Puzzle 2004 for PC — 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: PC → 24 November 2004

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...

Gothic 2

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Gothic

Game released: PC → 29 November 2005

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Gothic 2 is a continuation of the legendary action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The action takes place shortly after the events...

Silent Hill 3

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival

Game released: PC → 8 February 2007

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The game is a direct continuation of the first Silent Hill and tells about the already matured Heather, who finds herself in a heap of incredible events. In an...

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Logic, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival

Game released: PC → 30 September 2004

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Silent Hill 4: The Room is a mystical action-horror game with a third-person view and puzzle elements. The goal of the game is to help the character Henry Townsend...

Black Mirror (2003)

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

Game released: PC → 28 May 2004

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This third-person adventure horror game follows Samuel Gordon, who returns to his family estate after a long absence and investigates the death of his ancestor...

Return to Mysterious Island

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

Game released: PC → 18 January 2008

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Return to Mysterious Island is an adventure with elements of quests and mini-games about a young traveler who sailed alone around the world. The game will tell the...

Syberia 2

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

Game released: PC → 29 August 2008

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Syberia 2 is a continuation of the exciting point and click adventure with a third-person view. The game will continue the story of Kate Walker, who went on a...

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Slasher

Game released: PC → 19 July 2007

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person fantasy action-adventure follows two vampires: Kain, an all-powerful demigod, and Raziel, a demonic angel of death. They travel through a world...

Gish

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 20 July 2007

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-adventure game with puzzle elements follows Gish, a ball of tar who ventures into the subterranean sewers of the forgotten city of Dross to rescue his...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 26 June 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — the game is very similar to its predecessors, such as the Philosopher's Stone and Know Wonder's Chamber of...

Space Rangers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 10 November 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Space Rangers — the game takes place in space, in the distant future, at the beginning of the 31st century. The galaxy is inhabited by 5 intelligent...

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 2004

Steam: 86/100

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! is a continuation of the exciting "point and click" adventure series about the forty-year-old balding womanizer Larry Laffer. The...

Bejeweled 2

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

Game released: PC → 5 November 2004

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This match-three puzzle game features four ways to play. Puzzle mode challenges players to solve handcrafted brain teasers against the clock, while Endless mode...

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 28 February 2005

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay — a bounty hunter named Jones brings Riddick, the main character of the game, to the maximum security prison...

Beyond Good & Evil

Action, Shooter, Fighting, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 May 2008

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This science-fiction action adventure takes place on Hyllis, a planet under siege by an alien race. Young reporter Jade becomes involved with the rebel organization...

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

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

Game released: PC → 14 February 2007

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person survival horror adventure follows supernatural detective Edward Carnby as he investigates a murder on Shadow Island. After his friend Charles...

Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 29 November 2007

Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox is a top-down arcade game with action and puzzle elements from the masters of the Digital Eel studio. The game is published by...

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Gothic

Game released: PC → 2 August 2007

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This gothic fantasy action-adventure with puzzle elements continues the story of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. Raziel pursues Kain through different eras of...

Ghost Master

Strategy, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Isometric, Comedy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 21 December 2006

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This strategy game with adventure and resource-management elements puts ghosts and other supernatural beings under the player’s command, sending them to frighten...

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2003)

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 13 November 2003

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 45/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This third-person adventure with puzzles follows Ariane, a photojournalist who is caught in a rockslide while working in Iceland and ends up in a world beneath the...

I-Ninja

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

Game released: PC → 14 January 2005

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

I-Ninja — The game begins with a ninja in training (whose name is simply Ninja) sneaking into the enemy camp to save his sensei (who is simply called Sensei...

Feeding Frenzy

Action, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 17 March 2004

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade action game puts the player in control of a fish that hunts smaller sea creatures and evades larger ones. The more it eats, the bigger it grows...

Myst 4: Revelation

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 March 2005

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Myst IV: Revelation is a first-person adventure puzzle game about family secrets and a plot involving two of Myst’s most sinister villains. The player explores...

Как достать соседа 2: Адские каникулы

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 28 March 2006

Players: 7.4/10

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Action, Puzzle, Adventure, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 10 November 2004

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 66/100

This action-adventure game with puzzles follows Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, whose parents die in a fire. The orphans are sent to live with their sinister...

Egyptian Prophecy

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

Game released: PC → март 2009

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This first-person point-and-click adventure is set in ancient Egypt, where Maya, a young magician, investigates strange incidents at a construction site on the...

Settlers 3: Ultimate Collection

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Collection, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 April 2004

Settlers 3: Ultimate Collection is a third-person strategy game with a dash of business simulator and puzzle game from the developers at Blue Byte Software GmbH...

Project Eden

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 23 June 2008

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

This futuristic action shooter with puzzle elements follows an investigation into an equipment malfunction at the Real Meat factory. The player controls a...

Masters of Sound

Adventure, Music game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 1 May 2004

Masters of Sound is a third-person adventure with a mix of music game and puzzle...

Dark Fall: The Journal

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

Game released: PC → 19 June 2002

Players: 1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place at the abandoned Dowerton station in Dorset, England. After receiving a frightened, cryptic message from his...

Messiah

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Cyberpunk, Adventure, Strategy

Game released: PC → 31 March 2000

Steam: 59/100

This futuristic cyberpunk action game follows Bob, an angel sent by God to cleanse the world of the future and find Satan. His defining ability is to possess...

Atlantis Evolution

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 12 February 2009

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 54/100

This first-person adventure puzzle game takes place in 1904. On his way to New York, young adventurer and photographer Curtis Quick is caught in a vortex and...

Knight Rider 2: The Game

Shooter, Racing, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 3 June 2005

Knight Rider 2: The Game is a third-person shooter with a mixture of racing and puzzles from developers from the studios Davilex Games B.V. and Media Design Group...

Lemmings X-Mas

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 1 January 2004

Lemmings X-Mas is a third-person strategy game with puzzle elements from the developers of Psygnosis Limited. The game is published by Dice Multi Media Europe...

Mysterious Journey 2: Chameleon

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 26 March 2004

Metacritic: 62/100

A first-person adventure puzzle set in a futuristic world where a devastating war has destroyed an entire race. The protagonist believes they are the sole survivor...

Wanted: A Wild Western Adventure

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 3 October 2004

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Set in the Wild West, this third-person adventure follows Fenimore Fillmore as he helps a group of farmers stand up to Starek, a powerful rancher who considers them...

Astropop

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 30 March 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A space-themed puzzle game in which the player uses a powerful magnet to move blocks and match those of the same color. The blocks descend toward the spaceship and...

Battle of Words

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Top-down view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 6 February 2004

Battle of Words is a top-down strategy game with a dash of warship simulator and puzzle game from the developers at Xdyne, Inc.. The game's main publisher is Xdyne...

Case of the Crabs!

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 1 April 2004

Case of the Crabs! is a third-person action-adventure with a twist of puzzle from the developers at Pinhead Games. The game is published by Pinhead Games. Case of...

Crystal Key

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 23 April 2004

Crystal Key is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers from the studio Earthlight Productions Inc.. The game is published by DreamCatcher...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2004 for PC