Released Puzzle Video Games
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A list of Released Puzzle video games sorted by composite score.
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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Tetris Effect: Connected
9.5 Game Score
Extended version of Tetris from Monstars, Resonair and Stage Games studios. Tetris Effect: Connected offers all the content of the original release and adds local and online multiplayer modes to it.
The Talos Principle VR
9.4 Game Score
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 USB Stick Found in the Grass
9.4 Game Score
A hard to categorize game developed by Marcin Borkowski. In The USB Stick Found in the Grass we play the role of a policeman whose task is to investigate a flash drive found at the scene of a potential crime.
Portal 2
9.3 Game Score
The second part of an outstanding first-person logic game from Valve Software, powered by the improved version of Source Engine, mainly known from Half-Life 2. The story starts a few hundred years after the events of the original game. Once again you play as Chell, who is awaken after having spent a long time asleep in a hibernation chamber. Trying to find her way out of Aperture laboratories, she gets stopped by an artificial intelligence that manages the compound.
SHENZHEN I/O
9.2 Game Score
A complicated logic game in which we design and test electronic circuits. SHENZHEN I/O was developed by the independent studio Zachtronics that specializes in creating complex logic educational titles focusing on engineering, electronics, programming, and chemistry. In SHENZHEN I/O, we assume the role of a beginner engineer who gets hired by an electronics company in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
EXAPUNKS
9.1 Game Score
A complex puzzle game in which we hack secured networks and devices. This requires proper programming of the robots operating inside the computer systems - in order to do so, we have to learn a programming language that was invented especially for the needs of the game.
Cloud Gardens
9.1 Game Score
Cloud Gardens is an unusual mix of strategy game and puzzle game. The game is held by the studio Noio, which has among others Kingdoms: Two Crowns. The game is about creating gardens in a post-apocalyptic world.
Snipperclips: Cut It out, Together
9.0 Game Score
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.
Opus Magnum
9.0 Game Score
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.
Gwent: Master Mirror
9.0 Game Score
Gwent: Master Mirror is the fifth add-on to the Gwent card game, set in a world known from The Witcher RPG series and books by Andrzej Sapkowski. DLC introduces dozens of new cards and several mechanics, such as Devotion, Echo or Conspiracy.
Antichamber
8.9 Game Score
Antichamber is a first person perspective (FPP) puzzle game that defies strict genre classification. Antichamber is the work of Alexander Bruce and is a commercial development of the popular mod Hazard: Journey of Life for Unreal Tournament 3. The game involves exploration of abstract locations and solving puzzles. The puzzles are designed on the basis of modern knowledge about the functioning of the human mind.
The Talos Principle
8.9 Game Score
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.
Monument Valley
8.9 Game Score
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.
Molek-Syntez
8.9 Game Score
Molek-Syntez is a complex puzzle game in which we synthesize molecules of various chemicals to obtain new molecules with different properties. The game takes place on a board covered with hexagon, and the whole thing is enriched with simple, monochromatic graphics.
Helltaker
8.9 Game Score
Helltaker is a free game that combines elements of adventure, arcade and puzzle game. The player impersonates a young man who goes to hell to flirt with demonic girls.
Gwent: Way of The Witcher
8.9 Game Score
Gwent: Way of The Witcher is the sixth expansion to the Gwent card game, set in a world known from The Witcher RPGs and books by the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. The add-on introduces new cards and a keyword.
Teenage Queen
8.8 Game Score
Teenage Queen is a product with a strong erotic overtone, in which we will play with an unidentified lady in undressed poker. The programme was created by the French company ERE, which later changed its name to Cryo.
Tetris 99
8.8 Game Score
Production, which combines the mechanics known from the classic arcade and logic game with ideas characteristic for the sub-genre of battle royale shooters. The Japanese company Nintendo is responsible for creating and releasing the game. The game is available for free to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online service.
Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade
8.7 Game Score
The next installment of the series of games with "Rabbit Bystrzak" in the main role, dedicated to players taking up education in the second grade of primary school (children over 8 years old).
The Room
8.7 Game Score
The Room is a novel production combining elements of HOPA and logic game genre. The game is a remake of a critically-acclaimed mobile title, and was developed by an independent studio, Fireproof Games. The action of The Room takes place in the eponymous space, in which an extraordinarily complicated safe hides many secrets. The task is to get into the safe by solving a set of logic puzzles.
Prune
8.7 Game Score
A minimalistic logic game developed by the independent studio Polyculture, led by Joel McDonald. Gameplay comes down to trimming a tree branch and shaping it so that it can reach the sunniest spot. To make matters more difficult, you will come across a number of obstacles and dangers, so your priority is the plant’s safety, not its high growth rate. 2D visuals of Prune are kept in a neat, minimalistic style accompanied by calm, ambient music. The title features simple, intuitive controls.
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
8.7 Game Score
Another main part of the series of puzzle games from Fireproof Games. The Room VR: A Dark Matter tells the story of a London police investigation into the disappearance of a well-known Egyptologist in 1908.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Yugi The Destiny
8.6 Game Score
A digital adaptation of a popular collectible card game, Yu-Gi-Oh!, which originates from the manga of the same title. It was developed by Konami and presents further adventures of Yugi, a boy well-known to all fans of the franchise, who collects the Duel Monsters cards and is deeply fascinated with this game (which involves battles between various summoned creatures).
SpaceChem Mobile
8.6 Game Score
A logic game by Zachtronics Industries, an independent studio that created The Codex of Alchemical Engineering. In this production, we assume the role of an engineer who works in the eponymous SpaceChem, a corporation that provides extraterrestrial colonies with required chemical substances. The player’s task is to solve a number of logic puzzles in order to create certain chemicals.