Puzzle 2010 for PC — top best games in the Puzzle genre

New Beginning - a game in the Puzzle genre

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Comics, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 December 2012

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This graphic-novel-style adventure thriller follows a looming climate catastrophe that threatens humanity with extinction. Former bioengineer Bent Svensson lives in...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival horror, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 September 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game will tell the story of Daniel, who wakes up in a deserted...

Darksiders

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Slasher

Game released: PC → 27 April 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Set in a demon-ravaged post-apocalyptic world, this third-person action game follows War, the first Horseman of the Apocalypse, who is accused of bringing about the...

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 September 2010

Players: 6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A cooperative isometric action platformer set in the Tomb Raider universe. Players once again take on the role of legendary tomb raider Lara Croft, this time...

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

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

Game released: PC → 8 June 2010

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is an atmospheric action adventure game with a third-person view in the Prince of Persia universe. The main character goes to...

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...

Worms 2: Armageddon

Strategy, Puzzle, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PC → 26 August 2010

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Worms 2: Armageddon is a special edition of the tactical strategy Worms 2 for consoles and mobile devices. The game will tell about the famous and “unsinkable...

Gray Matter

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

Game released: PC → 25 February 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This gothic mystery adventure follows neurobiologist David Styles, who has become a recluse at Dread Hill House after a tragic accident. Street magician Samantha...

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

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

Game released: PC → 15 June 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This LEGO-style adventure platformer follows the first four Harry Potter stories, from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament. Players can take control of Harry...

Twisted Lands: Shadow Town

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 21 October 2010

Players: 8.8/10

Twisted Lands: Shadow Town — adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in the horror genre. Welcome to the City of Shadows. There are beaches, but you...

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...

Lost Horizon

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

Game released: PC → 24 September 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Lost Horizon is an adventure puzzle game with a third-person view. The year is 1936, soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world in search of occult weapons for...

Real MYST

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

Game released: PC → 12 January 2010

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 88/100

This first-person puzzle adventure takes place on the mysterious island of Myst, where the player investigates the surroundings and seeks to uncover an old...

The Sims 3: Ambitions

Simulation, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 2 June 2010

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An expansion for The Sims 3 that adds new careers and lets players direct Sims’ actions while they are at work. A Sim can become a firefighter, private...

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...

Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 20 November 2010

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 66/100

This third-person adventure puzzle follows an investigation into the murder of a famous actress on a tropical island. Hercule Poirot arrives just as a holiday that...

Bejeweled 3

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

Game released: PC → 7 December 2010

Players: 4.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This match-three puzzle game centers on making combinations of gems across eight modes. In Classic, new gems fall into place after matches, allowing further...

The Dream Machine

Adventure, Horror, Side view, Point & Click, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 14 December 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Dream Machine is a plasticine point and click adventure with horror elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a certain Victor Neff, who one day...

Island: Castaway

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 30 September 2010

Players: 8.8/10

Island: Castaway - After being shipwrecked, your main goal is to survive, although getting off the island would be great too. But first, you have to rise up and...

Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects

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

Game released: PC → 21 April 2010

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 87/100

This casual hidden-object puzzle follows an investigation into the theft of the Queen’s Hope Diamond. The player searches illustrated locations for clues, works to...

Jolly Rover

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

Game released: PC → 7 June 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This comedic point-and-click adventure follows Gaius James Rover, a dog who sets out for tropical islands in the pirate-filled Caribbean. The son of a famous clown...

Bob Came in Pieces

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

Game released: PC → 22 January 2010

Steam: 69/100

This physics-based puzzle adventure follows Bob, whose ship has crashed on a strange planet. To get back to work, he searches for scattered ship parts and...

Space Rangers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 10 November 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Space Rangers — the game takes place in space, in the distant future, at the beginning of the 31st century. The galaxy is inhabited by 5 intelligent...

CID the Dummy

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 January 2010

Metacritic: 31/100

This action platformer with puzzles follows CID, a crash test dummy who receives an important mission in a world obsessed with safety. He must battle a dangerous...

Haunted Manor: Lord of Mirrors

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

Game released: PC → 10 April 2010

Steam: 90/100

This puzzle horror adventure follows Stan Riddle, who has been trapped in the Haunted Manor by the Lord of Mirrors. The player searches for objects and solves...

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat (Collector's Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 10 September 2010

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat (Collector's Edition) is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror and puzzles from the studio ERS G- Studio. The...

Nick Chase and the Deadly Diamond

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 August 2010

Nick Chase and the Deadly Diamond is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of Gestalt games. The game is published by Big Fish Games...

Max & the Magic Marker

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 February 2010

Metacritic: 73/100

A platform puzzle about Max, who discovers a magic marker that brings anything he draws to life. When the monster he has drawn becomes real, Max must find and catch...

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2011

Steam: 98/100

This comedy adventure with puzzles follows Sam & Max as their investigation begins after Max finds a mysterious toy that lets him glimpse the future. Soon...

Shrek Forever After: The Video Game

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 June 2010

Metacritic: 60/100

A third-person action-adventure set in the Shrek universe, where characters move between Shrek’s normal world and an alternate reality. Players explore a variety of...

Million Dollar Quest

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 26 January 2010

Players: 10/10

Million Dollar Quest is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters of NevoSoft and Positive Games. The game is published by NevoSoft. Million...

Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery

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

Game released: PC → 23 February 2010

Steam: 92/100

This point-and-click adventure follows an investigation into a series of mutilation murders believed to have been committed by werewolves. Gabriel Knight and his...

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

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

Game released: PC → 9 April 2010

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in an abandoned railway station and hotel where the past intrudes on the present and ghosts linger in the...

Puzzle Quest 2

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

Game released: PC → 12 August 2010

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Puzzle Quest 2 is a strategy role-playing game with puzzle elements and an isometric view. Each character has five main attributes. Strength (red) increases a...

DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This action RPG follows DeathSpank on a comic adventure across war-torn battlefields, mountain ranges and dangerous seas. He hunts for the magical Thongs of Virtue...

Myst Uru Complete Chronicles

Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 22 January 2010

Steam: 76/100

This first-person adventure puzzle game follows the discovery of the lost D’ni civilization in the world of Myst. The player follows Yeesha, daughter of Atrus...

Knightfall: Death and Taxes

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

Game released: PC → 23 September 2010

Knightfall: Death and Taxes is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of action, strategy, puzzle and fantasy from the masters at Megadev. The game is...

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...

UnderGarden

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

Game released: PC → 10 November 2010

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This casual puzzle game follows an exploration of underground caverns inhabited by strange life forms. Across 20 levels, players solve physics-based puzzles and...

Ecco the Dolphin

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: PC → 1 June 2010

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This action-adventure with puzzles follows Ecco, a dolphin searching for his family after a strange whirlpool sweeps them from their home bay. He explores a vast...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2010 for PC