Best Mystery Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated mystery games.

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Chased by Darkness Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 01 Jun 2021
The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!

Price -40% 1.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 31 May 2021
Kaigrad Kaigrad - is a non-linear visual novel in the genre of dark fantasy. The action takes place in a world where Light comes only from people, animals and all living things. The darkness is near. You have to find out what happened here, who is to blame for this and try to fix it!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 26 May 2021
Erica Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 May 2021
How We Got Here You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 18 May 2021
Dinner with an Owl Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 18 May 2021
Untrusted Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking / social deduction game: as an hacker, hack your target - as an undercover agent, disrupt the operation. Follow your objective or kill everyone - the choice is yours.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 May 2021
Exit From Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.

Price -70% 2.92€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Apr 2021
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Price -94% 0.97€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Apr 2021
He Needs His Medicine You have been dispatched for a 911 call. From the moment you step inside the apartment, you realize something is really wrong with the place. You are gonna make Him the last dosage. He needs his medicine.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Apr 2021
Before Your Eyes Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Price -90% 1.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Apr 2021
From The Darkness From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Mar 2021
I Saw Black Clouds After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines.

Price -80% 2.97€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 Mar 2021
Narita Boy Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!

Price -99% 0.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Mar 2021
Paradise Lost It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

Price -91% 1.39€
Rating 6.3
Release 24 Mar 2021
Machinika: Museum Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Mar 2021
9-nine-:Episode 4 Kakeru and his friends uncover the identity of the mastermind behind the incidents in Shiromitsugawa as the story shifts to focus on Noa Yuuki, a girl with a strong sense of justice. What secrets will they uncover about the Artifacts and the bonds that ties them all together?

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Mar 2021
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.

Price -82% 1.13€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Mar 2021
Adios A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Mar 2021
Mundaun Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.

Price -70% 5.54€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Mar 2021
Mitoza It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Mar 2021
Introvert: A Teenager Simulator One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 02 Mar 2021
Maquette Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Price -78% 4.30€
Rating 6.7
Release 02 Mar 2021
Re: LieF ~ Shin'ainaru Anata e~ "Re: LieF ~ Shin'ainaru Anata e~" is produced by Japanese visual novel brand Rask. First launched in 2016, it was praised as a "Dark Horse of the year" by visual novel users. It also won the Golden Award for the screenplay of Moe Game Award.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Feb 2021
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Feb 2021
Titan Chaser Titan Chaser is a surreal driving and walking experience, meant to evoke a feeling of being lost and discovering something mystical at your own pace instead of structured gameplay mechanics. Your job here is to scout giant creatures and scare them away without fighting or killing.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Feb 2021
Suicide Countdown: 7 Days Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?

Price 2.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 12 Feb 2021
The Room 4: Old Sins The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

Price 8.49€
Rating 9.6
Release 11 Feb 2021
Potentia Third person shooter action adventure game with post-apocalyptic theme. Witness the adventures of Victor and his friends in this abandoned world.

Price 10.25€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Feb 2021
NUTS NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.

Price -90% 2.45€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Feb 2021
Boodunnit Boodunnit?! is an adventure-sandbox game where you play as a ghost that has to solve the mystery of her own murder!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 03 Feb 2021
Firework An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.6
Release 03 Feb 2021
Cyber Manhunt Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Price -63% 3.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Feb 2021
回门 Way Back Home "Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.8
Release 29 Jan 2021
ENCODYA Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.

Price -98% 0.71€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Jan 2021
Zardy's Maze Zardy's Maze is an extremely challenging horror game where you must enter a corn maze in the dead of night. Your goal? Cut down the giant plants that have started to grow there. Equipped with a flashlight and an axe, you must brave the unknown... And avoid what lurks in the darkness.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Jan 2021

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