Best Puzzle games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our puzzle game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify puzzle games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best puzzle games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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hocus

perspective illusion puzzle based on M.C. Escher drawings and impossible shapes

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Nov 2015

Cinderella Escape! R12

Cinderella is locked in the dungeon. What happened to her? Can she escape the dungeon? Cinderella needs your help!

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Nov 2015

Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2

Imagination is the key, as you enter a magical storybook full of mystery and wonder, unusual creatures, and enigmatic puzzles! Create your own original Stickman and then watch it come to life in DRAW A STICKMAN: EPIC 2! Jump in to this action-packed adventure that allows for endless creativity!

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Nov 2015

The Odyssey: Winds of Athena

As the Greek Goddess Athena, control the wind, seas, and air to guide the hero Odysseus home from the Trojan Wars. The incredibly realistic water current simulation will amaze and challenge you, as you use your powers to protect the Hero's fleet.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Nov 2015

Mini Metro

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Nov 2015

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition

The ultimate DARKSIDERS II experience! 1080p native resolution. Reworked and tuned game balancing and loot distribution. Improved Graphic Render Engine for even higher visual quality, lighting and shadows. Improved and reworked level, character and environment graphics.

Price -82% 5.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Nov 2015

The Secret Order 2: Masked Intent

Become the wayfarer through the past to force back the evil power!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Nov 2015

Dungeon Warfare

Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Nov 2015

The Last NightMary - A Lenda do Cabeça de Cuia

Escape through maze forest searching for a shelter, because the cursed beast is after you ... And if there was a chance to reverse the curse, would you run away or would you try to find answers? It is better think fast, because the monster is in a hurry, the beast is starved.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Nov 2015

Colortone

Your way to freedom only involves your intelligence and the puzzles!

Price 3.29€
Rating 6.7
Release 29 Oct 2015

Bulb Boy

One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Oct 2015

Albert and Otto

Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.

Price 4.60€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Oct 2015

Zoombinis

In the entertaining and educational game Zoombinis, players guide the little blue creatures through fun and increasingly challenging puzzles on their way to a new home.

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Oct 2015

A Wolf in Autumn

A one-armed young girl finds herself locked in a shed in the middle of an idyllic autumn forest, with threats both physical and immaterial drawing closer.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Oct 2015

Dracula's Legacy

Haunted by frightening dreams about her forgotten past, Isabella, along with her fiancé, were able to decipher one clue from the depths of her memory that leads them to an old ghost town.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Oct 2015

Message Quest

Message Quest is a tiny stained-glass point-n-click adventure about laziness and her herald. Imagine yourself as the main hero’s conscience, the one that must make him work when all he wants to do is sleep.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Oct 2015

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

Price -86% 0.69€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Oct 2015

Toby: The Secret Mine

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

Price 8.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Oct 2015

Twinsen's Little Big Adventure Classic

Twinsen's Little Big Adventure is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1994. Equipped with your Magicball, you will have to face the evil Dr. Funfrock to save your girlfriend and the world of Twinsun.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Oct 2015

Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic

Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1997. After saving the world from the evilish Doctor Funfrock, Twinsen is now ready to face a new threat coming from outer space.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Oct 2015

FreeCell Quest

FreeCell Quest is an RPG Free Cell game. You've never played Free Cell like this before! Explore 533 cities while collecting cards, gold, levels, armor, and spells on your epic quest of card sorting! Think quickly before the cards strike and drain your precious health. A new twist on a classic game!

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Oct 2015

Human Resource Machine

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015

Spooky Bonus

Uncover dark forces emanating from the heart of Old Town, and grab spooky accessories for your front yard makeover, too! You’ll be spellbound by this adorably ghoulish horror-themed puzzle game.

Price -73% 2.66€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Oct 2015

Mushroom 11

An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Oct 2015

Paint it Back

Use logic as your paintbrush to restore lost works of pixel art. Try the demo!

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 14 Oct 2015

Goosebumps: The Game

The walk home from school today is going to be a lot spookier than usual… Your sleepy neighborhood’s been overrun by monsters! Werewolves prowl the woods, Gnomes roam underfoot, and scarecrows walk at midnight. But these aren’t ordinary monsters—they’re R.L.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Oct 2015

The Secret of Tremendous Corporation

Explore the deepest SECRETs™ of the Tremendous Corporation®. Find out what happened to indie devs and save the gaming industry!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Oct 2015

Legend of Mysteria RPG

An exciting JRPG by the writer of Labyronia. As tensions grow between factions of mages, you are framed for the murder of a demigod. Solve the mystery behind his assassination or risk a war that could send the world into chaos for millenia.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Oct 2015

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!

Price -43% 8.37€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Oct 2015

Fairy Tale Mysteries 2: The Beanstalk

Vanquish the last giant!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Oct 2015

The Beginner's Guide

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Oct 2015

Expand

Expand is a meditative video game in which you explore a circular labyrinth that constantly twists, stretches and expands around you.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Sep 2015

Nevermind

Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Sep 2015

Enigmoon

Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Sep 2015

Doodle God

Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Sep 2015

Lost Lands: A Hidden Object Adventure

Persecuted by ill fate, the elven nation land on a lost island. They'll need sharp blades as well as sharp minds to survive. An exciting hidden-object adventure game which tells the story of an ancient elven tribe forced to survive on a long-lost island.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Sep 2015

Missing Translation

Lost in a weird city in the middle of the desert and surrounded by strange creatures that keep staring at you. This is a game about exploring the unknown and solving puzzles... lots of them! Don't be fooled by the looks, this isn't a point & click adventure.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Sep 2015

Concrete Jungle

Concrete Jungle is a city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Sep 2015

SOMA

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Sep 2015

Train Valley

Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Sep 2015

Dropsy

Dropsy is a non-traditional take on the classic point and click adventure formula starring the game’s perpetually carefree namesake clown as he explores a richly detailed world full of colorful characters and sinister secrets, doling out hugs along the way.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Sep 2015

Queen's Quest: Tower of Darkness

Defeat the sorcerer and save your daughter!

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 10 Sep 2015

Leo’s Fortune - HD Edition

An award-winning platform adventure game where you hunt down the cunning thief who stole his gold. Beautifully hand-crafted levels bring the story of Leo to life, offering a journey full of challenges. Revisit this classic adventure as it celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Sep 2015

DungeonUp

A challenging rogue-like puzzler inspired by the classic Tower of the Sorcerer. Play as a human knight who fights his way out of a deep dungeon by slaying monsters and solving intricate puzzles.

Price -84% 0.63€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Sep 2015

Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Sep 2015

STASIS

STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

Price -80% 1.54€
Rating 7.9
Release 31 Aug 2015

Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

THIS IS AN OLD VERSION, THE GAME HAS BEEN REMADE. You can still play the original freeware version here, but the remake can be found on Steam as "Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake-".

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Aug 2015

Tinboy

Tinboy is a puzzle-platformer, with a massive difficulty level.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 31 Aug 2015