Best Puzzle Games — page 3
Our best-reviewed puzzle games, ranked by score, each with a one-line verdict.
- Reviewed
- 120
- Average score
- 7.7
- Top score
- 7.9
- Free
- 3
Scores for this page’s rows
- 49A Good Snowman is Hard to BuildDraknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. It's a solid, well-craft...7.9Good
- 50FramedLoveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a striking, brief puzzle game that's easy to admire and...7.9Good
- 51MoncageMoncage is a cleverly conceived puzzle box that delivers genuinely satisfying 'aha!' moments, even when its central mechanic turns opaque. Solid but u...7.9Good
- 52Twofold Inc.Twofold Inc. takes the familiar color-matching puzzle and turns it into a game about planning ahead — no timers, no ads, no filler. It is a smart $3.9...7.8Good
- 53Hitman GOSquare Enix Montréal took a sprawling stealth-action series, kept only its logic, and ended up with a smart, distinctive puzzle game. It's short, and ...7.8Good
- 54Dungeons of DreadrockA one-man love letter to 1980s dungeon crawlers that stands out in a crowded genre — 100 handcrafted puzzle rooms built on a single ruthless principle...7.8Good
- 55TimelieUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...7.8Good
- 56Good SudokuZach Gage and Jack Schlesinger took the most solved-out puzzle in human history and fixed everything around it, building a sudoku app that actually te...7.8Good
- 57Lara Croft GOLara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and keeps most of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, and while the difficu...7.8Good
- 58Really Bad ChessZach Gage takes a sledgehammer to chess's most sacred convention — balanced armies — and produces a genuinely accessible, replayable take on the game....7.8Good
- 59Nubby's Number FactoryA gleefully deranged marriage of physics toy and roguelike math-engine, Nubby's Number Factory turns bouncing a ball off pegs into a compulsive buil...7.8Good
- 60Train Valley 2Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...7.8Good
- 61World of Goo 2Sixteen years after the original, World of Goo 2 returns with its physics-based charm intact, expanding the formula with clever new mechanics. It's a ...7.8Good
- 62Underground BlossomUnderground Blossom is a solid, approachable entry in Rusty Lake's catalog. Seven self-contained puzzle rooms linked by a haunted metro line make for ...7.7Good
- 63Rusty Lake ParadiseSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...7.7Good
- 64WordleRestraint is still Wordle's defining trait, and The New York Times has mostly had the sense not to touch the puzzle itself. The app around it is a sub...7.7Good
- 65Jelly no PuzzleQrostar's 2013 freeware puzzle design survives its Android port with the rules untouched and the presentation showing every one of its years. If you w...7.7Good
- 66Yuppie PsychoA surreal survival-horror with a sharp satirical streak that turns corporate dread into genuine tension, held back by a save system that punishes curi...7.7Good
- 677 Days to End with YouA puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — clever, brief, and held back by its own repetition. Worth a look for the rig...7.7Good
- 68Please, Touch The ArtA minimalist puzzler that turns the "look but don't touch" ethos of high art into a tactile, rhythmically satisfying logic puzzle. It is as much a dig...7.7Good
- 69HexologicHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...7.6Good
- 70StorytellerA clever narrative puzzle box that turns story logic into a drag-and-drop toy — worth $14.99 for puzzle players who want a mechanic they haven't seen ...7.6Good
- 71The Gardens BetweenA wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...7.6Good
- 72Golf PeaksGolf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, and the result is a calm, clever puzzler with a clear identity. It's short and occasionally...7.6Good
