Best Puzzle Games on Steam

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Lil' Guardsman Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.

Price -80% 3.90€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Jan 2024
Meow Moments: Celebrating Together Join the feline festivities in special moments! Find cats friends in vibrant celebrations where popping balloons is as relaxing and satisfying as popping bubble wrap! To get off to a good start, celebrate Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro during the New Year.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Jan 2024
100 Capitalist Cats 🐱💼 100 Capitalist Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Wall Street! 😻💰💵 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of New York, heart of Capitalism, as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Jan 2024
Abyss School Solve hidden items and puzzles while avoiding abyssal zombies and traps at school.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Jan 2024
The Cub From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion. Parkour through the remains of humanity as a child being hunted, while catchy end-of-days tunes and curious survivor stories play on the radio.

Price -84% 2.51€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Jan 2024
No Case Should Remain Unsolved Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Jan 2024
TEST TEST TEST Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jan 2024
House Builder Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware of unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!

Price -90% 1.98€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Jan 2024
The Haunted Building A 90s Hong Kong public housing block hides twisted tenants, buried truths, and ghosts. As security guard Lee Shing, your choices shape the story and unlock multiple endings. A mystery full of foreshadowing—some truths can only be uncovered through repeated playthroughs.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jan 2024
Cat Search In The Wild West 105 Cats are hiding in this old western town! Can you find them all? Sit back, relax, and explore this hand-drawn western town.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Jan 2024
Ballance In this 2004 classic originally released by Atari games, you will navigate 12 sky-high courses. Each course is fraught with different obstacles that will block your path, slide your marble off course, or blow them right into the bottomless void below.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Jan 2024
Shipwrecked 64 A recovered copy of a lost game from the late 1990s about a Beaver named Bucky and his friends trying to escape from an island they crashed upon.

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 01 Jan 2024
The Backrooms: Unbounded The Backrooms: Unbounded is a Free Simple Linear single player first person body camera horror game based on the backrooms. You take the role of a police officer who noclips out of reality while on duty. Will you make it out alive?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Dec 2023
Garten of Banban 6 Explore the forgotten levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the new terrors that reside below. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Dec 2023
Eresys Eresys is a co-op horror game inspired from the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Teamwork is a key as players take on the roles of four cultists and face the terrifying entities together. Dynamic AI mechanics and unique enemies, Eresys promises to deliver a thrilling and spine-chilling gaming experience.

Price -37% 5.58€
Rating 6.2
Release 18 Dec 2023
The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Dec 2023
100 Asian Cats 🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Dec 2023
Cats Huddled Together 挤在一起的猫猫们 A puzzle game filled with cats, featuring two gameplay modes. Come and enjoy petting the cats in the game!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Dec 2023
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 is the sequel to the terrifying VR experience that brought new life to the iconic horror franchise. As a brand new Fazbear employee you’ll have to prove you have what it takes to excel in all aspects of Pizzeria management and maintenance.

Price 38.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Dec 2023
100 Christmas Cats ⛄️🐈 Can you find 100 adorable cats hidden in 🎄Christmas streets? 🎅 Test your attention in this cozy 😸 charming hand-drawn 🎨 hidden object game. 100 Christmas Cats are waiting for you in the BEST hidden objects game! 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Dec 2023
Travellin Cats in Jingle Jam Find 200 cats hidden around a festive holiday village and a winter wonderland in this FREE hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator! Can you find them all?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 01 Dec 2023
Tunnet Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Dec 2023
Age of Advent Welcome to the Age of Advent! Play four minigames based on the members of hololive -Advent-! Save the Moai with Bijou, make a soup with Nerissa, try not to crash with FUWAMOCO, and avoid the gaze of Shiori!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Nov 2023
Paper Bride 5 Two Lifetimes "Paper Bride 5 Two Lifetimes" is the 5th work in the "Paper Bride' series. Our cast from Zangling Village return to the stage to welcome players back to the world of paper bride...

Price -62% 3.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Nov 2023
SOS OPS! SOS OPS! is more than a game. Your task is to save the city. You will find yourself in the epicenter of madness, where co-op missions with friends will raise the adrenaline to the limit!

Price -51% 2.47€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Nov 2023
Rock Simulator 2 Unwind together in a peaceful idle adventure. Become a rock in a serene world, relax with friends in co-op, and watch nature unfold around you. Discover secrets and shape your environment at a soothing, idle pace.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Nov 2023
‎My Suika – Kyo’s Fruit Merge A fun watermelon merge puzzle game! Combine various matching fruits to help Kyo gather watermelons in four different game modes!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Nov 2023
The Exit 8 You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Nov 2023
THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Nov 2023
An Arcade Full of Cats Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 16 Nov 2023
Travellin Cats in Maple Hollow 🍂 Find 100 cats hidden in the cosy autumnal town of Maple Hollow in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator! Can you find them all?

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Nov 2023
KarmaZoo Share the love and die trying! KarmaZoo is a joyful, altruistic, cooperative platformer where up to 10 random players help each other with the unique abilities of 50 different characters - all for the sake of good Karma.

Price -97% 0.30€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Nov 2023
Little Goody Two Shoes Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!

Price -56% 8.92€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Nov 2023
Noun Town Language Learning Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - with no subscription and no ads. Explore a colorful open world, beat vocab mini-games, and speak to NPCs using real speech recognition. Language learning that actually sticks, and actually feels like a game.

Price -25% 14.62€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Nov 2023
The Talos Principle 2 The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

Price -84% 4.65€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Nov 2023
Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story Two best friends, one wild adventure. Join best friends Nunu and Willump on an adventure across the frozen wilds of the Freljord. Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story is a single-player story adventure developed by Tequila Works.

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 01 Nov 2023

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