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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
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A solo-developed point-and-click adventure exploring depression, self-doubt, and a difficult father-son relationship through a surreal, maze-like apartment, whose emotional honesty deeply moves a large portion of players while an equally substantial portion finds its protagonist insufferable and its puzzle logic frustratingly obtuse.
6 / 10
A real-time air traffic control management game that borrows its clean visual style from Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, whose addictive core loop earns real devotion from a dedicated playerbase, tempered by a specific, widely repeated accusation that it trades on those games' branding without matching their polish, plus reviewer complaints about simplified ATC mechanics and an escalating difficulty that many find becomes unfairly overwhelming.
6 / 10
Missing Texture is a free-to-play, chapter-based psychological horror game from developer GaspachoWork where the house itself can't be trusted, and this review's full 19-review sample is genuinely Mixed, split between reviewers charmed by its fragmented, interlinked story structure and others reporting rendering glitches severe enough to draw accusations of AI-slop production.
6 / 10
ByerN's abstract number-chain puzzler strips idle-automation design down to pure arithmetic, and its Mostly Positive review sample largely agrees the core hook is genuinely clever, but a wide and specific set of complaints about a confusing UI, a hard space constraint, and late-game repetition keeps the score short of Very Positive.
6 / 10
Spike Chunsoft's AI The Somnium Files spin-off reunites the cast for a shorter, lower-stakes escape-room mystery, earning a "Mostly Positive" score for its fan-service charm, weighed down by a thin story and a price many reviewers feel doesn't match its reduced scope.
6 / 10
A full 3D remake of the 1997 cult classic Abe's Oddysee, Very Positive across 1,600 reviews for genuinely impressive visual work — dominated by an extremely consistent complaint from longtime fans that replacing the original's precise, grid-based movement with free-flowing physics broke the precision-puzzle-platforming the series was built around, alongside a severe, apparently permanently unfixed controller-support bug.
6 / 10
A wholesome physics-puzzle game about two dogs joined at the belly, genuinely delightful on a shared couch and genuinely broken online, where reviewers document soft-locking desync bugs specific and severe enough to end a co-op session mid-level.
6 / 10
Poppy Playtime - Chapter 5 is Mob Entertainment's latest $19.99 installment in its long-running mascot-horror puzzle series, following players back through Playtime Co.'s f
6 / 10
A Twenty-Fourth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Puzzle Loot released on Steam on 21 August 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this stretch&
6 / 10
A no-combat, no-timer exploration adventure through an evacuated, sinkhole-torn city, chasing hidden gold with only observation and memory as tools, praised by engaged players for its huge map and old-school point-and-click logic, criticized by others for offering too little direction in that same empty world.
6 / 10
Reenchant is a $5.99 cozy forest-defense game from developer Surfin Bird where players guide a Tree Spirit warding off lumberjacks at their own chosen pace, and this review's unanimous 5-review sample compares it favorably to the Kingdom series while consistently flagging a genuine, deliberately minimalist lack of in-game guidance.
6 / 10
An H.R. Giger-inspired biomechanical nightmare eight years in the making, whose extraordinary art direction is praised almost unanimously by the same review base that overwhelmingly describes the actual game underneath it as short, clunky and built on a store description its own most-upvoted review calls factually false.
6 / 10
Solo developer Madi Abdykarimov's follow-up to the cult meme hit Toilet Chronicles trades a bathroom for a sinking ship, delivering the same absurd, pop-culture-soaked item-combination humour in a shorter, slightly more polished package that still leaves plenty of players wanting more.
6 / 10
A NZ$1.49 solo-developer horror game about a child escaping a cult's private chapel — verified here against Steam's own genre field ("Indie," which says nothing) and its top-voted community tag ("Idler," which says something wrong). Three puzzles, two endings, no idle or incremental mechanic anywhere in it.
6 / 10
A genuinely clever, Tim Burton-esque co-op puzzle-platformer that both sides of its review sample agree only really works with a second player — solo mode, camera clarity, and general polish all draw the same specific, repeated complaints over a decade after release.
6 / 10
A visually striking solo-developer factory game that deliberately refuses to be a clean clicker, idler, or automation game, and ends up frustrating a large share of players who bought it expecting to fit neatly into one of those genres.
6 / 10
Snake Pass built an entire game around one genuinely novel idea — you are a snake, with no legs and no jump button, and every puzzle has to be solved by thinking like one. Its own reviewers agree almost unanimously that the idea is brilliant; a similarly large share also agree the physics meant to realize it never quite became precise enough to fully deliver on it.
6 / 10
A match-3 board dressed up as a mine shaft, where clearing gems drags the camera deeper underground. The exploration hook is genuinely clever; the grind wrapped around it is not.
6 / 10
Infuse Studio's open-world sequel to its cult fox-adventure Spirit of the North earns a Very Positive score for its atmosphere, lore, and genuine fox-rescue collaboration, but a heavily corroborated, near-universal complaint about severe, hardware-agnostic performance problems, with even high-end GPUs struggling to hold a stable framerate, keeps this from being the unqualified step up longtime fans were hoping for.
6 / 10
Akabaka's third cosmic-horror dating sim swaps rituals for a Color Out of Space-inspired feeding puzzle, and while its cast and presentation are as charming as ever, longtime fans widely call it the weakest, shortest and most luck-dependent entry in the series.
6 / 10
A puzzle-heavy first-person dungeon crawler reviving a classic RPG name, praised for tactical combat, songs and voice work, but weighed down by a genuinely large volume of documented bugs, a puzzle-to-roleplay ratio that surprises and frustrates a substantial share of buyers, and restrictive character-building choices.
6 / 10
A Ninth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Blood Mage 2 released on Steam on 27 August 2026 and currently has zero Steam user reviews, continuing an unbroken run of unr
6 / 10
An occult card-crafting narrative RPG that wears its Cultist Simulator and Arkham Horror influences proudly, The Horror at Highrook earns a Very Positive score for its atmosphere, art, and writing, but a heavily corroborated complaint holds that its mechanics never grow beyond what its free demo already showed, leaving a short, linear, unchallenging experience that many reviewers feel is overpriced for what it delivers.
6 / 10
A solo-developed first-person survival-adventure whose launch was derailed by a viral TikTok describing a completely different game, followed by more than two years of the most aggressive, sustained performance-patching this review has seen from any single-developer release.
6 / 10
