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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Nancy Drew®: Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED Play the Game that Started the Award-Winning Series!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Jul 2011
Puzzle Agent 2 Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!

Price -83% 0.80€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Jun 2011
Critical Mass Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.

Price -79% 0.42€
Rating 6.6
Release 20 Jun 2011
The Cat and the Coup In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Jun 2011
Still Life Still Life 2 also now available!

Price -89% 0.95€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Jun 2011
Hamilton's Great Adventure All new DLC, Retro Fever, Now Available!

Price -98% 0.20€
Rating 6.7
Release 31 May 2011
Syberia II Having searched Eastern and Western Europe for a missing heir, Kate Walker finally completed her long and arduous journey, obtaining the signature of Hans Voralberg and closing the automaton factory buyout.

Price -89% 1.54€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 May 2011
Syberia Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.

Price -92% 1.08€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2011
Portal 2 - The Final Hours Portal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following. For more information on Portal 2 click here.

Price 1.59€
Rating 7.2
Release 17 May 2011
DETOUR A true test your wits and spatial reasoning. Detour combines highway-building fun with the excitement of a competitive real-time strategy game. Construct a path for your convoy to reach its destination in this incredibly addictive title. With online multiplayer!

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.0
Release 16 May 2011
BEEP A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2011
Fortix 2 Fortix 2 is best described as a reverse turret defense game. As Sir Fortix, the knight, you must conquer castles while dodging tower turrets and evil monsters. Fight your way across the shires of the island Artalom, storming from castle to castle.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 May 2011
The Tiny Bang Story Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Apr 2011
The Next BIG Thing The Next Big Thing is a great adventure game in high definition, loaded with laughs, tributes, mysteries and wacky puzzles!

Price -85% 0.76€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Apr 2011
Runaway: A Twist of Fate Runaway: A Twist of Fate is the adventure game of the year! Featuring a production worthy of a big 2D animated movie, Runaway follows a story full of twists and turns, and packed with comical highlights. All in all, you will be confronted with more than 200 mysteries and puzzles to keep your brain running through a big adventure that you...

Price -82% 0.92€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Apr 2011
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!

Price -88% 1.28€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Apr 2011
Portal 2 The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.8
Release 18 Apr 2011
LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™ LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will allow fans to explore endlessly and laugh their way through the Star Wars galaxy in the most humorous, accessible and action-packed LEGO game to date.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Mar 2011
SpaceChem Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Price -53% 4.62€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Mar 2011
NightSky Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Mar 2011
Myst: Masterpiece Edition The classic Myst experience with point and click controls, released as a remaster to the original in 2000. Enter a world where nothing is as it seems... and adventure knows no bounds!

Price -82% 1.15€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Feb 2011
Back to the Future: The Game Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!

Price 77.51€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Dec 2010
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee New port for 2016! 60 FPS, higher res textures, higher poly models, improved audio, numerous fixes and improvements, and trading cards, badges, emotes and backgrounds!

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 Dec 2010
Greed Corp Turn-based strategy at its finest.

Price -80% 2.00€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Dec 2010
Bejeweled® 3 The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

Price -85% 0.76€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Dec 2010
RUSH From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...

Price -54% 2.31€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Dec 2010
Clones Clones is a friendly, fun, and engaging evolution to the classic puzzle genre which includes robust internet-multiplayer and a built-in level editor.

Price 1.59€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Nov 2010
Zen Bound 2 Wrap your way to bliss in Zen Bound 2, the unique down-tempo indie game! This is a different gaming experience: an opportunity to slow down, zone out and focus on a task that’s challenging but not stressful, a set of gentle puzzles for the mind and fingers to solve.

Price -92% 0.43€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Nov 2010
The Ball As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Oct 2010
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Take control of Lara and her new partner Totec, a Mayan tribesman, and uncover the ancient artifact known as the "Mirror of Smoke" in this all new action adventure game.

Price -93% 0.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Sep 2010
Lost Horizon 1936: Soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world seeking occult weapons for their insane plans of conquest. When Fenton Paddock, a former British soldier and hapless smuggler, is asked to look for his friend Richard, who went missing in Tibet, he has no idea that this search will lead him across three continents to a secret that could...

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Sep 2010
Faerie Solitaire Have magical fun in the addicting Card game, Faerie Solitaire! Find and raise a Faerie pet and repopulate the magical land of Avalon using the resources found by clearing each level.

Price -91% 1.14€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Sep 2010
Hacker Evolution Hacker Evolution is a hacking simulation game, featuring unparalleled graphics and features. You play the role of a former intelligence agent, specializing in computer security. When a chain of events sets off worldwide, leaving critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and attempt to stop...

Price -70% 0.90€
Rating 6.6
Release 14 Sep 2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Price -78% 4.47€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Sep 2010
VVVVVV VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Sep 2010
Chime A Zoë Mode production for the video game charity initiative OneBigGame, Chime pits gamers against the melody in this acclaimed puzzle experience.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Sep 2010

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