Puzzle Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated puzzle games.

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Tag: The Power of Paint The world is your canvas in this innovative first-person puzzle platformer. Tag walls and other surfaces with different colors of spray paint to reveal new ways to navigate each level, including bouncing off, sliding across, and sticking to the surfaces you paint.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Apr 2022
FixFox Arriving on a curious planet, Vix and her toolbox Tin explore space, fixing machines with unconventional tools and eating cozy meals with kind robot locals. On an epic adventure, the duo repairs an interstellar beacon, constructs giant mechs, and unravels a cosmic mystery that transcends existence.

Price -95% 0.64€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Mar 2022
A=B A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2022
Cat Museum Immerse yourself in the bizarre art style and the surreal world of Cat Museum, a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure game. Solve the strange puzzles with your mischievous cat, and unveil the truth behind the mysterious museum.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Mar 2022
Dungeons of Dreadrock An immersive puzzle dungeon adventure in the spirit of 1980's home computer games. Dig your way through 100 levels into the ancient depths of Dreadrock Mountain. Winner of Google Indie Games Festival / Indie Clash 1st prize / PocketGamer People's Choice Finalist / GDWC best indie game nominee.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Mar 2022
Help Me Remember, Satori-sama! Satori's overworked herself into bed, but Okuu needs help remembering things! You can't use her heart-reading power, and will instead have to ask questions and use her power of recollection to correct wrong info, all while enduring visits from Orin and Koishi as you deduce what Okuu's forgotten!

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Mar 2022
What Lies in the Multiverse A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Mar 2022
FIND ALL 2: Middle Ages Find over 500 hidden objects across multiple levels, coloring them along the way. There is also an exciting mini-game in the game and puzzles on the treasure island.

Price 2.09€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Mar 2022
Graphwar Graphwar is an artillery game in which you must hit your enemies using mathematical functions. The trajectory of your shot is determined by the function you wrote, and your goal is to avoid the obstacles and your teammates and hit your enemies. The game takes place in a Cartesian Plane.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Feb 2022
Yotsume God -Reunion- In September of my third year in junior high school, I went with my father to my grandparents' house in the mountains. The place we arrived at was Yotsu Village. It was a small village that had long believed in "Yotsume God". There I meet a mysterious boy.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2022
Not Tonight 2 Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.

Price -78% 3.77€
Rating 7.6
Release 11 Feb 2022
Power to the People Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Price -92% 1.12€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2022
Porcelain Tales Collect, run and be a pain in the porcelain

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Feb 2022
The Heilwald Loophole The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Feb 2022
Wanderer Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?

Price -68% 11.13€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Jan 2022
Please, Touch The Artwork A cozy puzzler with story. Recreate paintings by applying lines & colors in a specific order. Explore beautiful mazes & collect letters of a poem. Help two sweethearts find a path towards each other. Three games in one. Hints when stuck. 160+ paintings, 3~4 hours, set to a chill soundtrack.

Price -62% 3.81€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Jan 2022
怕不怕趴喵霸霸 Ghost Party Nyanbaba Lovely find hidden items game! Investigate strange hidden objects to prevent nyambaba's illusion from succeeding. Please find all hidden points within the time, otherwise the villain nyanbaba will jump out and frighten the players with a very cute Chinese voice!

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jan 2022
100 hidden fish The fish hid. Try to find them all! A very large location.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jan 2022
Heaven Dust 2 Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.

Price -75% 3.16€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2022
SCARF Scarf is an atmospheric and emotional journey about what it means to be a hero. An adventure game mixing puzzles and 3D platforms. Explore beautifully crafted worlds and discover your true destiny with the help of a dragon-shaped scarf.

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Dec 2021
I'm on Observation Duty 4 A spot the difference -type of puzzle horror game about monitoring live surveillance camera footage and spotting anomalies. Anomalies range from furniture movement to intruders. Fix anomalies by filing reports. You will need sharp eyes and good memory. The goal is to survive the entire night.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Dec 2021
Christmas Massacre Christmas is coming and Larry's got a big problem - his Christmas tree is telling him to KILL! Lead him through his murder rampage.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Dec 2021
Aspire: Ina's Tale Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.

Price -96% 0.58€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Dec 2021
One Hand Clapping One Hand Clapping is a vocal 2D platformer. Solve puzzles, by singing or humming into your microphone, and find confidence in the power of your voice as it changes the world around you.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Dec 2021
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!

Price -88% 2.43€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Dec 2021
Lingo Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore. With its epiphany-driven gameplay and impossible geometry, Lingo provides a unique and nonlinear experience.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Dec 2021
Cleo - a pirate's tale Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.

Price -70% 3.74€
Rating 9.2
Release 12 Dec 2021
Cave Story's Secret Santa After Balrog recovers the Christmas presents that were stolen by Chaba, the cowardly Mimiga named Santa must sneak into every house and return the missing packages. Be the Mimiga Who Saves Christmas!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 09 Dec 2021
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.

Price -80% 4.20€
Rating 9.1
Release 08 Dec 2021
White Shadows The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.

Price -97% 0.60€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Dec 2021
Hellcoming Hellcoming is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players, who need to clean large areas from hellish abomination with the help of special tools.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Dec 2021
Next Space Rebels SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing, building, and launching rockets of increasing complexity.

Price -66% 6.96€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Nov 2021
Arcadia Fallen Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

Price -91% 1.97€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Nov 2021
Candy Disaster - Tower Defense Candy Disaster is 3D trap-style tower defense game where you guard candies against alien thieves! Unlock powerful and clever traps, choose your arsenal for different bases, and find the deadliest trap combination - then watch those space goons walk into their death!

Price -32% 7.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Nov 2021
Slice of Sea Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.

Price -51% 10.39€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Nov 2021
Uninvited Guest Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Nov 2021

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