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Puzzle games. In this category solving puzzles is the main purpose of gameplay. These titles usually don’t have any story or have it in a very simple form. Playing requires good perception and skills of logical thinking, strategic planning and recognizing schemes. more

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Animal Well
Animal Well

Puzzle 09 May 2024

Animal Well is a puzzle game with platform game elements. We explore 2D maps, avoid dangers, collect objects and most of all solve puzzles.

The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition
The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition

Puzzle 10 December 2019

A unique first-person puzzle game developed by the Croatian Croteam studio, the creators of the Serious Sam series. Our character wakes up in a world filled with ancient ruins and advanced technology, where he finds 120 puzzles prepared by a creator, employing various laws of physics and different mechanics. We travel across the game’s world nonlinearly, choosing our own path and completing the tasks presented to us, which consist of e.g.

Balatro
Balatro

Puzzle 20 February 2024

A roguelike card game loosely based on the poker rules. Balatro has us participate in solo card duels, gradually unlocking new card decks and joker cards with unique abilities and effects. The game offers a story campaign, as well as various single challenges.

A Little to the Left
A Little to the Left

Puzzle 09 November 2022

A relaxing puzzle game aimed towards players fond of organizing space. A Little to the Left has us sorting items to keep them ordered - the actual order is up to us.

The Turing Test
The Turing Test

Puzzle 07 February 2020

A sci-fi FPP logic puzzle game by Bulkhead Interactive, a studio founded by the creators of Pneuma: Breath of Life. The story takes place an unspecified number of years in the future, when scientists discover a seemingly harmless alien life form on Jupiter's moons. You play as an astronaut named Ava Turing, whose task is to examine the new species, and who ends up finding more than she expected. The Turing Test is a part of the FPP logic puzzle genre, popularized by the Portal series.

Q.U.B.E. 2
Q.U.B.E. 2

Puzzle 21 February 2019

Q.U.B.E. 2 is a logic game, in which players observe the action from the first-person perspective. The game resembling the Portal series was developed by the Welsh Toxic Games and is based on Unreal Engine 4 created by Epic.

Archaica: The Path of Light
Archaica: The Path of Light

Puzzle 24 April 2020

A logic game inspired by Chromatron and Aargon. Archaica: The Path Of Light is the debut production of TwoMammoths, a Polish development studio. The title puts an incredibly responsible task in the player’s hands: to save the humanity from extinction. To achieve this, we have to activate special defense mechanisms by leading a beam of light through the forgotten path of the ancients.

Enchanting Mahjong Match
Enchanting Mahjong Match

Puzzle 15 March 2018

A logic game inspired by the western incarnation of the tile-based Mahjong. The main purpose of the game is finding identical tiles and removing them from the game board. The game features one hundred and forty puzzles of varying difficulty levels, which await the players.

Mirror
Mirror

Puzzle 23 December 2019

Mirror is an erotic puzzle game where you match gems on the board in sets of three or more.

Paper Trail
Paper Trail

Puzzle 21 May 2024

Paper Trail is a puzzle game with a world made of double-sided pieces of paper. The protagonist, freshman Paige, has the power to fold them in such a way as to create a path for herself to places inaccessible to others.

Cocoon
Cocoon

Puzzle 29 September 2023

A puzzle adventure game, in which we solve puzzles while traveling between worlds contained in small spheres. Cocoon was directed by Jeppe Carlsen, the main designer of Limbo and Inside.

World of Goo 2
World of Goo 2

Puzzle 02 August 2024

The second installment in a series of puzzle games starring the titular goo. World of Goo 2 tasks us with creating structures from blobs of goo, dealing with the laws of physics and increasing difficulty.

Snipperclips: Cut It out, Together
Snipperclips: Cut It out, Together

Puzzle 03 March 2017

Snipperclips: Cut It Out, Together is an original puzzle game developed by SFB Games and published by Nintendo for their Nintendo Switch console. Various riddles that require not only creative thinking, but also good reflexes and strict player cooperation are the core elements of gameplay. In Snipperclips: Cut It Out, Together we play as paper characters whose shape we can change so that they complement the shapes of characters created by other players, leading to the puzzle being solved.

Puzzle Adventure Blockle
Puzzle Adventure Blockle

Puzzle 03 August 2017

A funny logic game, in which the gameplay is based on rotating entire levels. By doing that we help the hero to reach the exit, collect various items and avoid dangers. Puzzle Adventure Blockle has two main characters – a cat called Kulu, who was sent by Katz city mayor to find seven stones that can help him to take over the world, and beautiful goddess, Arkia, who can manipulate levels.

Chess Ultra
Chess Ultra

Puzzle 02 November 2017

An advanced chess simulator adapted to support VR headsets. Chess Ultra allows us to compete against other players or AI that offers ten difficulty levels, which determine how many moves can the computer read in advance and the probability of it making a mistake. The action is observed from the first-person perspective. We can learn both the basics and advanced strategies in the tutorial. In total, the developers prepared eighty chess challenges (e.g. winning a game within seven turns).

Picross S
Picross S

Puzzle 28 September 2017

Another entry in the popular series of logic games known from Nintendo’s mobile consoles. Picross S is the first entry in the series developed for Nintendo Switch. The gameplay is based on the principles of a puzzle invented by the Japanese artist Non Ishida. This puzzle is known as “paint by numbers”. Similarly to the previous game, in Picross S the player is tasked with painting the fields of a diagram in such way that they create a pixel drawing.

Boost Beast
Boost Beast

Puzzle 20 July 2017

A cartoonish production from the match-3, genre created by Arzest studio and Arc System Works company. Boost Beast takes the player to an alternate reality, in which all humans have changed into blood-thirsty zombies after a mysterious meteor crashed on Earth. Only the animals led by dog Alec are left to resolve that crisis. Gameplay encompasses turn-based battles with undead taking place on more than 200 arenas - two-dimensional battlefields made of square fields filled with colorful elements.

Persian Nights: Sands of Wonders
Persian Nights: Sands of Wonders

Puzzle 17 August 2018

The next HOPA production in Artifex Mundi's publishing portfolio. The game, which was developed by the Sodigital studio, takes the players to a fairy tale version of Persia, which is ruled with an iron fist by Grand Vizier Zaved.

Donut County
Donut County

Puzzle 18 December 2018

A colorful logic and adventure game in which we control a hole that absorbs objects placed on small three-dimensional boards. The title was created for over five years and has been awarded many times at festivals of independent productions.

She Remembered Caterpillars
She Remembered Caterpillars

Puzzle 28 March 2019

She Remembered Caterpillars is a isometric 2D puzzle game developed by Ysbryd Games. She Remembered Caterpillars takes us to a weird world where we have to find our missing father. A bigger emphasis, however, is put on the gameplay mechanics (manipulating the colors), not the plot. During the game we will control colorful creatures that move around small maps and can only cross bridges that are of the same color as them.

Gunhouse
Gunhouse

Puzzle 15 January 2018

Crazy two-dimensional puzzle game combining the features of match-3 titles with tower defense productions. The creators of Gunhouse have prepared numerous bosses, as well as randomly generated levels filled with dangerous enemies, which we shoot with many types of weapons.

Word Puzzles by POWGI
Word Puzzles by POWGI

Puzzle 25 October 2018

A collection of several dozen puzzles representing six different types of puzzles.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution

Puzzle 20 August 2019

Extended edition of Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, prepared for the Nintendo Switch console. The title offers all the additional content issued for the original edition and adds more than two thousand cards. In addition, it introduces the latest rules of the paper card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, including a completely new type of monster cards.

Light Tracer
Light Tracer

Puzzle 16 May 2019

A logic puzzle game by Oasis Games, known from many mobile, web-based PC productions, such as Tiger Knight: Empire War. You play as a divine being, who helps a princess in climbing a dangerous tower. You make her task easier by showing her the way with a special wand. You can also manipulate the surroundings, turning maps right and left, raising or moving platforms, etc.