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Mystery and detective horror games on PC

65 mystery and detective horror games on PC, 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.

65 games

All mystery and detective horror games on pc

At Dead Of Night art: a lit-up Victorian hotel on a clifftop above the sea at night, with lightning in the storm clouds

Investigate the

At Dead Of Night

A seaside hotel, a landlord on the prowl, and ghosts with something to tell you.

PC

Backseat screenshot: from the taxi's driver seat at night, a man in sunglasses and a long coat waits by the road among dark trees

Backseat

Drive the night shift for your wife's kidnapper, and don't give the passenger a reason.

PC

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CARIMARA: a heron standing in a moonlit pond at the end of an overgrown garden path, with a stone frog in the foreground

Investigate the

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

A mute little sorcerer, a murmuring house and the questions you should not ask.

PC / Mac

Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. key art: the lit porch of a white house with green shutters at night

Investigate the

Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.

A one-man ghost-hunting business, one haunted property at a time.

PC

A Daemonologie nightmare: a pale hand reaching from the dark between trees, beside the menu with the Wake Up button

Daemonologie

Find the witch in a Scottish village before the last morning.

PC

Darkness Within key art: a close-up of a terrified face with a huge dark eye and a hand pressed against it, a pale figure in a doorway behind

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

A detective chases an occult murder suspect into his own nightmares.

PC

Dead Secret key art: a white farmhouse among bare trees on the Kansas plain, with a crow spreading its wings

Multiple endings

Dead Secret

Solve a professor's murder in 1965 Kansas before his masked killer finds you.

PC / Mac / VR / PlayStation

Deadly Premonition key art in black and white: a worried blonde woman on the left and the scarred face of agent York on the right

Investigate the

Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut

Hunt the Raincoat Killer through a strange small town and the shadowy world beneath it.

PC / Switch

Demonologist key art: a pale girl with dark eyes and grimy cheeks stares out of the dark beside two lit candles

Demonologist

Find out what haunts a cursed place, then exorcise it before it kills you.

PC

Enigma of Fear key art: Mia with a flashlight and pistol, her dog Lupi and the Ordo Realitas agents before a dark house under huge glowing eyes

Multiple endings

Enigma of Fear

Find your missing father in a place that does not exist, and keep your sanity.

PC

Feed The Pit art: black silhouettes of people falling against a red sky into a pit ringed with spikes

Feed The Pit

Hunt the wealthy through a haunted forest, one question card at a time, for The Pit.

PC

Firework screenshot: two policemen in a dark green-lit alley beside a brick wall painted with Believe in science, not superstition

Firework

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

PC / Switch

FOREWARNED screenshot: a withered mummy with glowing eyes and a burning chest walks toward the player down a tomb corridor

FOREWARNED

Name the mummy haunting an Egyptian tomb before it hunts your team down.

PC / VR

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers key art: the gold title over pixel-art scenes of a man holding a torch, a skull mask and fire

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

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

PC

A body draped over a pile of old wheelchairs under a dark TV in a decaying asylum room, a phone held up in the foreground

GET EVEN

A girl, a chair, a bomb, and an asylum where you relive it all.

PC

Ghost Exile wide art: a glowing red ritual circle with a candle on the floor of a dark room

Ghost Exile

Identify the ghost, then exile it before it turns on you.

PC

Ghost Watchers key art: a flashlight beam crosses a dark living room with an armchair, while a pale clawed ghost floats in the doorway behind

Ghost Watchers

Hunt ghosts and demons in abandoned houses, alone or with friends.

PC

Heaven Does Not Respond key art: an old CRT computer on a desk spattered red, with a coffee cup and scattered papers

Heaven Does Not Respond

Recover a dead man's files from a 2005 computer that is learning.

PC

Lisa, a smiling girl in a Green Day T-shirt, tells you there's a big Halloween party tonight, with classroom scenes behind her

Multiple endings

Help! I Took My Little Brother to a Halloween Party and the Popular Kids Want to Sacrifice Him to a Demon!

Halloween 2004, a party full of theatre kids, and a demon that wants your little brother.

PC / Mac / Linux

JR's

Find the possessed animatronic before it finds you.

PC

KARMA: The Dark World key art: a pale young man with wet hair and a heavy collar, lit from above against black

KARMA: The Dark World

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Kinophobia cover: the title in white over a black-and-white photo of a wrecked car half-buried in a desert hillside

Kinophobia

An exorcist, a cursed film studio and fifty years of deaths to explain.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Kona: the Magasin General store at night in the snow, a pickup and a snowmobile parked by the fuel pumps

Kona

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

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

last seen online screenshot: a dithered pink photo of a dark-haired girl making a peace sign behind floating hearts, found on the old computer

last seen online

Snoop through a stranger's old computer and find out what it hides.

Browser / PC

Leaftaker cover: the title in white serif letters on the black screen of an old monitor

Leaftaker

When Stephen Hester died, his grave was already occupied.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

lily's world XD key art: pastel early-2000s computer windows around a pixelated photo of a dark-haired girl with a black bar over her eyes

lily's world XD

A missing girl's 2004 laptop, and someone else is logged in.

PC

Mister Jack

Whitechapel, 1888. Dr. Watson's daughter goes after the Ripper.

Browser / PC

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

Investigate the

No Players Online

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

PC

Observer: System Redux screenshot: a dark, wet apartment full of cables and green-lit monitors, with a body slumped against the wall in the light of a heater

Observer: System Redux

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Two women at an old phone booth, one holding the receiver as a voice warns that the island will become a bloodbath unless she takes the last ferry alone

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

A summer island, a mermaid legend and seven curses to survive.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

PARANORMASIGHT key art: the cast of cursed characters crowded under a pale-faced ghost with long dark hair

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

Cursed strangers hunt each other through Showa-era Tokyo to raise the dead.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

Project Unknown key art: four exorcists in silhouette with glowing tools and a small dog walk toward a mansion in green fog

Project Unknown

Exorcise the ghost from a client's house, and keep the lights low.

PC

Rehaunted key art: a pale woman with dark hair and a wide, unnatural grin leaning out of the dark

Rehaunted

Search a dead woman's house where the evidence keeps changing its story.

PC

Return to Shironagasu Island key art: a black-haired schoolgirl falling with a red apple, a red thread and an old book

Return to Shironagasu Island

A dead millionaire's invitation, an island mansion, and a demon nobody will explain.

PC / Mac / Switch / iPhone

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 town that worships something else.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Sara is Missing title art: glitched white letters over a distorted image of a woman

Multiple endings

Sara is Missing

A stranger's phone, and the last days of the woman who owned it.

PC / Mac / Android / iPhone

Scarlet Hollow: a grey, hand-inked creature with a swollen face rears up in the dark, something sharp sliding from its open mouth

Scarlet Hollow

Survive a week in a mountain town where something preys on more than livestock.

PC / Mac / Linux

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a vast tentacled shape with red eyes in green fog

Investigate the

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

Sherlock Holmes meets the Cthulhu Mythos, and is afraid.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

A hand holds a spirit box with a red display against swirling black-and-white lines as Alicia says Let's give this a try

Silver Thread : Deux

A haunted theatre, a sceptical exorcist and a spirit box.

Browser / PC

Alicia stands with arms crossed beside a pixel-art living room, saying they should look for clues about this supposed haunting

Silver Thread : Episode 3

A mother says she is haunted. Alicia thinks something worse is going on.

Browser / PC

Alicia, a pale woman with long silver hair in a striped shirt and waistcoat, speaks in a client's pixel-art living room

Silver Thread : Episode I

An exorcist who does not believe in ghosts takes a routine case.

Browser / PC

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, and a case nobody else will touch.

PC / iPhone / Android

Snarl cover: a figure in a top hat with a bandaged face and a huge white grin, over yellow title letters

Snarl

A diner, two detectives and a gray man with a shimmering smile.

Browser / PC

Sniper Killer key art: a masked figure with a scoped rifle in the dark, and a bloodied man slumped against a lit brick wall

Investigate the

Sniper Killer

Play the city's sniper and the detective hunting him.

PC

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark art: a man in a suit with a face overgrown by red flowers lunges out of the dark

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Bear the Mark, hunt the spirit that cursed you, or die within days.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II art: a spirit with many eyes and insects crawling over its face grabs at a man in a coat in a dark brick corridor

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II

Go undercover at a cursed academy where death notices come true.

PC / PlayStation / Switch