What is the best mystery game app for iPhone?

An Elmwood Trail, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.9 by 263,772 people.

Which mystery game apps are free?

39 of 40 are free to download: An Elmwood Trail (S), Unsolved: Hidden Mystery Games (S), Adventure Escape Mysteries (S), Criminal Case: Hidden Objects (S) and more. 20 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which mystery game app has the best App Store rating?

An Elmwood Trail at 4.9 from 263,772 ratings.

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Best Mystery Game Apps for iPhone (2026)

40 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

An Elmwood Trail is the top-ranked of 40 mystery game apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.9/5 from 263,772 ratings.

1
An Elmwood TrailS
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 263,772 ratings · score 98
2
Unsolved: Hidden Mystery GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 55,852 ratings · score 96
3
Adventure Escape MysteriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 21,919 ratings · score 95
4
Criminal Case: Hidden ObjectsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 35,946 ratings · score 94
5
June's Journey: Hidden ObjectsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 327,804 ratings · score 94

What belongs in this list

Play a game where the player solves a mystery by finding clues and working out what happened.

Not here: a plain riddle or brain-teaser app alone; a detective-only game that is just a skin or title keyword alone; a murder mystery party host tool alone; a general chatbot prompted to write a mystery alone; a wallpaper or story-text pack with a mystery theme alone

More lists: Best Detective Game Apps · Best Murder Mystery Game Apps

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
An Elmwood TrailS
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 263,772 ratings · score 98 · best in class
2
Unsolved: Hidden Mystery GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 55,852 ratings · score 96 · best in class
3
Adventure Escape MysteriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 21,919 ratings · score 95 · best in class
4
Criminal Case: Hidden ObjectsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 35,946 ratings · score 94 · best in class
5
June's Journey: Hidden ObjectsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 327,804 ratings · score 94 · best in class
6
Mystery Matters Puzzle GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 33,550 ratings · score 94 · best in class
7
Tiny Room Story: Town MysteryS
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 11,312 ratings · score 93 · best in class
8
Mystery Manor: hidden objectsS
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 30,226 ratings · score 91 · best in class
9
Hidden Escape Mystery CasesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,341 ratings · score 91 · best in class
10
Criminal Case: MysteriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 5,668 ratings · score 91 · best in class
11
Mystery Files: Hidden ObjectsA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,905 ratings · score 90 · excellent
12
Mystery MatchA
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 16,280 ratings · score 90 · excellent
13
Aurora Hills: Chapter 1A
Free · ★ 4.8 · 4,888 ratings · score 89 · excellent
14
Mystery Detective AdventureA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 827 ratings · score 89 · excellent
15
Suspects: Mobile DetectiveA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 11,300 ratings · score 88 · excellent
16
Ravenhill: Find Hidden ObjectsA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 41,053 ratings · score 88 · excellent
17
Find Hidden Objects: SherlockA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 59,057 ratings · score 88 · excellent
18
Homicide Squad: Hidden ObjectsA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 57,545 ratings · score 87 · excellent
19
Mystery Town: Adventure gamesA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 9,907 ratings · score 87 · excellent
20
Midnight Castle - Mystery GameA
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 4,662 ratings · score 87 · excellent
21
Hidden Hotel: Miami MysteryA
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 29,166 ratings · score 86 · excellent
22
The Secret Society: MysteryA
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 42,367 ratings · score 86 · excellent
23
Hidden City: Object SeekersB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 95,112 ratings · score 84 · good
24
Murder in Alps: Hidden MysteryB
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 109,792 ratings · score 84 · good
25
Murder by Choice: Mystery GameB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 24,517 ratings · score 84 · good
26
ColdTrace: Cold Case MysteryB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,078 ratings · score 84 · good
27
Criminal Case: The ConspiracyB
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,240 ratings · score 83 · good
28
Criminal Case: Pacific BayB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 6,880 ratings · score 82 · good
29
Duskwood - Detective StoryB
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 2,582 ratings · score 80 · good
30
Case Hunter-Can you solve it?B
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 8,248 ratings · score 79 · good
31
Project VOID - Mystery PuzzlesB
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,329 ratings · score 78 · good
32
Criminal Case: Save the World!B
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,787 ratings · score 78 · good
33
The Hidden Treasures・MysteryB
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 12,617 ratings · score 76 · good
34
LAST SEEN - Detective MysteryB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 14 ratings · score 75 · good
35
Profile PerfectC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 11,748 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
36
Escape Room: Strange CaseC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,684 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
37
Hidden Objects Coastal HillC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,271 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
38
Haunted Merge: Horror StoryC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,105 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
39
Tears of ThemisC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,449 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
40
ClueC
$4.99 · ★ 4.8 · 4,076 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best mystery game app for iPhone?: An Elmwood Trail, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.9 by 263,772 people.
Which mystery game apps are free?: 39 of 40 are free to download: An Elmwood Trail (S), Unsolved: Hidden Mystery Games (S), Adventure Escape Mysteries (S), Criminal Case: Hidden Objects (S) and more. 20 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which mystery game app has the best App Store rating?: An Elmwood Trail at 4.9 from 263,772 ratings.
How many mystery game apps reach S or A tier?: 22 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.