CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
You are the Carimara, small, mute and sorcerous, wandering a grief-stitched house where every object holds a memory.
96% of 2,962 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Detective games like MINDMIST
Chasing that emotional and story-driven feeling you got from MINDMIST? These detective games are a good place to start.
Mind Diver
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$17.99Blackhaven
Blackhaven is a first-person narrative game that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned during the American Revolution. Working alone on a holiday, Kendra uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
80% of 321 Steam reviews are positiveFreeDecade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Once Alive
A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
82% of 421 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99Summerland
You are Matthew, an ill detective waking in a locked room to a ringing, unplugged phone. Behind nine doors wait pieces of his past — murders, clean-ups, small choices — and a voice asking what kind of man he was. A slow, sad 2-hour story for armchair detectives who like motive more than forensics.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
91% of 1,770 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Vanishing of Ethan Carter
You are Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective hunting for a missing boy in Red Creek Valley. You walk each murder scene, find the clues, and use a gift for speaking with the dead to replay how victims died. Short, atmospheric, and strange, it is worth playing for armchair detectives who like piecing a dark story together themselves.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
87% of 6,871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
You are the Carimara, small, mute and sorcerous, wandering a grief-stitched house where every object holds a memory. You ask questions through glyph cards, press gently or risk waking what is sealed, and piece together a short folk-horror mystery worth replaying for its secrets.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
96% of 2,962 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Pentiment
You are Andreas Maler, an illustrator stuck in a small Bavarian town when murder hits Tassing and Kiersau Abbey. You question suspects, follow leads, and name someone — then live with what that choice does to the town over 25 years. Perfect for armchair detectives who like uncertain answers.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 9,374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$19.9912 Memory Lane
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance. Bend reality to recreate the scenes from his diary and expose long-buried secrets. What if your role in this case went beyond that of a simple investigator?
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
94% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1FreeHaven Moon
Haven Moon will transport you to a mysterious world where you have to explore abandoned islands and solve their secrets to find a treasure. In this Myst-like game inspired by Jules Verne’s universe, use your senses and intelligence to find your way through secret passages and curious machinery.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
77% of 649 Steam reviews are positive$11.99The Forgotten City
You wake by ruins, travel 2,000 years into ancient Rome, and land in a cursed city where if one person sins, everyone dies. To save it you question its residents, connect their stories, and rewind time to try again. A talk-first mystery for armchair detectives who like untangling people.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 11,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99
Cheaper than MINDMIST
Haven Moon
Haven Moon will transport you to a mysterious world where you have to explore abandoned islands and solve their secrets to find a treasure.
77% of 649 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
The Unfamiliar Story of Grandfather's Heritage
Returning to her grandfather's house years later, a woman finds herself in an adventure with ghosts from her past as the only way to uncover a…
45% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
Tales Beyond The Tomb - White Silence
Years after a tragic expedition, investigator Aleksei Morozov returns to the frozen mountains to uncover the truth.
65% of 209 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Through The Fragmentation
Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration.
96% of 220 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
Sophie Roy has traded the Clarington Hotel for a stewardess job aboard the transatlantic ship Orpheus in 1964, and someone keeps stealing…
92% of 515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$6.99
A Hand With Many Fingers
Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives.
83% of 521 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Portrait of a Torn
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story.
83% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare.
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Inbetween Land
Open the portal to a strange world and save your friend with Inbetween Land, a stunning sci-fi adventure.
84% of 188 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Meridian 157: Chapter 3
You have ventured this far, now there is no turning back. Uncover the island’s dark history by travelling through crumbling caverns and mysterious…
96% of 461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Hidden gems like MINDMIST
lily's world XD
You find Lily's 2004 laptop and go through her diary, blog, messages and friends to piece together where she went.
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare.
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
Sophie Roy has traded the Clarington Hotel for a stewardess job aboard the transatlantic ship Orpheus in 1964, and someone keeps stealing…
92% of 515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$6.99
Desktop Explorer
You click through its abandoned profiles, chat logs, and broken apps, piecing together who used it before you and what happened to them.
95% of 2,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
12 Memory Lane
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.
94% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Mind Diver
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations.
95% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
You are Emily Ravenstone, searching a mist-covered island for your uncle who vanished months ago.
86% of 1,015 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$25.99
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
You are the Carimara, small, mute and sorcerous, wandering a grief-stitched house where every object holds a memory.
96% of 2,962 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Radiolight
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth.
90% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Mindcop
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming.
94% of 433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Newest detective games like MINDMIST
lily's world XD
You find Lily's 2004 laptop and go through her diary, blog, messages and friends to piece together where she went.
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
Sophie Roy has traded the Clarington Hotel for a stewardess job aboard the transatlantic ship Orpheus in 1964, and someone keeps stealing…
92% of 515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$6.99
Desktop Explorer
You click through its abandoned profiles, chat logs, and broken apps, piecing together who used it before you and what happened to them.
95% of 2,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
You are Emily Ravenstone, searching a mist-covered island for your uncle who vanished months ago.
86% of 1,015 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$25.99
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare.
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Darkway: Murder of King Mere
The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow.
98% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
12 Memory Lane
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.
94% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Radiolight
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth.
90% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
oneway.exe: Module 1.0
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay.
82% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
You are the Carimara, small, mute and sorcerous, wandering a grief-stitched house where every object holds a memory.
96% of 2,962 Steam reviews are positive$4.99