Puzzle 2021 — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Survival, Comedy, Space

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 25 February 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Breathedge is a science fiction adventure action game with a first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of an ordinary guy and his pet who...

100 Doors - Escape from Prison

Logic, Puzzle, Adventure, Hidden Objects, Casual game

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 15 June 2022

Players: 7.2/10

100 Doors — Escape from Prison is an adventure point and click hidden object puzzle game. You will meet Beren, a young, curious journalist who finds herself...

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

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

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 → 16 November 2021

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 74/100

An adventure detective story about the legendary Sherlock Holmes from the creators of The Sinking City. The game tells the story of the famous detective's earlier...

LOLLIPOP!

Arcade, Puzzle, Adult game, Match-3 (Three in a row), Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 1 June 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 76/100

LOLLIPOP! is an anime arcade puzzle game for adults in the “three in a row” genre. For making combinations you will be rewarded with pictures and animations of sexy...

We Were Here Together

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 10 October 2019

Players: 7.7/10

A story about two companions trapped within the icy walls of an ancient citadel, where every room oozes mystery and the joker's laughter echoes through the gloomy...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Myst

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR), Remake

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

A remake of the iconic adventure quest Myst, released in 1993 and becoming one of the most influential games of its time. The story once again takes you to a...

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Stadia → 8 October 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is a sequel to the popular side-scrolling puzzle platformer in a fantasy setting. This time, three heroes will go in search of the...

Neighbours Back From Hell

Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS, Android → 8 October 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Neighbors Back From Hell is a modern re-release of two parts of the How to Get Your Neighbor puzzle. The new product received updated graphics, doubled frame rate...

The Longing

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 5 March 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The Longing is an unusual game, the main feature of which lies in its length. The fact is that it will take 400 days to complete the game. Even if a player enters...

Not An Angels: Erotic Puzzle

Arcade, Puzzle, Adult game, Free game

Game released: PC, Mac → 8 January 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Not An Angels: Erotic Puzzle is a shareware arcade puzzle game for adults. By solving puzzles you can unlock sexually explicit images. As you progress, you will...

Inscryption

Card game, Horror, Roguelike, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Puzzle

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2021

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Inscryption is a first-person card puzzle horror game from the creator of Pony Island. In the game, you will find yourself in the cabin of Leshy, from which you...

Call of the Sea

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view

Game released: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 8 December 2020

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Call of the Sea is an atmospheric first-person adventure set in the Pacific Ocean in 1934, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Ira will tell the story of the...

Cube Escape Collection

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android → 14 October 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Cube Escape Collection is an adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. In this classic anthology of adventure games, you follow the path of Dale...

Sky: Children of the Light

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Online

Game released: iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC → 18 July 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Multiplayer adventure from the creators of Journey and Flower. Players take control of the Children of Light, who bring light from the heavens to where it is...

Dreaming Sarah

Metroidvania, Puzzle, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S → 13 March 2015

The girl Sarah got into an accident and is in a coma. You need to explore the dream world, collect objects and communicate with strange characters to help her wake...

Firework

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Horror, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 4 February 2021

Players: 10/10

Firework is a side-scrolling indie horror adventure with visual novel elements. An accidental fire at a funeral forces police to re-investigate a closed mass murder...

We Were Here

Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 3 February 2017

Players: 8.8/10

An atmospheric co-op adventure where two strangers find themselves separated by the walls of an ancient castle amidst the Antarctic ice. One is trapped in a...

Escape Simulator

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 19 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Escape Simulator is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. Alone or together with a friend, you can go explore mysterious rooms in which many riddles...

Surgeon Simulator 2

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Action, Simulation, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S → 27 August 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Surgeon Simulator 2 is a sequel to the trashy action simulator of a surgeon, which can now be played with four players in co-op. Compared to the original, the...

Milo and the Magpies

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 7 September 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Milo and the Magpies is a point and click adventure with indie elements. Milo, a curious and adventurous cat, must find his way home after an encounter with pesky...

Unpacking

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 → 2 November 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Unpacking is a meditative arcade puzzle game with an isometric camera view, where you can relive the familiar experience of taking items out of boxes and putting...

Heavenly Bodies

Logic, Puzzle, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 → 7 December 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Heavenly Bodies is a co-op physics simulation game where astronauts solve various puzzles in zero gravity. Players will have to push, pull, and twist various...

The Room 4: Old Sins

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 11 February 2021

Players: 7.9/10

The Room 4: Old Sins is the continuation of the first-person puzzle adventure in the "The Room" series. The story of the game begins with the disappearance of an...

7 Billion Humans

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 23 August 2018

Players: 8.8/10

7 Billion Humans is the sequel to the fun indie puzzle game Human Resource Machine. This time you have to automate a swarm of employees so that they become part of...

Cyber Manhunt

Simulation, Indie, Role-playing game, Puzzle, Cyberpunk, Horror

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 3 February 2021

Players: 6.8/10

Cyber Manhunt is an adventure simulator with role-playing elements in a cyberpunk setting, in which you can try yourself as a hacker. You have to monitor the...

Oddworld: Soulstorm

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 6 April 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a continuation of the arcade platformer with a side view, where we will once again play as Abe the Mudokon. The events of the game will...

Tiny Room Stories Town Mystery

Puzzle, Detective, Hidden Objects, Exploration, Indie

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Mac → 26 February 2021

Players: 9.7/10

The main character of the game is a private detective who went to a small town at the request of his father. All the residents of the city have disappeared, and...

The Wild Case

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Point & Click

Game released: PC, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux → 7 April 2021

Players: 8.3/10

The Wild Case is an indie point and click adventure puzzle game with supernatural elements. In this game, players meet a variety of colorful characters, experience...

Tales of Monkey Island

Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle

Game released: Mac, PlayStation 3, PC, iOS → 19 March 2010

Players: 10/10

Tales of Monkey Island is an adventure puzzle game with a third-person view. By robbing the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood...

In Sound Mind

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

Game released: PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch → 28 September 2021

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

In Sound Mind is a psychological horror game with a first-person view. You wake up in the corridors of a strange building, where the environment takes on a life of...

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Isometric, Simulation, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch → 6 August 2020

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is an indie action-adventure game in the point and click genre with an isometric view and puzzle elements. This is a fun adventure...

Souls of the Wind

Free game, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Action

Game released: PC → 12 May 2021

Souls of the Wind is a free-to-play action adventure game with a third-party view with unusual puzzles and beautiful graphics. The game takes place in a magical...

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS, Android → 13 December 2021

Metacritic: 84/100

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is an adventure puzzle game with roguelike elements in the Shovel Knight series. The game features 10 characters, a story mode and...

Do Something

Adventure, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 16 December 2021

Do Something is a third-person zombie action adventure game in the vein of Resident Evil, developed by just one person using the Unity engine. The events of the...

Out of Sight

Free game, Casual game, Exploration, Puzzle, Indie,

Game released: PC → 10 March 2021

A laid-back, unobtrusive hidden object game where players can relax and explore colorful, picturesque locations with a lo-fi soundtrack. The game features...

Beasts of Maravilla Island

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 → 12 June 2021

Beasts of Maravilla Island is a casual action-adventure game with a third-person view in the fantasy genre. The protective magic of the island of Maravilla is...

Baldo: The Guardian Owls

Action, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS → 27 August 2021

Baldo: The Guardian Owls is an action-adventure game with lots of puzzles for mobile platforms. You have to travel through the open world, fight enemies, including...

The Jackbox Party Pack 7

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Indie, Logic

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 15 October 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The Jackbox Party Pack 7 is a new part of a collection of fun arcade games for a large company. The game has a lot of different mini-games that will not let you get...

Scarf

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 23 December 2021

The game tells the story of a cute creature named Haik, who wears a long red scarf. As you progress, this piece of clothing helps the hero fly, interact with the...

Puzzle

Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2021 (Game released)