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...

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. Taking the role of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 everywhere. Our...

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...

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

This puzzle adventure based on the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade follows Indiana Jones as he searches for the Holy Grail and his missing father. After...

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...

Egyptian Prophecy

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

Game released: PC → March 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...

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 solves picture...

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...

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...

Emerald City Confidential

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

Game released: PC → 13 August 2009

Steam: 94/100

Set in the Emerald City of Oz, this detective adventure follows Petra, a private investigator drawn into a case involving magic and conspiracy. Her investigation...

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 Earth’s...

Mishap: An Accidental Haunting

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 December 2009

Mishap: An Accidental Haunting is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from Virtual Prophecy Entertainment. The game is published by Namco Networks America...

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...

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 increments to get past...

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...

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...

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.. The game is...

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...

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...

SoloWords

Strategy, Educational game (Education), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 1 December 2009

SoloWords is a strategy game with a mixture of educational game and puzzle from IQ Foundry LLC. The main publisher of the game is IQ Foundry...

Flock!

Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 7 April 2009

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Flock! is a sandbox puzzle game in which players pilot a UFO across colorful pastoral landscapes, herding animals toward a collection ship. The herd must reach its...

Flux Family Secrets: The Ripple Effect

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

Game released: PC → 11 April 2009

Players: 10/10

Flux Family Secrets: The Ripple Effect is a first-person adventure with educational game and puzzle elements from Skunk Studios, LLC. The game's primary publisher...

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...

Curse of the Pharaoh: Tears of Sekhmet

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 13 October 2009

Curse of the Pharaoh: Tears of Sekhmet is a first-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from the developers of Ph03nix New Media. The main publisher of the game is...

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...

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...

Fatale

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Adult game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 November 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 57/100

Fatale is a frantic first-person puzzle adventure from the creators of The Path. The game is based on the legend of Salome, who demanded the head of John the...

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 2009 for PC (Game released)