Puzzle 2016 — top best games in the Puzzle genre

November 26, 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Nobodies: Murder cleaner is an adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. After the hitmen have eliminated their target, someone must clean up the mess...

Fran Bow

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Point & Click

August 27, 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Fran Bow is an atmospheric point and click adventure with horror elements. A very interesting story awaits you of a girl who is not at all crazy. But still, the...

Human Resource Machine

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

October 15, 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Human Resource Machine is an indie puzzle game from the developer World of Goo. We have to use office workers to solve the next puzzle and get promoted to the next...

Machinarium

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Combat robots, Point & Click, Side view

October 16, 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Human Fall Flat

Third-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Cooperative (co-op), Online

July 22, 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Human: Fall Flat is an arcade puzzle game in a large open world with a third-person view. You'll be able to explore the environment and solve physics puzzles to...

Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise

Adventure, Logic, Science fiction, Puzzle, Point & Click, Exploration

October 28, 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Agent A is an episodic point and click adventure game for mobile platforms, made in the style of the sixties. You have to escape from various types of premises...

Haydee

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

September 26, 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 84/100

Haydee is a hardcore action puzzle game with a third-person perspective. In this game you control Gyde, a half-woman, half-robot, in search of a way out of a...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Point & Click, Puzzle, Fantasy

March 24, 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival horror, Puzzle

September 8, 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game will tell the story of Daniel, who wakes up in a deserted...

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Simulation

October 27, 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a first-person puzzle adventure game based on George Orwell's novel 1984. You have to take on the role of Big Brother and monitor...

OneShot

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

June 30, 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This surreal top-down puzzle adventure follows a child travelling through a mysterious world in an attempt to restore its long-dead sun. In OneShot, the world is...

The Witness

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Exploration

January 26, 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The Witness is an arcade adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The action takes place on an island full of mysteries. The island is an open world where...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view, Puzzle

October 4, 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

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

May 27, 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is an action-adventure game with a third-person view. In the game you will find five cases that Sherlock Holmes and his famous...

35MM

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Walking Simulator, Survival horror, Hidden Objects

May 28, 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 57/100

35MM is a post-apocalyptic adventure with a first-person view from domestic developer Sergei Noskov. The game takes place in Russia, where a mysterious epidemic has...

LEGO Harry Potter Collection

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle, Casual game

October 18, 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A collection of two games that recreate the magical world of Harry Potter in LEGO style, covering all seven books and eight films. Players are immersed in a journey...

True Fear: Forsaken Souls

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Exploration, Hidden Objects

October 19, 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 92/100

True Fear: Forsaken Souls is a mystical point and click adventure with horror elements and a lot of puzzles. The events of the game take place in an old house that...

The Turing Test

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Science fiction

August 30, 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The Turing Test is a sci-fi action puzzle game with a first-person view. You will be transported to one of the largest moons of Jupiter — Europa. In the role...

Last Goddess

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

October 29, 2016

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

Last Goddess is a cooperative adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. When a Tampa Bay University professor goes missing, a government agent, a doctoral...

Deponia

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Comedy

June 29, 2012

Players: 9/10

Steam: 77/100

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...

The Tiny Bang Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Point & Click

April 22, 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 86/100

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...

Resident Evil Zero

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

November 12, 2002

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Resident Evil Zero is an exciting action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. One of the S.T.A.R.S. units sent to the vicinity of the...

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Cyberpunk, Point & Click, Horror

October 31, 1996

Players: 9/10

Steam: 88/100

This point-and-click adventure horror follows five people imprisoned deep beneath the Earth in the insane computer AM. After a hundred and nine years in captivity...

Psychonauts

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

April 19, 2005

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Unravel

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Action

February 9, 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Unravel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure with various puzzles. The platformer will tell the story of a knitted man — Yarny, who stretches like a ball with...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

December 13, 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

Azkend 2: The World Beneath

Strategy, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Match-3 (Three in a row)

March 14, 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This match-three adventure puzzle takes place in an underground world, where the protagonist makes a journey back towards civilization. Inspired by the works of...

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Detective

July 26, 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This detective visual novel follows a school trip to the abandoned Jabberwock Island, where Monokuma restarts a deadly game. Students from Hope’s Peak Academy must...

Pac-Man 256

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game

August 19, 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Pac-Man 256 is a continuation of the popular top-down arcade game starring Pac-Man. The game is made in an unusual style: the main character is followed by a wave...

Among the Sleep

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

May 29, 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Among the Sleep is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. The main character is a very young child. He is hiding from a mysterious...

Pony Island

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Demons

January 4, 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Pony Island is a logic puzzle game from the developers of Daniel Mullins Games. The story is that the devil locks the player in an arcade, and in order to get out...

Six Sides of the World

Logic, Puzzle, Science fiction, Arcade, Casual game, Indie, Action

January 20, 2016

Steam: 84/100

Six Sides of the World is an atmospheric arcade puzzle game in a sci-fi setting, where you will explore various cubic planets that are filled with various traps. As...

Ori and The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Metroidvania

March 11, 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is an expanded edition of the indie adventure platformer. The game tells the story of a little guardian spirit named...

Back in 1995

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

April 28, 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Back in 1995 is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view, stylized as games from the 1990s. You will find poor controls, character models and...

Yesterday Origins

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click

November 10, 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Yesterday Origins is a classic point-and-click adventure and the sequel to Pendulo Studios' Yesterday. The plot of the project tells about a man named John...

Hitman GO

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Puzzle

April 17, 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A turn-based strategy puzzle set in the Hitman universe, where Agent 47 tackles missions across levels presented as miniature dioramas. The player moves along fixed...

Song of the Deep

Arcade, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania, Action

July 12, 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Song of the Deep is a side-scrolling arcade adventure. The setting was a sunken city that hides many secrets and mysteries and where the main character’s father was...

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Hidden Objects, Casual game

September 25, 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood is a hidden object adventure puzzle game set in a fantasy setting. You have to go on a dangerous adventure on the trail of a...

Count Lucanor

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Survival horror, Puzzle

March 3, 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A pixel-art adventure with horror and stealth elements set in a fairytale world, Count Lucanor follows Hans, a boy who enters a forest, meets a kobold and becomes...

SUPERHOT VR

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR)

December 5, 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

SUPERHOT VR is a special version of the game for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. You will find an innovative control scheme that...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2016