Puzzle 2008 for PC — top best games in the Puzzle genre

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

Game released: PC → 9 April 2008

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...

Tomb Raider: Underworld

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

Game released: PC → 28 November 2008

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...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Parkour

Game released: PC → 26 March 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Among the scorched sands of Persia, an ancient legend...

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

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

Game released: PC → октябрь 2009

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is a continuation of the dynamic action slasher with a third-person view, which is the third part of The Sands of Time series...

Silent Hill: Homecoming

Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 27 February 2009

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Silent Hill: Homecoming is a survival horror adventure about Alex Shepherd, who returns to his hometown of Shepherd’s Glen to investigate his brother’s...

Alone in the Dark (2008)

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Stealth

Game released: PC → 20 June 2008

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 43/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Alone in the Dark (2008) is a reboot of the legendary horror series, which will continue the story of paranormal investigator Edward...

Penumbra: Overture - Episode 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 29 May 2008

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in unsettling environments that the player explores while uncovering their secrets. Physics-based interactions...

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...

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...

Cold Fear

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

Game released: PC → сентябрь 2008

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This action-horror game with survival elements follows Tom Hansen, a U.S. Coast Guard officer sent to board a drifting Russian whaling ship during a storm in the...

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...

Bejeweled Twist

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

Game released: PC → 27 October 2008

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This match-3 puzzle game is built around forming combinations of gems by rotating them on the board. The Gem Rotator lets players move gems and make matches in...

Still Life

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

Game released: PC → 3 September 2008

Players: 9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Still Life is a detective adventure with quest elements and mini-games about an FBI employee who is investigating a series of bloody murders from the authors of...

Valve Complete Pack

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

Game released: PC → 12 November 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Valve Complete Pack is a collection of various games from the developers at Valve...

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...

A Vampyre Story

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

Game released: PC → 31 May 2008

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This comic adventure follows Mona, a young opera singer kidnapped by vampire Baron Shrowdy von Kiefer and held in a castle in the gloomy land of Draxsylvania. When...

Penumbra: Black Plague

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 26 June 2008

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This first-person adventure horror follows explorer Philip, who is trapped in an underground complex and searches for the truth behind his father's disappearance...

ТехноМагия

Role-playing game, Adventure, Online, MMO, Fantasy / Medieval, Mini-game / browser-based, Match-3 (Three in a row), Dungeons, Puzzle, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 2 February 2022

Players: 4.6/10

Steam: 53/100

TechnoMagic is an adventure browser-based role-playing MMO game in the fantasy genre with match-3 elements. This is a game where you fight by moving stones on the...

Dracula: Origin

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

Game released: PC → 6 August 2008

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This gothic adventure, set in the world of Bram Stoker, follows Professor Van Helsing’s pursuit of Dracula. The vampire is searching for a manuscript describing a...

Lost: Via Domus

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 54/100

This first- and third-person action-adventure follows a passenger who survives the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 on an uncharted island in the Pacific. As the...

Prey 2006

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

Game released: PC → 21 July 2006

Players: 8/10

Prey is an adventure shooter with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will tell the story of a young mechanic, Tommy, from the Cherokee...

Peggle Nights

Arcade, Action, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 16 September 2008

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This arcade puzzle game takes the Peggle Masters into a dream world where they encounter their alter egos. Players aim and launch a ball to clear orange pegs from...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 December 2007

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

Penumbra: Requiem

Action, Adventure, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 August 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 67/100

An expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague, in which Philip faces puzzles and encounters characters from his past. The story follows the previous installments and...

Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

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

Game released: PC → 18 March 2008

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 52/100

A first-person psychological horror adventure in the Lovecraftian tradition follows a murder investigation that draws a police detective into the occult and a world...

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

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

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is an arcade action adventure game with a third-person view, based on the Indiana Jones movies. The game is based on the...

Sinking Island

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

Game released: PC → 2 September 2008

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A detective adventure with puzzles unfolds on Sagorah Island, where American billionaire Walter Jones has died. His death may have been an accident or murder, and...

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...

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game

Game released: PC → 15 October 2008

Players: 7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This fantasy role-playing game combines turn-based battles with match-three puzzles in the Warlords universe, where a hero sets out to save Etheria from Lord Bane...

Legend of Zelda: Fallen Sage

Role-playing game, DLC, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Legend of Zelda

Game released: PC → 11 January 2008

Players: 10/10

The Legend of Zelda: Fallen Sage is a top-down RPG with puzzle and fantasy...

Asterix at the Olympic Games

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

Game released: PC → 30 January 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Asterix at the Olympic Games is a third-person action game with fighting and puzzle elements from the developers from the studio Étranges Libellules S.A.. The...

Jack Keane

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

Game released: PC → 16 October 2008

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Set in colonial England, this point-and-click adventure follows Captain Jack Keane, who accepts a job transporting a British secret agent to a mysterious island...

Dracula: The Last Sanctuary

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

Game released: PC → март 2009

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Dracula: The Last Sanctuary — After rescuing Mina, Jonathan Harker and his lover return to London with the mysterious Dragon Ring. As they begin to enjoy a...

Know How: Think and play outside the box!

Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 30 October 2008

Know How: Think and play outside the box! is a strategy game with puzzle elements from the masters at Bitfield GmbH. The game is published by SevenOne Intermedia...

World of Goo

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 February 2009

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 91/100

World of Goo is a construction puzzle game where you move living Goo balls and use them to build buildings, bridges, and airships to solve various problems as you...

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

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

Game released: PC → 25 October 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows young Edna as she tries to escape from a psychiatric asylum. She wakes in a padded cell with no memory of her...

Luxor: Amun Rising

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 10 June 2008

Steam: 72/100

This top-down arcade puzzle game follows an attempt to save ancient Egypt from the rebellious princes of Megiddo, who plan to overthrow the pharaoh. A sequel to the...

Curse: The Eye of Isis

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 1 April 2009

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Set in 1890, this survival horror adventure begins at a British natural history museum, where a gang of thugs has stolen the Egyptian statue known as the Eye of...

4 Elements

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: PC → 26 November 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 42/100

This fantasy match-3 puzzle follows an ancient kingdom whose four-element magic has been corrupted by evil forces. The player must restore the altars and return...

Penumbra Collection

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Collection, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 7 March 2009

Penumbra Collection is a first-person action game with a mixture of adventure, horror, stealth and puzzle game from Frictional Games. The game's publishers are...

Puzzle

Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2008 for PC (Game released)