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

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - a game in the Puzzle genre

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...

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: 86/100

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Back to the Future: The Game

Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 22 December 2010

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Back to the Future: The Game is an episodic adventure based on the film trilogy "Back to the Future." Six months after the events of the third part of the movie...

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...

Toki Tori

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Arcade, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 28 January 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

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...

Tidalis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 July 2010

Steam: 68/100

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...

Desktop Dungeons

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 17 October 2010

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Desktop Dungeons is a turn-based puzzle roguelike that sends a hero into fantasy dungeons laid out on a single screen. Each expedition takes place in a randomly...

Cursed Mountain

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: PC → 9 September 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 67/100

This third-person action horror game follows a mountaineer climbing into the Himalayas in the late 1980s to search for his missing brother. An ancient curse has...

Columns

Strategy, In real time, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 13 September 2010

Steam: 76/100

Columns is a puzzle game set in ancient Phoenicia, where colorful jewels fall from the top of the playfield. The player matches three or more jewels of the same...

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...

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...

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut

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

Game released: PC → 25 February 2011

Players: 6/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut - One of the all-time classic adventures, the multiple BAFTA nominated Broken Sword: Director's Cut takes...

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...

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...

Outcast (1999)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 20 April 2010

This science-fiction action-adventure sends former special forces operative Cutter Slade to the parallel world of Adelpha. After an alien life form damages a probe...

Puzzle Chronicles

Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

Game released: PC → 21 April 2010

Players: 9/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This fantasy puzzle RPG follows a quest for revenge against the Ashurin Empire for the atrocities it inflicted on the protagonist’s tribesmen. The hero sets out to...

Hostile Makeover

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 30 April 2010

Hostile Makeover is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers from the Gimagin studio. The main publishers of the game are Lifetime Games and...

PuppetShow: Souls of the Innocent

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 18 June 2010

Steam: 87/100

This adventure and hidden-object puzzle follows the mysterious illness of a young girl who has been asleep for more than two days, leaving local doctors unable to...

Myst Uru Complete Chronicles

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

Game released: PC → 22 January 2010

Steam: 76/100

Myst Uru Complete Chronicles is a first-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from the developers of Cyan Worlds, Inc.. The main publisher of the game is Ubisoft...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 December 2007

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

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...

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...

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...

LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: PC → 18 February 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This LEGO action-adventure platformer with puzzles presents a humorous take on all four Indiana Jones films, including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal...

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...

Hidden Mysteries: Vampire Secrets

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 July 2010

Hidden Mysteries: Vampire Secrets is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from Gunnar Games, Inc., published by GameMill...

Space Quest 1+2+3

Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 July 2010

Space Quest 1+2+3 is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of Sierra On-Line, Inc.. The game is published by Activision...

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...

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...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2010 for PC