Puzzle 2012 for Linux — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 6 August 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...

To the Moon

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

Game released: Linux → 7 September 2012

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Psychonauts

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

Game released: Linux → 12 June 2012

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...

Legend of Grimrock

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

Game released: Linux → 19 December 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Splice (2012)

Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Splice is a puzzle game set in a microbial world, where cells must be rearranged to form a target structure. Each level, called a “strand,” consists of several...

Journey Down: Chapter One

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows Bwana and his sidekick Kito as they struggle to make ends meet at a run-down gas station in Kingsport Bay, on...

Stacking

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2012

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This third-person puzzle adventure takes place in a vintage world inhabited by living Russian nesting dolls. Charlie Blackmore, the smallest doll in the world, sets...

Resonance (2012)

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 June 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows four ordinary people whose lives become entangled after the unexpected death of a particle physicist. They race...

Lone Survivor

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This psychological survival horror follows a masked man trying to escape a city ravaged by disease as he questions whether what he sees is real. Hunger and...

Kairo

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

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2012

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This first-person 3D adventure takes place in a lost world of abstract architecture and ancient monuments. The player explores unusual rooms and solves puzzles by...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

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

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This exploratory action-adventure follows a wandering warrior monk on a quest through a mythic realm of mountains and forests in a Bronze Age setting. Events are...

Unmechanical

Arcade, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2012

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This puzzle adventure follows a journey to freedom through a fantastical world of flesh, rock, and steel. The player explores the surroundings and solves more than...

Beyond Oasis

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 100/100

This top-down action-adventure with role-playing elements follows Prince Ali, who uncovers a gold armlet once belonging to a powerful sorcerer. When Ali puts it on...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in which you become an alien bubble and try to destroy all of humanity. The game...

Blackwell Deception

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2012

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This point-and-click adventure follows Rosa, a genuine psychic, and Joey, her wayward spirit guide, as they investigate the deaths of clients targeted by street...

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

An action puzzle game about containing a zombie outbreak in Franklin County. To defeat the undead, the player surrounds them with survivors of the same color, while...

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers

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

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This comic-styled platformer with puzzle elements follows Tiny, an inventor crossing a desert to reclaim his grandfather’s favorite possession: a pair of white...

Virus Named Tom

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2012

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This action-puzzle platformer follows TOM, a virus created for revenge after a corporation fires its creator, Dr. X. Players rewire circuits to spread the virus...

Waveform

Action, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2012

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Waveform — A unique side-scrolling rhythm puzzle game set in a sci-fi setting. You have to ride a beam of light and go to conquer various solar systems. As...

Book of Unwritten Tales

Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Book of Unwritten Tales is a point-and-click fantasy adventure with fun humor and fun puzzles. The events of the game tell the story of the halfling Wilbur, the elf...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out to assassinate...

Mari0

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Mari0 is an action game with a mixture of platformer and puzzle from the developers from the Stabyourself.net...

Harveys neue Augen

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2012

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This point-and-click adventure follows Lilli, a quiet pupil at a convent school who diligently carries out the orders of the Mother Superior. When her friend Edna...

2x2

Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Board / Group Game

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2012

Players: 8.8/10

2x2 is an educational game with puzzle elements from the masters from the studio AnyTech, Inc.. The game is published by AnyTech...

Blackwell Convergence

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2012

Steam: 96/100

A point-and-click adventure about medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone, who investigate strange connections between events in a big city. A new...

Adventures of Shuggy

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

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2012

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A puzzle platformer about Shuggy, who inherits a castle inhabited by goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. To make his new home liveable, he explores more than 100...

MacGuffin's Curse

Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Adventure, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2012

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This comedy puzzle adventure follows Lucas MacGuffin, a fugitive magician and thief who becomes bound to an ancient amulet and turns into a werewolf after a botched...

Blackwell Legacy

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2012

Steam: 89/100

A point-and-click adventure about Rosa Blackwell, a fledgling medium, and Joey Mallone, a ghost who becomes her spirit guide. After the death of her only relative...

Blackwell Unbound

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2012

Steam: 93/100

A point-and-click adventure puzzle set in 1973 Manhattan, where a series of accidents at a construction site and the sound of a lone saxophone may be connected...

Book of Unwritten Tales: Die Vieh Chroniken

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2012

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia tells the story of how adventurer Nate Bonnett first met Critter, his hairy sidekick. The events...

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