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Mystery and detective horror games on GOG

38 mystery and detective horror games on GOG, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Investigating a mystery is a main way to play: gathering clues or evidence, questioning people, deducing what happened or who did it, as in Call of Cthulhu, The Sinking City or Phasmophobia's evidence hunting. A horror game with a mysterious story that the player only follows, without investigating, does not count.

38 games

Ghost horror games on GOG: the top 30, ranked · Small town horror games on GOG: the top 30, ranked · Phone horror games on GOG: the top 9, ranked · Computer horror games on GOG: the top 14, ranked · Amnesia horror games on GOG: the top 14, ranked · Folklore horror games on GOG: the top 16, ranked · Murder mystery horror games on GOG: the top 21, ranked · Island horror games on GOG: the top 23, ranked · Curse horror games on GOG: the top 20, ranked · Internet horror games on GOG: the top 7, ranked · Detective horror games on GOG: the top 19, ranked · Painting horror games on GOG: the top 9, ranked · Lake horror games on GOG: the top 11, ranked · Missing person horror games on GOG: the top 30, ranked · Horror games set in England on GOG: the top 17, ranked

All mystery and detective horror games on gog

Barrow Hill key art: a black crow flies before a full moon as lightning hits standing stones, with bare trees and a radio mast in silhouette under a stormy sky

Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

One night in the Cornish woods, and something waking under the barrow.

PC

Black Mirror II key art: a shattered-glass collage with a man seen from behind in fog facing a gothic castle, and small game scenes in the broken shards

Black Mirror II

A missing woman, a town full of secrets, and the castle that cursed them all.

PC

Black Mirror III key art: a smirking young man in a jacket above a burning gothic manor, a church, a graveyard and a heap of skulls

Black Mirror III

Freed from a cell, but not from the curse of Black Mirror Castle.

PC

Call of Cthulhu key art: a lone man in a coat stands before lit iron gates under twisted bare trees at night

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet key art: a man's wide, frightened eyes beside a bright comet in a dark blue sky, with the title in white letters

Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet

Photograph Halley's comet over a New England town that fears it.

PC / Linux

Dark Fall 2: Lights Out key art: a stone lighthouse on a rock in a teal storm, a big wave breaking at its base under dark clouds

Dark Fall 2: Lights Out

A lighthouse whose keepers vanished, and the fog that came with it.

PC

Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil key art: the derelict Harwood House with boarded windows and a rusty fire escape under a bright moon

Multiple endings

Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil

Spend your first all-night ghost vigil in a house haunted by more than one ghost.

PC

Dark Fall: Lost Souls key art: the pale ghost of a uniformed porter reaches out a hand beside giant rusty, bloodied scissors and an old television in a grimy room

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

Five years after Amy vanished, the Inspector goes back to Dowerton Station.

PC

Dark Fall: The Journal library art: a dark blue hotel corridor lit by pink glass wall lamps, with a framed portrait of a woman and a window shadow at the far end

Dark Fall: The Journal

Find your missing brother in an empty railway hotel where something is listening.

PC

Dreams in the Witch House key art: old gabled houses and bare trees under a green night sky, one attic window glowing purple

Dreams in the Witch House

Two months in Arkham to prepare a student for May-Eve.

PC

Firework key art: orange silhouetted figures, one with an umbrella, stand on a dark ember-lit ridge under a grey misty sky, above the title FIREWORK

Firework

Reopen a village massacre case where the dead may not have been killed by the living.

PC / Switch

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within key art: the title over a blurred, snarling wolf-like head with bared teeth

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

A werewolf in Bavaria, and the last of the Schattenjägers.

PC

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers key art: the title over a pixelated red and orange collage of a man holding a flame and a pale beaked mask

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

A horror writer chases the Voodoo Murders into his own family's past.

PC

KARMA: The Dark World key art: monochrome portrait of a wet-haired young man in a padded suit with a thick collar and numbered chest plate, lit from above on black

KARMA: The Dark World

Dive into the minds of the accused in a dystopian 1984.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Kona key art: the yellow KONA title on white snow, with the dark silhouette of a man's legs and his long shadow

Kona

A detective, a blizzard and a village with no one left in it.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

No Players Online key art: an old CRT monitor floating in dark clouds shows a courtyard map with a red flag, a pistol beside it

No Players Online

An old computer, an empty game server, and someone still playing.

PC

Observer: System Redux

A cyberpunk detective hacks into the minds of the dead in a 2084 tenement.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background

Pathologic 2

Twelve days to save a town from a plague you cannot kill.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror

Pathologic 3

Twelve days, a plague and the power to go back and fix your mistakes.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Saint Kotar key art: a bloodied man in glasses leans on a companion before hooded figures, a church tower and crows under a full moon

Saint Kotar

Two devout men, a missing sister and a Croatian town that tortures its heretics.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Saturnalia key art: a glowing magenta horned mask hovering before a dark staircase and tangled branches, under the white hand-lettered title

Saturnalia

Four strangers, one Sardinian village, a ritual night that keeps rebuilding the streets.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Scarlet Hollow key art: a frightened blonde young woman in front of a decaying mansion as a veiled figure with glowing eyes reaches toward her

Scarlet Hollow

Survive a week in an Appalachian mining town where something in the woods preys on more than…

PC / Mac / Linux

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a giant tentacled creature with glowing red eyes looms out of green fog and rain

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

Sherlock Holmes meets the Cthulhu Mythos, and is afraid.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

SIMULACRA key art: a dark-haired woman stands before a wall of phone screens showing apps, photos and chats, with pink streaks across them

Multiple endings

SIMULACRA

A missing woman's phone, and something inside it.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

SIMULACRA 2 key art: a woman holding a glowing phone stands among four other characters against a purple ink-blot background

Multiple endings

SIMULACRA 2

A dead influencer's wiped phone, an obsessed detective and three suspects.

PC / iPhone / Android

The Beast Inside key art: a top-hatted figure made of tangled roots and blood holding a man

The Beast Inside

A codebreaker, a diary from the 1860s and a family nightmare that crosses a century.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Black Mirror key art: a gothic castle silhouette with a lit round window and an orange occult seal against a blood-red stormy sky

The Black Mirror

Come home to a cursed castle where every death leaves the same red mark.

PC

Painted art of Thomasina Bateman at a rain-streaked window, her reflection in the glass, looking out at a moor where cracks of pink light spread from a stone barrow

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

A Victorian dig on the Yorkshire moors, and something waiting in the soil.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker key art: a black tentacled skull silhouette on a glowing green mosaic, with the title in pale serif letters

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

Treat a dead doctor's patients, and find out which one killed him.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Last Crown: Midnight Horror key art: ghost-hunters Nigel and Lucy in black and white with green ghostly smoke and photographs of a sheeted ghost

The Last Crown: Midnight Horror

One Halloween night to find what haunts the old inn by the harbour.

PC

The Lost Crown key art: a pale, white-eyed girl beside a clawed, bloodied window with a shadowy hatted figure behind it, crows in dead trees, and the title

The Lost Crown

Hunt ghosts with a night-vision camera in a fog-bound English town.

PC

The Occultist key art: a bearded man in a jacket dangles a skull pendulum before a glowing teal occult circle of runes

The Occultist

A cult's abandoned island, a missing father and a pendulum that sees the dead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

The Sinking City Remastered key art: a detective with a gun wades a flooded street as a vast tentacled shape looms in the mist

Multiple endings

The Sinking City Remastered

A detective, a drowning 1920s town and the madness that came with the flood.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

The Skin Stapler key art: a grinning killer in sunglasses holds up a bloody skin mask over a moonlit city, while two detectives stand back to back, one aiming a revolver

The Skin Stapler

Hunt a killer who staples his victims' skin to the walls.

PC

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter key art: a boy seen from behind on an autumn forest path, the scene torn open by a burning rift into a grey, skull-strewn world

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

An occult detective relives a family's murders in a beautiful, empty valley.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 Enhanced Edition key art: a pale woman with long black hair over her face holding a finger to her lips, beside the scratched title

True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1

Follow your missing sister's trail through a decayed house, a family manor and an abandoned…

PC / Mac / Switch / iPhone / PlayStation / Xbox / Android

True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 key art: title beside a pale cracked-mask figure holding a finger to its lips, in a dark hole in cracked blue ice

True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2

Holly's search reaches the Dark Falls Asylum, and something follows her in.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 key art: a pale woman behind a cracked oval mirror, a clawed grey hand raised to hush, in a wall of roots and gold frames

True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3

The end of Holly's search, and the truth about her family.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android / Xbox