Best Mystery Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated mystery games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Mystery games on Steam.

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Samorost 3 Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Price -96% 0.80€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Mar 2016
The Guest 'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Mar 2016
The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times Find a way to destroy the ancient artifacts!

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Mar 2016
Shardlight A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.

Price -84% 2.42€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Mar 2016
CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel "Love is both poison and cure, both knife and remedy." Set in 18th Century France, this is a gothic romance tale about loss, revenge and the different faces of love.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Mar 2016
The Town of Light 12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.

Price -98% 0.55€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Feb 2016
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Feb 2016
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Price -95% 0.83€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Feb 2016
Layers of Fear (2016) Layers of Fear is a first-person psychedelic horror game with a heavy focus on story and exploration. Players take control of a painter whose sole purpose is to finish his Magnum Opus. The player must navigate a constantly changing Victorian-era mansion and ghastly visions of the painter’s psyche.

Price -80% 4.16€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2016
Downfall There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...

Price -64% 3.22€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2016
Firewatch Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 09 Feb 2016
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. You are the famous private detective Hercule Poirot and, once again, you find yourself up against a mysterious serial killer who goes by the name of "ABC".

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Feb 2016
Rusty Lake Hotel Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Price -72% 0.56€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Jan 2016
Eventide: Slavic Fable Explore the exciting world of slavic legends!

Price -96% 0.66€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Jan 2016
The Witness You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Price -92% 3.18€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jan 2016
INFRA INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Jan 2016
Oxenfree Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Price -49% 5.02€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jan 2016
Sepia Tears A visual novel about a memory that a boy named Mark tries very hard to forget, and a girl named Myra who unearths it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Jan 2016
Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief Discover the truth behind the myth and save the children!

Price -87% 2.05€
Rating 6.3
Release 07 Jan 2016
Aviary Attorney The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.

Price -96% 0.71€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Dec 2015
Dance of Death A mysterious and fascinating quest in Hidden Object genre.

Price -80% 0.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 21 Dec 2015
The Last Dream: Developer's Edition “Reality and dreams are about to become entwined…..” The Last Dream: Developer's Edition" is a casual adventure game which, despite having some classic casual elements, will also offer a greater challenge for more experienced gamers.

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Dec 2015
Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova Discover the source of dreadful evil!

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Dec 2015
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -1% 5.87€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015