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#1
Overwhelmingly positive · 98 % positive
Portal 2
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#2
Overwhelmingly positive · 98 % positive
Portal
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#3
Very positive · 93 % positive
Braid
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#4
Very positive · 85 % positive
The Witness
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#5
Overwhelmingly positive · 96 % positive
Return of the Obra Dinn
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Sci-fi setting
Pixel art
Distinctive, stylised art style
Puzzles and brain teasers
Strong, story-driven narrative
Sci-fi setting
Lots to discover
Distinctive, stylised art style
Lots to discover
Sci-fi setting
Lots of humour
A brilliant first-person physics puzzler where you bend space with the portal gun through the decaying test chambers of Aperture Science, driven by the razor-sharp wit of GLaDOS and Wheatley. A separate co-op campaign adds clever two-player puzzles.
1 Portal 2
A brilliant first-person physics puzzler where you bend space with the portal gun through the decaying test chambers of Aperture Science, driven by the razor-sharp wit of GLaDOS and Wheatley. A separate co-op campaign adds clever two-player puzzles.
Portal 2
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Lots of humour
A tight first-person puzzler where you bend space with a portal gun through physics-based test chambers, all while the passive-aggressive AI GLaDOS taunts you with pitch-black humor. Brilliant mechanics, perfect pacing and an iconic twist make it a classic.
2 Portal
A tight first-person puzzler where you bend space with a portal gun through physics-based test chambers, all while the passive-aggressive AI GLaDOS taunts you with pitch-black humor. Brilliant mechanics, perfect pacing and an iconic twist make it a classic.
Portal
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Jumping and platforming
A landmark puzzle-platformer where every world bends time in a new, mind-twisting way, from rewinding to parallel realities. Beneath its painterly look lies a melancholic, ambiguous tale of regret and obsession.
3 Braid
A landmark puzzle-platformer where every world bends time in a new, mind-twisting way, from rewinding to parallel realities. Beneath its painterly look lies a melancholic, ambiguous tale of regret and obsession.
Braid
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Lots to discover
A vibrant, deserted island packed with line-maze puzzles whose rules you must figure out entirely without instructions. The real reward is the epiphany of grasping each hidden principle, even in the landscape itself.
A vibrant, deserted island packed with line-maze puzzles whose rules you must figure out entirely without instructions. The real reward is the epiphany of grasping each hidden principle, even in the landscape itself.
The Witness
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Strong, story-driven narrative
As an insurance investigator, you use a magical pocket watch to relive the final moments of a ghost ship's crew and deduce the identity and fate of every sailor. Its striking 1-bit visuals and brilliant deduction design make it a one-of-a-kind detective game.
As an insurance investigator, you use a magical pocket watch to relive the final moments of a ghost ship's crew and deduce the identity and fate of every sailor. Its striking 1-bit visuals and brilliant deduction design make it a one-of-a-kind detective game.
Return of the Obra Dinn
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Sci-fi setting
A meditative first-person puzzler where you play an android solving laser and block puzzles across ancient-looking ruins while grappling with questions of consciousness, humanity and free will. Brilliantly designed puzzles meet philosophical terminal conversations and a haunting atmosphere.
A meditative first-person puzzler where you play an android solving laser and block puzzles across ancient-looking ruins while grappling with questions of consciousness, humanity and free will. Brilliantly designed puzzles meet philosophical terminal conversations and a haunting atmosphere.
The Talos Principle
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Pixel art
A serene pixel-art platformer where rotating a flat-looking world reveals hidden paths through a third dimension. Beneath its calm surface lie cryptic ciphers and deep secrets that reward obsessive puzzle-solving.
7 Fez
A serene pixel-art platformer where rotating a flat-looking world reveals hidden paths through a third dimension. Beneath its calm surface lie cryptic ciphers and deep secrets that reward obsessive puzzle-solving.
Fez
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A wordless point-and-click adventure following a tiny robot through a gorgeously hand-drawn, rusty machine city, packed with clever puzzles and charming pictogram storytelling. Floex's atmospheric soundtrack makes it a calm, whimsical work of art.
A wordless point-and-click adventure following a tiny robot through a gorgeously hand-drawn, rusty machine city, packed with clever puzzles and charming pictogram storytelling. Floex's atmospheric soundtrack makes it a calm, whimsical work of art.
Machinarium
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A first-person puzzle game set in a dream where perspective is reality: objects grow or shrink depending on how you look at them. Short and mind-bending, with dry humor and a surprisingly reflective message.
A first-person puzzle game set in a dream where perspective is reality: objects grow or shrink depending on how you look at them. Short and mind-bending, with dry humor and a surprisingly reflective message.
Superliminal
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Strong, story-driven narrative
Vincent is torn between his girlfriend and a seductive affair, and by night must climb deadly block towers in nightmares. By day he drinks at the bar and makes choices that steer the story, mixing relationship drama with brutally tough block-pushing puzzles.
10 Catherine
Vincent is torn between his girlfriend and a seductive affair, and by night must climb deadly block towers in nightmares. By day he drinks at the bar and makes choices that steer the story, mixing relationship drama with brutally tough block-pushing puzzles.
Catherine
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Sci-fi setting
An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you create clones of yourself and swap between them to solve puzzles on an abandoned space station. Its handcrafted, claustrophobic look and philosophical story about consciousness and identity set it apart.
11 The Swapper
An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you create clones of yourself and swap between them to solve puzzles on an abandoned space station. Its handcrafted, claustrophobic look and philosophical story about consciousness and identity set it apart.
The Swapper
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Lots to discover
A landmark adventure where you wander a mysterious island alone and solve intricate logic puzzles woven into the environment to uncover the fate of two trapped brothers. With no combat or hand-holding, it is a quiet, observation-driven journey of discovery.
12 Myst
A landmark adventure where you wander a mysterious island alone and solve intricate logic puzzles woven into the environment to uncover the fate of two trapped brothers. With no combat or hand-holding, it is a quiet, observation-driven journey of discovery.
Myst
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Distinctive, stylised art style
Gorogoa is a short, hand-drawn puzzle game where you stack, zoom and shift illustrated panels to uncover hidden connections. Its wordless tale of longing and a life's journey unfolds entirely through this inventive mechanic.
13 Gorogoa
Gorogoa is a short, hand-drawn puzzle game where you stack, zoom and shift illustrated panels to uncover hidden connections. Its wordless tale of longing and a life's journey unfolds entirely through this inventive mechanic.
Gorogoa
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Lots to discover
You explore a mysterious mansion whose layout you rebuild each day by drafting rooms, slowly unraveling layered puzzles on the hunt for Room 46. Roguelike planning meets deep discovery and secrets.
14 Blue Prince
You explore a mysterious mansion whose layout you rebuild each day by drafting rooms, slowly unraveling layered puzzles on the hunt for Room 46. Roguelike planning meets deep discovery and secrets.
Blue Prince
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Sci-fi setting
Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.
15 Cocoon
Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.
Cocoon
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Co-op or multiplayer
Two players are separated in an abandoned castle in a frozen wasteland and must solve puzzles using only a walkie-talkie, describing what they see to each other. Communication and teamwork are the core of the experience.
16 We Were Here
Two players are separated in an abandoned castle in a frozen wasteland and must solve puzzles using only a walkie-talkie, describing what they see to each other. Communication and teamwork are the core of the experience.
We Were Here
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Fantasy setting
A puzzle adventure from Jonathan Blow featuring over a thousand hand-crafted, interlinked puzzles in a magical realm. Different heroes introduce new mechanics as you uncover a larger mystery.
A puzzle adventure from Jonathan Blow featuring over a thousand hand-crafted, interlinked puzzles in a magical realm. Different heroes introduce new mechanics as you uncover a larger mystery.
Order of the Sinking Star
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Pixel art
A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.
A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.
Thimbleweed Park
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Lots to discover
Explore a solar system caught in a 22-minute time loop and unravel a cosmic mystery.
19 Outer Wilds
Explore a solar system caught in a 22-minute time loop and unravel a cosmic mystery.
Outer Wilds
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Lots of humour
A cult point-and-click classic where three friends use time travel across three eras to solve wacky puzzles and stop an evil tentacle. The remaster adds hand-drawn HD art and refreshed audio while keeping the zany cartoon humor intact.
20 Day of the Tentacle Remastered
A cult point-and-click classic where three friends use time travel across three eras to solve wacky puzzles and stop an evil tentacle. The remaster adds hand-drawn HD art and refreshed audio while keeping the zany cartoon humor intact.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Co-op or multiplayer
One player defuses a bomb while teammates hunt through a manual, and only fast, clear communication saves the day. A tense, chaotic co-op party game that tests teamwork and nerves.
21 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
One player defuses a bomb while teammates hunt through a manual, and only fast, clear communication saves the day. A tense, chaotic co-op party game that tests teamwork and nerves.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
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Sci-fi setting
A first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter's moon Europa, where you play engineer Ava Turing solving chambers built on energy and physics puzzles. Along the way it reflects on artificial intelligence, morality and what consciousness really means.
A first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter's moon Europa, where you play engineer Ava Turing solving chambers built on energy and physics puzzles. Along the way it reflects on artificial intelligence, morality and what consciousness really means.
The Turing Test
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Sci-fi setting
Rivage is a sci-fi puzzle adventure where you wake as Miranda aboard a space station caught in a strange cosmic phenomenon. You explore the station, solve intricate puzzles and uncover what happened to your missing crew.
23 Rivage
Rivage is a sci-fi puzzle adventure where you wake as Miranda aboard a space station caught in a strange cosmic phenomenon. You explore the station, solve intricate puzzles and uncover what happened to your missing crew.
Rivage
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.
24 Hue
A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.
Hue
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Sci-fi setting
You snap photos with an instant camera and then place them in the world, turning the images into real paths, bridges and platforms. The result is a series of inventive perspective puzzles in a stylish sci-fi setting.
25 Viewfinder
You snap photos with an instant camera and then place them in the world, turning the images into real paths, bridges and platforms. The result is a series of inventive perspective puzzles in a stylish sci-fi setting.
Viewfinder
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Lots to discover
You climb a Babel-inspired tower and decipher the distinct languages of its peoples by observing symbols and deducing meanings yourself. The striking comic-like art and the satisfying feeling of truly learning to communicate make it special.
You climb a Babel-inspired tower and decipher the distinct languages of its peoples by observing symbols and deducing meanings yourself. The striking comic-like art and the satisfying feeling of truly learning to communicate make it special.
Chants of Sennaar
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A calm, wordless puzzle adventure where you scrub time forward and backward to guide two friends across small garden islands built from childhood memories. Clever time-manipulation puzzles, a dreamlike look and a gentle soundtrack make it a relaxing, touching journey.
A calm, wordless puzzle adventure where you scrub time forward and backward to guide two friends across small garden islands built from childhood memories. Clever time-manipulation puzzles, a dreamlike look and a gentle soundtrack make it a relaxing, touching journey.
The Gardens Between
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A turn-based puzzle game that distills Lara Croft's tomb raiding into elegant step-by-step moves on a node grid. Minimalist visuals, traps, clever puzzles and hidden relics make for a calm yet tricky adventure.
A turn-based puzzle game that distills Lara Croft's tomb raiding into elegant step-by-step moves on a node grid. Minimalist visuals, traps, clever puzzles and hidden relics make for a calm yet tricky adventure.
Lara Croft Go
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A gorgeous puzzle game where you guide a mother and child through impossible architecture by rotating structures and exploiting optical illusions. Calm, emotional, and carried by striking art and gentle music.
A gorgeous puzzle game where you guide a mother and child through impossible architecture by rotating structures and exploiting optical illusions. Calm, emotional, and carried by striking art and gentle music.
Monument Valley II
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Strong soundtrack
Classic Tetris turned into a hypnotic, almost meditative experience by tying music and visual effects to every move. Each placement and line clear shapes the soundtrack and the vibrant worlds around you.
Classic Tetris turned into a hypnotic, almost meditative experience by tying music and visual effects to every move. Each placement and line clear shapes the soundtrack and the vibrant worlds around you.
Tetris Effect
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Sci-fi setting
A puzzle adventure from the makers of Myst: you are whisked to an alien world and solve intricate environmental puzzles across surreal, interlinked landscapes to uncover the mystery behind it.
31 Obduction
A puzzle adventure from the makers of Myst: you are whisked to an alien world and solve intricate environmental puzzles across surreal, interlinked landscapes to uncover the mystery behind it.
Obduction
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Pixel art
You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.
32 The Case of the Golden Idol
You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.
The Case of the Golden Idol
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Lots of humour
A darkly funny 2D puzzle-adventure from Ron Gilbert in which you guide three of seven oddball characters through a talkative cave. Each character has their own themed level and grim backstory, and the puzzle design recalls classic point-and-click adventures.
33 The Cave
A darkly funny 2D puzzle-adventure from Ron Gilbert in which you guide three of seven oddball characters through a talkative cave. Each character has their own themed level and grim backstory, and the puzzle design recalls classic point-and-click adventures.
The Cave
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A monochrome puzzle game in the style of M. C. Escher: you rotate the world to change gravity and guide your character through tricky hand-drawn levels to the exit door.
34 The Bridge
A monochrome puzzle game in the style of M. C. Escher: you rotate the world to change gravity and guide your character through tricky hand-drawn levels to the exit door.
The Bridge
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Lots to discover
Riven sends you alone through a decaying, lovingly crafted island world where you must decipher interlocking mechanical puzzles with almost no guidance. Its dense atmosphere and coherent world design make it a classic of the adventure genre.
Riven sends you alone through a decaying, lovingly crafted island world where you must decipher interlocking mechanical puzzles with almost no guidance. Its dense atmosphere and coherent world design make it a classic of the adventure genre.
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
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Co-op or multiplayer
An asymmetrical co-op puzzle adventure where you and a partner are separated and must rely on communication to get through a mysterious facility. It thrives on describing, observing and piecing clues together as a duo.
An asymmetrical co-op puzzle adventure where you and a partner are separated and must rely on communication to get through a mysterious facility. It thrives on describing, observing and piecing clues together as a duo.
We Were Here Tomorrow
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Co-op or multiplayer
A purely cooperative first-person puzzle adventure where two players are separated in a medieval castle and must solve riddles by describing what they see over a walkie-talkie. Communication and teamwork are the heart of it.
A purely cooperative first-person puzzle adventure where two players are separated in a medieval castle and must solve riddles by describing what they see over a walkie-talkie. Communication and teamwork are the heart of it.
We Were Here Too
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Lots to discover
A calm puzzle adventure where you travel through beautifully rendered, surreal Ages solving mechanical riddles to confront the vengeful Saavedro. Brad Dourif's strong performance gives the story real emotional weight.
A calm puzzle adventure where you travel through beautifully rendered, surreal Ages solving mechanical riddles to confront the vengeful Saavedro. Brad Dourif's strong performance gives the story real emotional weight.
Myst III: Exile
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A relaxing puzzler where you sort, stack and align household objects until everything looks just right. A mischievous cat adds playful humor and some unexpected puzzle twists.
A relaxing puzzler where you sort, stack and align household objects until everything looks just right. A mischievous cat adds playful humor and some unexpected puzzle twists.
A Little to the Left
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Interconnected level design
You guide a tiny pedestrian pictogram across city signs, rearranging and reconnecting them to build routes forward. The clever idea of turning everyday signage into levels powers this laid-back puzzle platformer.
You guide a tiny pedestrian pictogram across city signs, rearranging and reconnecting them to build routes forward. The clever idea of turning everyday signage into levels powers this laid-back puzzle platformer.
The Pedestrian
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Competing against other players
Two puzzle classics in one package: Tetris and Puyo Puyo can be played separately, swapped mid-match, or mixed together in fast duels for up to four players. The colorful, humorous presentation and many modes make it an ideal party puzzler.
Two puzzle classics in one package: Tetris and Puyo Puyo can be played separately, swapped mid-match, or mixed together in fast duels for up to four players. The colorful, humorous presentation and many modes make it an ideal party puzzler.
Puyo Puyo Tetris
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Sci-fi setting
A philosophical first-person puzzle game set in a post-human world, where you solve clever logic puzzles in striking environments while pondering consciousness and humanity. The story and conversations with fellow robots matter as much as the puzzles.
A philosophical first-person puzzle game set in a post-human world, where you solve clever logic puzzles in striking environments while pondering consciousness and humanity. The story and conversations with fellow robots matter as much as the puzzles.
The Talos Principle II
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Sci-fi setting
A first-person puzzler where you play archaeologist Amelia, reshaping color-coded blocks and structures in an alien world to progress. Compared to the original it is more colorful, more open and more story-driven.
43 Q.U.B.E. 2
A first-person puzzler where you play archaeologist Amelia, reshaping color-coded blocks and structures in an alien world to progress. Compared to the original it is more colorful, more open and more story-driven.
Q.U.B.E. 2
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Cosy, great for unwinding
You run a small plant shop in an occult town, identifying plants through clues, a reference book and a map. It is a cozy yet eerie puzzle mystery with a cat, odd customers and dark secrets.
You run a small plant shop in an occult town, identifying plants through clues, a reference book and a map. It is a cozy yet eerie puzzle mystery with a cat, odd customers and dark secrets.
Strange Horticulture
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Strong soundtrack
A rhythm-driven falling-block puzzler where every placement feeds into the music and a psychedelic light show. The team behind Tetris Effect turns focus and beat into a hypnotic flow.
A rhythm-driven falling-block puzzler where every placement feeds into the music and a psychedelic light show. The team behind Tetris Effect turns focus and beat into a hypnotic flow.
Lumines Arise
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Strong, story-driven narrative
A deduction-driven detective puzzler where you solve 20 bizarre crime scenes in 1970s America by gathering clues, identifying people and piecing together events yourself. There is no hand-holding, only your own logic and observation.
46 The Rise of the Golden Idol
A deduction-driven detective puzzler where you solve 20 bizarre crime scenes in 1970s America by gathering clues, identifying people and piecing together events yourself. There is no hand-holding, only your own logic and observation.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A physics-based puzzle game where you use living goo balls to build bridges, towers and flying contraptions. Its quirky painterly look and inventive levels make it special.
A physics-based puzzle game where you use living goo balls to build bridges, towers and flying contraptions. Its quirky painterly look and inventive levels make it special.
World of Goo 2
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Co-op or multiplayer
A pure co-op puzzle game where two players are separated in a frozen world and can only talk over the radio. Success depends on describing exactly what you see so you can solve puzzles and find each other.
A pure co-op puzzle game where two players are separated in a frozen world and can only talk over the radio. Success depends on describing exactly what you see so you can solve puzzles and find each other.
We Were Here Together
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A hand-painted-looking puzzle adventure where you discover a hidden world of bird folk and living furniture monsters behind your bedroom wall. Its puzzles revolve around learning creature behavior patterns, and are fair and atmospheric with a lovely soundtrack.
49 Creaks
A hand-painted-looking puzzle adventure where you discover a hidden world of bird folk and living furniture monsters behind your bedroom wall. Its puzzles revolve around learning creature behavior patterns, and are fair and atmospheric with a lovely soundtrack.
Creaks
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Sci-fi setting
A first-person puzzle game set in an eccentric professor's mansion where you shift dimensions to change objects' weight, gravity and time to solve test chambers. It has dry humor and a cartoonish look.
A first-person puzzle game set in an eccentric professor's mansion where you shift dimensions to change objects' weight, gravity and time to solve test chambers. It has dry humor and a cartoonish look.
Quantum Conundrum
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Strong, story-driven narrative
A melancholic point-and-click adventure following lawyer Kate Walker across a dreamlike Europe filled with clockwork automatons, gradually leaving her old life behind. Its haunting locations and mechanical puzzles make the journey memorable.
51 Syberia
A melancholic point-and-click adventure following lawyer Kate Walker across a dreamlike Europe filled with clockwork automatons, gradually leaving her old life behind. Its haunting locations and mechanical puzzles make the journey memorable.
Syberia
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Lots to discover
A tiny fox explores a mysterious Zelda-like world with demanding, Souls-inspired combat. Its true heart is a scattered in-game manual written in an unknown script, whose pages gradually reveal layered secrets and brain-bending puzzles.
52 Tunic
A tiny fox explores a mysterious Zelda-like world with demanding, Souls-inspired combat. Its true heart is a scattered in-game manual written in an unknown script, whose pages gradually reveal layered secrets and brain-bending puzzles.
Tunic
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Lots to discover
A first-person puzzle adventure from the team behind Quern, in which you explore Dimhaven and unravel the mystery of the Ravenwood legacy. The focus is on challenging environmental puzzles and discovery.
A first-person puzzle adventure from the team behind Quern, in which you explore Dimhaven and unravel the mystery of the Ravenwood legacy. The focus is on challenging environmental puzzles and discovery.
Dimhaven: The Lost Source
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A calm puzzle adventure where you guide apprentice lightkeeper Noor through impossible architecture and optical illusions. It keeps the series' serene mood, gorgeous minimalist art and gentle, pressure-free pacing.
A calm puzzle adventure where you guide apprentice lightkeeper Noor through impossible architecture and optical illusions. It keeps the series' serene mood, gorgeous minimalist art and gentle, pressure-free pacing.
Monument Valley III
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.
A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.
Manifold Garden
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Lots to discover
You wander a mysterious world of linked islands in this fully traversable 3D remake of the classic Riven, playable in first person or VR. Its appeal lies in discovering, decoding machinery and piecing together a quiet, eerie story at your own pace.
56 Riven
You wander a mysterious world of linked islands in this fully traversable 3D remake of the classic Riven, playable in first person or VR. Its appeal lies in discovering, decoding machinery and piecing together a quiet, eerie story at your own pace.
Riven
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A cozy logic puzzler where you seat quirky people so that all their peculiar likes and pet peeves are satisfied. Short, funny levels make for relaxed brain-teasing.
A cozy logic puzzler where you seat quirky people so that all their peculiar likes and pet peeves are satisfied. Short, funny levels make for relaxed brain-teasing.
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Co-op or multiplayer
An escape-room academy where you crack varied puzzle rooms solo or in co-op with a friend. The cooperative design and light-hearted tone with a story framing give it its charm.
An escape-room academy where you crack varied puzzle rooms solo or in co-op with a friend. The cooperative design and light-hearted tone with a story framing give it its charm.
Escape Academy
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Lots of humour
A clever blend of bridge-building physics puzzles and the Portal universe: you build structures so vehicles can cross Aperture Science test chambers, using portals, gels and turrets along the way. GLaDOS adds her signature dry humor.
A clever blend of bridge-building physics puzzles and the Portal universe: you build structures so vehicles can cross Aperture Science test chambers, using portals, gels and turrets along the way. GLaDOS adds her signature dry humor.
Bridge Constructor Portal
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Pixel art
A compact puzzle game built around a single red button: you're told not to touch anything, but you do, uncovering dozens of cryptic endings and hidden secrets.
60 Please, Don't Touch Anything
A compact puzzle game built around a single red button: you're told not to touch anything, but you do, uncovering dozens of cryptic endings and hidden secrets.
Please, Don't Touch Anything
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Good puzzle games give you a rule set and then trust you to find what it can really do. The best ones on this list make that moment of understanding feel earned rather than handed over, and every game here is available on PlayStation, so you can choose purely by taste.
Start by thinking about how you like to be challenged. If you want clear goals and steady pacing, Portal and Portal 2 are the easiest recommendation: tightly built test chambers, sharp humor from GLaDOS, and in Portal 2 a separate co-op campaign for two players. If you prefer working things out with almost no guidance, The Witness drops you on an island with no instructions at all, and Outer Wilds asks you to piece together a cosmic mystery across a 22-minute time loop. Both are demanding, and both reward patience and note-taking.
Tone and style matter too. Return of the Obra Dinn is ideal if you like detective work, with striking 1-bit visuals and a whole ship's crew to identify. Braid bends time in a new way in every world, set against a painterly look and a melancholic story. If you want something darker, Inside and Limbo are wordless, oppressive puzzle-platformers built on atmosphere and trial and error. For a calmer session, Fez lets you rotate a pixel-art world at your own pace, while Trine 2 suits couch groups with up to three-player co-op.
Portal 2 has a dedicated two-player co-op campaign with puzzles built around both players' portals. Trine 2 supports up to three players, each swapping between a wizard, thief and knight to solve physics puzzles.
Portal is a strong starting point thanks to its clear mechanics and well-paced introduction of new ideas. Fez is also approachable on the surface, although its deeper ciphers get very cryptic.
The Witness is known for making you figure out every rule yourself without instructions, and Outer Wilds expects you to solve its mystery through your own exploration. Return of the Obra Dinn also demands careful deduction to identify every sailor's fate.
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