Best Puzzle Games — page 2
Our best-reviewed puzzle games, ranked by score, each with a one-line verdict.
- Reviewed
- 120
- Average score
- 8.2
- Top score
- 8.5
- Free
- 3
Scores for this page’s rows
- 25MekoramaMekorama is a smart, generous pocket puzzler that earns its recommendation: tiny rotating dioramas, honest physics, and a level editor that stretches ...8.5Great
- 26Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle CollectionForty logic games, infinite algorithmically-generated puzzles, zero ads, zero tracking, zero dollars. It looks like a spreadsheet and plays like a dee...8.5Great
- 27Keep Talking and Nobody ExplodesAn ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...8.5Great
- 28The Last DoorA striking exercise in psychological restraint that proves imagination is a far more terrifying rendering engine than any high-definition GPU. Strongl...8.4Great
- 297 Billion HumansA brutal, hilarious, and intellectually demanding expansion on parallel processing that turns the drudgery of office work into a sharp lesson in logic...8.4Great
- 30Paper TrailPaper Trail turns spatial reasoning into a tactile delight, and its folding mechanic is a genuinely fresh idea in the puzzle genre — held back from a ...8.4Great
- 31Return to Monkey IslandReturn to Monkey Island is a carefully crafted point-and-click adventure that respects its lineage while confidently forging a new path, even with i...8.4Great
- 32HopliteTwelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains a benchmark-free but genuinely excellent take on turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars b...8.3Great
- 33RailboundRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...8.3Great
- 34Cosmic ExpressCosmic Express hides a brutally challenging, beautifully constructed logical puzzle under an adorable low-poly coat of paint. It is a sharp, uncomprom...8.3Great
- 35MachinariumMachinarium is a beautifully crafted point-and-click adventure whose hand-drawn world and wordless storytelling still hold up remarkably well. It earn...8.3Great
- 36The Room: Old SinsThe Room: Old Sins refines the series' puzzle-box formula with impressive precision, delivering an engrossing, beautiful, and deeply tactile adventure...8.3Great
- 37Human: Fall FlatA physics-puzzler that turns clumsy controls and open-ended levels into a reliable engine for emergent comedy, especially in co-op. It earns a clear r...8.3Great
- 38Rusty Lake: RootsRusty Lake: Roots is the rare puzzle game that uses its puzzles as narrative grammar rather than filler, telling a generational horror story without a...8.2Great
- 39DetentionRed Candle Games turns Taiwan's White Terror into a quietly devastating horror game built on meaning rather than monsters. It's short, mechanically si...8.2Great
- 40Monument Valley 2Monument Valley 2 builds on its predecessor by weaving a poignant, human story into its impossible architecture, creating an experience that is less a...8.2Great
- 41Pipe Push ParadiseFew recent puzzle games do as much with as little as Pipe Push Paradise. It builds a whole island of demanding puzzles from a few simple rules and nev...8.1Great
- 42HoledownA ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is a satisfying premium puzzle game—short ...8.1Great
- 43EnigmboxEnigmbox is a rare specimen of mobile software that actually understands the physical hardware it lives on, transforming the smartphone from a passive...8.1Great
- 44Bridge Constructor PortalThis unlikely crossover succeeds not as a gimmick, but as a genuinely clever and demanding physics-puzzler that weaponizes Portal's mechanics to creat...8.1Great
- 45PrunePrune is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...8.0Great
- 46SpellTowerSpellTower rewards restraint over vocabulary, and its chain-clear rule remains one of the sharpest single mechanics in mobile puzzle design — but the ...7.9Good
- 47Thimbleweed ParkRon Gilbert and Gary Winnick built a time machine, and it works. Thimbleweed Park is a sharp, well-produced classic point-and-click adventure — provid...7.9Good
- 48PilgrimsPilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...7.9Good
