Puzzle 2012 — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Walking Dead: Season 1 - a game in the Puzzle genre

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, PS Vita, Ouya, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch → 24 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Walking Dead: Season 1 is an episodic third-person interactive adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics. The main character is a black guy named...

Machinarium

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Android, iPad, Linux, Mac, PC, PS Vita, iPhone, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, iOS, Xbox One → 10 May 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Machinarium is an amazing quest about the robot Josef, who seeks to return his beloved. The game has mesmerizing hand-drawn graphics and truly mind-bending puzzles...

Resident Evil: Revelations

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo 3DS, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 27 January 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Resident Evil: Revelations is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view set in the Resident Evil universe. The game takes place between the events of...

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 → 26 May 2000

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Resident Evil Code: Veronica is a dark action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. The game will tell about the events taking place...

Darksiders

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 8 January 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Darksiders is a third-person action game with some platforming and puzzle elements from the developers at Vigil Games. The game is published by THQ Inc. and THQ...

Botanicula

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Arcade

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android → 8 May 2012

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Botanicula is an adventure arcade puzzle game with a third-person view. In this game you will find a relaxing atmosphere, a huge number of detailed locations that...

Catherine

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC → 17 February 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Catherine is an adventure arcade puzzle game with visual novel elements. The game will tell the story of computer scientist Vincent, who is experiencing the peak of...

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 15 November 2000

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is a continuation of the series of popular action-horror games with a third-person view. You will once again plunge into the chaos of the...

Deponia

Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One → 6 August 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Deponia is a fun point and click adventure with lots of puzzles. The game will allow you to plunge into a fantastic comedy adventure revolving around the incredible...

Deadlight

Action, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox 360, PC → 1 August 2012

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Deadlight is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with horror elements. The main character, Randal Wayne, is a former park security guard who finds...

Sandbox

Arcade, God Simulator, Puzzle, Logic

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV → 23 November 2022

Players: 8.1/10

Sandbox is an arcade god simulator with puzzle elements. Imagine creating your own 8-bit pixel world, playing with humans, ninjas, robots or zombies, composing your...

Myst (1993)

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click

Game released: Mac, PC, Jaguar, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, 3DO, Amiga, CD-i, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, iOS, PSP → 24 September 1993

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 43/100

Myst (1993) — point and click adventure puzzle game. You are about to travel to an island world shrouded in mysteries, where every stone, every piece of...

The Room

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2014

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The Room is an indie puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a...

Psychonauts

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: Linux, Mac, PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 → 12 June 2012

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Psychonauts is an action-adventure platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The plot follows a young special agent named Raz, who learns to use his...

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Action, Shooter, Fighting, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PS Vita → 22 February 2012

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an action-adventure game with a third-person view that will tell the backstory of the entire series about Nathan Drake. You have to...

Tomb Raider: Underworld

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, Xbox 360, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS → 3 March 2009

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Gardenscapes

Adventure, First-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: iPad, Mac, PC, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox One → 11 January 2012

Players: 6.7/10

Gardenscapes is a fun, top-down adventure with puzzle elements. You have to combine identical objects into one row while traveling through the garden. After each...

The Tiny Bang Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: iOS, PC, Mac, Android, Windows Phone, Linux, Nintendo Switch → 28 January 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 63/100

The game takes place in a funny universe where you need to piece together a planet destroyed by a meteorite. The game uses point-and-click mechanics in the best...

Legend of Grimrock

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS → 11 April 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A group of prisoners are sentenced to death by exile to the...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Mac, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 13 April 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 25 January 2000

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is an action-adventure game with a third-person view, which is a sequel to the game Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Events take place 1500...

Trainyard

Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Trains

Game released: Android, iPad, iPhone → 16 May 2012

Players: 9/10

Trainyard is a top-down strategy game with a mix of puzzle, sandbox and train simulator. The PC version of Trainyard, unfortunately, has not yet been released, but...

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Historical

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 → 22 March 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. The game takes place in Renaissance Italy. YOU play as a...

Island: Castaway

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: Android, iPad, iPhone, PC → 19 April 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Island: Castaway - After being shipwrecked, your main goal is to survive, although getting off the island would be great too. But first, you have to rise up and...

To the Moon

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One → 6 July 2012

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An indie adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine. The game tells the story of two young doctors, Eva and Neil, who give people another chance to live...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Toki Tori

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Arcade, Side view

Game released: Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, Linux, Nintendo Switch → 21 April 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 24 September 2001

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is a third-person action game with horror and puzzle elements from the masters of the Crystal House studio. The main publisher...

Bad Piggies

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: iOS, Mac, Android, PC, Windows Phone → 27 September 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Bad Piggies is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. The bad pigs are hunting for eggs again — but, as usual, nothing goes according to plan. You have to...

Lode Runner (1989)

Platformer, Puzzle, Sandbox, Side view

Game released: Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, FM-7, J2ME, Mac, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC Booter, Sharp X1, SG-1000, VIC-20, Wii, Windows Phone, WonderSwan, ZX Spectrum → 1989

Players: 5.5/10

Lode Runner (1989) is a classic side-scrolling puzzle platformer. You will find many different levels with complex riddles. In addition, you can create your own...

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel

Game released: PS Vita, PSP, PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android → 10 October 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Toybox

Match-3 (Three in a row), Puzzle, Shooter

Game released: iOS → 23 August 2012

Toybox is a match-3 puzzle game. The toy box is like rubbing your head and patting your belly at the same time. You have to shoot the enemy toys on the left side of...

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective

Game released: iOS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 16 December 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 86/100

The main character is Sissel, the spirit of a deceased man, capable of inhabiting objects and controlling them. The goal of the game is to find out the cause of the...

Cave Story

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: Amiga, Linux, Mac, Nintendo DSi, Wii, PC, Nintendo 3DS → 8 July 2008

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Ys Origin

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 31 May 2012

Metacritic: 79/100

Ys Origin is an isometric action role-playing game set in the Ys fantasy universe. The plot of the game tells about events that took place 700 years before the...

Scribblenauts Unlimited

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Adventure, Arcade, Side view

Game released: Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PC, iOS, Android → 6 December 2013

Metacritic: 74/100

Scribblenauts Unlimited — side-scrolling arcade adventure puzzle game. Welcome to an adventure in a vast world where your most powerful tool is your...

7th Guest

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: CD-i, DOS, iPad, iPhone, PC → 1993

Players: 8/10

7th Guest is a classic "point and click" adventure with horror elements and a first-person view. Henry Stauffe, a rich man with a sinister past, invited six guests...

Return to Mysterious Island 2

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic

Game released: PC, iOS, Mac → 19 June 2009

Players: 9.2/10

Return to Mysterious Island 2 is an adventure logic puzzle game with a first-person view in the point and click genre. Mina's rescue at the end of the first game...

Nihilumbra

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, Linux, PS Vita, Wii U, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS → 27 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Nihilumbra is a platform puzzle game developed by BeautiFun Games that will take you into a world of unusual adventures and abstract inclination. You will play as a...

Prince of Persia (1989)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, DOS, FM Towns, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Genesis, iPad, iPhone, Mac, NES, Nintendo 3DS, SAM Coupé, SEGA CD, SEGA Master System, Sharp X68000, SNES, TurboGrafx CD, Wii, iOS → 1990

Players: 8.1/10

Prince of Persia is a side-scrolling adventure arcade action platformer. While the Sultan of Persia is waging war in a foreign country, his Grand Vizier Jaffar...

Puzzle

Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2012 (Game released)