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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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Balatro
Balatro

Puzzle 20 February 2024

A roguelike card game loosely based on the poker rules. Balatro has us participate in solo card duels, gradually unlocking new card decks and joker cards with unique abilities and effects. The game offers a story campaign, as well as various single challenges.

A Little to the Left
A Little to the Left

Puzzle 15 February 2024

A relaxing puzzle game aimed towards players fond of organizing space. A Little to the Left has us sorting items to keep them ordered - the actual order is up to us.

The Witness
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.

Viewfinder
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
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
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.

The Master's Pupil
The Master's Pupil

Puzzle 28 March 2024

An artistic puzzle game inspired by the life and works of Claude Monet. The Master's Pupil has us solving puzzles by mixing different colors, moving objects and making use of the laws of physics.

Inscryption
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
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.

In My Shadow
In My Shadow

Puzzle 11 February 2022

Puzzle game with platform game elements. In In My Shadow we play as Bella, whose memories of a difficult childhood come to life in the form of shadows on the walls of her house. The girl has to overcome a series of arcade and puzzle challenges in order to deal with her past.

The Academy: The First Riddle
The Academy: The First Riddle

Puzzle canceled

An adventure game with gameplay focused on solving puzzles and exploring the available land. The Academy: The First Riddle is set in an elite academy for the best students, who in addition to learning, are encouraged to learn its many secrets.

Superliminal
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.

Paper Trail
Paper Trail

Puzzle 21 May 2024

Paper Trail is a puzzle game with a world made of double-sided pieces of paper. The protagonist, freshman Paige, has the power to fold them in such a way as to create a path for herself to places inaccessible to others.

Cocoon
Cocoon

Puzzle 29 September 2023

A puzzle adventure game, in which we solve puzzles while traveling between worlds contained in small spheres. Cocoon was directed by Jeppe Carlsen, the main designer of Limbo and Inside.

Wilmot's Warehouse
Wilmot's Warehouse

Puzzle 09 February 2021

Wilmot's Warehouse is a two-dimensional puzzle game that puts the player in the role of a warehouse cleaner. The game was developed by indie Hollow Ponds studio (with the support of Richard Hogg).

Melbits World
Melbits World

Puzzle 14 November 2018

A colourful puzzle game enriched with arcade elements, in which we take control over the titular Melbits - creatures inhabiting a data cloud. While playing Melbits World, our task is to safely guide the Melbits through the consecutive levels, which are swarming with various traps.

Tetragon
Tetragon

Puzzle 12 August 2021

Puzzle platform game. In Tetragon we play the lumberjack, who solves increasingly complicated puzzles involving manipulation of the environment and turning entire boards in such a way as to get to passages leading to new ones.

Lumo
Lumo

Puzzle 24 May 2016

An old-school logic game featuring elements of adventure and platformer games. This is the debut of the Triple Eh? studio led by Gareth Noyce. Lumo pays tribute to various games from the 80s and 90s. The gameplay consists of exploring over 400 different chambers, where the player mainly solves puzzles, avoids traps and discovers secrets.

101 Ways to Die
101 Ways to Die

Puzzle 22 March 2016

A brutal, although humorous, logic platformer game by Four Door Lemon, an independent British studio. We assume the role of an assistant of the mad professor Splattunfuder’s, who at the end of his career decided to create an unusual guide that describes 101 ways of dying. As a result of unfortunate events, the initial version of his “work” was destroyed, and our task is to help the scientist recreate it with the use of hordes of creatures called Splatts, which were bred solely for this purpose.

Gorogoa
Gorogoa

Puzzle 22 May 2018

An unusual logic game developed by Buried Signal. The game was created by Jason Roberts, who was responsible both for the code and for the visuals of the title. The main protagonist of Gorogoa is a boy who collects mysterious items related to religion. The story of the game is filled with symbols and abstract references to faiths from all over the world. The key aspect of gameplay is solving riddles that take the form of movable puzzles that consist of up to four scenes.

Teslagrad
Teslagrad

Puzzle 02 December 2014

Two-dimensional platformer with action elements, set in a steampage-like reality in which electricity and magnetism play a major role. As a young boy entangled in a mysterious conflict, we cross the floors of an abandoned tower, solving a series of logical puzzles requiring the skillful use of the laws of physics.

Whispering Willows
Whispering Willows

Puzzle 30 June 2015

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.

Pneuma: Breath of Life
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
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.