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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tidalis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2010

Steam: 68/100

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...

Mirror Mysteries

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 18 July 2010

Steam: 77/100

This adventure puzzle game with hidden-object gameplay follows a mother whose children are taken into a magical world behind a mirror. To rescue them, she travels...

Twisted Lands: Shadow Town (Collector's Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 8 October 2010

Twisted Lands: Shadow Town (Collector's Edition) is a first-person adventure with a dash of horror and puzzle from the masters at Alawar Stargaze. The game is...

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 26 June 2010

Players: 4.6/10

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers at ERS G-Studio. The main publisher of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Caribbean Hideaway

Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 5 January 2010

Caribbean Hideaway is a strategy game with a hint of puzzle from the masters at Twintale Entertainment. The game is published by Oberon Media...

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...

Dig

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

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Steam: 76/100

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...

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

Strategy, In real time, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 13 September 2010

Steam: 92/100

This puzzle game is set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, where Dr. Robotnik plans to turn the people of Beanville into robots and rid Planet Mobius of music and...

Redemption Cemetery: Curse of the Raven (Collector's Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 19 September 2010

Redemption Cemetery: Curse of the Raven (Collector's Edition) is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from developers at ERS G-Studio. The main...

Create

Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2010

Metacritic: 59/100

A strategy and puzzle game about creating worlds and solving level-based challenges. Players shape environments with brushes and tools, adding textures, props, and...

Secret Mission: The Forgotten Island

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

Game released: Mac → 5 September 2010

Steam: 96/100

Secret Mission: The Forgotten Island is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers at Frogwares Game Development Studio. The game is published by...

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 3 December 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game challenges players to guide cubes to exits of matching colors. In Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH, routes are shaped with conveyor belts, warps...

PuppetShow: Mystery of Joyville

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 4 April 2010

Steam: 92/100

This first-person adventure puzzle game takes place in Joyville, where a once-wondrous puppet show fell into disrepair after a great fire. People have been going...

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...

NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 27 September 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This action-platformer with puzzles follows Nyx, a winged girl searching for her missing friend Icarus among the ruins of ancient Greece. Zeus and the other gods of...

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...

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...

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

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

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Steam: 93/100

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...

Sam & Max Episode 202: Moai Better Blues

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: Mac → 19 May 2010

Metacritic: 80/100

This adventure puzzle sends Sam and Max to the tropics, where a surprise trip turns into a work assignment: the pair must stop a massive volcano from erupting. To...

Sam & Max Episode 205: What's New, Beelzebub?

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: Mac → 19 May 2010

Metacritic: 85/100

This adventure episode follows Sam and Max as they face Satan in a corporate version of Hell. On Judgment Day, they must bargain with him for Bosco’s soul, while...

World Mosaics 3: Fairy Tales

Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 7 July 2010

World Mosaics 3: Fairy Tales is a strategy with puzzle elements from developers from the Fugazo Inc. studio. The game is published by Fugazo...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2010 for Mac (Game released)