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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Price -96% 0.87€
Rating 6.8
Release 10 Sep 2013
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Price -88% 1.94€
Rating 9.3
Release 03 Sep 2013
The Dark Eye: Memoria In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.

Price -96% 0.94€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Aug 2013
Papers, Please Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Price -39% 5.95€
Rating 9.6
Release 08 Aug 2013
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians Awakened from his slumber, Beatbuddy journeys through lush hand-painted environments on a quest to save his companions and his own immortality. Beatbuddy interacts with the living breathing environment that pulses to the beat of an original soundtrack, aiding him as he unlocks new paths and solves puzzles.

Price -94% 0.59€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Aug 2013
Ittle Dew Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

Price -95% 1.01€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Jul 2013
Toki Tori 2+ An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.

Price -92% 1.32€
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jul 2013
Magrunner: Dark Pulse Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.

Price -92% 1.65€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Jun 2013
Trine 2: Complete Story Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Price -96% 0.92€
Rating 9.3
Release 06 Jun 2013
Gunpoint Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Price -87% 0.94€
Rating 9.5
Release 03 Jun 2013
The Swapper What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 May 2013
Cubetractor WINNER: IGF China award for BEST GAME!Cubetractor is a neo-retroesque action-strategy-puzzle hybrid where you defeat enemies through an unconventional cube-pulling, turret-buildling mechanic. The game carries elements of a reverse tower defence and a grounded bullet-hell dodger to deliver a unique gameplay experience presented in a...

Price -86% 0.58€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 May 2013
The Night of the Rabbit Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.

Price -98% 0.73€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 May 2013
Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.

Price -51% 3.97€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 May 2013
Element4l Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 24 May 2013
Reus In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Price -70% 3.06€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 May 2013
FEZ Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Price -60% 4.08€
Rating 9.0
Release 01 May 2013
Jack Lumber A tree killed his granny and now he is out for revenge. Meet Jack Lumber, the supernatural lumberjack who hates trees, loves animals, and hates trees. Did we say that twice? The guy really hates trees, and boy does he have an axe to grind.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 Apr 2013
Kairo Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

Price -28% 3.64€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Apr 2013
Surgeon Simulator Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Price -4% 9.44€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Apr 2013
Papo & Yo Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.

Price -97% 0.51€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Apr 2013
La-Mulana LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

Price -69% 4.67€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Apr 2013
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition Also known as Out Of This World™, Another World is a pioneer action/platformer that released across more than a dozen platforms since its debut in 1991. Along the years, Another World™ has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike.

Price -53% 4.77€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Apr 2013
Evoland Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.

Price -78% 2.29€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Apr 2013
Dungeon Hearts Dungeon Hearts fuses the strategy and pattern matching of puzzle games with the kinetic pace of action games. Align magical runes as they flow along the Fatestream to attack, defend, and conjure magic in frenetic battles against a bestiary of fantastic creatures out to use those same runes against you.

Price -77% 0.69€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2013
Anodyne A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!

Price -86% 2.17€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Mar 2013
Incredipede Grow arms and legs to transform into a snake, spider, butterfly, or fifty-legged horror - anything you can imagine. Control your creations in a fumblecore dash to solve each puzzle. Learn to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, or even fly.

Price -96% 0.48€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Mar 2013
Tomb Raider Game of the Year Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Mar 2013
The Bridge The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Price -93% 0.74€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Feb 2013
Scribblenauts Unlimited The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Price -94% 1.29€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Feb 2013
Antichamber Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Price -53% 9.07€
Rating 9.3
Release 31 Jan 2013
The Cave Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!

Price -80% 2.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Jan 2013
10,000,000 10000000: The Dungeon Crawling Matching Game

Price -79% 1.07€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Jan 2013
Waking Mars In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.

Price -94% 0.53€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Dec 2012
A New Beginning - Final Cut A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.

Price -93% 0.71€
Rating 7.2
Release 11 Dec 2012
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001) In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, reassume the role of Raziel, and travel back through the currents of time into various eras of Nosgoth's past in your relentless pursuit of Kain.

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 06 Dec 2012

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