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Puzzle games. In this category solving puzzles is the main purpose of gameplay. These titles usually don’t have any story or have it in a very simple form. Playing requires good perception and skills of logical thinking, strategic planning and recognizing schemes. more

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The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle

Puzzle 31 August 2018

A unique first-person puzzle game developed by the Croatian Croteam studio, the creators of the Serious Sam series. Our character wakes up in a world filled with ancient ruins and advanced technology, where he finds 120 puzzles prepared by a creator, employing various laws of physics and different mechanics. We travel across the game’s world nonlinearly, choosing our own path and completing the tasks presented to us, which consist of e.g.

The Talos Principle 2
The Talos Principle 2

Puzzle 02 November 2023

The Talos Principle 2 is a first-person puzzle game, in which we explore a megastructure in a robot-inhabited world. The game features many clever puzzles and an extensive, philosophical story.

A Little to the Left
A Little to the Left

Puzzle 15 February 2024

A relaxing puzzle game aimed towards players fond of organizing space. A Little to the Left has us sorting items to keep them ordered - the actual order is up to us.

Balatro
Balatro

Puzzle 20 February 2024

A roguelike card game loosely based on the poker rules. Balatro has us participate in solo card duels, gradually unlocking new card decks and joker cards with unique abilities and effects. The game offers a story campaign, as well as various single challenges.

The Witness
The Witness

Puzzle 13 September 2016

A first-person adventure game with logic puzzles, developed by the creator of Braid – Jonathan Blow and his independent studio Number None. The game takes you to a large, mysterious island, whose all inhabitants vanished without a trace. Gameplay has you explore this vast world, solve logic puzzles, and search for clues that will help you solve the mysteries of this place. Game mechanics resemble the cult Myst series.

The Turing Test
The Turing Test

Puzzle 30 August 2016

A sci-fi FPP logic puzzle game by Bulkhead Interactive, a studio founded by the creators of Pneuma: Breath of Life. The story takes place an unspecified number of years in the future, when scientists discover a seemingly harmless alien life form on Jupiter's moons. You play as an astronaut named Ava Turing, whose task is to examine the new species, and who ends up finding more than she expected. The Turing Test is a part of the FPP logic puzzle genre, popularized by the Portal series.

Q.U.B.E. 2
Q.U.B.E. 2

Puzzle 13 March 2018

Q.U.B.E. 2 is a logic game, in which players observe the action from the first-person perspective. The game resembling the Portal series was developed by the Welsh Toxic Games and is based on Unreal Engine 4 created by Epic.

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game

Puzzle 04 December 2018

A stand-alone version of collective card game (CCG) that debuted in the bestselling RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, by CD Project RED, and quickly became acknowledged as one of the best minigames in history. In Gwent: The Witcher Card Game players compete against each other with progressively collected decks of cards from five different factions. As in most CCG, the gameplay is turn-based, but quite unusually, the player’s objective is to gather more attack points than opponent.

Neighbours back From Hell
Neighbours back From Hell

Puzzle 08 October 2020

Neighbours back From Hell is a set of improved versions of two funny puzzle games from the early 20th century. The package was developed by Farbworks studio. In both games our main goal is to make neighbours' lives miserable.

Paper Trail
Paper Trail

Puzzle 21 May 2024

Paper Trail is a puzzle game with a world made of double-sided pieces of paper. The protagonist, freshman Paige, has the power to fold them in such a way as to create a path for herself to places inaccessible to others.

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip
We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip

Puzzle 14 September 2023

The fifth game in the puzzle-adventure series We Were Here. We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip has us playing as two sailors, ending up in an abandoned amusement park on a deserted island while following a distress call.

Please Fix the Road
Please Fix the Road

Puzzle 15 May 2024

Please Fix the Road is a puzzle game developed by one Polish developer, Ariel Jurkowski. Our task is to create a road from A to B, using a given set of tools to manipulate the terrain.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution

Puzzle 24 March 2020

Extended edition of Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, prepared for the Nintendo Switch console. The title offers all the additional content issued for the original edition and adds more than two thousand cards. In addition, it introduces the latest rules of the paper card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, including a completely new type of monster cards.

Death Squared
Death Squared

Puzzle 14 March 2017

An online logic game focusing on tight cooperation between the participants, created by the Australian SMG Studio. The players assume the roles of sympathetic, cubic robots whose goal is to reach the platforms bearing the same color as their body.

Chime Sharp
Chime Sharp

Puzzle 24 February 2017

An upgraded version of Chime – a well-received mix of a logic and a rhythm game released in 2010. The new edition does not differ much from its predecessor – we are given a grid that is gradually filled with player-inserted blocks creating quads – rectangle and square shaped fields that are at least 3x3 in size. Completed figures unlock the further parts of the music track that accompany our actions.

I, Zombie
I, Zombie

Puzzle 31 August 2016

Logical-arcade game, produced by Polish studio Awesome Games. The player directs the actions of the living corpse, and his task is to turn the people he meets into zombies and avoid being killed by soldiers. The production is characterized by simplicity of gameplay mechanisms and 2D cartoon visuals.

Tennis in the Face
Tennis in the Face

Puzzle 09 December 2016

Two-dimensional logic-arcade game, reminiscent of the popular Angry Birds series. Players take on the role of a tennis player who fights against a company producing an addictive carbonated drink. The hero uses tennis balls to eliminate his opponents, bouncing off various surfaces many times over.

Shift Quantum
Shift Quantum

Puzzle 29 May 2018

A two-dimensional logic/platform game from the makers of Epistory. The game is based on a web browser application entitled Shift. During the course of the game, the players have to shift between two dimensions in order to solve a series of logic puzzles.

101 Ways to Die
101 Ways to Die

Puzzle 18 March 2016

A brutal, although humorous, logic platformer game by Four Door Lemon, an independent British studio. We assume the role of an assistant of the mad professor Splattunfuder’s, who at the end of his career decided to create an unusual guide that describes 101 ways of dying. As a result of unfortunate events, the initial version of his “work” was destroyed, and our task is to help the scientist recreate it with the use of hordes of creatures called Splatts, which were bred solely for this purpose.

Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered
Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered

Puzzle 08 April 2016

A remastered edition of the 2014 game Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey for PC and mobile devices, developed by Bacon Bandit Games. Gameplay-wise the new version doesn't differ from the original. You play as two friendly grim reapers, who, instead of escorting souls into the afterlife, fight monsters and ghosts. The production features a specific turn-based combat system, in which you put together words, like in the popular Scrabble game.

Tetrobot and Co.
Tetrobot and Co.

Puzzle 16 March 2016

Platform puzzle game, produced by independent studio Swing Swing Swing Submarine. Driven by a micro robot named Dogs, players have to repair the components of the title Tetrobot. The game offers more than 50 levels of varying degrees of difficulty.

Boggle
Boggle

Puzzle 04 August 2015

A virtual edition of a popular American word game from the early 70s, developed by Frima Studios and Ubisoft. The game reuses the most popular rules known from its board game predecessor. The players have to create as many words as possible from a random set of sixteen letters, which are written on the wall of a set of dice placed on a special 4x4 grid. Each round lasts only 3 minutes, with every participant trying to create as many correct words as possible in that time.

Mystery Castle
Mystery Castle

Puzzle 06 May 2016

A tongue-in-cheek action game with logic puzzle elements, developed by English studio Runestone Games, and a combination of five separate episodes, released under the same title for mobile platforms. In Mystery Castle you play as a wizard called Monty, who is tasked with protecting the eponymous five castles from the forces of evil. Every stage of the game features slightly different objectives and fulfilling them gains you crystals, which are used to proceed to the next stage.

Sparkle Unleashed
Sparkle Unleashed

Puzzle 03 June 2015

The next installment of arcade logic games. In the opinion of players is to match up colored crystals, whose rope moves on the screen. The title offers a total of more than 108 levels, several gameplay modes and 18 power-ups.