Best Puzzle Games
1,136 Puzzle games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
It Takes Two
Released: Mar 25, 2021
Critic rating: 90.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
It Takes Two is a cooperative action-adventure game designed exclusively for two players, playable in local split-screen or online.
Fallout 2
Released: Oct 29, 1998
Critic rating: 89.2 / 100 • 896 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
A turn-based tactical Western RPG in which the Chosen One is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California to locate and retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit for their famine-stricken tribe, while coming into contact through branching dialogue trees with numerous tribes, factions and micro-civilizations, each with their own virtues, vices, socioeconomic situations and political agendas.
Elasto Mania
Released: Feb 1, 2000
Critic rating: 89.2 / 100 • 40 votes
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Racing, Simulator, Sport, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Elasto Mania (also known as Elma) is a physics-simulation game released in 2000.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Released: May 16, 2024
Critic rating: 88.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A woman, summoned by an eccentric man to participate in a project in an old hotel somewhere in central Europe, becomes embroiled in a game of illusions, increasingly dangerous and surreal.
Inside
Released: Jun 29, 2016
Critic rating: 92.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style.
Shady Part of Me
Released: Dec 10, 2020
Critic rating: 88.9 / 100 • 28 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Shady Part of Me is a narrative puzzle game.
Shadow of the Colossus
Released: Feb 6, 2018
Critic rating: 93.2 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Game modes: Single player
Tales speak of an ancient land where creatures the size of mountains, roam the majestic landscape.
Blue Prince
Released: Apr 10, 2025
Critic rating: 90.8 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac
Game modes: Single player
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The Talos Principle II
Released: Nov 2, 2023
Critic rating: 90.2 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
The Talos Principle II is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Shadow of the Colossus
Released: Oct 18, 2005
Critic rating: 88.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
An open-world action/adventure game in which a young wanderer, along with a stolen magical sword and his steed companion, trespasses a cursed land, makes a deal with an ancient being to bring a sacrificial victim back to life, and sets off to fulfill his end of the bargain, which involves tracking down and infiltrating the abodes of sixteen colossi and sacrificing them to achieve his goal.
Tales of Symphonia
Released: Aug 29, 2003
Critic rating: 89.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
In a dying world, legend has it that a Chosen One will one day rise from amongst the people and the land will be reborn.
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Released: Sep 22, 2015
Critic rating: 89.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Exactly twenty one years after its first release, System Shock is back!
Ikaruga
Released: Dec 20, 2001
Critic rating: 89.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
In this vertical scrolling spaceship shooter, you control a ship that can change its polarity at will.
Ōkami
Released: Apr 20, 2006
Critic rating: 89.6 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Set sometime in classical Japanese history, Ōkami combines several Japanese mythology and folklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the Shinto sun goddess named Amaterasu, who took the form of a white wolf with celestial markings covering its fur.
We Love Katamari
Released: Jul 6, 2005
Critic rating: 89.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
We Love Katamari, is a third-person puzzle-action video game where the player controls the Prince, the 5-centimeter-tall son of the god-like entity the King of All Cosmos, who rolls around a "katamari", a magical ball that causes objects smaller than it to attach to it.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Released: Dec 13, 2002
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube, Wii U
Game modes: Single player
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is the first Zelda game for the Nintendo GameCube and also the first in the series to employ cel-shading, a lighting and texturing technique that results in the game having a cartoon-like appearance.
LocoRoco 2
Released: Nov 21, 2008
Critic rating: 92.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation Portable
The LocoRoco are in danger again, the evil Moja have returned and this time they've brought with them a terrible song that sucks the life out of living things!
Silent Hill 2
Released: Oct 8, 2024
Critic rating: 86.6 / 100
Stephen Popovich's rating: 9.4
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Silent Hill 2 Remake is a ground-up reimagining of the 2001 psychological horror game.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Released: Nov 19, 2006
Critic rating: 97.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Wii
Game modes: Single player
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was initially developed with the Nintendo GameCube in mind, but ended up receiving a Wii port when it was released to promote the new console.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Released: Dec 9, 2024
Critic rating: 89.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
Released: Dec 12, 1998
Critic rating: 88.5 / 100 • 195 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated re-release of Link's Awakening with several new additions, the most notable of which being the entire game is now in color.
Mini Metro
Released: Oct 22, 2015
Critic rating: 100.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city.
God of War
Released: Mar 22, 2005
Critic rating: 93.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
God of War is an action-adventure hack-and-slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE).
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Released: Nov 27, 2008
Critic rating: 92.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Visual Novel
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
As with previous Professor Layton games, Unwound Future is an adventure game where the player solves puzzles offered by local citizens to progress the story forward, through dialogue and around 32 minutes of full motion video.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Released: Dec 1, 1991
Critic rating: 88.3 / 100 • 592 votes
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Mac, DOS, Amiga
Game modes: Single player
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge is a point-and-click graphic adventure and the second entry in the Monkey Island series.