Puzzle 2009 for PC — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adult game

Game released: PC → 6 November 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Manhunt 2 is a continuation of the scandalous action game with a third-person view and horror elements. During secret laboratory tests, a fatal mistake occurred...

Machinarium

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Combat robots, Point & Click, Side view

Game released: PC → 27 October 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Machinarium is an amazing quest about the robot Josef, who seeks to return his beloved. The game has mesmerizing hand-drawn graphics and truly mind-bending puzzles...

Syberia

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

Game released: PC → 2 August 2011

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Syberia is a legendary adventure puzzle game with a third-person view. The game tells the story of Kate Walker, a lawyer from New York, who goes on a deal to sell...

Trine

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 8 October 2009

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: PC → 15 May 2011

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...

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

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

Game released: PC → October 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...

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...

Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

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

Game released: PC → 15 July 2009

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...

Cube Escape

Puzzle, Horror, Adventure, Detective, Online, Free game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 9 June 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

A detective named Dale Vandermeer finds himself in a strange room and cannot remember how he got here. He must solve all the puzzles to get free and get his...

Overlord (2007)

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Puzzle, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 13 March 2009

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Overlord is a fantasy action game with a third-person view and strategy elements. You have to try on the role of an evil overlord who, with the help of an army of...

Braid

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

Game released: PC → 15 February 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Braid is a 2D puzzle-platformer with painterly visuals. Setting out from a house in the city, the protagonist travels through a series of worlds to rescue an...

Return to Mysterious Island 2

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: PC → 19 June 2009

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...

Whispered World

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

Game released: PC → 8 October 2010

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This point-and-click fantasy adventure follows Sadwick, who dreams of a mysterious blue sphere and a world collapsing around him. The oracle Shana foretells the end...

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...

Lost: Via Domus

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 52/100

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...

City of Secrets

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 August 2009

Metacritic: 69/100

Set in an underground world of revolution and mystery, this adventure puzzle game follows Rex the dog and Mr. Moles the mole as they try to save Poco Pane and...

Sublustrum

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 December 2009

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 63/100

This first-person adventure puzzle follows a middle-aged writer who receives a strange invitation from a brother he has not seen for years. When he arrives, his...

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...

Drawn: The Painted Tower

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

Game released: PC → 19 January 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

This first-person fantasy adventure follows an attempt to save Iris by exploring the Painted Tower. A curse has locked each floor, and the protagonist must solve...

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

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

Game released: PC → 6 January 2009

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon — a murder has been committed in Paris — the victim was Vernon Blier, an underground hacker. It later turns out that...

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...

Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena

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

Game released: PC → 30 April 2009

Steam: 75/100

This hidden-object adventure follows Samantha Swift, an archaeologist and adventurer searching for the Scepter of Zeus on behalf of the Museum of Lost Secrets. Her...

Tales of Monkey Island

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

Game released: PC → 10 November 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...

I-Fluid

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 June 2009

Players: 8.5/10

I-Fluid is a third-person action game with puzzle elements from developers at ExKee studio. The publisher of the game is Firm «1C», the localizer of...

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

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

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Steam: 93/100

Loom

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

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

This fantasy adventure takes place in the Age of the Great Guilds, where the Weavers have learned to weave the fabric of reality itself. After a strange force...

Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships

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

Game released: PC → 16 April 2010

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This first-person point-and-click adventure follows Nancy Drew as she searches for treasure on remote Dread Isle and tries to rescue her kidnapped friend Bess...

Real Crimes: Jack the Ripper

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 4 December 2009

Real Crimes: Jack the Ripper is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from developers from the Virtual Playground studio. The game is published...

Heroes of Hellas 2: Olympia

Strategy, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 11 December 2009

Heroes of Hellas 2: Olympia is a first-person strategy game with puzzle elements from the developers of Jaibo Games. The game is published by Alawar Entertainment...

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

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

Game released: PC → 17 December 2009

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Riven: The Sequel to Myst is a continuation of the cult adventure series Myst. The events of the game take place in the world of Riven, to which the Wanderer went...

Spirits of Metropolis: Cubed Puzzle Pack

Strategy, DLC, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 13 May 2009

Spirits of Metropolis: Cubed Puzzle Pack is a strategy game with a puzzle twist from Vertigo Games. The game is published by Vertigo...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 August 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while avoiding larger...

Saira

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 12 December 2009

Steam: 80/100

This nonlinear puzzle platformer follows Saira, a photographer who digitally captures dangerous places and animals across the universe. For reasons unknown, she...

Ceville

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2009

Players: 3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This fantasy point-and-click adventure follows Ceville, a former tyrant driven from the palace of Faeryanis after the people rise against him. While Queen Gwendolyn...

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: PC → 20 March 2009

Players: 10/10

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This futuristic puzzle game with role-playing and strategy elements centers on battles to save the galaxy. During combat, players manipulate gems on a hexagonal...

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 10 March 2009

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 58/100

This third-person action platformer sends Duke Nukem to New York City in pursuit of the villain Mech Morphix. Duke fights across skyscraper rooftops and through...

Spirits of Metropolis: Abstract Puzzle Pack

Strategy, DLC, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 April 2009

Spirits of Metropolis: Abstract Puzzle Pack is a strategy game with a puzzle twist from the developers at Vertigo Games. The main publisher of the game is Vertigo...

Under a Killing Moon

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 16 June 2009

Players: 1/10

Steam: 96/100

This detective adventure with elements of a comedy thriller unfolds in a futuristic world in December 2042. Private investigator Tex Murphy must stop evil forces...

Hidden Expedition: Everest

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 September 2009

Steam: 76/100

This first-person adventure puzzle follows a race to the summit of Everest, where a member of the Hidden Expedition Club competes against other groups seeking to...

Insider Tales: Vanished in Rome

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 19 March 2010

Insider Tales: Vanished in Rome is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from INTENIUM GmbH. The main publisher of the game is INTENIUM GmbH. Sometimes the...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2009 for PC