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Mystery and detective horror games on Steam

54 mystery and detective horror games on Steam, 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.

54 games

All mystery and detective horror games on steam

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

The Chrono Jotter key art: two schoolgirls in dark uniforms mirrored inside an ornate clock-like frame

The Chrono Jotter

Rewind time after every murder at a derelict forest school.

PC

The Dark Rites of Arkham key art: a detective in a fedora holds a revolver as huge toothed jaws and tentacles loom out of a blue night behind him

The Dark Rites of Arkham

A sealed-room ritual murder, two Arkham detectives and witches who escaped Salem.

PC

Illustrated scene of a 1930s car with its headlights on in the rain outside a large country house at night, a man and a woman standing beside it

The Incident at Galley House

Listen in on the night of a 1936 massacre and work out who died, and how.

PC / Mac / Linux

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 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

A dark institution room lit red by a ceiling lamp, with an old wheelchair and empty bed frames

The Other Side

Identify the ghost, then find what binds it and cleanse the place.

PC

The Séance of Blake Manor: the front of the large stone manor at night in the rain, a few windows lit

Multiple endings

The Séance of Blake Manor

Find a missing woman before the séance on All Hallows' Eve.

PC / Linux

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

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The Sinking City Remastered

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox