Puzzle 2016 for PC — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Human Fall Flat - a game in the Puzzle genre

Third-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 22 July 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Human: Fall Flat is an arcade puzzle game in a large open world with a third-person view. You'll be able to explore the environment and solve physics puzzles to...

35MM

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Walking Simulator, Survival horror, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 28 May 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 57/100

35MM is a post-apocalyptic adventure with a first-person view from domestic developer Sergei Noskov. The game takes place in Russia, where a mysterious epidemic has...

Lara Croft GO

Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Turn-based, Logic, Tactics, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 December 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Lara Croft GO is a turn-based tactical puzzle game with an isometric camera view about everyone's favorite tomb raider. The game continues the traditions of Hitman...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Point & Click, Puzzle, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

Ori and The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is an expanded edition of the indie adventure platformer. The game tells the story of a little guardian spirit named...

Unravel

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Unravel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure with various puzzles. The platformer will tell the story of a knitted man — Yarny, who stretches like a ball with...

The Witness

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Exploration

Game released: PC → 26 January 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The Witness is an arcade adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The action takes place on an island full of mysteries. The island is an open world where...

Rusty Lake Hotel

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

Game released: PC → 29 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Rusty Lake Hotel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure game with horror elements inspired by the cult TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. The plot centers on...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

Alone in the Dark (1992)

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

Game released: PC → 13 December 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Alone in the Dark (1992) — action-horror with a third-person view and puzzle elements. Suspicious suicide. A terrible curse. Evil force. Finally, an evil dark...

Haydee

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

Game released: PC → 26 September 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 84/100

Haydee is a hardcore action puzzle game with a third-person perspective. In this game you control Gyde, a half-woman, half-robot, in search of a way out of a...

Song of the Deep

Arcade, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: PC → 12 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Song of the Deep is a side-scrolling arcade adventure. The setting was a sunken city that hides many secrets and mysteries and where the main character’s father was...

Last Goddess

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game canceled: PC → 29 October 2016

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

Last Goddess is a cooperative adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. When a Tampa Bay University professor goes missing, a government agent, a doctoral...

SHENZHEN I/O

Simulation, Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Logic

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

SHENZHEN I/O is a programmer simulator with elements of an educational game. You have to get a job in a large Chinese company and develop software code for...

OneShot

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 December 2016; Early Access: PC → 30 June 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This surreal top-down puzzle adventure follows a child travelling through a mysterious world in an attempt to restore its long-dead sun. In OneShot, the world is...

SUPERHOT VR

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 5 December 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

SUPERHOT VR is a special version of the game for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. You will find an innovative control scheme that...

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

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

Game released: PC → 27 May 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is an action-adventure game with a third-person view. In the game you will find five cases that Sherlock Holmes and his famous...

Pac-Man 256

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

Game released: PC → 21 June 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Pac-Man 256 is a continuation of the popular top-down arcade game starring Pac-Man. The game is made in an unusual style: the main character is followed by a wave...

The Turing Test

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

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The Turing Test is a sci-fi action puzzle game with a first-person view. You will be transported to one of the largest moons of Jupiter — Europa. In the role...

Little King's Story

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

Game released: PC → 5 August 2016

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This real-time fantasy strategy game follows a timid boy who finds a magical crown and becomes ruler of the kingdom of Alpoko. With Liam, Verde, and Howser the Bull...

True Fear: Forsaken Souls

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 19 October 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 92/100

True Fear: Forsaken Souls is a mystical point and click adventure with horror elements and a lot of puzzles. The events of the game take place in an old house that...

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Simulation

Game released: PC → 27 October 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a first-person puzzle adventure game based on George Orwell's novel 1984. You have to take on the role of Big Brother and monitor...

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Detective

Game released: PC → 18 April 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This detective visual novel follows a school trip to the abandoned Jabberwock Island, where Monokuma restarts a deadly game. Students from Hope’s Peak Academy must...

Back in 1995

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PC → 28 April 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Back in 1995 is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view, stylized as games from the 1990s. You will find poor controls, character models and...

Event[0]

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Exploration, Science fiction, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 14 September 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Event[0] is a sci-fi adventure with a first-person view. The game takes place on a deserted ship that drifts in deep space. The only interlocutor present on the...

Flame in the Flood

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Survival

Game released: PC → 24 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Flame in the Flood is a survival adventure game in which the player will wander through procedurally generated levels, exploring the slums of the United States...

Alone in the Dark 2

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

Game released: PC → 13 December 2016

Steam: 71/100

Alone in the Dark 2 is a third-person action game with a touch of horror and puzzle from the studio Infogrames Europe SA. The game is published by Infogrames Europe...

Pony Island

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Demons

Game released: PC → 4 January 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Pony Island is a logic puzzle game from the developers of Daniel Mullins Games. The story is that the devil locks the player in an arcade, and in order to get out...

Hue

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders

Adventure, Third-person view, Hidden Objects, Puzzle, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 4 February 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders — a point-and-click adventure based on the detective novels of Agatha Christie. Players will take on the role of the...

ICARUS.1

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

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Steam: 69/100

Icarus.1 - adventure puzzle with a first -person view. The once popular ICARUS 1 station for the storage and study of ore mined on various planets, for unknown...

Lumo

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Isometric

Game released: PC → 24 May 2016

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Lumo is an isometric platform adventure built around exploring rooms, each presenting a self-contained challenge. It draws on platformers from the 1980s and early...

Resident Evil: Origins Collection

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

Game released: PC → 22 January 2016

Resident Evil: Origins Collection is a special edition that contains re-releases of two legendary games in the Resident Evil series. You can expect updated versions...

House of 1000 Doors: Serpent Flame

Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

House of 1000 Doors: Serpent Flame is an arcade adventure hidden object game. As a young girl, Kate, you will explore a gloomy mansion and try to save the world...

Tricky Towers

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Side view, Online, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 August 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Tricky Towers is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game inspired by the popular Tetris. As in the original game, you have to build a tower from familiar figures and...

Space Rangers: Quest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Science fiction, Space

Game released: PC → 5 September 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 55/100

Space Rangers: Quest is a sci-fi text adventure with role-playing elements in the Space Rangers universe. You will have to investigate the nature of a new threat...

Attractio

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

Game released: PC → 19 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 40/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Attractio is a puzzle game with action elements and a first-person view. The game will tell the story of three characters who participate in a futuristic reality...

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 29 June 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma is the third game in the Zero Escape series, taking place between 999 and Virtue's Last Reward. Like its predecessors, the game...

Secrets of Magic: The Book of Spells

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view, Horror, Match-3 (Three in a row), Logic, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 October 2016

Steam: 92/100

Secrets of Magic: The Book of Spells is a Halloween-themed arcade match-3 puzzle game. You have to help the aspiring sorceress Victoria master the art of magic and...

I and Me

Indie, Action, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 May 2016

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 60/100

I and Me is a puzzle-platformer in which the player controls two cats at the same time. The game poses questions about how someone might view themselves from an...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2016 for PC