Puzzle 2021 for PC — top best games in the Puzzle genre

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Survival, Comedy, Space

Early Access: PC → 13 September 2018; Game released: PC → 25 February 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Breathedge is a science fiction adventure action game with a first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of an ordinary guy and his pet who...

Inscryption

Card game, Horror, Roguelike, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 19 October 2021

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Inscryption is a first-person card puzzle horror game from the creator of Pony Island. In the game, you will find yourself in the cabin of Leshy, from which you...

In Sound Mind

Action, Shooter, Puzzle, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 28 September 2021

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

In Sound Mind is a psychological horror game with a first-person view. You wake up in the corridors of a strange building, where the environment takes on a life of...

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

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

Game released: PC → 16 November 2021

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 74/100

An adventure detective story about the legendary Sherlock Holmes from the creators of The Sinking City. The game tells the story of the famous detective's earlier...

Tetris Effect

Arcade, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 18 August 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Tetris Effect — a classic arcade puzzle game for PlayStation VR virtual reality devices from the creators of Rez. The game is dedicated to the "Tetris syndrome...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Unpacking

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Unpacking is a meditative arcade puzzle game with an isometric camera view, where you can relive the familiar experience of taking items out of boxes and putting...

Oddworld: Soulstorm

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 6 April 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a continuation of the arcade platformer with a side view, where we will once again play as Abe the Mudokon. The events of the game will...

Hoa

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

Game released: PC → 24 August 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Hoa is an indie platformer with a side view and elements of the puzzle. You are waiting for breathtaking drawings, hand -drawn, excellent music and a pacifying...

Faraday Protocol

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

Game released: PC → 12 August 2021

Players: 1/10

Faraday Protocol is a first-person action-puzzle adventure set in a retro-futuristic style where you take on the role of an alien archaeologist who ends up in a...

Time Loader

Adventure, Platformer, Arcade, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 3 November 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Time Loader is the adventure of a little robot who goes back in time to change the tragic events that forever changed the fate of his creator. All your actions will...

Clan O'Conall and the Crown of the Stag

Adventure, Side view, Platformer, Action, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 28 April 2021

Clan O'Conall and the Crown of the Stag is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer with puzzle elements in a fantasy setting. The Mother of Demons, Kaoranach...

Lamentum

Adult game, Adventure, Action, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 August 2021

Players: 8/10

Lamentum is a dark side-scrolling action adventure game set in New England in the mid-19th century. The game tells the story of a young aristocrat named Victor. He...

Escape Simulator

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure

Game released: PC → 19 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Escape Simulator is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. Alone or together with a friend, you can go explore mysterious rooms in which many riddles...

Operation: Tango

Adventure, Online, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → 1 June 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 72/100

An espionage-themed action-adventure game in which two players undertake dangerous missions around the world. One player becomes an agent, and the second a hacker...

TOEM

Arcade, Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 September 2021

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 79/100

A black-and-white adventure about travel, memories, and seeing the world through a camera lens. Everything is built around observation and the moment—each frame...

Bonkies

Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle, Side view, Futurism (Future)

Early Access: PC → 10 September 2018; Game released: PC → 29 January 2021

Metacritic: 76/100

Bonkies is a fun side-scrolling co-op arcade puzzle game in a sci-fi setting, designed for up to 4 people to play together. Each player takes control of a highly...

Myst

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

Game released: PC → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Myst is a remake of the cult game from 1993 called Myst (1993). The game is a graphic adventure where you will find yourself on a mysterious island, facing...

Paradise Lost

Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 24 March 2021

Players: 6/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Paradise Lost is a first-person action-puzzle adventure that takes you to an alternate history where World War II did not end in 1945. After 20 years of military...

Retro Machina

Role-playing game, Indie, Isometric, Action, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 12 May 2021

Retro Machina is an action-adventure game with role-playing elements and an isometric camera view. In a world long devastated, the last city remains. Protected by a...

Machinika: Museum

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

Game released: PC → 24 March 2021

Players: 7.9/10

An adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. In this game you have to solve tricky problems and open locked doors. In the distant future, technical...

Webbed

Side view, Arcade, Puzzle, Platformer

Game released: PC → 9 September 2021

Players: 9.3/10

A game about a spider who goes on an exciting journey to save her lover from a bird. The main character can use the web to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles...

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Horror, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 18 March 2021

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is an indie horror adventure in the style of a visual novel with fantasy elements. Building on the horrifying legacy of the Weeping...

Out of Line

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 23 June 2021

Metacritic: 70/100

Out of Line is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer set in a fantasy setting. An exciting journey awaits you, filled with mesmerizing puzzles and a vibrant...

LEGO Builder's Journey

Arcade, Puzzle, Isometric

Game released: PC → 22 June 2021

Metacritic: 78/100

LEGO Builder's Journey is a lyrical puzzle game set in an amazing world. You will go on a journey with a father and his child, where they will have to assemble...

Balan Wonderworld

Puzzle, Arcade, Indie, Platformer, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Action

Game released: PC → 26 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 43/100

Balan Wonderworld is an arcade action-platformer with puzzle and adventure elements in an anime style and a third-person view. Led by a mysterious maestro named...

Alchemist Adventure

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 10 June 2021

Alchemist Adventure is an isometric action adventure game set in the abandoned region of Isur. Once upon a time, famous master alchemists lived here, but now only...

Behind the Frame: Живые полотна

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Puzzle, Logic, First-person view

Game released: PC → 25 August 2021

Metacritic: 73/100

Behind the Frame: Living Canvases is an adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre with a first-person view. This is a vibrant piece of interactive fiction...

The Whisperer

Puzzle, Walking Simulator, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 16 December 2021

The main character explores an abandoned trading post and its surroundings to unravel a terrible mystery. The two winterers who inhabited it disappeared. The game...

Haven Park

Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 August 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 68/100

A bright game about a chick named Flint. He arranges his grandmother's park and helps visiting tourists. You will have to communicate a lot with various quirky...

Weaving Tides

Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Weaving Tides is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. In the game you will go to conquer the wonderful world of...

PICO PARK

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

Game released: PC → 7 May 2021

Players: 6/10

PICO PARK is a fun multiplayer puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. In the game you need to collect all the keys in the level and get to the...

Recompile

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

Game released: PC → 19 August 2021

Metacritic: 61/100

Recompile is a fast-paced third-person action platformer set in a sci-fi setting that takes you into a digital world filled with bosses, logical puzzles and...

Deepest Sword

Free game, Platformer, Side view, Puzzle, Indie, Action, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 9 June 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Deepest Sword is a free, addictive side-scrolling puzzle platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game tells the story of a knight who goes to a dragon to pierce it...

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

Side view, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 15 April 2021

Metacritic: 84/100

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a point and click adventure puzzle game with a side view. Twin Lakes is a damn town. Damned enough to pay attention...

Maquette

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view

Game released: PC → 2 March 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Maquette is a recursive puzzle game with a first-person view. The main feature of the game world is that all buildings, plants and other objects are both tiny and...

S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored

Action, Horror, Puzzle, First-person view

Game released: PC → 26 April 2021

S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a sci-fi horror puzzle game set in the Chernobyl zone. The plot begins in the first few months after the disaster at the S.W.A.N...

Seed of Life

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 11 August 2021

Metacritic: 58/100

Seed of Life is an adventure puzzle platformer with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place on the amazing planet Lumia, whose...

Speed Mazing

Top-down view, Arcade, Puzzle, Online

Game released: PC → 21 October 2021

A quick team game for 2-4 people. Characters race through labyrinths, avoid traps and activate various mechanisms. Each of the hundreds of maps is divided into five...

Biphase

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Free game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 30 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Biphase is a free-to-play side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer. In the game you control a character with bipolar disorder, who must struggle with himself and...

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2021 for PC