Puzzle 2010 for Mac — 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: Mac → 26 May 2010

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...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

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

Game released: Mac → 8 September 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...

Portal

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

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 90/100

A first-person puzzle game set in the mysterious laboratories of Aperture Science. In Portal, the player solves physics-based puzzles and overcomes challenges by...

Return to Mysterious Island 2

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2010

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 64/100

Return to Mysterious Island 2 is an adventure logic puzzle game with a first-person view in the point and click genre. Mina's rescue at the end of the first game...

Gardenscapes

Adventure, First-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Mac → 22 March 2010

Players: 6.7/10

Gardenscapes is a fun, top-down adventure with puzzle elements. You have to combine identical objects into one row while traveling through the garden. After each...

Trine

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 2 November 2010

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This fantasy action-platformer with physics-based puzzles follows a wizard, a knight and a thief whose fates become bound by a mysterious artifact called the Trine...

Twisted Lands: Shadow Town

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 28 November 2010

Players: 8.8/10

Twisted Lands: Shadow Town — adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in the horror genre. Welcome to the City of Shadows. There are beaches, but you...

Bejeweled 3

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Mac → 7 December 2010

Players: 4.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This match-three puzzle game centers on making combinations of gems across eight modes. In Classic, new gems fall into place after matches, allowing further...

Eets

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 7 December 2010

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle platformer combines character movement with physics-based challenges. The player helps Eets overcome obstacles by using objects and interactions in the...

Sam & Max Episode 201: Ice Station Santa

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: Mac → 19 May 2010

Metacritic: 82/100

This puzzle-adventure episode sends Sam & Max to the North Pole to confront Santa Claus, an ancient being of myth. Attacking Christmas presents and gunfire amid...

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

This puzzle adventure based on the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade follows Indiana Jones as he searches for the Holy Grail and his missing father. After...

Detective Agency

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 26 July 2010

Detective Agency is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters of Far Mills Game Studio and Game Factory Interactive Ltd.. The game is published...

Million Dollar Quest

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 3 August 2010

Players: 10/10

Million Dollar Quest is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters of NevoSoft and Positive Games. The game is published by NevoSoft. Million...

Max & the Magic Marker

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 5 February 2010

Metacritic: 73/100

A platform puzzle about Max, who discovers a magic marker that brings anything he draws to life. When the monster he has drawn becomes real, Max must find and catch...

Haunted Manor: Lord of Mirrors

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 23 May 2010

Steam: 90/100

This puzzle horror adventure follows Stan Riddle, who has been trapped in the Haunted Manor by the Lord of Mirrors. The player searches for objects and solves...

Desktop Dungeons

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 18 October 2010

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Desktop Dungeons is a turn-based puzzle roguelike that sends a hero into fantasy dungeons laid out on a single screen. Each expedition takes place in a randomly...

Journalist Journey: The Eye of Odin

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 2 August 2010

Journalist Journey: The Eye of Odin is a first-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from developers from XITEX Software. The main publisher of the game is Namco...

Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

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

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — The wildly twisted plot begins with our hapless hero recklessly embarking on a search for the mythical treasures of...

DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Mac → 14 December 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This action RPG follows DeathSpank on a comic adventure across war-torn battlefields, mountain ranges and dangerous seas. He hunts for the magical Thongs of Virtue...

Mushroom Age

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

Game released: Mac → 5 May 2010

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Mushroom Age is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers at NevoSoft. The game is published by Big Fish Games...

Tales of Monkey Island

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

Game released: Mac → 19 March 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Toki Tori

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

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

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...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2010

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...

The Sims 3: Ambitions

Simulation, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Mac → 1 June 2010

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An expansion for The Sims 3 that adds new careers and lets players direct Sims’ actions while they are at work. A Sim can become a firefighter, private...

Back to the Future: The Game

Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 22 December 2010

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Back to the Future: The Game is an episodic adventure based on the film trilogy "Back to the Future." Six months after the events of the third part of the movie...

PuppetShow: Souls of the Innocent

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 12 September 2010

Steam: 87/100

This adventure and hidden-object puzzle follows the mysterious illness of a young girl who has been asleep for more than two days, leaving local doctors unable to...

Sam & Max 303: They Stole Max's Brain!

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: Mac → 22 June 2010

Metacritic: 75/100

A third-person adventure puzzle game in the Sam & Max franchise, with a film noir twist. The premise centers on the theft of Max’s...

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat (Collector's Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2010

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat (Collector's Edition) is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror and puzzles from the studio ERS G- Studio. The...

Ecco the Dolphin

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 1 June 2010

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This action-adventure with puzzles follows Ecco, a dolphin searching for his family after a strange whirlpool sweeps them from their home bay. He explores a vast...

Dig

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Steam: 76/100

Dream Sleuth

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 9 August 2010

Dream Sleuth is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers from NevoSoft studio. The game is published by NevoSoft. Sometimes the game is also...

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle, Comics, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 15 April 2010

Steam: 98/100

This comedy adventure with puzzles follows Sam & Max as their investigation begins after Max finds a mysterious toy that lets him glimpse the future. Soon...

Jolly Rover

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

Game released: Mac → 8 June 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This comedic point-and-click adventure follows Gaius James Rover, a dog who sets out for tropical islands in the pirate-filled Caribbean. The son of a famous clown...

Tidalis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2010

Steam: 68/100

Free Realms

Role-playing game, Action, Music game, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sports game, Fantasy / Medieval, Stunts

Game released: Mac → 2 November 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Free Realms is a fantasy virtual world where players explore their surroundings, battle enemies, and compete against one another. Adventures include searching for...

Joan Jade and the Gates of Xibalba

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2010

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 57/100

This hidden-object adventure follows archaeologist Joan Jade as she searches the ruins of the Maya for her missing children. She suspects their disappearance is...

Sam & Max Episode 203: Night of the Raving Dead

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: Mac → 19 May 2010

Metacritic: 79/100

This adventure episode follows Sam & Max as they set out to stop an undead horde roaming the streets. The horde is led by a vampire, and the duo must take him...

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut

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

Game released: Mac → 3 September 2010

Players: 6/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut - One of the all-time classic adventures, the multiple BAFTA nominated Broken Sword: Director's Cut takes...

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

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

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Steam: 93/100

Treasure Seekers: Follow the Ghosts

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 25 April 2010

Treasure Seekers: Follow the Ghosts is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of Artogon Games. The main publisher of the game is Big...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2010 for Mac