14 Best Mystery Games on Steam

Detention is an Adventure, Role-playing, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game developed and published by Red Candle Games. The game takes place in the two-dimensional atmosphere set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. It includes religious elements based on Taiwanese mythology and culture. According to the story, the students named as Ray and Wei found themselves vulnerable and trapped in Greenwood High School, situated in the remote mountainous area. The beautiful place they once knew as completely changed and haunted by evil creatures called the Lingered. The player assumes the role of the protagonist with a task to manipulate the land, interact with non-player characters and objects to uncover the mystery behind the scene. The player can control the character using point-and-click interface and can face monsters and other strange creatures. There are a series of levels, and each level has a set of tasks that the player needs to accomplish at any cost to become the master. Detention includes prominent features such as 2D Atmospheric Horror Gameplay, Mind-bending Puzzles, Original Soundtracks, Appealing Graphics, and more. Try it out.

Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story is an Adventure, Mystery, Interactive Fiction, and Single-player video game created by Accidental Queens and published by Playdius. The game offers an exciting gameplay that you have never experienced before. According to the thrilling story, you must explore the young woman’s social life whose mobile phone you have just discovered. It mixes the detective, narrative, and puzzle elements and lets you find clues by combining different elements from the messages, applications, and pictures to progress. You have to scroll the content of phone to find anything about the young woman named as Laura, find her friends and manipulate her professional life. Solve the mystery behind the disappearance of Laura and her lost phone. The story takes place on the entire phone and lets you a chance to experience a life of the detective to enhance your abilities. There are a series of levels with increasing difficulties, and each level introduces a unique task to accomplish. Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story includes core features such as Combine different elements, explore the Professional Life, challenging Puzzles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Linelight is an Elegant Puzzle and Single-player video game takes place in the Universe of Lines developed and published by My Dog Zorro for multiple platforms. The game features more than 250 levels, and there is only one solution to complete each level. The player has to combine different elements, lead an array and effort to solve the puzzle. There is no shoot and jump button, and the game mixes the puzzle and music elements to offers the relaxing gameplay. The world of the game is made up of straight lines where the player will enjoy ethereal soundtrack while exploring the worlds to unearth mystery challenges. Over 250 challenging levels are divided into six different worlds. The game will unlock further levels as the player proceeds through the game. Linelight offers brilliant features such as straight lines Gameplay, Six Unique Worlds, Ethereal Soundtracks, Uncover Secrets of and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Mushroom 11 is a Side-scroll, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game published by Untame. The game takes place in the beautiful 2D world where you controls the green mushroom by erasing parts of cells while it regrows. You can split the mushroom and shaped it to resolve the mind-bending puzzles. The new cells of the mushroom grow faster and enable you to travel the mystery world around brain twisting obstacles, overcome strange creatures, and uncover the secrets of the nature of the devastation. The game offers immersive environment and features a variety of levels that you must accomplish at any cost to progress through it. You will receive points for complete level and unlock other hand-painted worlds each has a set of puzzles and secret bosses. Mushroom 11 includes prominent features such as Unique Gameplay, Groundbreaking Controls, Seven Hand-Painted Worlds, Original Soundtracks, Dozens of Achievements, and more. With superb mechanics, wonderful graphics, and touch controls, Mushroom 11 is an incredible game to play.

Cradle developed and published by Flying Café for Semianimals is an Action-Adventure, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with Puzzle and Sci-fi elements. It takes place in the cyberpunk-themed world and casts the player in the role of the female protagonist who must explore the environment surrounding her. The story of the game centers on the relationship between the protagonist and a mechanical girl, who found themselves in the middle of the desert. The primary objective of the player is to find spread parts of his mechanics companion and repair to solve the mystery about it. It features open world full of challenges, unique creatures, and challenging tasks. The game offers nonlinear storyline and gameplay, in which the player can interact with non-player characters to complete quests and earn points to unlock additional content to enjoy. During the gameplay, the player engages himself or herself in first-person exploration experience. Cradle offers core features such as Exquisite Soundtrack, Immersive Story, Communication with NPCs, Interactive Environment, Open World and more. Check out the game and have fun.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an Adventure, Visual Novel and Single-player video game developed and published by Spike Chunsoft. It is the 2nd marvelous title in the series of Danganronpa and the sequel to Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The story of the game centers on a team of high school students who stuck on a remote Island by their headmaster named Monokuma, who is a crazy scientist. The player has to kill one of his companions and not be captured in the investigation to escape the Island. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous entry and lets the player select his character to dive into the fun-filled game where he has to fulfill a variety of quests to get freedom otherwise he has to face death. The player has to explore the environment, find clues, interact with NPCs and solve the mystery of the Island to make an escape. To unlock achievements, the player has to survive as long as possible and earn lots of points to unlock further content. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair offers prominent features such as Deadly Island, Lots of Levels, Challenging Gameplay, Survival Elements and more. It is the best game as compared to other Visual Novel games.

Firewatch is a First-person Action, Adventure and Mystery video game. The game takes the players back to the year 1989 and leaves them right in the middle of the Shoshone National Forest and lets them be Fire Lookout named as Henry. The game revolves around two main characters, Henry and Delilah, Henry’s Supervisor and tells the story of a mystery that formed over a Conspiracy. Firewatch is full of mysterious incidents, happenings, and all the pondering situations. According to the storyline, Henry works as a Fire Lookout, Delilah Assists him as a Supervisor and the story is about finding the roots of mystery that rocked the minds of the characters of the game. It all starts when Delilah Calls on Henry to investigate an illegal Firework at a Lake. Henry reaches to the spot only to find out two teenage girls Skinny Dipping who blame him for leering. On his way back to his watch tower, Henry finds a Cave locked and sees the shadows of a shrouded figure, returns to his Watch Tower and finds it completely ransacked. Next day, Henry gets to Communication line where he finds it cut along with a note from the girls. He plots to scare them away but finds their Camp abandoned. Some time later, on another location, Henry finds a Disposable Camera that belongs to Brian, son of Ned, the outdoorsman, and a fellow Fire lookout. Brian and Ned are both missing. This is where player’s character gets into the play. The game tasks the players to search for Brian, and Ned and the mission Girls, and solve the Mystery that’s bothering Henry big time. Firewatch is all about mysteries and amazing happenings that lead to an epic open world gameplay. With a great story, plenty of room for the gameplay, open world environment, fantastic characters and their own stories, Firewatch offers a remarkable and kind of twisted gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing mystery games, Firewatch would definitely be a great source of entertainment.

Homesick is a brilliant First-person Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fiction and Indie video game that tasks you to explore an abandoned building, solve different puzzles, interact with objects, find the clues and eventually find out what happened here that made the residents abandon this huge building. With hell of a scary setting, hauntingly beautiful environment, countless challenging puzzles, exploration and Mystery, Homesick makes you feel being stuck into a strange domain between your nightmare and waking world. Homesick offers brilliant 3D visuals, a series of exciting puzzles, a wonderfully well-written story and an immersive game-play. Try it out and you’ll be amazed at every tiny detail of this marvelous piece of art.

The Last Express: Gold Edition, developed by DotEmu is a fascinatingly addictive and quite engaging Action-Adventure, Thriller and Interactive Drama video game. The game is set in the year 1914 and takes you to the mysterious adventures of Orient Express. Being one of the best Adventure game of all time, The Last Express: Gold Edition won a lot of awards and is globally appreciated. The game tells the story of Robert Cath who on the eve of World War I starts off his journey from Paris to Constantinople. Robert Cath is an American Doctor with a mysterious past and tries to get rid of the law enforcing authorities chasing him wherever he goes. He gets on the train and receives an urgent telegram from his lifelong friend (Unnamed) and falls into the turmoil of conspiracy, romance and murder. You as the protagonist will star in the game and by following the storyline you’ll be able to solve different puzzles that will eventually help you get out of this bizarre situation. The Last Express: Gold Edition is an amazingly addictive video game and it will amalgamate your brain deep into the game-play for sure. For a great Mystery and thrill filled Adventure and Drama gaming experience, try this game and you’ll be stunned by what this twisted game has to offer.

The 11th Hour is a wonderful addition to the series of The 7th Guest. This wonderful Puzzle Adventure video game will once again take you to an abandoned mansion, lock you up good and will let you escape by solving the challenging puzzles. The game allows you to be the famous Carl Denning Jr. who works a T.V to host a Mystery show named as Case Unsolved. After the sudden disappearance of your girlfriend and the producer, it is now your duty to solve the mystery and finally know about the truth. The 11th Hour takes you to the abandoned mansion and tasks you to solve some really interesting and challenging puzzles in order to know the real thing. Interaction with objects, collecting them and solving puzzles by combining them or by using them individually are the trickiest parts of the game, so you better be good at that. With a whole bunch of amazing puzzles, the creepiest setting of the game, brilliant visuals, a good story and a wonderfully immersive game-play, The 11th Hour is a great game Adventure and Puzzle video game to play and enjoy.

The Curse of the Werewolves is another marvel of Adventure, Hidden Object Puzzle genre. This bone chilling and quite enthralling game takes you to a mysterious and abandoned mansion and tasks you to remove the Curse of Werewolves in order to unravel the shadowy mystery. You as the character of Ashley will have to embark on a journey to find the truth about the enigma after the mysterious letter from your grandma. You must explore all the duty rooms of the haunted mansion, go through the dark forests and find out all the hidden objects in order to solve some of the most challenging puzzles, and finally reverse the Curse of the Werewolves. With a super thrilling game-play, beautiful shadowy visuals, an awesome story-line and mind meandering puzzles, The Curse of the Werewolves is quite a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Love and Order is one amazing Mystery-based Dating and Life-Simulation developed by Winter Wolves for all the amazing players around the globe. The game takes you to Montreal where you as the main character of Dana Larose work in the Crown Attorney’s Office as a Secretary. Your task is to complete your daily tasks with full attention and devotion and besides that develop your social and love life. With three choices Your Boss Ross Kim, a third year law Student named as Jonathan and Pierre Martine to the Assistant Attorney, Dorothy McCoy, you can select anyone as your partner just according to their specialties, skills and attitudes. The game further develops with the choices you make, so with any selected partner, the story ending differs from other endings. Make the right decisions and choices and enjoy a wonderfully amazing Life-Simulation, Dating and Romance experience. Love and Order offers an immersive game-play, cool visuals and a well-written story to follow.

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse is an Episodic, Comic Style Point-and-Click Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Revolution Software. The game take you to Paris and let’s choose your character from two choices, The Fearless Amarican George Stobbart and a French journalist named Nico Collard. Your task in the game is to find out the truth about a Stolen Painting, a Murder and a possible worldwide destruction by the hands of the Devil. You must solve this mysterious case by using your true detective skills, logic and unique abilities. To complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through a lot of challenges, puzzles and a lot of difficulties because the strings are attached to the Devil himself. The mystery of Surpent’s Curse must be solved in order to save the world from chaos and destruction. With wonderful 5 episodes, amazing adventures across Europe, hand drawn visuals, a well written story and an amazingly addictive game-play, Broken Sword 5: the Serpent’s Curse is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Trine 2, developed by FrozenByte is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle Platform and Side-Scroller video game. This super addictive and engaging sequel to the famous Trine allows you to be anyone of the three main game characters of Thief, Wizard and Knight. Trine 2 lets you engage yourself into challenging platform puzzles in a world of mystery. You can go against your opponents by the use of different magical abilities and skills all collected by gaining the skill points. The game supports up to 3 players in co-operative mode and offers multiplayer feature in online gaming. With an expansion pack named as Trine 2: Goblin Menace, Trine 2 provides with a super thrilling and engaging game-play, a well written story-line and surreal graphic qualities. Trine 2 offers beautiful visuals and sounds, objective-based story-line and a challenging game-play to enjoy.