mystery adventure with skill-based conversations and lasting consequences
84% positive
Free
DreadOut
Third-person Indonesian horror with camera-based ghost encounters and puzzles
77% positive
5,716 reviews
Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
Point-and-click hacking investigations as a corporate AI assistant
93% positive
5,696 reviews
FAR: Changing Tides
2.5D puzzle adventure about keeping a ship moving through flooded ruins
93% positive
5,689 reviews
Selene ~Apoptosis~
Free horror visual novel with dark romance and branching endings
88% positive
Free
Samorost 3
Point-and-click space adventure with flute-driven puzzles across alien worlds
94% positive
5,573 reviews
The Hex
Single-player mystery game with six protagonists and genre-shifting flashbacks
94% positive
5,565 reviews
Hypnospace Outlaw
Point-and-click detective game policing a fictional 1990s internet
97% positive
5,565 reviews
SLUDGE LIFE
First-person island exploration with graffiti tags and strange encounters
91% positive
5,550 reviews
Boxes: Lost Fragments
Point-and-click puzzle adventure about unlocking boxes in a shifting mansion
93% positive
5,550 reviews
Eastshade
First-person island adventure with painting, exploration, and local quests
89% positive
5,522 reviews
Ghost Exorcism INC.
Co-op horror investigation where you identify and banish ghosts
76% positive
5,437 reviews
Murky Divers
First-person underwater co-op horror about clearing bodies from abandoned labs
87% positive
5,331 reviews