Puzzle 2017 for PC — top best games in the Puzzle genre

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

Game released: PC → 20 April 2017

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 45/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Syberia 3 is a continuation of the legendary adventures of Kate Walker. The nomadic Yukul tribe finds Kate Walker left for dead on the shores of the icy sea. During...

Little Nightmares

Adventure, Horror, Side view, Platformer, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 April 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A dark tale in which the main character Six must find a way out of an underwater vessel filled with creepy creatures. The inhabitants of the in-game world also...

Shift Happens

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 22 February 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Shift Happens is a side-scrolling co-op arcade action platformer. The game tells the story of two jelly-like creatures named Bizmo and Plom. After the accident...

Gorogoa

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 December 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gorogoa is a quirky puzzle adventure with beautiful, hand-drawn worlds. To complete the game, you need to move windows with worlds around the screen, placing them...

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School

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

Game released: PC → 22 August 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 67/100

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game tell the story of schoolchildren who find...

Black Mirror

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 28 November 2017

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Black Mirror (2017) — point and click horror adventure with puzzle elements. Since childhood, our hero, David, has been tormented by nightmares and visions...

Bendy and the Ink Machine

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

Game released: PC → 27 April 2017

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic adventure with horror elements and a first-person perspective. Visually, the game is made in the style of the first...

Detention

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 12 January 2017

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Detention is an indie puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. At Greenwood High School, located in a remote mountainous area, two students are trapped...

Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game

Isometric, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 16 June 2017

Steam: 88/100

This isometric puzzle game takes place on a grid and features 50 levels. The goal is to turn every blue tile red, then reach the exit tile. The levels grow more...

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Adventure, Horror, Collection, Puzzle, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 25 March 2017

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games — an adventure collection that includes Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. You can...

Pepper's Puzzles

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 August 2017

Steam: 95/100

Pepper's Puzzles is a collection of logic puzzles in the nonogram format, also known as Picross or Griddlers. Players fill in cells according to numerical clues to...

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...

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Text quest, Indie, Casual game, Detective

Game released: PC → 21 September 2017

Steam: 91/100

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story is an unusual adventure for mobile platforms. The game is based on the gameplay where all the events take place on someone's phone...

Talos Principle VR

First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Virtual Reality (VR), Adventure

Game released: PC → 17 October 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Talos Principle VR is a special version of a spatial puzzle game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. In an unknown place...

L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files

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

Game released: PC → 14 November 2017

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 82/100

L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is a detective adventure with lots of puzzles and a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in the...

Bridge Constructor Portal

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Simulation, Strategy

Game released: PC → 20 December 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Bridge Constructor Portal is a driving crossover of the Bridge Constructor and Portal series. You will play the role of a new employee of the Aperture Science...

Death Squared

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 March 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Death Squared is an arcade puzzle game from the developers of SMG Studio. The game has a cooperative mode in which you can solve various problems together with...

Darkest Hunters

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Strategy, Adventure

Game released: PC → 27 September 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 51/100

Darkest Hunters — top-down arcade puzzle game in the genre of "three in a row" in a fantasy setting. Having chosen a hero, you have to fight bloodthirsty...

The House of Da Vinci

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Historical, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 24 November 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Atmospheric adventure puzzle game inspired by The Room series. The player takes on the role of an apprentice to the great Leonardo da Vinci and goes in search of...

Maniac Mansion

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

Game released: PC → 18 December 2017

Steam: 87/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows Dave and his friends as they try to rescue Sandy from Dr. Fred’s mansion before he begins an experiment on her...

Simulacra

Adventure, Puzzle, Horror, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 26 October 2017

Players: 9/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Simulacra is an unusual detective puzzle game for mobile platforms. You have found a phone belonging to a missing girl named Anna. In it you see a video of Anna...

Dear Esther

Adventure, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 26 April 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Dear Esther is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The main character is a man staying on an island in the Hebrides archipelago. The island is...

Old Man's Journey

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 May 2017

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Old Man's Journey is a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer adventure that puts you in the role of the titular old man as he travels to various locations and reminisces...

Faerie Solitaire Remastered

Card game, Puzzle, Board / Group Game

Game released: PC → 22 December 2017

Steam: 84/100

This solitaire card puzzle is about restoring the population of magical Avalon and raising a faerie pet. Faerie Solitaire Remastered is an updated version of Faerie...

Supermagical

Puzzle, Match-3 (Three in a row), Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 11 August 2017

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle adventure follows Nina, a young witch whose world has been invaded by magic-loving Minix and her evil witch sisters. To stop them, she uses her magic...

Little Nightmares - The Hideaway

Adventure, Horror, DLC, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 10 November 2017

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Little Nightmares — The Hideaway is an add-on for the side-scrolling horror adventure Little Nightmares. The add-on tells an alternative story to the...

Ticket to Ride: First Journey

Arcade, Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Board / Group Game

Game released: PC → 27 September 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 67/100

Ticket to Ride: First Journey — arcade strategy with puzzle elements. Start your journey now and get tickets and get directions on the map. Each ticket will...

Cosmic Express

Puzzle, Trains, Space

Game released: PC → 16 March 2017

Steam: 90/100

This puzzle game centers on a railway colony in space, where tracks must be laid across small stations. Each alien has a home to reach, while the passenger car can...

Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work

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

Game released: PC → 18 December 2017

Steam: 59/100

Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work is a continuation of a series of exciting point and click adventures about forty-year-old...

True or False 2

Trivia, Comedy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 January 2017

Steam: 86/100

A quiz with elements of humor and puzzle-solving, True or False 2 challenges players to decide which statements are true and which are false. Some unusual claims...

We Were Here

Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 3 February 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 89/100

An atmospheric co-op adventure where two strangers find themselves separated by the walls of an ancient castle amidst the Antarctic ice. One is trapped in a...

Pinstripe

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

Game released: PC → 24 April 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Pinstripe is an atmospheric side-scrolling exploration adventure from developer Coma and Skinny. The events of the game take place in Hell, where the main character...

Vaporum

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Puzzle, Steampunk, Dungeons

Game released: PC → 28 September 2017

Players: 6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Vaporum is a hardcore action RPG with a first-person view in a steampunk style, inspired by the classic games Eye of Beholder and Dangeon Master from 1983. A...

Mainlining

Simulation, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 January 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 73/100

After MI7 is hacked, the player investigates a cyber-criminal network with the goal of bringing its members to justice. Mainlining is a hacking adventure played...

Legend of the Skyfish

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 24 February 2017

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An adventure game that combines puzzles and combat in a large handcrafted world. Players explore 45 levels with hand-painted art, solve puzzles, and battle unusual...

Crow's Eye

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

Game released: PC → 20 March 2017

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Crow's Eye is an adventure horror game with a first-person view and lots of puzzles. You will have to use all your intelligence to get out of the abandoned...

Snake Pass

Arcade, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Simulation, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 28 March 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Snake Pass is a third-person arcade puzzle game with a fantasy setting. When a mysterious villain threatens the heroes' peaceful lives, Noodle the snake and Doodle...

Little Nightmares - Secrets of The Maw

Adventure, Horror, DLC, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 7 June 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Little Nightmares — Secrets of The Maw is an add-on for an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. You have to look at the events of the...

Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Anime / Manga, Horror

Game released: PC → 11 April 2017

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight is an adventure arcade game with a side view. A girl named Rose and a mysterious Giant are trying to escape from a castle...

Super Puzzle Galaxy

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game, Simulation, Strategy

Game released: PC → 12 December 2017

Steam: 40/100

Super Puzzle Galaxy is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting for the HTC Vive virtual reality devices. Jump over dangerous obstacles...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2017 for PC (Game released)