Best Puzzle Games
1,156 Puzzle games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Ao Oni
Released: Dec 31, 2008
Critic rating: 69.1 / 100 • 38 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Hiroshi and his three friends, Takuro, Takeshi, and Mika, decide to visit an abandoned mansion that is rumored to be haunted.
Samsara Room
Released: Apr 29, 2020
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100 • 63 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before.
Transformice
Released: May 1, 2010
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100 • 42 votes
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Transformice is a multiplayer game, where you are a small mouse out to get a cheese and bring the cheese back to the hole.
Refunct
Released: Oct 16, 2015
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100 • 51 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Refunct is a peaceful, short first-person platformer about restoring a vibrant world.
Super Bomberman
Released: Apr 28, 1993
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100 • 57 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Arcade
Platforms: Satellaview, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Legacy Mobile Device, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Super Bomberman is the first video game in the Bomberman series to appear on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Rule of Rose
Released: Jan 19, 2006
Critic rating: 60.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Rule of Rose is a survival horror game in which the player, who controls Jennifer, explores the game environments and furthers the plot by accomplishing tasks and experiencing cut-scenes while sporadically encountering enemies and bosses.
Draugen
Released: May 29, 2019
Critic rating: 71.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Draugen is a first-person psychological horror adventure, set amongst the deep fjords and towering mountains of Norway’s awe-inspiring west coast.
The Whispered World
Released: Aug 28, 2009
Critic rating: 60.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
The beautiful adventure game The Whispered World whisks the player away to a fascinating fantasy world.
Myst V: End of Ages
Released: Sep 20, 2005
Critic rating: 67.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Myst V: End of Ages is a 2005 adventure video game, and the fifth and final installment in the Myst series.
Q.U.B.E.
Released: Dec 17, 2011
Critic rating: 67.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Simulator, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Q.U.B.E.
Party Hard
Released: Aug 25, 2015
Critic rating: 68.9 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Fighting, Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Party Hard is a tactical game about stopping parties.
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown
Released: May 10, 1984
Critic rating: 68.8 / 100 • 38 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Apple IIGS, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Sega Master System/Mark III
Game modes: Single player
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown is the first game in the King's Quest series.
Oddworld: Soulstorm
Released: Apr 6, 2021
Critic rating: 74.8 / 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: Single player
Oddworld: Soulstorm is a modern re-imagining of the 1998 title Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Released: Nov 16, 2001
Critic rating: 64.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation
Game modes: Single player
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first Harry Potter video game for the PlayStation, and one of several different games based on the book and movie.
Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
Released: Nov 17, 2006
Critic rating: 60.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle is a point and click adventure game released by Péndulo Studios, S.L.
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Released: Aug 26, 1994
Critic rating: 68.7 / 100 • 21 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Wii U, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, known in Japan as Hello!
Hard Reset
Released: Sep 13, 2011
Critic rating: 69.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
In the only remaining human city of Bezoar, Major Fletcher, an Army Combat Veteran and soldier of the CLN, is dragged into a conflict between two of mankind's greatest enemies.
Scanner Sombre
Released: Apr 26, 2017
Critic rating: 72.5 / 100
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Inspired by Gone Home and Dear Esther, Scanner Sombre is a cave exploration experience.
There Is No Game
Released: Jun 26, 2015
Critic rating: 68.7 / 100 • 45 votes
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle
Platforms: Web browser, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
There Is No Game is a short puzzle game.
Deepest Sword
Released: Apr 26, 2021
Critic rating: 68.5 / 100 • 22 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Venture deep into the Cavern of Longing.
Marble Madness
Released: Dec 15, 1984
Critic rating: 68.5 / 100 • 73 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade, PC-9800 Series, Sharp X68000, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, FM Towns
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Marble Madness is an isometric platform game in which the player manipulates an onscreen marble from a third-person perspective.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Released: Feb 28, 2018
Critic rating: 70.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
Scorn
Released: Oct 14, 2022
Critic rating: 63.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Scorn is an atmospheric first person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
Lumo
Released: May 23, 2016
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Witness the rebirth of a genre in Lumo – a classic isometric adventure with a modern twist for gamers young and old alike!
Half-Life: Decay
Released: Nov 14, 2001
Critic rating: 68.4 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Puzzle
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Co-operative, Split screen
Half-Life: Decay is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction, first-person shooter video game Half-Life.