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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

The Skin Stapler screenshot: the killer in a stitched red skin mask bursting through glass

Investigate the

The Skin Stapler

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

PC

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

This is a Ghost screenshot: a bloodied pale figure stands in a doorway above a glowing pentagram

This is a Ghost

Identify the entity, learn how it died, then banish it with the right rounds.

PC

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

Who's Lila? key art: a dithered Polaroid of a young woman lies beside a fountain pen and a notebook with the number 3816, in red and grey

Who's Lila?

Make the right face, or let them see what you are hiding.

PC

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