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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
728 reviews
Fifteen years on, Portal 2 remains one of the most acclaimed puzzle games ever made — and its small, honest minority of dissent is worth hearing, from real motion-sickness reports to a considered argument that the sequel traded the original's focus for scale.
9.5 / 10
A card-based deckbuilder that spends its first act convincing you it's a horror-tinged roguelike, then spends the next two acts proving that was never the whole game — a genre-shifting puzzle box from Daniel Mullins Games that has held a 96.8% Overwhelmingly Positive rating across 134,000-plus Steam reviews for nearly five years, even as a consistent minority feels misled by its own store page.
9 / 10
A haunting, wordless puzzle-platformer from the makers of Limbo, whose ending has divided players in exactly the same way for nearly a decade — not through controversy, but through a deliberate ambiguity some find profound and others find frustrating.
9 / 10
A time-loop mystery about a tiny solar system that "everyone says" you need to experience knowing nothing about — Overwhelmingly Positive at 95.6%, and honest enough with itself that its own top negative review is a genuinely unresolved crowdfunding controversy, not a design flaw.
9 / 10
A border-checkpoint bureaucracy simulator that turns document-checking into genuine drama, thirteen years on. Its creator says its themes have only become more relevant with time — a fact he finds less like vindication and more like a tragedy.
9 / 10
A deduction game that hands you a magic pocket watch, sixty deaths, and no other tools — and asks you to work out exactly who died how, in what order, and at whose hand, using nothing but observation and logic.
9 / 10
A Coloring Book You Can Hold in Your Hands Woodo describes itself as feeling like a 3D coloring book you can touch, and that turns out to be an unusually precise pitch. Each level
8.8 / 10
A Sokoban Game That Rewrites The Rules Of What You Can See A Little Perspective, a solo project from developer Tad Cordle, released on Steam on April 3, 2026, at $14.99. It's a
8.5 / 10
One person spent seven years building a pixel-perfect puzzle box with secrets buried so deep the playerbase had to solve the last of them collectively — and never added key rebinding, which is still its most-upvoted complaint.
8.5 / 10
A top-down adventure about a self-doubting painter restoring colour to a world that's lost it, from the Wandersong and Celeste team -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam and still drawing new five-star reviews five years on, with one consistent, specific complaint about how the painting itself controls.
8.5 / 10
A free time-travel Sokoban puzzler that gets one specific, difficult idea exactly right — solving a puzzle by recording your own past actions and then working alongside the ghost of what you just did.
8.5 / 10
A beautifully painted sokoban-style puzzle game where each of the four movement directions doubles as an inventory slot, unanimously praised by reviewers for its ingenious mechanics, gorgeous art, and fair-but-punishing difficulty curve.
8.5 / 10
An action RPG about playing an MMO, built around one verb — throwing an energy ball that ricochets off walls — that does double duty as the combat system and the language every dungeon puzzle is written in.
8.5 / 10
Solo developer Thomas Hsu's SQL-powered detective sim asks players to solve ten increasingly absurd crimes in the fictional city of Los Zorangeles by actually writing database queries, and an overwhelmingly positive review corpus — including plenty of working data professionals — praises its writing and world-building even as several reviewers flag a rough difficulty spike and thin quality-of-life tooling in the back half.
8.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive fusion of Minesweeper's number-deduction logic with roguelike combat and permadeath — the viral 2025 hit that earns its reputation, confirmed here to work cleanly with a tap for its core loop of revealing tiles and fighting whatever's under them.
8.5 / 10
A point-and-click adventure dressed as a 1996 educational CD-ROM, with something wrong underneath it. One of the highest-rated games on Steam this year at 99% positive — and its single-save-file design is the reason that number isn't higher still.
8.5 / 10
FTL's creators followed up randomness with certainty — a tiny, perfect-information tactics puzzle where every enemy move is telegraphed in advance. Most players call the trade a triumph; a consistent minority of FTL fans still feel the resentment the top positive review admits to feeling at first.
8.5 / 10
The black-and-white puzzle-platformer that arguably started the modern atmospheric-indie wave, still Very Positive fifteen years later — and still facing the exact same trial-and-error criticism its earliest reviewers wrote, sometimes in nearly identical words.
8.5 / 10
Two Simple Rules, A Circle's Existential Crisis, And A Pool Of Reviewers Who All Agree Metanoia, developed and published by Meteoric Works, released on Steam on February 27, 20
8.5 / 10
Rome Never Fell, And Someone Finally Built A Colony Sim About It Nova Patria released on Steam on May 14, 2026 from small developer Sower Interactive, and it opens with a premise u
8.5 / 10
A short, genuinely inventive puzzle adventure that reaches outside the game window to talk to you — 98.3% positive, and if you're on Linux or Steam Deck you should buy a different version of it.
8.5 / 10
A tiny, exquisitely designed bomb-jumping puzzle-platformer from Japanese solo developer NamaTakahashi that earned a 99%-plus Overwhelmingly Positive Steam record and near-unanimous "masterclass" praise — this review reads its entire, genuinely tiny 18-review negative corpus and finds the closest thing to a real complaint is that the game is short enough most players finish it in a single sitting.
8.5 / 10
Build a machine that makes gold, then spend three hours making it smaller — 97.1% positive, nine years old, and still receiving patches a fortnight ago.
8.5 / 10
A puzzle game about pushing boxes into boxes that contain themselves — 99% positive, one of the highest-rated games in this library, with a motion-sickness problem its own longest-playing critic begged the developer to fix.
8.5 / 10
