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...

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...

Machinarium

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 mysterious region...

Lucidity

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 October 2009

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Lucidity is a puzzle platformer set in the surreal dream world of a young girl named Sofi. As she explores unfamiliar worlds and learns to overcome her fears with...

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...

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

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

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Steam: 93/100

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...

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...

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...

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...

Disney The Princess and the Frog

Arcade, Logic, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 17 November 2009

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 69/100

Disney The Princess and the Frog is an exciting adventure arcade game for children with puzzles and various mini-games, based on the cartoon “The Princess and the...

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...

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...

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...

Lost: Via Domus

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 54/100

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...

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...

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 hero fires...

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters at Lucasfilm Games LLC. The game is...

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...

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...

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...

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 Your Neighbor...

Runaway: A Twist of Fate

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

Game released: PC → 25 March 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This third-person point-and-click adventure follows Brian’s disappearance and his girlfriend Gina’s efforts to find him and disprove the rumors surrounding his...

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...

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 object, like its...

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...

Memento Mori

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 12 February 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Memento Mori — atmospheric point and click adventure. Three valuable paintings were secretly removed from the Hermitage and replaced with elaborate forgeries...

Wallace & Gromit in The Last Resort

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 July 2010

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person adventure puzzle follows Wallace and Gromit as they turn their basement into a beach resort after relentless rain ruins their holiday plans. When...

Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 24 October 2009

Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from Big Fish Games, Inc. The game is published by Big Fish Games, Inc...

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...

Little Shop: World Traveler

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 9 September 2009

Little Shop: World Traveler is a first-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from the masters at GameHouse, Inc.. The game is published by GameHouse...

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2009

Players: 9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This first-person point-and-click adventure follows the search for a crystal skull in New Orleans. Nicknamed the Whisperer, the relic belonged to Bruno Bolet and...

Path

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 December 2009

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This horror adventure set in the modern day draws on older versions of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. Six sisters are sent one at a time through the forest to...

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...

Puzzle

Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2009 for PC (Game released)