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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
728 reviews
A surreal, Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired 3D puzzle adventure about a mansion transformed into a labyrinth after a father's death, with genuinely clever, thematically layered puzzles undercut for a vocal minority of players by camera, readability, and accessibility friction.
7.5 / 10
A lovingly crafted homage to Monkey Island-era LucasArts adventures, following a young druid on a mission to save her grove — genuinely clever puzzle design and an award-nominated soundtrack, undercut by rough English localisation and the genre's classic sin of obscure, under-hinted puzzles.
7.5 / 10
A free student-made narrative puzzle adventure built around a genuinely clever central mechanic, spelling out names to temporarily become other people, praised for its polish, voice acting, and story despite a student-project scope, but held back by real bugs, a mandatory motion blur setting, and some poorly timed hints.
7.5 / 10
A storybook hero discovers he can leap out of his own 2D picture-book pages into a 3D world around them, in one of 2024's most visually inventive and BAFTA-nominated indies — beloved for a concept and presentation critics and players agree is genuinely special, and just as consistently described by a real slice of its adult audience as a game built for children first, with gameplay depth and stability to match.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, ambitious philosophical puzzle sequel that expands everything the original did, which a large and vocal share of veteran fans argue is exactly the problem — bigger worlds, more dialogue and easier puzzles than the tight, focused original they loved.
7.5 / 10
A charming, Pikmin-inspired storybook fantasy adventure about two runaway children commanding a herd of forest spirits -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam for its art and atmosphere, with a consistent, specific complaint that its combat and controls never match the genre giant it invites comparison to.
7.5 / 10
Thimbleweed Park is Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick's deliberate throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, following FBI agents investigating a murder in a fading, secret-filled small town. Reviewers overwhelmingly praise its craft and nostalgia, but a divisive fourth-wall-breaking twist ending and a demanding five-character puzzle structure split the sample sharply on the back half.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive tile-merging roguelike deckbuilder that fuses 2048-style sliding mechanics with Slay the Spire-style artifact-driven build variety, unanimously praised in its small early review sample for tactile, addictive combat and real strategic depth, tempered only by a couple of specific performance and localisation quality-of-life complaints.
7.5 / 10
Wire Routing With a Twist: You're Standing on the Board Tiny Circuits casts you as the newest, tiniest hire at a circuit factory, and the only way to climb from Unpaid Intern t
7.5 / 10
A charming, gorgeously realised 3D exploration game about being shrunk down inside an ordinary suburban house, whose near-unanimous acclaim sits on top of a small but consistent minority report that the collecting loop underneath the charm doesn't have much depth once the novelty wears off.
7.5 / 10
A Papers, Please-inspired inspection sim that turns mental math and card-stat verification into a surprisingly funny, escalating corporate-satire puzzle game, held back only by minor readability issues and a short runtime some found more clever than fun.
7.5 / 10
Solo developer TNT's Sokoban-inspired puzzler asks players to juggle a brute-force warrior, a danger-ignoring thief, and a teleporting wizard across themed worlds, and an entirely Positive review sample loves its clever character-swap puzzles while flagging real early friction: a launch save-wipe bug, missing hints, and unexplained late-game mechanics.
7.5 / 10
Frozenbyte's course-correction after Trine 3's disastrous 3D detour, returning to 2.5D co-op puzzle-platforming with three fairytale heroes -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years on, with the series' oldest, most consistent complaint (the combat) as fresh in this year's reviews as it was at launch.
7.5 / 10
Build a working CPU from NAND gates upward — a genuinely singular idea, sold as education, and 57 of its 100 most-helpful negative reviews say the teaching is the part that doesn't work.
7.5 / 10
A Zach-like engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen and the inventors of the genre, set aboard a ship travelling to the edge of the universe, rated Very Positive across an English review sample for its satisfying circuit-logic puzzles and striking art, tempered by fair, corroborated complaints about restrictive grid space and a short runtime.
7.5 / 10
A cheap, clever first-person puzzle game whose central gimmick, guiding a power cell that snaps to wherever the camera is looking, earns near-unanimous praise for feeling genuinely fresh, even if a short 20-level campaign and a nasty launch-week crash bug keep it from being flawless.
7.5 / 10
A Small Studio's Debut: Singing Your Way Through a Dying Reef Wavekin casts you as a hatchling exploring a colorful, half-abstract coral reef, trying to uncover why the Spirit
7.5 / 10
A stick-figure comedy RPG from the Kingdom of Loathing team that landed among 2017's most acclaimed indies -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam nine years later -- while carrying a serious, publicly documented allegation against its director that a real share of its own reviews now raise unprompted.
7.5 / 10
Solo developer Florent "Salty" Martinais' short observational puzzle adventure asks players to learn an ecosystem's unspoken rules by watching its creatures, and the small but unanimous review corpus praises its sound design and minimalist visuals even as most reviewers admit the game's biggest ask is patience during its opening minutes.
7.5 / 10
A Minesweeper-adjacent deduction puzzler that trades mines for alien architecture rules, delivering ninety handcrafted levels of pure logic — though not every level resists turning into tedious symbol-hunting.
7.4 / 10
Papers, Please, but you're cutting open the aliens "Alien Morgue" borrows its central structural idea directly from Lucas Pope's "Papers, Please" — a cr
7.4 / 10
A clean Simon-says memory game built around the home-row A/S/D/F keys, honestly and explicitly keyboard-only - confirmed working correctly by deliberately pressing the wrong key and watching the game correctly call it out and end the round.
7.4 / 10
Colorboration is a $7.99 color-locked block-pushing puzzle game from two-person developer Edmo & Swifcape, and this review's full 4-review sample is unanimously positive, with one player logging over 46 hours and every reviewer crediting genuinely tricky, well-taught puzzle design built from deceptively simple rules.
7.4 / 10
A match-3 puzzle with levels, objectives, and power-ups, whose drag-to-swap touch gesture was confirmed working correctly - after discovering the game requires a genuine held drag rather than two separate taps to swap tiles.
7.4 / 10
