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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.

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Haunted Hotel

The rough, dated first entry in a long-running hidden-object franchise, with a genuinely interesting premise buried under low-resolution graphics, unremovable text, and repetitive puzzle design that reviewers consistently say hasn't aged well.

3.4 / 10

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Artifact Seekers 1 Review: A Hidden-Object Puzzler Locked Behind a Coin Paywall

FIVE-BN Games' free-to-play hidden-object puzzler draws genuine long-term fans who call it relaxing and challenging, but a well-corroborated pattern of reviewers reports puzzles becoming functionally impossible without paying for hint coins, alongside multiple independent AI-generated-content accusations.

3.3 / 10

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Element Puzzle

A tap-to-move elemental transformation puzzle that placed 7th of 129 entries at js13k 2014 — undone on this shelf by a missing viewport tag that makes every phone tap land on the wrong part of the screen.

3.2 / 10

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Focus Hunt

A Ludum Dare 57 hidden-object game whose one real idea — hunt for things by dragging a shallow depth-of-field into focus instead of just scanning a static picture — is undermined by a flood-fill bug that freezes the browser for tens of seconds on an ordinary tap.

3.2 / 10

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Remote Position Review

A story-driven horror-mystery puzzle game about following a stranger's unnerving remote instructions, with only two public reviews on record -- one describing broken puzzle logic at launch, the other a longer, more forgiving account of a responsive developer patching around the same kind of issue in real time.

3 / 10

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Dead Exhale Review

ODale Studios' solo-developed alien-temple survival horror game built around a microphone-sensitive monster, whose Mixed and largely critical review sample finds the central detection gimmick inconsistent and easily bypassed, the puzzles either trivial or illogical, and the overall experience too short and rough to justify its asking price.

2 / 10

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