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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

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

Game released: PC → 30 June 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) — in the game you can freely travel throughout all the lands of Hogwarts and cast spells on any...

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...

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...

Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Steam: 89/100

This point-and-click hidden-object adventure follows the mysteries of Ravenhearst Manor, whose history has been surrounded by rumors for decades...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 43/100

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...

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...

Neighbours from Hell Compilation

Arcade, Collection, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: PC → 9 June 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Neighbors from Hell Compilation is a collection of side-scrolling arcade puzzle games that includes: Getting Your Neighbor: Sweet Revenge and Getting...

Zuma's Revenge

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

Game released: PC → 15 September 2009

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This overhead puzzle-action game sends a fearless frog to an island ruled by evil spirits and tiki bosses. To stop the advancing stream of balls, the...

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...

Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral

Adventure, Educational game (Education), First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic

Game released: PC → 6 November 2009

Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral is a first-person adventure with a mix of educational game, puzzle game and fantasy game from Textfyre, Inc...

Hidden Object Show

Action, Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 19 March 2009

Players: 10/10

Hidden Object Show is an action game with strategy and puzzle elements from developers from the Gogii Games studio. The game is published by...

Mystery Case Files: Huntsville

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → March 2009

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 85/100

A casual puzzle game about investigating crimes by searching for hidden objects and clues. The player examines unusual crime scenes, finds items, and...

Adventure: Collector's Edition (Volume 1)

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 23 April 2009

Adventure: Collector's Edition (Volume 1) is a first-person adventure with horror, stealth and puzzle elements from Frictional Games and Nucleosys...

Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition

Adventure, Educational game (Education), First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 10 December 2009

Steam: 70/100

This adventure puzzle with educational elements takes place in a whimsical world reached through a manhole, following Mr. Rabbit. His friends and...

AmerZone: The Explorer's Legacy (1998)

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

Game released: PC → 1 April 2009

Steam: 80/100

This first-person adventure puzzle follows a young reporter who visits elderly explorer Alexandre Valembois and learns about his expedition to the...

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...

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...

And Yet It Moves

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

Game released: PC → 2 April 2009

Players: 5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle-platformer takes place in a world made of torn paper, where the character runs, jumps and rotates the surroundings in 90-degree...

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...

Ankh: Battle of the Gods

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

Game released: PC → 16 June 2009

Steam: 72/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles centers on a struggle among the Egyptian gods for supremacy. Assil and his girlfriend Thara try to stop...

Twin Sector

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

Game released: PC → 5 December 2009

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 39/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This first-person action-adventure with puzzles is set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the remnants of humanity lie in cryogenic chambers beneath...

Spooky Spirits

Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 February 2009

Spooky Spirits is a strategy with puzzle elements from developers from the studio Legendo Entertainment AB. The main publisher of the game is Legendo...

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 29 October 2009

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis — Point and Click quest with puzzle elements. The world is in crisis. The elements and devastation are raging...

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...

Hidden Expedition: Titanic

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Steam: 91/100

This hidden-object adventure and puzzle game follows a member of the Hidden Expedition Adventure League exploring the wreck of the RMS Titanic, which...

Puzzle Kingdoms

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

Game released: PC → 16 April 2009

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 64/100

A turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements, set in the fantasy world of Etheria, where the player builds an army to save the realm from...

Hidden in Time: Mirror Mirror

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 19 April 2009

Hidden in Time: Mirror Mirror is a first-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from developers Monkey Barrel Games. The game is published by Big...

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...

7 Wonders: Treasures of Seven

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

Game released: PC → March 2009

Steam: 85/100

This casual match-three puzzle game centers on building nine historical wonders and uncovering a hidden city. In each round, the player matches runes...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2009 for PC