Puzzle Video Games51
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.
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The Talos Principle VR
Puzzle 17 October 2017
Special version of 2014 first-person puzzle game that consists of the base title and the official expansion named Road to Gehenna. It has been developed for virtual reality sets, resulting in different controls. However, every other aspect of the game remained unchanged from the original.
The Room: Old Sins
Puzzle 25 January 2018
The fourth installment of the popular logic game series with adventure elements. The game continues the convention featured in its predecessors; nonetheless, the developers have prepared an entirely new chapter in the story and enhanced the gameplay mechanics.
Body of Evidence
Puzzle 17 December 2020
An unusual arcade game by Polish studio Empyrean. You play as a murderer, who has to cover his tracks. In practice, that means getting rid of the body, wiping the blood, and distracting the guest knocking on the door.
Opus Magnum
Puzzle 07 December 2017
A logic game created by Zachtronics Industries. The protagonist is Anataeus Vaya, the most promising scientist of his generation who has just took the position of Head Alchemist in one of the oldest and richest families in town. His new employers hide a dark secret. The players’ task is to discover what lurks behind the facet of the seemingly perfect family. To do so, they have to build alchemical machines that can create necessary products.
Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs
Puzzle 07 December 2017
The eleventh expansion to the popular card game developed by Blizzard. The players are given 135 new cards inspired by Kobolds and the catacombs they inhabit, which are also filled with many monsters and treasures. Moreover, this expansion introduces the single player mode into the game.
PUSH
Puzzle 10 October 2017
A logic game, in which the player’s task is to press all of the buttons that have been displayed on the 3D objects. This relatively simple concept is transformed into a challenge due to the lack of any hint system. The key to success in the case of most puzzles is to find the order, in which certain buttons must be pressed, or to discover the meaning of the symbols, that have been connected to the buttons.
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Puzzle 13 April 2018
A horror game under the license of the Friday the 13th franchise. In this game, filled to the brim with black humor, the player assumes the role of Jason Voorhees who visits camps and murders his victims.
Death Coming
Puzzle 06 November 2017
An unusual logic game, in which you assume the role of the Reaper – Death’s agent. Your goal is to kill people in every possible way. The tricky part is that there is no direct control over any character. All the player can do is to manipulate the environment and lure their prey into all kinds of death traps.
Factotum
Puzzle 20 August 2015
A puzzle game in which we play the role of a spacecraft passenger. After the ship has collided with an unidentified object, the protagonist's primary task is to restore power and repair life support systems by means of two remote-controlled robots observed by an obsolete terminal.
Factotum 90
Puzzle 10 February 2016
A puzzle game in which we play the role of a spacecraft passenger. After the ship has collided with an unidentified object, the protagonist's task is to restore power and repair life support systems with the help of two remote-controlled robots observed by an obsolete terminal.
Riddlord: The Consequence
Puzzle 01 December 2017
A logic puzzle game inspired by The Room series, developed by Russian studio Amrita. You play as Jack Reed, a former detective, who has to face the mysterious Riddlord. The game features supernatural elements and cases inspired by real-life unsolved crimes.
Vesta
Puzzle 19 January 2018
Vesta is a logic action game set in a post-apocalyptic world. The title is created by the independent studio FinalBoss Games from Spain. You assume the roles of a girl named Vesta and her friend Droid, and go through a maze filled with traps and enemies.
Scribblenauts Showdown
Puzzle 06 March 2018
The sixth installment in a series of logic-adventure games, which has gained approval both among the players and the industry media. The game stands out with the amount of freedom the player is given when it comes to approaching different puzzles. Scribblenauts Showdown was developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros.
Bridge Constructor Portal
Puzzle 20 December 2017
A simple puzzle game created by ClockStone studio in the agreement with Valve company, and a crossover of Portal and Bridge Constructor series. The players must build various and often complex constructions in order to safely transport the cargo from one side of the map to the other. There are many obstacles to overcome, including turrets, lasers and acid pools.
Samsara
Puzzle 07 February 2018
A two-dimensional logic game that gives the player indirect control of a girl by the name of Zee. She is trapped in a strange, dualistic world with both a regular and a dark side to it. The latter is inhabited by a shadow that imitates the girl's movements. Both the characters have to reach portals serving the role of destination points - this must happen in order for the player to complete a given level.
Chime Sharp
Puzzle 19 July 2016
An upgraded version of Chime – a well-received mix of a logic and a rhythm game released in 2010. The new edition does not differ much from its predecessor – we are given a grid that is gradually filled with player-inserted blocks creating quads – rectangle and square shaped fields that are at least 3x3 in size. Completed figures unlock the further parts of the music track that accompany our actions.
Hidden Folks
Puzzle 15 February 2017
Hidden Folks is an original puzzle game created by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg. Gameplay is based on a simple, although a rather unusual scheme. The game takes place on a dozen or so 2D, monochromatic boards where we have to find all of the targets, which can be characters or specific items. Our search for them is hampered by the necessity to use the game's environment to find some of them (i.e.
She Remembered Caterpillars
Puzzle 17 January 2017
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.
Hearthstone: Journey to Un'Goro
Puzzle 06 April 2017
Another official expansion to the free-to-play card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment. This time the developers send us to the unexplored forest of the Un’Goro crater, which is inhabited by intriguing, but also very dangerous species of fauna and flora. We follow the team of explorers led by Elise Starseeker, encountering mighty dinosaurs, wild elementals, carnivorous plants and many other interesting organisms.
Deus Ex GO
Puzzle 18 August 2016
One of the spin-offs to Deus Ex, a popular RPG series developed by Square Enix. The title takes place in cyberpunk universe known from the main installments of the series. In this universe the humanity learned how to improve the capabilities of humans with cybernetic augmentations. Gameplay mechanics of Deus Ex GO are similar to the previously released Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO - it is a turn-based puzzle game.
Pony Island
Puzzle 04 January 2016
Unusual independent game created by Daniel Mullins for the Ludum Dare 31 in 2014 and then released for the Steam platform. The player directs a character trapped in a diabolic game, and his task is to get out and save his soul. Pony Island stands out mainly due to its gameplay. There are typical arcade sequences in the game, but it is much more important to be able to interfere with the code of a fictional application, which takes the form of simple logical games.
Kula World
Puzzle 10 July 1998
Kula World is a three-dimensional puzzle game in which the player controls the beach ball. Its task is to get out of the suspended in the air levels in the shape of geometric solids. The levels are full of traps and difficulties, and a special feature of production is the ability to roll to the side of the ground, resulting in a change in gravity of the environment.
We Were Here
Puzzle 03 February 2017
An unusual, first-person perspective logic game developed by Total Mayhem Games. The title is a game focused on cooperation mode. We Were Here takes place in a mysterious, abandoned castle in the middle of nowhere. One of the players assumes the role of a man imprisoned in a small part of the fortress. The second player has access to a much greater area and is tasked with finding and freeing his companion.
Claybook
Puzzle 31 August 2018
A logic game with arcade elements, which lets you play with some virtual clay. You play from a perspective of a child, spending time in his or her room on viewing an amazing book. Each of its pages is a new world built entirely of clay. In-game levels offer a variety of action/logic challenges, most of which are based on the physics of objects – the engine mimics the movement of clay objects quite realistically.