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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
728 reviews
A GBA-styled top-down "Yoyovania" from Pocket Trap that reviewers consistently compare to the best 2D Zelda games never made, earning an Overwhelmingly Positive reception for its room design, puzzles, and pixel-perfect retro presentation, with the review sample's rare complaints converging on a map that some feel oversized to the point of diluting its own best ideas.
8.5 / 10
A Chicken, A Crossword, And A Grandmother Rita, a cozy puzzle-platformer from solo studio SporkTank, released in full on Steam on July 30, 2026 after nearly a year of demos, festiv
8.5 / 10
A retro survival horror game that wears its Resident Evil and Silent Hill influences openly and still manages real originality — beloved for its atmosphere, queer storytelling and puzzle design, with one honest recurring complaint about how tedious that puzzle design gets.
8.5 / 10
Four years on, 97.2% positive across 176,389 reviews — and its critics are still arguing that the only reason it scores that well is that you play as a cat.
8.5 / 10
A deduction puzzle game built around reconstructing twelve gruesome deaths across fifty years from frozen crime-scene tableaus, whose "aha!" moment design draws some of the most ecstatic, consistent praise this library has documented, tempered by a short runtime for its price and a divisive later UI overhaul.
8.5 / 10
An automation game that skips the usual pretend-programming abstractions and just hands you a Python-shaped scripting language, then asks you to actually write the loops and functions that run your farm. The rare "learn to code" game that works as a game first.
8.5 / 10
SFB Games' third Detective Grimoire mystery sends its beloved duo to solve a locked-room murder aboard a submarine, landing "Overwhelmingly Positive" on the strength of its writing, voice acting and art, with a save-reliability bug and a repetitive interrogation loop as its only real blemishes.
8.5 / 10
A standalone sequel to one of the sharpest deduction games in years, trading its predecessor's ancient-world mystery for a 1970s conspiracy -- slightly less airtight than the original by its own fans' admission, but still one of the best pure puzzle-narrative games released in 2024.
8.5 / 10
The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is a cozy story-driven photography game about riding a giant flying catfish through the clouds, spawning and photographing sea creatures made of mist, and this review's sample, unanimous at 75 out of 75 reviews, keeps landing on the same word for its story about death and impermanence — a punch to the gut wrapped in a retro-polygon fever dream.
8.5 / 10
A game about a small fox that hands you an instruction manual in a language you can't read and lets that single idea carry an entire adventure — and a soulslike hiding inside a Zelda costume, which is where most of its arguments start.
8.5 / 10
A four-person Melbourne studio's stealth-comedy about being a horrible goose became a genuine 2019 cultural phenomenon and a Game of the Year award-sweeper -- seven years on it's still Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, with the same specific, consistent friction reviewers named at launch: deliberately awkward controls and a very short runtime for the asking price.
8.5 / 10
A momentum-based precision platformer set aboard an abandoned freighter, built around a deep and unusual movement system that reviewers overwhelmingly call among the best in the genre, at the cost of a difficulty curve that can turn away all but the most patient players.
8.4 / 10
FROGGONIT is a $9.99 cozy comedy exploration adventure from developer and publisher Fuz Games, and this review's large, unanimous sample of over 50 reviews consistently praises its humor, charm, and generous accessibility options, anchored by a genuine God Mode for players who find its mini-games frustrating.
8.4 / 10
The original, official 2048 - slide numbered tiles to combine them into 2048 - whose swipe controls were confirmed correct in all four directions on a real touch profile.
8.3 / 10
The People of Sea, Sun & Salt strips city-building down to a tight puzzle of scarce island real estate, cultural choices, and rising seas, and a near-unanimous review sample praises its focus and polish even as several note it's a short, tightly-scoped experience rather than a sprawling sim.
8.3 / 10
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Twenty New Tiny Puzzles From a Beloved One-Person Studio 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes is the direct sequel to solo developer FLEB's 20 Small Mazes, a free browser-flash
8.2 / 10
A lovingly-crafted top-down Zelda-like that channels A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening through an elemental-power dungeon structure, earning near-universal praise for its puzzles, art, and music, with only some frustrating boss fights and backtracking holding it back.
8.2 / 10
A well-known, touch-first hexagonal take on Tetris - tap either half of the screen to spin the hexagon and catch falling colour blocks - reviewed retrospectively after being on the shelf since before the review pipeline existed, with a third-party analytics script found and removed.
8.2 / 10
A gorgeous, deeply chill diorama city-builder that mixes puzzle-like upgrade logic with pure sandbox creativity — let down only by clunky controller support and a slim handful of campaign levels.
8.2 / 10
Checking Into Brain World Rots Snuggle Nightmare casts you as Max Brush, an independent journalist who sneaks into the shuttered Brain World Rots theme park to investigate the disa
8.2 / 10
A card game built entirely around one puzzle "Lethal Dungeon" strips the roguelike deckbuilder down to a single, uncompromising rule: win every battle using only the card
8.1 / 10
A scaredy-cat girl becomes the accidental mayor of a monster-and-ghost-filled town in this Tim Burton-flavoured puzzle adventure, and an overwhelmingly positive reception says its crafting, comedy, and absurd musical jukebox have found a devoted audience.
8.1 / 10
A real-time puzzle game where mischievous fairies harass local wildlife, turn toad tantrums into weapons, and somehow make it all feel adorable.
8.1 / 10
A chess tactics trainer drawing from a bundled 24,595-puzzle offline database - confirmed genuinely working with real chess-engine-validated moves on both desktop and phone, including finding an actual mate-in-one during testing.
8.1 / 10
