Puzzle 2013 for Linux — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Half-Life 2 - a game in the Puzzle genre

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

Game released: Linux → 27 June 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 93/100

Half-Life 2 is a continuation of the legendary adventure shooter with a first-person view. You once again have to lift the crowbar of the scientist-researcher...

Teslagrad

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

Game released: Linux → 13 December 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...

The Inner World

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Point & Click, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Inner World is a stunning point-and-click adventure set in a fantasy setting. Robert is a young man, a little dimwitted, but kind-hearted. He lives a peaceful life...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 September 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

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

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2013

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is the continuation of the Point and Click adventure series Broken Sword. In the game, you take on the role of an American...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

Trine 2: Complete Story

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Trine 2: Complete Story is a complete edition of the atmospheric action platformer with a side view in the fantasy setting of Trine 2, which contains all previously...

Knock-knock

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

Game released: Linux → 4 October 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...

Gunpoint

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Indie, Tactics, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game about a freelance spy who takes jobs infiltrating secure buildings to steal sensitive data. Across 20 missions, a story of murder...

Snapshot

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2013

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Snapshot is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game. The game will tell the story of a cute robot named Peak, who is collecting mysterious energy scattered...

Ittle Dew

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Ittle Dew is an indie action-adventure game with fantasy RPG elements and an isometric view. Adventurer Itl Du and her companion Tipsy are shipwrecked and find...

The Cave

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2013

VGTimes: 6.0/10

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

The Cave is a new creation by Ron Gilbert, the father of the cult games Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion, as well as Double Fine Productions, the studio responsible...

Nihilumbra

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 83/100

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...

Finding Teddy

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2013

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure puzzle follows a little girl whose teddy bear is stolen by a monster emerging from her cupboard. She follows it into a magical world...

MirrorMoon EP

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Futurism (Future), Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2013

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 73/100

MirrorMoon EP — atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game takes you on a surreal space adventure on an unknown...

Type: Rider

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2013

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Type: Rider is a side-scrolling educational arcade platformer. You have to immerse yourself in the mysterious and fantastic world of letters. By controlling the...

Toki Tori 2

In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Metroidvania, Open world, Side view

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2013

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This open-world puzzle adventure follows Toki Tori, a young chicken tasked with saving a forest island from a floating crystal and strange pollution. Along the way...

Shattered Haven

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 March 2013

Steam: 38/100

This post-apocalyptic action puzzle game follows the Williams family as they struggle to survive in a world where animals turn into violent creatures and the earth...

Toki Tori

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

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Bridge Constructor

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Simulation, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Bridge Constructor is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Using the proposed materials, you have to build the strongest bridge that can withstand various types of...

Hero of the Kingdom

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Hero of the Kingdom is an adventure strategy game with RPG elements and an isometric camera view. The game tells the story of a young hero whose father is kidnapped...

Papo & Yo

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

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Papo & Yo is an unusual platformer, which is based on the author of his childhood fear of an alcoholic father. You play for the little boy KVICO, who fell into the...

Chuck's Challenge 3D

Puzzle, Isometric, Indie, Sandbox, Arcade, Construction, Logic

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2013

Steam: 81/100

This isometric puzzle game follows Woop, a purple alien navigating a universe of challenges created by Chuck Sommerville in search of an exit. Across the levels...

Montague's Mount

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

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2013

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 39/100

Montague's Mount is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to a gloomy Irish island, where for...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2013

Steam: 90/100

A puzzle game about painting wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope. Each level presents a spatial challenge that players solve by inspecting the object and...

La•Mulana

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

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2013

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 82/100

La•Mulana is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming and puzzles from the developers from the GR3 Project studio. The main publisher of the game...

Dungeon Hearts

Role-playing game, In real time, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2013

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This puzzle RPG combines tile-matching with real-time combat. Runes move along a stream, and the player aligns them to attack enemies, defend against their moves...

Super Splatters

Action, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 June 2013

Steam: 74/100

Super Splatters is an arcade puzzle game about launching elastic creatures through levels, with liquid physics affecting their movement. The player sends the...

Solar Flux

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

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2013

Steam: 78/100

This puzzle strategy game follows an effort to save dying stars in a perishing universe. The player pilots a ship through zero gravity, collecting fragments of...

Shivah

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 November 2013

Steam: 82/100

Shivah is a side-scrolling pixel point and click adventure. Russell Stone is a Jewish rabbi in a poor synagogue in New York. He is a godly man with a problem. The...

Trichrome

Arcade, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2013

Trichrome is an arcade game with a dash of puzzle from the masters at Sean Puckett Studio. The game is published by Canadian Indie and Sean...

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 27 June 2013

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded is a modern reimagining of the popular game Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards...

Gravity Badgers

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 November 2013

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 48/100

A physics-based arcade puzzle game follows Captain T Bayback, a badger venturing into deep space to save his friends, family and the universe from the Evil Honey...

Little Inferno

Arcade, Logic, Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Little Inferno is an unusual puzzle game from the creators of World of Goo. It smelled like something was cooking... And here's your new Little Inferno entertaining...

Gateways

Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2013

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Gateways is a puzzle platformer in which a scientist explores a huge laboratory filled with many mysteries. You can use teleporters to jump from one place to...

Element4l

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Element4l is an experimental platform game about four elements bound together on a journey to shape life. Nature and the sun stand in their way, while progress...

Anna

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

Game released: Linux → 12 April 2013

Players: 2/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Anna is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the developers of Dreampainters. The game is published by Kalypso Media. Anna is definitely...

Nightmares from the Deep: The Siren's Call

Puzzle, Logic, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2013

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Jack Lumber

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

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2013

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Jack Lumber is an arcade game with a mixture of action, puzzle and indie game from Owlchemy Labs. The main publisher of the game is Sega. Overall, the project...

Domino Arena

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 November 2013

Domino Arena is an arcade game with puzzle elements and indie games from the masters from the Gamieon studio. The game is published by...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2013 for Linux