Puzzle Video Games45
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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Angry Birds Blast
Puzzle 21 December 2016
A logic game which is a new entry in the famed Angry Birds series. This time, we are dealing with a game inspired by match-3 (tile matching) games, but some of the mechanics are a bit different from what the genre has accustomed us to. The players are facing levels of differing shape, filled with tiles and balloons whose colors correspond to the colors of the birds trapped inside. Our job is to free the required number of birds, which means puncturing the right balloons.
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.
Odyssey: The Next Generation Science Game
Puzzle 19 April 2017
Developed by a small independent studio The Young Socrates, Odyssey: The Next Generation Science Game is a logic adventure game with many educational values. In the game, the player follows the story of a girl, who along with her father, who is an archeologist, and the rest of the family were imprisoned by pirates on one of the Caribbean islands.
Tiles & Tales
Puzzle 17 May 2016
Hybrid RPG and a puzzle game in which the player travels through a fantastic land and confronts various opponents. The success of his actions is determined by the results he gains by moving pieces of the puzzle across a two-dimensional board and combining squares of the same color - this is how he deals damage to enemies, heals a fighting character and opens the chests he encounters along the way.
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne
Puzzle 10 August 2017
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne is the sixth expansion for the free-to-play card game Hearthstone. It was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and can be bought through the game’s store for either real or in-game currency. This expansion focuses on Lich King’s army and his kingdom of Northrend. Just like the Whispers of the Old Gods DLC, Knights of the Frozen Throne tells an alternate version of the well-known events.
Slayaway Camp
Puzzle 25 October 2016
Slayaway Camp is an unusual turn-based logic game developed by an independent studio called Blue Wizard Digital. When working on their game, the developers have drawn their inspirations from the 1980s horror movies and at the same decided to mock their cheesy themes. The player assumes the role of a psychopathic murderer tasked with killing the teenagers who relax on their summer holidays. The maps are relatively small and composed of square fields.
Chess Ultra
Puzzle 21 June 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).
Eden: Renaissance
Puzzle 24 July 2017
Eden: Renaissance is a puzzle game created by The Last Kind studio. The player control a young archeologist who came across remnants of an alien civilization during his trip to Antarctica. Along with one of their representatives, the titular Eden, we have to save the world and find a way back home. The game uses turn-based mechanics and we have to safely lead our characters from the starting point to the finish line.
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.
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.
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Puzzle 23 January 2019
A logic game than enables the player to assume the role of the constructor of ski lifts, ski jumps and bridges. The developers from Huge Calf created a series of usually pretty but hard tasks. The maps aren’t large, but they are filled with hills, holes and high trees that make the task harder. Limited budget and weak construction elements are an additional trouble. Because of all that, in Carried Away the player must be very clever to create a safe and cheap lift.
Dragon Quest Rivals
Puzzle 02 November 2017
A card game developed by Square-Enix, set in a fantasy world of the Dragon Quest series. We participate in turn-based one-on-one fights, during which we use our own card decks with pictures of characters and enemies known from other entries in this series (such as Huser from Dragon Quest X or Camus and Martin from Dragon Quest XI) – each of the characters has their unique abilities and using them is the key to success.
Swim Out
Puzzle 08 August 2017
A puzzle game in which we play the role of a swimmer trying to get from one end of the pool to the other. Completion of the task is complicated by the fact that our client cannot cross the road for the rest of the people taking the bath. More than a hundred levels await completion in Swim Out, and the game resembles a chess game - the title forces us to plan our next moves in advance.
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.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
Puzzle 09 December 1999
A card game developed by Konami, based on the license of the popular anime. In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories players follow the fate of Atem and Yugie - a pharaoh trying to save his kingdom from danger and his descendant from modern times.
We Were Here Too
Puzzle 02 February 2018
A logic puzzle game developed with a co-op mode in mind, and a sequel to the well-received We Were Here. We Were Here Too by Total Mayhem Games features familiar mechanisms, giving the players the task of solving the mystery of a grim castle and reuniting the separated protagonists.
Swing
Puzzle 01 January 1997
A puzzle game inspired by the cult Tetris. During the Swing game we control a special feeder with which we select the colored balls and throw them down, and our goal is to create rows of at least three balls of the same color. Developers from Software 2000 studio allow us to have fun both alone and in the company of a second player.
Shift Quantum
Puzzle 29 May 2018
A two-dimensional logic/platform game from the makers of Epistory. The game is based on a web browser application entitled Shift. During the course of the game, the players have to shift between two dimensions in order to solve a series of logic puzzles.
Turnabout
Puzzle 06 April 2000
A puzzle game in which the gameplay takes place on a two-dimensional board covered with a grid of fields. It is your task to rotate the board and move the colored balls on it in such a way as to combine them with various colored objects. In Turnabout, more than a hundred such puzzles with an increasing difficulty level are waiting for the player to solve them. The title also allows you to design your own puzzles thanks to the built-in editor.
Geostorm
Puzzle 26 September 2017
A puzzle game based on an action film under the same title. During the game in Geostorm we play the three heroes, whose task is to obtain information about natural disasters that take place all over the world. The game, during which the action is shown in an isometric projection, consists in traversing the location and solving riddles.