Puzzle 2014 for Linux — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Talos Principle - a game in the Puzzle genre

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 11 December 2014

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Talos Principle is a first-person adventure puzzle game in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Serious Sam. In an unknown place, deserted and seemingly divorced...

Whispered World

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

Game released: Linux → 6 May 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This point-and-click fantasy adventure follows Sadwick, who dreams of a mysterious blue sphere and a world collapsing around him. The oracle Shana foretells the end...

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

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

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2014

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...

100% Orange Juice

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Card game, Anime / Manga, Online

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

100% Orange Juice is an arcade adventure puzzle game with elements of a board card game. You will travel to an amazing world where dogs, people and cars fly in the...

Circuits

Music game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 89/100

Circuits is a musical puzzle game in which players listen closely to separate sound parts and assemble them into complete songs. Each level involves working out how...

Among the Sleep

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

Game released: Linux → 29 May 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...

Nightmares from the Deep: Davy Jones

Puzzle, Logic, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 27 March 2014

Players: 10/10

Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones is a Point and Click puzzle game from Artifex Mundi. The main publisher of the game is Artifex Mundi. In some circles...

Tales from the Dragon Mountain 2: The Lair

Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2014

Steam: 57/100

Set in the fantasy world of Dragon Mountains, this puzzle adventure follows the return of a dark force after Lord Strix was defeated. Mina and her companion Malik...

Time Mysteries 2: The Ancient Spectres

Hidden Objects, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Steam: 61/100

This hidden-object puzzle adventure is set in 1830, where young governess Ester inherits an abandoned London mansion and discovers that her family has studied time...

Gunspell

Role-playing game, Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 51/100

This fantasy RPG adventure with puzzle elements follows a member of an Order tasked with protecting Earth from monsters. Guns and magic work together as the hero...

Gods Will Be Watching

Strategy, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2014

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 64/100

A science-fiction point-and-click thriller set amid an interstellar conflict, where decisions shape the fate of a crew and the people it is sworn to protect. The...

Putt-Putt Joins the Parade

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 96/100

This children’s adventure with puzzles follows Putt-Putt, a car preparing to take part in Cartown’s annual Pet Parade. Along the way, he meets local residents...

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 97/100

This children’s adventure and puzzle game takes place at the Cartown Zoo, where the grand opening is at risk: food is running low, and all the baby animals are...

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 February 2014

Steam: 91/100

This hidden-object adventure puzzle follows a museum owner who sets out after an undead pirate has kidnapped her daughter. The pirate plans to resurrect his beloved...

Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal"

Arcade, Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

This children’s point-and-click adventure follows the secret agent SPY Fox as he searches for Mr. Udderly, rescues the cows, and tries to stop William the Kid from...

Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Arcade, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 May 2014

Steam: 94/100

This children’s adventure game follows Putt-Putt, a purple car accidentally blasted to the Moon from a fireworks factory. There he meets Rover, a lunar vehicle left...

MouseCraft

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

MouseCraft is a puzzle game about guiding mice to their goal as the cat scientist Schrödinger works on a mysterious mouse-powered machine. Players stack Tetromino...

140

Platformer, Music game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 January 2014

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A minimalist puzzle platformer in which obstacles are tied to the rhythm of electronic music. The player controls a geometric shape in an abstract, colorful world...

The Fall

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The Fall is an adventure shooter with a view of the side of the science fiction setting, which will tell about artificial intelligence trying to save its master...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

Blackwell Epiphany

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2014

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Blackwell Epiphany is a point and click adventure game from the developers of Wadjet Eye Games. This is the fifth and final part of the Blackwell Legacy quest saga...

Spy Chameleon: RGB Agent

Arcade, Stealth, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 June 2014

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade-puzzle game with stealth elements follows a chameleon secret agent who changes color to blend into the surroundings and avoid detection. Across five...

Hack 'n' Slash

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

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hack 'n' Slash is a fantasy puzzle adventure about a hero who defies a wizard’s restrictions and sets out to discover why the kingdom has fallen into disarray...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Volt

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2014

Steam: 70/100

This puzzle platformer follows a battery that escapes while being taken for recycling and tries to get out of an industrial facility. Without legs, the heroine...

BloodNet

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

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2014

Steam: 62/100

This cyberpunk role-playing game with horror elements is set in Manhattan in 2094, where freelance operative Ransom Stark becomes a vampire and searches for a cure...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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Fall of the New Age

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 January 2014

Steam: 52/100

Fall of the New Age is an adventure arcade puzzle game in the hidden object genre. The game will tell about the dark times of the Middle Ages, where a secret...

ReignMaker

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2014

Steam: 80/100

ReignMaker is a unique match-3 strategy game set in a fantasy setting. The game has many classic game elements: you have to arrange your city, build buildings and...

Monochroma

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

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Monochroma is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with horror elements and a side view. The game takes place in a gloomy industrial world. You will learn the story of...

Under a Killing Moon

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Linux → 12 June 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam: 96/100

This detective adventure with elements of a comedy thriller unfolds in a futuristic world in December 2042. Private investigator Tex Murphy must stop evil forces...

6180 the Moon

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Steam: 91/100

This platforming puzzle game follows the Moon on a journey to find the Sun after it disappears. The top and bottom edges of the screen are connected: when the Moon...

Poltergeist: A Pixelated Horror

Arcade, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2014

Steam: 61/100

This puzzle game with strategy and horror elements follows Henry B. Knight, a ghost trying to drive the tenants out of his mansion. He earned the house through hard...

Escape Goat 2

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2014

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer about a goat attempting to traverse the Stronghold of Toragos, which no one has conquered before. The goat must find a path...

Micron

Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2014

Steam: 92/100

This rhythm puzzle game challenges players to guide energy pulses to an exit by placing pieces that deflect them across a board. The pulses fire to the beat, and...

Mind: Path to Thalamus

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Mind: Path to Thalamus is a puzzle-adventure game played from a first-person perspective. The setting will be a fantastic surreal world. The main character created...

Appointment with F.E.A.R.

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2014

Steam: 57/100

Appointment with F.E.A.R. is an adventure with puzzle and visual novel elements from the developers of Tin Man Games. The game is published by Tin Man Games...

Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 1 May 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

This puzzle adventure follows Spy Fox as he sets out to stop S.M.E.L.L.Y. and its dogbot. The organization's commander, Napoleon LeRoach, has hidden the robot's OFF...

Munin

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 June 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This puzzle-platformer set in Norse mythology follows Munin, Odin’s messenger, on a journey through Yggdrasil to reclaim her power. The player moves mountains and...

Stunt Runner

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → Q2 2014

Stunt Runner is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, puzzle and indie game from developers from Kermdinger Studios. The main publisher of the game...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2014 for Linux (Game released)