Best Puzzle Games
1,136 Puzzle games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
Released: Oct 17, 2019
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Quiz/Trivia, Indie
Platforms: Amazon Fire TV, Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
It's the wildest Party Pack yet, with the absurd deathmatch Trivia Murder Party 2, the weird word circus Dictionarium, the hidden identity game Push The Button, the comedy contest Joke Boat and the offbeat personality test Role Models.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Released: Mar 20, 2013
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player
Luigi is back on a mission to remove a bunch of stubborn ghosts from some spooky mansions.
Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Released: Nov 26, 2009
Critic rating: 83.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Visual Novel
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
Last Specter is the fourth game in the Professor Layton series, and is a prequel that takes place three years before the first trilogy, detailing how Professor Layton met his apprentice, Luke Triton.
Superliminal
Released: Nov 12, 2019
Critic rating: 79.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Falling asleep at 3AM, you close your eyes to the cheesy commercial of Dr.
Kathy Rain
Released: May 5, 2016
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
"Set in the 90's, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her own troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
Underground Blossom
Released: Jun 29, 2023
Critic rating: 79.9 / 100 • 21 votes
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Underground Blossom is an adventure game by Rusty Lake.
Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection
Released: Nov 15, 2016
Critic rating: 70.7 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Make history as the legendary Master Assassin, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, in Assassin’s Creed The Ezio Collection, which includes the acclaimed single-player campaigns and single-player add-on content (no multiplayer content) from Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations with enhanced graphics. Live the life of Ezio and learn the ways of the Assassin as he seeks vengeance for the betrayal of his family. Travel through 15th-century Renaissance Italy, including the capital Rome and finally onto 16th-century Constantinople.
The Lab
Released: Apr 5, 2016
Critic rating: 79.9 / 100 • 22 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Oculus VR, Windows Mixed Reality, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR, Oculus Rift
Game modes: Single player
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve's room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science.
Chess.com
Released: May 1, 2007
Critic rating: 79.9 / 100 • 34 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Web browser, Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Chess.com is an online chess platform where players can compete against others or computer opponents in real-time and correspondence matches.
Arcade Paradise
Released: Aug 11, 2022
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Welcome to Arcade Paradise, the 90’s retro arcade adventure game.
We Were Here Too
Released: Feb 2, 2018
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
We Were Here Too is an online only, first-person cooperative adventure set in a fictional medieval castle.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - The Master Trials
Released: Jun 30, 2017
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Wii U, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
DLC pack 1 cannot be purchased outside of the expansion pass.
Jenny LeClue: Detectivu
Released: Sep 19, 2019
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Nintendo Switch 2, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Jenny LeClue is a story focused exploration adventure game with memorable characters, a unique aesthetic, and an epic tangled mystery.
Venba
Released: Jul 31, 2023
Critic rating: 86.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s.
Penumbra: Black Plague
Released: Feb 12, 2008
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
Released: Jul 30, 2015
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Relive past Dueling glory against Yu-Gi-Oh!
Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds
Released: Oct 28, 1994
Critic rating: 79.7 / 100 • 24 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Digiblast
Game modes: Single player
Help underwater detective Freddi Fish and her finny friend Luther solve the case.
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Released: Oct 16, 2007
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Wii, Wii U
Game modes: Single player
Zack is a new pirate on a quest to become the greatest pirate ever.
VVVVVV
Released: Jan 11, 2010
Critic rating: 79.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Ouya, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
There's something terribly wrong in an alternate dimension!
The Room Two
Released: Dec 12, 2013
Critic rating: 80.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Indie
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt.
Mindustry
Released: Oct 17, 2017
Critic rating: 79.7 / 100 • 22 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Mindustry is a hybrid tower-defense sandbox factory game.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Released: Aug 15, 2017
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
England, 12th century: Philip the monk becomes Prior of the small abbey of Kingsbridge.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Joey the Passion
Released: Jul 2, 2004
Critic rating: 79.7 / 100 • 27 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Card & Board Game
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
The third Yu-Gi-Oh!
Pac-Man
Released: Mar 16, 1982
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Arcade
Platforms: Atari 2600
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Atari 2600 Port of Pac-Man The player controls Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots (also called pellets). When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. Between some stages one of three intermission animations plays. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man. If an enemy touches Pac-Man, a life is lost and the Pac-Man itself withers and dies. When all lives have been lost, the game ends. Pac-Man is awarded a single bonus life at 10,000 points by default. Near the corners of the maze are four larger, flashing dots known as power pellets that provide Pac-Man with the temporary ability to eat the enemies. The enemies turn deep blue, reverse direction and usually move more slowly. When an enemy is eaten, its eyes remain and return to the center box where it is regenerated in its normal color. Blue enemies flash white to signal that they are about to become dangerous again and the length of time for which the enemies remain vulnerable varies from one stage to the next, generally becoming shorter as the game progresses. In later stages, the enemies go straight to flashing, bypassing blue, which means that they can only be eaten for a short amount of time, although they still reverse direction when a power pellet is eaten; in even later stages, the ghosts do not become edible (i.e., they do not change color and still make Pacman lose a life on contact), but they still reverse direction.
Crow Country
Released: May 9, 2024
Critic rating: 79.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The year is 1990.