The most interesting puzzle games released in 2014
All the best and most popular games of the year, upcoming releases, and hits from the past. Use filters to narrow down search.
Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey
Puzzle 30 January 2014
An unusual logic game that combines a turn-based RPG with elements of the popular board game Scrabble, developed by Bacon Bandit Games. In Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey, we assume the role of two grim reapers called Grimm and Rose who have to face hordes of ghosts, monsters, and other evil spawn using only the power of… words. While playing, we traverse five varied lands and fight turn-based battles with enemies, which allows us to enhance our character and weapons as we progress in the game.
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Puzzle 04 February 2014
A logical game with arcade elements that combines the popular Tetris and Puyo Puyo series. The title offers a wide range of gameplay modes, as well as the possibility of multiplayer play on a split screen or via the network.
Surge Deluxe
Puzzle 04 February 2014
A two-dimensional logic-arcade game in which players connect colourful blocks with each other by means of electrical impulses. What counts most during the game is speed and perceptiveness. The title uses only the PS Vity touchscreen.
Dead Man's Draw
Puzzle 06 February 2014
Gambling card game, maintained in pirate style. The aim of the game is to draw cards from the deck to achieve a higher score than the opponent. In addition to traditional cards, there are also special cards that can reverse the course of more than one duel. The essence of the game boils down to making risky decisions, which in one moment may bring us wealth or end the duel with a shameful defeat.
Threes!
Puzzle 06 February 2014
Conversion of a popular puzzle game, known from smartphones and tablets. The game is about combining digits with the same values that add up to form an even higher number. The aim of the game is to achieve the highest possible score.
99 Bricks Wizard Academy
Puzzle 18 February 2014
99 Bricks Wizard Academy is a puzzle game in which we build a magical tower. Various blocks falling from the sky serve as a building material and we have to adjust them in such a way that they create subsequent levels of the building. By the way, it is also necessary to defend the structure against competitive magicians trying to destroy it.
Another Case Solved
Puzzle 20 February 2014
Developed by the native ATGames studio, a detective puzzle game with elements of adventure and RPG. In the game we play the role of a detective, who in the times of candy prohibition deals with solving further criminal riddles. The game combines 'Match 3' production elements and guess-style social games with an RPG character development system.
Hearthstone
Puzzle 11 March 2014
A card logic game set in the fantasy universe of Azeroth, known from the Warcraft franchise. The game was developed by Blizzard Entertainment company, who mention the cult card game Magic: The Gathering as one of their major inspirations. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft lets you pick one of the nine available character classes and build you own deck of cards, which you can use in battles against the AI (tutorials) or living opponents (duels, tournaments).
Pokemon Link: Battle!
Puzzle 12 March 2014
Pokemon Link: Battle! is a 3DS-ready continuation of Pokemon Link!, a title released in 2006 on the Nintendo DS console. Again, we are dealing with a logical game in which the battles between the defeats are shown in the form of a puzzle from the Tetris or Bejeweled series. Our goal is to put all 700 available creatures in our collection. You can play on your own or in cooperation with up to four people.
2048
Puzzle 19 March 2014
2048 belongs to the popular trend of logical games, the aim of which is to achieve the title sum by combining identical numbers in their immediate vicinity. Production was released on PC and mobile devices.
Cut the Rope: Triple Treat
Puzzle 25 March 2014
A special version of a funny logic-arcade game, popular on mobile devices. The title is a compilation of the basic version of the game and its two stand-alone extensions, and there are more than 650 different and demanding levels at the disposal of players.
Monument Valley
Puzzle 03 April 2014
A puzzle game in which we lead a silent princess I'm going through the surrealistic world of title monuments, helping her by manipulating the environment and creating optical illusions. Monument Valley is distinguished by its artistic, minimalist graphic design, inspired by Japanese paintings and paintings by Maurits Cornellis Escher.
Might & Magic: Duel of Champions - Forgotten Wars
Puzzle 09 April 2014
An official expansion for Might and Magic: Duel of Champions by Ubisoft, released for consoles as a standalone production combining the DLC and the base game. Forgotten Wars is once again set in the fantasy universe; you create a hero, assemble your deck and participate in epic duels, in which you have to bring down the opponent's health to zero. You do it with your cards depicting heroes, events, monsters, spells, special buildings and strokes of luck.
No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!
Puzzle 15 April 2014
A free-to-play puzzle game that is the fifth installment of the series known from the PSP. We play the role of God of Destruction - Badman, who interjects the heroes into the dungeon, harnessing them into slave labor, thanks to which he will be able to create a powerful and invincible army. The game is a combination of match 3 entertainment with elements of strategy games and RPG.
Sparkle Unleashed
Puzzle 16 April 2014
The next installment of arcade logic games. In the opinion of players is to match up colored crystals, whose rope moves on the screen. The title offers a total of more than 108 levels, several gameplay modes and 18 power-ups.
Hitman GO: Definitive Edition
Puzzle 17 April 2014
A spin-off entry in the popular Hitman franchise, launched in 2000 by Eidos. Hitman GO has been developed for mobile devices and unlike the full-scale games in the series, it combines elements of stealth, turn-based strategy and puzzles. There doesn't feature a storyline, and the gameplay focuses on missions that come down to eliminating certain people according to Agent 47's contract.
Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game
Puzzle 19 April 2014
A humorous puzzle game based on the work of American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, in which we solve riddles, creating complicated and often incomprehensible from the construction point of view of the machine. The production is characterized by a characteristic comic book design.
Diamond Digger Saga
Puzzle 01 May 2014
One of the match-3 games from King. This time players help a cheerful creature named Diggy in search of treasures buried underground. The production is available for free within the free-to-play business model.
Bubble Witch 2 Saga
Puzzle 15 May 2014
Continuation of the game Bubble Witch Saga from 2012. In production we help the witch Stella and her cats to drive the evil forces out of the fantastic and once peaceful land. The game is based on shooting with colourful bubbles at other elements of this type at the top of the board.
MacGyver Deadly Descent
Puzzle 20 May 2014
MacGyver Deadly Descent is a puzzle game developed by FairPlay Media Limited team, allowing you to play the hero of the famous TV series. The game is about solving puzzles and is devoid of arcade elements.
Lemmings Touch
Puzzle 28 May 2014
Lemmings Touch is a puzzle game by d3t. In this game, the player's task is to allow a herd of friendly creatures to reach the target. This is not easy, because our guests do not have a penny of conservative sense and will die quickly without constant care.
Kill the Bad Guy
Puzzle 28 May 2014
Kill the Bad Guy is a puzzle game in which the main task of the player is to eliminate the title "bad people", i.e. former mafia members and terrorists. This should be done discreetly and as spectacularly as possible.
Whispering Willows
Puzzle 17 June 2014
Whispering Willows is a puzzle game developed by Night Light Interactive team. We play the role of a young girl looking for her father in a haunted house. In her adventures the heroine uses parapsychic powers, including astral projection skills.
Pokemon Art Academy
Puzzle 19 June 2014
A spin-off title to the Pokémon series, in the form of an educational game, in which we learn to draw the eponymous creatures. We take on the role of a young artist who creates his first work under the watchful eye of professor Andy. On each stage, our teacher introduces new gameplay elements, starting from the basic technique of drawing shapes and coloring, then raising difficulty and teaching us more advanced ways of drawing.
Pushmo World
Puzzle 19 June 2014
The third installment of the popular logical series, launched by Pullblox and Fallblox. In the game we play the role of a friendly cat cat sumo wrestler named Mello, and our task is to free the kids, trapped by a mysterious swindler. In order to do this we have to climb to the top of special block structures.
City 2048
Puzzle 25 June 2014
City 2048 is a mobile puzzle game released on Android. According to the title, it combines solutions of puzzles type 2048 with the theme of city construction. The game takes place on the board with sixteen square fields and our task is to combine pairs of identical tiles, which allows us to get one new one with a greater level of complexity.
Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
Puzzle 26 June 2014
Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is a team developed by SleepNinja Games Logical-Arcade game. The game consists mainly in exploring ingeniously designed maps and overcoming obstacles, which requires both cleverness and good reflex.
Disney Tsum Tsum
Puzzle 29 June 2014
Logical match-3 puzzle, created under the license of Disney Tsum Tsum Tsum plush toys. The game does not differ much from other players of the genre and consists in combining at least three identical elements, so that we score points.
MouseCraft
Puzzle 08 July 2014
Produced by homegrown studio Crunching Koalas, a fun puzzle and arcade game that combines elements of two legendary titles: Tetris and Lemming. In the game we take control over not very resourceful mouse community, which all its actions are subordinated to gaining more pieces of cheese. While playing, we learn the story of a certain mad, feline scientist, whose character accompanies us through each level. The gameplay mechanics combines features of both mentioned titles.
Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers
Puzzle 16 July 2014
Another edition of one of the most popular adaptations of the cult card game, developed by Stainless Games studio in cooperation with the publisher of the paper version, Wizards of the Coast. At the heart of the game is the rivalry between powerful mages, each of whom has their own deck of cards, symbolizing spells, special abilities, magical items or monsters. The game ends when all life points are taken from the opponent.
Hearthstone: Curse of Naxxramas
Puzzle 23 July 2014
First DLC add-on for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, enriching this online collectible card game from Blizzard with an extensive story-based campaign for single player mode. Game is played on a specially prepared interactive board and the plot is set in the titular Naxxramas necropolis, known from the World of Warcraft game. When traversing five districts of the city we encounter completely new bosses, such as spider Maexxna or an undead monster called Loatheb.
The Brave Furries
Puzzle 04 August 2014
A puzzle game created by the Polish studio Crazy Goat Games. While having fun we must help the cheerful creatures of Furries to save their companions kidnapped by the Evil Sorcerer. The game is based on solving uncomplicated puzzles that we come across during our adventure.
Road Not Taken
Puzzle 05 August 2014
Unusual combination of classic roguelike production with elements of adventure and puzzle games. The game was developed by Spry Fox, an independent studio so far known mainly from social games. It was inspired by Robert Frost's poem of the same title. The action of the game takes place in mystical forest full of dangers and the player becomes a guard whose task is to find lost children.
Back to Bed
Puzzle 06 August 2014
Original puzzle game developed by an independent studio Bedtime Gaming as a continuation of a student project from 2011. The action takes place in the surreal world of dreams, and its protagonist is a man named Bob, who suffers from narcolepsy. Players take on the role of a small creature, symbolizing the subconscious part of the hero responsible for his self-preservation instinct, and their task is to influence the actions of the sleepwalking Bob so that he can safely return to his bed.
Best Fiends
Puzzle 20 August 2014
Best Fiends is an extended "combine three elements" logic game, which also has some of the characteristics of RPG production. In the Seriously studio, we command a group of cheerful appetizers, trying to free the kidnapped families of our wards.
Contraption Maker
Puzzle 03 September 2014
Contraption Maker is a puzzle game developed by Spotkin studio. The game consists in creating crazy sequences of cause and effect with the use of objects and animals. On each board it is up to the players to set the available objects in such a way that after releasing the map, all of them in total give the desired effect.
Angry Birds Stella
Puzzle 04 September 2014
Another installment of the cult Angry Birds series by Rovio, representing a return to the roots of the series after many different spin-offs. In comparison to previous parts of the series, Angry Birds Stella offers quite an expanded storyline.
Hack 'n' Slash
Puzzle 09 September 2014
Hack 'n' Slash is a humorous puzzle game developed by Double Fine team. It is a parody of console series like The Legend of Zelda. We play the role of a young elven, who can hack the virtual reality around her and in this dishonest way goes through a typical fantasy campaign.
Flockers
Puzzle 19 September 2014
Developed by Team 17 Software, known for their bestselling Worms and Alien Breed series, this puzzle-arcade game is a reference to the popular Lemmings series from the 90s. Our task is to lead a herd of sheep rushing ahead of us through a number of varied and full of traps levels. During the game we can assign tasks to each sheep which will help the rest of the flock to avoid obstacles and safely reach the destination.
RGB Express
Puzzle 25 September 2014
RGB Express is a puzzle game produced by the Bad Crane team, in which we manage a transport company delivering parcels. We need to steer the trucks in such a way that they avoid collisions with other traffic participants, and the addressees receive the shipments in the right time and order.
Zero Age
Puzzle 09 October 2014
Zero Age is a logical game created by Hosni Auji and Majd Akar. The production takes us to the surreal world of structures drifting in the air, which we have to overcome as a hero with the power to manipulate elements of the environment.
TRI
Puzzle 09 October 2014
TRI is a first person perspective puzzle game (FPP) produced by the independent studio Rat King Entertainment. The action takes place in a fantastic world built mainly of geometric figures and simple blocks. The player has the power to create triangular surfaces that help him overcome obstacles, explore locations and solve puzzles.
Outcast Odyssey
Puzzle 15 October 2014
Outcast Odyssey is a mobile card set in the reality of fantasy. The game boils down to fighting fights with hand-selected waist, and the gameplay is enriched by RPG elements in the form of dungeon exploration.
Candy Crush Soda Saga
Puzzle 20 October 2014
Another installment in the popular series of puzzle games developed by King. Since 2012, the series has become extremely popular among mobile platform and Facebook users. Candy Crush Soda Saga expands the ideas known from the previous installments of the series. The main objective of the game is, as always, to combine the elements found on the board into groups of at least three objects of the same type. However, this time, in addition to the candies, the game also features sodas.
Super Glyph Quest
Puzzle 22 October 2014
Super Glyph Quest is a hybrid genre combining the mechanisms of match-3 logic games with powerful RPG elements. Players take on the role of a magician who fights monsters with spells activated by creating strings of at least three symbols of the same type.
Puzzle to the Center of the Earth
Puzzle 23 October 2014
Puzzle to the Center of the Earth is a Foursaken Media team's arcade-logical game that combines certain features of the match-3 genre with platformer-like gameplay. Our task is to reach the Earth's nucleus by travelling through maps made up of multicolored blocks, which we have to combine in combinations of at least three of the same kind.
One Upon Light
Puzzle 28 October 2014
Original logic-arcade game, realized in black-and-white graphic design. In the game we play the role of a scientist who has to get out of an abandoned research center. As all light sources are deadly for him, in order to pave the way, our protagonist has to solve further riddles using the mechanics of light and shadow.
Gems of War
Puzzle 29 October 2014
Gems of War is a puzzle game developed by Infinite Interactive studio with extensive RPG elements. Players take on the role of generals trying to conquer the land of fantasy, full of magic and fantastic creatures.
Big Hero 6 Bot Fight
Puzzle 03 November 2014
Big Hero 6 Bot Fight is a Disney-made match-3 puzzle game. The game consists of duels with black characters on boards filled with various energy cubes. Our task is to create strings of at least three elements of the same type as it activates attacks and other special skills.
Monzo
Puzzle 05 November 2014
Monzo is a puzzle game developed by the Madfinger Games team, allowing you to assemble and collect virtual models of various objects, such as cars, helicopters and planes. This is done using a user-friendly interface that requires us to imitate what we would actually be doing with our finger on the screen.
Tetris Ultimate
Puzzle 11 November 2014
Another title under the Tetris brand. French company Ubisoft, cooperating with The Tetris Company, is responsible for the production. The game offers already known improved multiplayer solutions for up to 4 players and Marathon, Endless, Ultra, Sprint, Battle and Power-Up Battle modes.
Sneaky Sneaky
Puzzle 12 November 2014
Sneaky Sneaky is a hybrid of sneaky and logical game. We direct a thief who has to recover his own treasure robbed by soldiers. In order to do this, we sneak through the boards, set traps and ingeniously use objects scattered around the maps.
Marble Duel
Puzzle 12 November 2014
Logical-arcade game from the creators of Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf. In production we find ourselves in a fantastic world where we have to overcome a bad witch. The title is a variation on the famous Zuma series from PopCap.
Framed
Puzzle 13 November 2014
An independent puzzle game maintained in an eye-catching comic setting. The player's task is to adjust the individual elements of the interactive comic book in a way that will allow the wall hero to escape safely.
Far Cry 4 Arcade Poker
Puzzle 18 November 2014
A simple logic arcade game and at the same time a mobile application accompanying the fourth major entry in Ubisoft’s Far Cry series. Far Cry 4: Arcade Poker combines rules of the classic poker with features of a classic arcade game like Tetris. Players must assemble poker hands from falling cards before they reach the bottom of the screen. We drag the pieces we need into correct place, while those we have no use for can be exchanged for others with a single tap.
Peggle Blast
Puzzle 18 November 2014
The next installment of the famous series of logic-arcade games, and at the same time the first of the series released in the free-to-play model. While playing, we destroy colorful objects by shooting balls at them and using the unique abilities of the characters, among which we will find, among others, octopus, hamster and snail.
Sunburn!
Puzzle 20 November 2014
Sunburn! is a puzzle game developed by the Secret Crush team, in which the player's task is to enable a group of astronauts to commit collective suicide by pouring into the middle of the Sun. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to make proper use of the gravitational forces of the planets on their way to the target.
Hearthstone: Goblins vs Gnomes
Puzzle 08 December 2014
The second official expansion pack for Hearthstone - an online card game set in the world of the Warcraft series and released in the spring of 2014 by Blizzard Entertainment. Contrary to the first DLC expansion focusing on the plot, the second expansion mainly introduces completely new sets of cards into the game. These are related to the age-old rivalry between the two titular races - goblins and gnomes.
The Talos Principle
Puzzle 11 December 2014
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.
ULTRAFLOW
Puzzle 23 December 2014
A minimalist logic puzzle game by Ultrateam, a small studio consisting of just a few members. The game was released for free for web browsers and mobile devices. ULTRAFLOW features very simple gameplay mechanics: you have to put a ball in the hole on the other side of a tiny map. However, although the path is short, it's not quite straight, and the ball can bounce off many obstacles only a given number of times.