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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
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The first release from Coincidence, the studio Zach Barth founded after closing Zachtronics, and a genuinely good factory-automation puzzler by any independent measure — that its own most enthusiastic reviewers still rank as the weakest entry in its creator's catalogue, a verdict this review's near-unanimous negative sample backs up in specific, comparative detail.
7 / 10
A cosy, genuinely inventive horror-comedy about running a 1980s late-night radio show while a killer stalks your callers, undercut by minimal gameplay some reviewers call closer to a visual novel — and by a VR version that was marked for Steam before launch and never arrived.
7 / 10
A solo-developer third-person action-adventure inspired by 1001 Nights and classic Prince of Persia-style parkour, drawing a small but unanimously positive review sample that credits its nostalgic movement, evocative desert setting, and impressive scope for a debut, while flagging a fair, corroborated complaint about clunky parkour tuning and repetitive combat.
7 / 10
Your Forever Job At The Kharnym Isle Post Office Letter Lost, from debut developer and publisher FlatNine Games, released on Steam on June 10, 2026, at $19.99. It casts the player
7 / 10
A Tiny Kitchen, A Big Following Little Chef: Cozy Cooking began life in Early Access on March 16, 2026 from a small three-person team, artist Erika Zakse, developer Julien Truebige
7 / 10
An atmospheric horror puzzle-platformer following a small child named Six through a nightmarish, oversized vessel called the Maw, Very Positive across more than 19,000 reviews for genuinely exceptional art direction and sound design — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about imprecise, depth-perception-dependent controls, a well-corroborated length-for-price concern, and a specific, unresolved CPU compatibility issue affecting older AMD processors.
7 / 10
A short, first-person found-footage horror game set in an abandoned asylum, unanimously well-liked by its small review pool for atmosphere and pacing, but limited by a runtime under two hours, visibly reused horror-genre assets, and an unoptimized flashlight effect several reviewers flagged for frame drops.
7 / 10
A Cozy Puzzle Game Built Entirely Out of Codes Locktale is a small, quietly ambitious puzzle game from solo developer Mina Pêcheux, built around a single, well-executed idea: every
7 / 10
Looking Up is BlueRoof Games' debut title, a wordless, sticker-illustrated puzzle game about a girl named Emilia who wants to learn how to fly, and this review's large, near-unanimous sample agrees on almost everything about it — genuinely lovely art and a quietly moving father-daughter story, wrapped around a runtime nearly every reviewer measures in single-digit minutes.
7 / 10
A point-and-click puzzle adventure that steps players into real Eastern-mythology artworks, praised across its review pool as a genuinely educational, gorgeously illustrated debut, but held back by a short two-to-three-hour runtime, click-only puzzle mechanics that repeat their formula, and a hint system reviewers said grows uneven near the end.
7 / 10
A free, cozy point-and-click hidden-object game from solo studio Footnote Games about tracking down 30 socks scattered by a mischievous cat, drawing a Very Positive review sample that credits its charming art and music while flagging a fair, corroborated complaint about obtuse puzzle solutions.
7 / 10
A Tidying Game That Picked A Genuinely Fun Setting Mess in the Toy Shop, released September 3, 2026 from solo developer and publisher Trigarb, drops you into a wrecked toy store an
7 / 10
A largely solo-developed 3D metroidvania built around a genuinely inventive gravity-walking mechanic and a striking rhythm-synced boss soundtrack, held back by a widely corroborated camera problem serious enough to induce motion sickness in a real share of its own review pool.
7 / 10
A Ludum Dare 32 hex-grid twist on Minesweeper — instead of flagging tiles, you drag a finger across the board to draw a scoring path before a 60-second clock runs out, while spatialised audio hums from nearby mines you haven't revealed yet.
7 / 10
A bite-sized deduction puzzler in the Obra Dinn/Golden Idol lineage, offering nine tightly-scoped evidence-board whodunits that most reviewers found smart and satisfying, held back by a very short two-hour runtime and a small handful of reviewers who wanted more room to actually investigate rather than just review pre-assembled evidence.
7 / 10
A perfect-score js1024 2022 winner that fits an entire live-webcam sliding puzzle — cut your own face into a classic 8-puzzle and solve it — into under 1024 bytes of HTML, with touch and mouse controls that this review confirmed work correctly at the DOM level once a real camera feed was actually available to test against.
7 / 10
A factory-automation puzzle game where you cut, stamp, and paint your own voxel building parts, then squeeze the whole production line onto a sky island with a real, paid ceiling on space. Polished and distinctive, but priced like the genre giants it can't yet match in scale.
7 / 10
A cozy item-organising narrative game that finally scratches the Unpacking itch for a devoted audience of fans, built around the promise that your decorating choices shape a lifetime — a promise many reviewers say the game doesn't quite deliver on as meaningfully as its premise suggests.
7 / 10
A 90s-style deduction adventure from solo developer Bolerosoft, tasking players with researching a collection of 1930s Tokyo postcards, Positive across a small but unanimous English review sample for its genuine passion for Japanese history and distinctive Golden Idol-adjacent puzzle design, with a fair complaint that its central deduction mechanic stays too simple and repetitive for some experienced puzzle players.
7 / 10
An award-winning deduction game that turns a decade-old cold case into a literal jigsaw puzzle of fragmented witness testimony, whose genuinely inventive core mechanic earns real critical acclaim, tempered by a widely and specifically reported barrier: an unintuitive, minimally-taught interface that leaves many players fighting the UI as much as the mystery itself.
7 / 10
A point-and-click puzzle-narrative adventure that casts players as an anthro-robotic submarine obsessed with marine biology, Very Positive across 82 English reviews for its striking Y2K aquapunk aesthetic and distinctive worldbuilding, with a widely repeated complaint that its puzzles can be brute-forced and its backtracking to a central library grows tedious.
7 / 10
The third entry in Eleven Puzzles' two-player Cryptic Killer detective series delivers its most ambitious puzzle variety yet, but a well-corroborated slice of longtime fans felt the shift toward heavy storytelling and minigames came at the expense of what made the earlier games work.
7 / 10
Pistons, Not Pigs, Despite the Name Pight, from solo Minecraft-puzzle specialist Mindlabor, launched on Steam on August 8, 2026 at $3.99. Following a Steam Next Fest demo appearanc
7 / 10
A Grieving Mother, a Cold War Experiment, and a Window Into the Astral Plane Project Looking Glass, the solo debut of developer MORPH, launched on Steam on August 11, 2026 at $4.99
7 / 10
