Puzzle 2024 for Mac — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 25 June 2024

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Remake of the original 1997 quest Riven: The Sequel to Myst . The remake features modern graphics and controls. The events of the game take place in the world of...

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Adventure, Side view, Comedy, Exploration, Platformer, Puzzle, Open world

Game released: Mac → 1 August 2024

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

An absurd comedy game set in the quaint town of Barnsworth. The main character works as a traveling salesman, and in his free time he goes sightseeing and gets to...

Braid Anniversary Edition

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Action

Game released: Mac → 14 May 2024

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Anniversary Edition of Braid. The creators invited the original game's artist, David Hellman, to help update the visual style. But the changes aren't limited to...

TerraScape

City Building, Strategy, Construction, Medieval era, Isometric, Business / Management, Puzzle, Board / Group Game

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 86/100

At the beginning of the game, the gamer receives a deck of cards with various buildings and capabilities, from which he creates a city. You also need to complete...

Fear the Spotlight

Adventure, Survival horror, Third-person view, Stealth, Exploration, Action, Old school, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 22 October 2024

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The main character Vivian, together with her friend Amy, decides to have a seance at Sunnyside School, but the situation gets out of control. Vivian finds herself...

The Operator

Detective, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 22 July 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A detective simulator made in the format of an interactive quest. The player acts as an operative of a detective agency, searching for evidence and solving crimes...

The Rise of the Golden Idol

Adventure, Puzzle, Exploration, Detective

Game released: Mac → 13 November 2024

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The story is about a hunter for a powerful artifact, which, according to legend, can change the world. The game takes place in the 70s, where the gamer investigates...

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

Top-down view, Puzzle, Adventure, Role-playing game, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 25 July 2024

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The story follows Gemma, a small-town misfit on a journey of self-discovery. Together with the heroine’s movements, the rest of the world moves too. You will also...

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

Adventure, Puzzle, Detective, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 23 May 2024

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The main character is a duck detective who uses his abilities to solve a complicated case. You need to look for clues at crime scenes, collect information and talk...

Снусмумрик: Мелодия Муми-дола

Adventure, Music game, Puzzle, Side view, Open world, Hidden Objects, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 7 March 2024

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A musical adventure about restoring harmony and balance in Moominvalley. Snufkin restores the valley and helps the quirky characters who call it home. Cops must be...

Murders on the Yangtze River

Adventure, Puzzle, Detective

Game released: Mac → 30 January 2024

Steam: 96/100

A detective game in the style of the Ace Attorney series, set in early 20th-century China. The protagonist's brother has been murdered, and the crime resembles a...

Quilts and Cats of Calico

Online, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 5 March 2024

Steam: 93/100

A game in which you need to make a patchwork quilt from pieces of fabric with a pattern. You need to combine colors and patterns to score points for the finished...

3 Minutes to Midnight

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

Game released: Mac → 22 August 2024

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The game takes place in Mexico, where the peace of people is disturbed by a huge explosion. At this moment, Betty Anderson wakes up and needs to regain her memory...

Mindlock - The Apartment

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Comedy, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 26 November 2024

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 95/100

One morning Colin wakes up and notices that the door to his apartment is missing and he cannot go to work. He later finds a mysterious message in the bathroom and a...

Republic of Jungle

Simulation, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Replayability

Game released: Mac → 8 February 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 100/100

Cooperative social game, in which from 5 to 10 people manage the presidential advisers. Part solves the problem and settles scandals, while others drain secret...

Ogu and the Secret Forest

Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle, Top-down view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 29 July 2024

Steam: 94/100

The player explores a colorful world with hand-drawn characters, where he solves many puzzles. During the journey, he can meet different creatures that need help...

Aurora Hills: Chapter 1

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

Game released: Mac → 20 April 2024

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

The first part of a series of puzzles. The town of Aurora Hills once prospered thanks to its resources, but people began to disappear and many local residents fled...

Sunset Hills

Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Role-playing game, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 21 August 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 61/100

The game takes place in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. After the army, the main character named Niko became a writer and went on a train journey. In...

Tiny Connections

Puzzle, Logic, Isometric, Casual game, Simulation, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 11 April 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

The player will connect houses with infrastructure on the map. There should be enough water and electricity for everyone. Buildings and important structures are...

SCHiM

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Indie, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 18 July 2024

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

An unusual 3D platformer in which the player controls an entity that resembles a shadow. This is the soul, which in the game is called Shim. One day she is somehow...

ISOLAND4: The Anchor of Memory

Adventure, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 10 January 2024

Players: 7/10

Steam: 85/100

An unusual game that pays tribute to literature, painting and music, in which the gamer travels through mysterious island locations and solves complex puzzles. The...

NAIAD

Arcade, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 10 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

A relaxing adventure with minimalistic graphics. The main character, named Naiad, floats down a mysterious river and interacts with animals and plants to get to the...

Follow the meaning

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 22 November 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

The game takes place in a small town with a mysterious hospital. The locals fear her increasing control, so Detective Paul Trilby takes on the case to get to the...

Threes!

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row), Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 6 February 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 92/100

A minimalist and colorful puzzle where simple rules give birth to unexpected depth. On the playing field, you need to connect tiles with numbers to create ever...

Hamster Playground

Casual game, Puzzle, Platformer, Construction, Comedy, Simulation, Online, Racing

Game released: Mac → 11 July 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

A game about hamsters with multiplayer support. Pets train and compete, and are also tested by traversing a maze and riding a skateboard. It is important to develop...

Kingsgrave

Top-down view, Puzzle, Action, Metroidvania, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 17 April 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 80/100

The main character is a king who rises from the dead to protect his kingdom from monsters. The character helps residents reclaim their homes, obtains resources and...

Aarik And The Ruined Kingdom

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Puzzle, Exploration, Casual game, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 20 June 2024

Steam: 84/100

The main character goes on a dangerous journey to find his mother. The character uses the crown of his father with four damned stones to solve puzzles. You can...

Recolit

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Space, Trains

Game released: Mac → 16 February 2024

Steam: 87/100

A pixel adventure set in an unusual dark city, where the main character's spaceship crashes. Meanwhile, the locals seem to ignore the problem of the lack of light...

Harold Halibut

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 16 April 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

The events of the game take place on a large spaceship, which, after two hundred years of its journey, has managed to turn into a real retro-utopia. But after a...

Long Live Caesar

Indie, Role-playing game, Tactics, Historical, Roguelike, Side view, Puzzle, Detective, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 16 December 2024

Steam: 78/100

A step -by -step role -playing strategy with elements of a crogue in which the fate of the Roman Empire depends on the decisions of one person. Playing for Guy...

Please, Touch The Artwork 2

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Comedy, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: Mac → 19 February 2024

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A relaxing game in which you have to look for objects in paintings. A gamer helps a lost skeletal artist find his way home in a surreal, hand-drawn universe. This...

Teeny Tiny Trains

Logic, Puzzle, Top-down view, Trains, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 28 June 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 100/100

The player is creating his own miniature railway empire. You need to place tracks on the playing field, connecting them so that tiny trains can travel from one...

Карнавал Иллюзий

Free game, Adventure, Role-playing game, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 12 July 2024

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Adventure role-playing game about a creepy amusement park. The magnificent amusement park of Confettia is plagued and riddled with anomalies seeking to devour the...

Great God Grove

Adventure, Puzzle, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 15 November 2024

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The gods must save the world from the apocalypse once again, but the main organizer—the god of communication—has disappeared. The character, playing as a postman...

Miniatures

Visual novel, Casual game, Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle, Hidden Objects

Game released: Mac → 14 November 2024

Steam: 90/100

A collection of four graphic adventures about childhood. The player follows the story and interacts with certain objects. The stories merge imagination and reality...

7Groves

Adventure, Casual game, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 1 June 2024

Steam: 67/100

A relaxing game in which the gamer leisurely strolls through beautiful and surreal forests that look like paintings come to life. Along the way, you can collect...

Cascadia

Tactics, Board / Group Game, Puzzle, Top-down view, Educational game (Education), Cooperative (co-op), Strategy

Early Access: Mac → 31 October 2024; Game released: Mac → 20 February 2025

Steam: 98/100

A relaxing game where you have to lay tiles to create the perfect ecosystem. There are story and cooperative modes. The tiles can have different habitats, and the...

20 Small Mazes

Free game, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie, Logic

Game released: Mac → 16 February 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 98/100

Minimalistic puzzle with 20 labyrinths. Some levels require knowledge of...

Storm the Swan

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Casual game, Comedy, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 31 October 2024

Steam: 98/100

A game made in the spirit of retro Gameboy adventures. The main character moves to a cute village inhabited by animal characters. You can explore locations and...

Hidden in My Paradise

Casual game, Hidden Objects, Indie, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Mac → 10 October 2024

Steam: 90/100

The main character is an aspiring photographer named Lali, who travels through picturesque places with the fairy Coronia. The girl completes tasks and collects...

Puzzle

Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2024 for Mac