Mystery Hidden Gems on Steam

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Siren Head: Awakening Siren Head: Awakening is a first-person horror game based on Trevor Henderson's artwork. You're stuck with your car in the middle of a dark forest with nothing but your flashlight. Seek escape by finding items necessary to survive while a terrifying monster lurks the shadows.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 30 Oct 2020
The Case Book of Arne A vampire and a girl... who are they? The two of them have a secret and solve a strange case... In a world where paranormal activity takes place, "Player" solves a case in which a non-human becomes a suspect. Such a "detective adventure" is coming to STEAM.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Oct 2020
Penko Park Snap pictures of spooky-cute creatures & explore an abandoned wildlife park.

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 23 Oct 2020
The Horror Of Salazar House Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!

Price -62% 1.26€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Oct 2020
The Signifier Director's Cut This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.

Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 7.5
Release 15 Oct 2020
Lucifer Within Us Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Price -90% 2.14€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Oct 2020
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?

Price -86% 1.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Oct 2020
ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.

Price 34.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Oct 2020
I Am Dead I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

Price -77% 4.36€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Oct 2020
Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Sep 2020
9-nine-:Episode 3 9-nine-: Episode 3 is the latest chapter in this series of supernatural mystery visual novels with the focus now shifted towards a new heroine, Haruka Kosaka.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Aug 2020
Rainy Season This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Aug 2020
Metamorphosis Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Price -95% 1.44€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Aug 2020
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town A letter from 10 years ago, an intricate web of lies to unravel and a mystery to solve. Explore an unconventional town of pirates, dive into the past, collect items and look for clues to help Willy find out what happened to his father...

Price -23% 12.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Aug 2020
Flowers -Le volume sur automne- As the summer heat fades, Suoh Shirahane is just one step away from unraveling the mystery of why her beloved Amitie partner left in the spring.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Jul 2020
Paper Beast An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Jul 2020
Booth: A Dystopian Adventure The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Jul 2020
Death Come True Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!

Price 13.29€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Jul 2020
Friendly Fire Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Jul 2020
The Swine Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.

Price 1.09€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2020
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明 Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020
A Hand With Many Fingers Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Jun 2020
Methods: The Detective Competition One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.

Price -74% 5.11€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Jun 2020
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Price -50% 4.93€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2020
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2020
VirtuaVerse VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Price -19% 12.21€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 May 2020
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 09 May 2020
Wintermoor Tactics Club Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.

Price -95% 0.74€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 May 2020
Lucid Dream Lucid Dream is Point and Click horror game. The girl dream of being trapped in a weird place even though you fell asleep as always. Collect the item and Find clues! Escape and wake up from the dream!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 04 May 2020
Knock Harder The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2020
Heal Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Apr 2020
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Price -89% 1.59€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Feb 2020
Metaphobia Metaphobia is an investigative mystery game in the style of classic 1990’s point-and-click adventures. Take control of Richard Elmstat in his journey to solve his father's murder.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Feb 2020
Knock Harder: Useless The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Jan 2020
Hotel Sowls Hotel Sowls is a mysterious adventure game with unique and appealing 2D graphics. As an pharmacologist, you managed to get a valuable and mysterious stone after a hard journey and you decided to take a break at the Hotel Sowls. But the next morning, someone in the hotel stole the stone!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 31 Dec 2019

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