FPPPS4 Puzzle Video Games
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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. more
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The Talos Principle
Puzzle 13 October 2015
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.
The Talos Principle 2
Puzzle 02 November 2023
The Talos Principle 2 is a first-person puzzle game, in which we explore a megastructure in a robot-inhabited world. The game features many clever puzzles and an extensive, philosophical story.
The Witness
Puzzle 26 January 2016
A first-person adventure game with logic puzzles, developed by the creator of Braid – Jonathan Blow and his independent studio Number None. The game takes you to a large, mysterious island, whose all inhabitants vanished without a trace. Gameplay has you explore this vast world, solve logic puzzles, and search for clues that will help you solve the mysteries of this place. Game mechanics resemble the cult Myst series.
The Turing Test
Puzzle 24 January 2017
A sci-fi FPP logic puzzle game by Bulkhead Interactive, a studio founded by the creators of Pneuma: Breath of Life. The story takes place an unspecified number of years in the future, when scientists discover a seemingly harmless alien life form on Jupiter's moons. You play as an astronaut named Ava Turing, whose task is to examine the new species, and who ends up finding more than she expected. The Turing Test is a part of the FPP logic puzzle genre, popularized by the Portal series.
Viewfinder
Puzzle 12 December 2023
Viewfinder is an FPP puzzle game developed by Sad Owl Studios, in which the player is tasked with manipulating perspective by various means, e.g. taking photos. The game is distinguishable by its surreal atmosphere.
We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip
Puzzle 14 September 2023
The fifth game in the puzzle-adventure series We Were Here. We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip has us playing as two sailors, ending up in an abandoned amusement park on a deserted island while following a distress call.
Q.U.B.E. 2
Puzzle 13 March 2018
Q.U.B.E. 2 is a logic game, in which players observe the action from the first-person perspective. The game resembling the Portal series was developed by the Welsh Toxic Games and is based on Unreal Engine 4 created by Epic.
Inscryption
Puzzle 30 August 2022
The work of Daniel Mullins - author of the original Pony Island and The Hex - combining elements of card games, FPP adventure games and roguelikes. In Inscryption we get to the Leszy's hut and in order to leave it we have to fight a victorious card duel with him.
We Were Here Too
Puzzle 23 February 2021
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.
Superliminal
Puzzle 07 July 2020
First-person puzzle game offering a range of riddles based on manipulating perspective, depth and creating or discovering optical illusions. Pillow Castle Games studio is responsible for creating and releasing this production.
Statik
Puzzle 27 April 2017
Developed by Tarsier Studios, Statik is a logic puzzle game, which utilizes functionalities offered by PlayStation VR. The game takes players to a mysterious laboratory in which scientists conduct secret experiments to discover the full potential of the human brain.
Pneuma: Breath of Life
Puzzle 07 July 2015
An FPP logic puzzle game with adventure elements, developed by two independent teams: Bevel Studios and Deco Digital. You play as the eponymous Pneuma, a deity, who observes the beginnings of the universe. Like in the other games in the genre, the gameplay focuses on exploration and solving puzzles, which require good orientation, analytic skills, and unorthodox thinking. In addition, Pneuma: Breath of Life features an internal monologue of the self-congratulatory protagonist.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut
Puzzle 21 July 2015
A puzzle game with a view of FPP developed by Welsh studio Toxic Games on the basis of Unreal Development Kit from Epic Games. Players take on the role of an unnamed character, who has to find a way out of a sterile environment, traversing successive sectors and solving the logical puzzles contained in them.
Magnetic: Cage Closed
Puzzle canceled
A first-person perspective logic game developed by Guru Games, an independent game developer from Sweden. Magnetic: Cage Closed was inspired by the genre classics, including Portal and The Talos Principle. The player assumes the role of an inmate of a futuristic prison called Facility 7. As can easily be imagined, our job will be to escape the facility. Getting out means completing numerous puzzles and avoiding various dangers and traps laid out along the way.
Floor Plan
Puzzle 20 March 2018
A unique logic puzzle game by Turbo Button, developed for virtual reality headgear. In Floor Plan you play as an unfortunate person, who gets stuck in an elevator, and your task is to fix the machine and escape. The game utilizes a first-person view; you are unable to move and you can only look around by moving your head. The game focuses on riding the elevator and stopping on various floors, where various puzzles await, some of them more complicated than the others.
The Spectrum Retreat
Puzzle 10 July 2018
An FPP logic puzzle game, in which you find yourself in a mysterious hotel and can't remember your past. The gameplay is based on color manipulation.
ChromaGun
Puzzle 22 August 2017
ChromaGun is a first-person puzzle game in which the player has to use his knowledge of basic colours and derivatives in order to cope with increasingly difficult challenges. The title rifle can colour elements of the environment and enemies, giving them specific properties. Each test room teaches us simple mechanics, which are then combined into complex series of activities requiring more thought and a bit of dexterity.
I Expect You to Die
Puzzle 13 December 2016
A logic game developed with VR headsets in mind by Schell Games, an American indie studio. In the game, we assume the role of a spy whose task is to escape unharmed from rooms riddled with traps. The action is presented from the first-person perspective, while the gameplay boils down to solving numerous escape-room kind of puzzles. While playing, we have to, for example, disable explosives or neutralize various kinds of traps. The protagonist’s telekinetic abilities will surely come in handy.
Soul Axiom
Puzzle 07 June 2016
An adventure logic puzzle FPP game created by Wales Interactive, and a spiritual successor to Master Reboot. The story of Soul Axiom takes place in the far future, when death is no longer a problem and people are mass-uploading their souls into a server called Elysia, where all their fantasies and dreams come true.
Manifold Garden
Puzzle 18 August 2020
An original puzzle game with exploration elements, created by a small debuting team, William Chyr Studio. Manifold Garden takes the players to an irrational world where laws of physics are constantly being broken. The core of the game lies in exploration of unusual surroundings, unraveling its mysteries and rules but also solving numerous puzzles which requires the players to think unconventionally.
The Sojourn
Puzzle 20 September 2019
First-person puzzle game, in which we get to the title land; traversing the parallel dimensions of darkness and light, we solve environmental riddles and gradually learn more secrets, which hides from us the picturesque world of The Sojourn.
18 Floors
Puzzle 04 July 2018
An adventure puzzle game using the escape room convention. Players have to solve a number of puzzles of increasing difficulty, which allow them to get out of subsequent rooms. The title was created with virtual reality goggles in mind.
I Expect You to Die 2
Puzzle 24 August 2021
I Expect You To Die 2 is the second installment of the humorous escape room style puzzle game created with virtual reality in mind. It was developed by Schell Games, a studio known for its VR games.
We Were Here Forever
Puzzle 31 January 2023
We Were Here Forever is the fourth part of the puzzle adventure game for two people. This time the action takes us to the disturbing dimension of Castle Rock, and our task is to get out of it in cooperation with another person.