Best Puzzle Games 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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Life Goes On: Done to Death A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.

Price 12.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Apr 2014
Nearwood - Collector's Edition The fate of the magical world is in your hands – free it from evil! As Jane and Fey explore new locations, they help the villagers survive the freeze, while once again saving Nearwood from the clutches of impending doom!

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Apr 2014
ReignMaker ReignMaker: Saving the World One Tower at a Time. ReignMaker is a match-3 game with tower defense, city building, and political strategy elements. Your policy decisions determine the fate of your city and the direction of the story. Your match-3 and tower defense skills determine the fate of the world.

Price -99% 0.19€
Rating 6.1
Release 16 Apr 2014
Moebius: Empire Rising Moebius: Empire Rising is a contemporary adventure that merges classic point-and-click puzzle solving with Jane Jensen’s sophisticated storytelling. Travel the world using Malachi’s unique deductive powers to analyze suspects, make historical connections, and uncover the truth behind a theory of space and time the government will defend...

Price -92% 1.32€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Apr 2014
Volt You were on the way to a recycling process when fortunately for you - and unfortunately for the environment - you accidentally ran off. Now your goal is to escape from the facility, which is an extremely difficult task due to the fact that you are a battery without legs.

Price -44% 0.56€
Rating 6.6
Release 14 Apr 2014
LEGO® The Hobbit™ Reclaim the Lost Kingdom brick by brick! Join Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin and his company of Dwarves in an epic adventure across Middle-earth to recapture the Lonely Mountain in the most expansive LEGO game to date.

Price -92% 1.65€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Apr 2014
Harvester A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!

Price -7% 5.63€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Apr 2014
Oknytt Oknytt is an old school point-and-click adventure game where the player takes the role of a small, seemingly insignificant creature, leading it through a dark world filled with beings and areas inspired by Swedish folklore, in search of a place to belong.

Price -46% 2.71€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Apr 2014
Black Mirror III Help Darren continue his search to uncover his clouded past. What do his torturous nightmares really mean? Who is the mysterious person that posted the bail to set him free? What demons lie waiting in the crypt?

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Apr 2014
Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden Take a deep breath and find your fiancée who went missing in the dark abyss of the ocean.

Price -85% 2.26€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Apr 2014
Black Mirror II Enter a dark, captivating world as the massive evil of Black Mirror Castle is reincarnated with over 100 atmospheric locations to explore and 40 different characters to interact with. Will Darren's search lead him to redemption or the hell of insanity?

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Apr 2014
Gray Matter After a tragic accident, neurobiologist Dr. David Styles has become a recluse, rarely leaving his home, the Dread Hill House. One day, Samantha Everett, a street magician, appears at Dr. Style's doorstep just as he is seeking a new assistant.

Price -4% 9.44€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Apr 2014
Ether One Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Mar 2014
Escape Goat 2 Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Mar 2014
Influent Language Learning Game Influent is a Language Learning Game focused on rapid vocabulary acquisition in a 3D world featuring over 400 nouns, adjectives, and verbs with native pronunciations in 23 languages! Players have complete freedom to choose which words they want to learn without any need for pencils or books!

Price -50% 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Mar 2014
LYNE Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.

Price -87% 0.41€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Mar 2014
Last Dream Last Dream incorporates the best features of classic RPGs: replayability and complete immersion into a vast world, rich with detail.

Price -91% 0.97€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Mar 2014
1954 Alcatraz 1954: Alcatraz – The cash is out there. But who will get it?Joe's doing 40 years on Alcatraz for a heist on an armored truck. The loot is still hidden out there, but only Joe knows where it is. In the streets of San Francisco, Joe's ex-accomplices and his wife are eager to find the stolen money. Who will get their hands on the dough?

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 7.1
Release 11 Mar 2014
Eets Munchies A beautiful puzzle game for the whole family!Eets Munchies is a reimagining of the award-winning puzzle game by Klei Entertainment. Featuring gorgeous animation and ridiculous creatures, players help an adorable hungry creature devour cake in increasingly devious puzzles.

Price -93% 0.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 11 Mar 2014
Obscure II (Obscure: The Aftermath) Two years ago, a group of young teenagers found themselves trapped inside their school. They suffered through the longest night of their lives, chased by abominable creatures created by their principal. Some of them survived that terrible night, while others perished.

Price -66% 3.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Mar 2014
Return to Mysterious Island Join intrepid sailor and recent island castaway Mina as she explores the hidden secrets within the Jules Verne classic inspired Mysterious Island. Gather key articles left from the island’s previous inhabitants and combine them in unique and interesting ways to stay alive and stay hopeful for rescue.

Price -94% 0.50€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Mar 2014
Year Walk Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.

Price -63% 2.18€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Mar 2014
10 Second Ninja Ninjas are cool, this is an established fact of the universe. Nazi Robots from space are not cool, they are the complete opposite of cool, and Robot Hitler is out to get you, the world's first ninja. You have 10 seconds to destroy all Nazi Robots in your vicinity. IT. IS. ON.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Mar 2014
Hexcells Plus Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price -63% 1.12€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Feb 2014
Hexcells Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 19 Feb 2014
Ikaruga Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!

Price 8.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Feb 2014
Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through caverns, the busy streets of London and through outer space all in search of the green grass of home. Now with new multiplayer modes, controller support, widescreen graphics and much, much more!

Price -77% 2.33€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Feb 2014
Card City Nights Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.

Price -89% 1.08€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Feb 2014
NaissanceE NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Feb 2014
OMG Zombies! OMG! Alert! Alert! The City of Redfield has been hit by an outbreak of exploding zombies! For cool and unimportant reasons these suckers literally explode when shot, showering their zombie brethren with gore and causing chain reactions of showering zombie gibs with just a single bullet!

Price -14% 4.34€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Feb 2014
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition Released in 2014, experience one of the first 3D adaptations of the renowned puzzle-adventure game Myst! Each discovery you make, every puzzle you solve, will bring you closer to reversing a wrong that has gone unchecked for ages.

Price -93% 1.29€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Feb 2014
Serena How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Jan 2014
Octodad: Dadliest Catch Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...

Price -73% 3.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2014
Broken Age A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Jan 2014
Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 Now you can own and operate your own auto repair service with PlayWay’s Car Mechanic Simulator 2014. Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 gives you the behind the scenes view of the daily dealings at local garages and dealership repair shops.

Price -85% 1.05€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Jan 2014
KAMI KAMI is deceptively simple: fold out coloured paper to fill the screen in as few moves as possible. Relaxing and easy to pick up, you'll soon find yourself deep in contemplation to perfect each puzzle. Created by State of Play, famous for their handcrafted aesthetic, KAMI has been created with real paper in an elegant Japanese theme.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Jan 2014

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