Orb Tower
A cheap, charming bubble-popping roguelike Orb Tower takes the Puzzle Bobble formula — clear a field of colour-matched bubbles with a limited number of shots before they reach the
6.5 / 10
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Our Metal Bowl
Our Metal Bowl is a tiny, self-published metroidbrainia about a four-eyed creature and a shivering robot companion restoring a dead ecosystem, and its near-unanimous, mostly-positive review sample praises genuinely clever meta-puzzles while flagging real jank in a combat system that pairs one-hit-kill stakes with inconsistent hitboxes.
6.5 / 10
Paper Trail
A gorgeous, origami-inspired puzzle adventure about a young woman folding her way from her rural hometown toward university, whose genuinely novel paper-folding mechanic and heartfelt premise earned it a BAFTA longlist nomination and an indie Game of the Year award, tempered by a remarkably consistent complaint, echoed even by many admirers, that its puzzles lean too heavily on trial-and-error rather than genuine deduction.
6.5 / 10
Philna Fantasy
A nostalgic pixel-art action RPG that repeatedly earns comparisons to genre classics like Secret of Mana and Secrets of Grindea, undercut by widely and specifically criticised translation quality and a sharply divisive difficulty spike in its final dungeon.
6.5 / 10
Planetiles
A well-made, press-praised fusion of Dorfromantik's calm tile-placing and Tetris's spatial pressure, backed by a developer who delivered every update on its promised free roadmap, let down for a real minority of players by a lack of hook to keep coming back.
6.5 / 10
Plinko
A classic Plinko board -- aim, drop a chip, and watch physics decide which scoring slot it lands in, with bonus balls for hitting score thresholds.
6.5 / 10
POPUCOM
A wonderfully creative, Splatoon-and-It-Takes-Two-flavoured co-op match-three puzzle-platformer from Hypergryph, whose Very Positive score coexists with an extraordinarily well-documented, months-unresolved netcode problem that spikes online ping to 999ms and freezes players out of boss fights entirely.
6.5 / 10
Puzzle Quest 2
A match-3 RPG sequel that trades its predecessor's overworld map and castle-building for a Diablo-style dungeon crawl — a real structural departure reviewers argue cost the series some of what made the original addictive, even as a smaller camp praises the underlying mana and weapon changes as a genuine evolution.
6.5 / 10
R.A.T#200
R.A.T#200 is a free student-made stealth puzzle game about escaping a lab as an experimental rat, and its Very Positive review sample repeatedly praises a tense 15-to-40-minute escape built on genuine, if occasionally inconsistent, hide-and-seek tension.
6.5 / 10
Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
A cheap, Very Positive time-management puzzle game from solo studio Cuddle Code, frequently mistaken for an idle/incremental game by its own store tags — reviewers consistently praise its clever choose-your-path structure and isekai theming, but converge just as consistently on a punishing precision requirement that this review corroborates directly against a steep, chapter-by-chapter achievement completion drop-off.
6.5 / 10
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REWIND
A free, hour-long text-and-clue detective puzzle with a striking Disco Elysium-adjacent art style, let down by weak onboarding, a short and comparatively simple central mystery, and at least one reported case-blocking bug.
6.5 / 10
Rooster Review
A Zodiac Sent Back in Time to Learn Some Manners Rooster opens on a premise that's equal parts folklore and sitcom setup: the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac gather for th
6.5 / 10
Rune Log
A solo-developed cryptogram game dressed as occult detective fiction — decode short runic scriptures with frequency analysis and context, then type your own conclusion about what really happened.
6.5 / 10
Secrets of Velendar Castle - Escape Room Review
A Fantasy Castle Escape Room Built On The Bones Of A Loved Predecessor Secrets of Velendar Castle - Escape Room, developed by Biri Biri and published by mc2games, released on Steam
6.5 / 10
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Servant of the Lake
A prequel entry in Rusty Lake's long-running point-and-click puzzle series, set at the Vanderboom estate in 1839, that lands as polished and newcomer-friendly enough to draw broad praise from its huge review sample while facing a specific, well-documented backlash from longtime fans who feel its puzzles and atmosphere have been smoothed over.
6.5 / 10
Shapes of Memory: Jigsaw Puzzle
Shapes of Memory is a timer-free jigsaw puzzle spin-off set in the Suitcase Stories universe, turning that game's hand-illustrated art into classic 48-to-432-piece puzzles, and this review's sample — thin in English text but corroborated by a forgiving achievement curve and a visibly responsive small studio — finds a well-scoped, genuinely relaxing niche release doing exactly what it promises.
6.5 / 10
Silliards Review
A Free Billiards Puzzle Game About Reaching Enlightenment Silliards is a free 3D physics puzzle game from solo developer Soup Mode LLC, released on Steam on May 7, 2026 with a clea
6.5 / 10
Slipways
A minimalist, marketed-as-strategy space-empire puzzle game about linking planets into supply chains, Very Positive across 1,805 reviews for its charming presentation and satisfying core loop — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that its randomly generated maps can make individual runs unwinnable regardless of skill, and a well-corroborated complaint that its single core mechanic runs out of depth within 10 to 15 hours.
6.5 / 10
Smolpxl Duck Maze 2
A gentle, timer-based maze-escape puzzle with a nice pushable-wall twist and helpful contextual hints — confirmed working on touch and keyboard alike, but marred by the same cosmetic "undefined" button-label bug already flagged in this engine's Snake entry.
6.5 / 10
Smolpxl Spring
A charming compress-and-launch physics toy from the smolpxl teaching engine — genuinely fun and confirmed working on touch and keyboard alike, but marred by a pervasive "undefined" text bug that appears the moment you touch the screen.
6.5 / 10
Somerville
A visually breathtaking sci-fi puzzle-platformer from ex-Playdead developers whose gorgeous atmosphere and sound design are undercut by controls and collision detection a large share of its own reviewers call janky, measured constantly against the Inside and Limbo pedigree its creators can't escape.
6.5 / 10
Sonder
A free two-player co-op puzzle-platformer about a scrapped robot and a wandering soul escaping a dreamlike, post-collapse world, whose short, wordless story and striking atmosphere earn real affection undercut by widespread, specific complaints about performance, glitches, and a runtime measured in minutes rather than hours.
6.5 / 10
Sort Them Ducks Review
Another Shelf, Another 4,000 Rubber Ducks Sort Them Ducks is the latest entry in the small but suddenly crowded genre of first-person tidy-up games kicked off by titles like Librar
6.5 / 10
Spibee
A charming, genuinely creative co-op puzzle-platformer with hand-drawn art and skill-based teamwork, badly undercut by punishing checkpoint scarcity in its back half.
6.5 / 10