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Mystery and detective horror games on PlayStation

17 mystery and detective horror games on PlayStation, 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.

17 games

All mystery and detective horror games on playstation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spirit Hunter: NG key art: a young man in a dark jacket and a girl with a bow on a deserted night street by a station

Spirit Hunter: NG

The urban legends are real, and they have followed you home.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Terminal 81 key art: a supermarket's lit sign and parked cars on a dark, misty street at night

Terminal 81

A supermarket job in a São Paulo neighbourhood where women go missing.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

A patient sits on a green leather couch facing you, with the question box and patient list on screen

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

Investigate the

The Sinking City Remastered

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter key art: a dark-haired figure on an autumn forest path, the scene torn open to a grey, ruined world beneath

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Urban Myth Dissolution Center key art: Director Ayumu Meguriya pointing at the viewer in front of yellow clouds and a glowing halo, in pixel art

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Hunt down internet urban myths that turn out to be real.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

WORLD OF HORROR screenshot: a young heiress with a strange symbol on her necklace, drawn in 1-bit black and white pixel art

Multiple endings

WORLD OF HORROR

A 1-bit roguelite of cursed mysteries as the Old Gods wake over a Japanese town.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Switch