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

Walking Dead: Season 1 - a game in the Puzzle genre

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie, Zombies, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Walking Dead: Season 1 is an episodic third-person interactive adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics. The main character is a black guy named...

Deponia

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 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...

Botanicula

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Arcade, Casual game, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 8 May 2012

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Botanicula is an adventure arcade puzzle game with a third-person view. In this game you will find a relaxing atmosphere, a huge number of detailed locations that...

Tomb Raider: Underworld

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

Game released: Mac → 14 June 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Tomb Raider: Underworld is a third-person adventure action game in which Lara Croft explores ancient and uncharted locations concealing mysteries of the underworld...

To the Moon

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Bad Piggies

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Mac → 27 September 2012

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Bad Piggies is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. The bad pigs are hunting for eggs again — but, as usual, nothing goes according to plan. You have to...

Cut the Rope

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2012

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 93/100

Cut the Rope is a physics-based puzzle game about Om Nom, a creature inside a mysterious package who wants candy. The player cuts ropes to guide the sweet to him...

Journey Down: Chapter One

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

Game released: Mac → 18 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...

Legend of Grimrock

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

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

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2012

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...

Stacking

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

Azkend 2: The World Beneath

Strategy, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Mac → 14 March 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This match-three adventure puzzle takes place in an underground world, where the protagonist makes a journey back towards civilization. Inspired by the works of...

Snapshot

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

Game released: Mac → 7 November 2012

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...

Kairo

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Beyond Oasis

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Triple Town

Arcade, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 6 December 2012

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Triple Town is an arcade puzzle game with strategy elements. Your task is to collect plants, houses, etc. into groups. Moreover, the system is multi-level: when...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Virus Named Tom

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 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...

Critter Crunch

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

Game released: Mac → 11 September 2012

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A puzzle game built around a food chain in which creatures feed on one another until they burst. Single-player modes include Adventure and Puzzle, while multiplayer...

Unmechanical

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Blackwell Deception

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Cross Formula

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2012

Cross Formula is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of KatGames. The main publisher of the game is...

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

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

Game released: Mac → 8 May 2012

Steam: 86/100

This first-person point-and-click adventure sends Nancy Drew into an ancient Egyptian tomb, where a university archaeology team has been left isolated after a...

Adventures of Shuggy

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Mari0

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 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...

The Dream Machine

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

Game released: Mac → 11 May 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Dream Machine is a plasticine point and click adventure with horror elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a certain Victor Neff, who one day...

Blackwell Convergence

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Blackwell Legacy

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

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

Offspring Fling!

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

Game released: Mac → 11 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Offspring Fling! is a puzzle-platformer about a forest creature who has lost all her children and sets out to bring them home. She makes her way through more than...

Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 - Jedi Outcast (Collector's Edition)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Star Wars, Science fiction, Online

Game released: Mac → 14 May 2012

Steam: 90/100

This science-fiction action game set in the Star Wars universe follows Kyle Katarn, an agent of the New Republic fighting a new threat to the galaxy. Combat...

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 26 July 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...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

But to Paint a Universe

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 18 September 2012

Steam: 40/100

This puzzle game follows a little girl trying to restore a sky broken by an evil monster. Its story unfolds as a storybook narrative set in an atmospheric world...

Spirit of Wandering: The Legend

Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 17 May 2012

Spirit of Wandering: The Legend is an adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of Artogon Games. The game is published by GameHouse, Inc.. Sometimes the...

Lone Survivor

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

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Basement Collection

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 31 August 2012

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

This collection of indie games by Edmund McMillen brings together projects across several genres, from an exploration adventure to platformers, puzzles, and...

Princess Case: A Royal Scoop

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 January 2012

Princess Case: A Royal Scoop is a puzzle game with indie game elements from the developers of the studio Anuman Interactive. The game is published by...

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