Puzzle
49 games reviewed, ranked by score.
Baba Is You
The Rulebook Is the Puzzle, and It's Brilliant
Order of the Sinking Star
Your reward for solving a perfect puzzle: another one.
Into the Breach
Three Mechs, Eight-By-Eight Grid, Endless Tactical Knots
Portal 2
Aperture's Comedy Masterpiece Still Outwits Everything Since
Servant of the Lake
Dark family secrets, perfectly served.
Rita
Its word puzzles rearrange the world, and your heart.
Portal
A portal gun, GLaDOS, and no wasted minute
XCOM 2
Concealment and turn timers punish every cautious instinct
lily's world XD
A chilling mystery, told one browser tab at a time
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
Sophia's solo voyage is a stunner, even without the rats
Tenebris Somnia
Pixel-art dread, captured through a live-action lens.
Endacopia
Edutainment nostalgia turned quietly wrong, and it works
Inscryption
A deckbuilder that won't sit still, for better and worse
The Mermaid Mask
Submarine murder that outsolves everything the series has done
MOLE
Industrial dread and grief told through sound, despite punishing chases
Pronoun Palace
Spell your way out of a state that confiscated your pronouns
The Incident at Galley House
A period whodunit with a playback machine that grips
The Message from Deep Space
First contact you solve yourself, worth the geometry grind
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
Its hellish vision is worth the pain of its combat.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
A Sequel That Outclimbs Its Predecessor
Cobalt Core
One-axis ship combat that clicks, enemies that don't keep up
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
Hand-cranked artillery that thunders, thin on what comes next
Mini Motorways
Simple rules, traffic-induced rage, and one more city
MOLDRISE
Learn the building, skip the climb, meet the neighbours
walk
Half an hour of tactile calm, and a closing note that earns it
Approximately Up
Wire a ship to land itself, past a tutorial that won't help
Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
SQL detective work that turns queries into real deduction
Desktop Explorer
A dead PC's files hide a mystery worth cracking
Feed The Pit
A cult hunt with real heart, sold one act at a time
Alchemy Factory
A potent potion-factory loop, despite some clumsy construction.
Stray
Being a cat is enough. The rest is window dressing.
Woodo
A gorgeous diorama puzzler with a story to tell, not a puzzle to solve.
Crushed In Time
Inventive pull-and-stretch puzzles, dulled by guesswork and stray QTEs
Deer & Boy
A wordless journey of grief, tripped by loose controls
Orb of Creation
An active incremental with real choices, then the updates stopped
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
EA's Best Apology Is a Soulslite With a Lightsaber
Return to Monkey Island
Guybrush Returns Sharp, The Ending Doesn't Land
Big Walk
A tender co-op wander, if the audio mixer relents
Sol Cesto
Gorgeous grotesque odds-juggling, tripped up by unfair dice and no save
The Book of Unwritten Tales
A Warm, Funny Throwback That Wears Its LucasArts Heart Openly
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
Sharp logic puzzles, saves that vanish on update
Supermarket Chaos
Cozy shelf-stocking soothes, until mismatched shelves fight your tidiness
Cat Mail Co.
Satisfying parcel-sorting that runs dry before the pile does
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
A clever robot sandbox buried in busywork and bugs
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
Real terminal craft worth learning, walled in by one-path missions and soft-locks
Deponia Doomsday
Deponia's Fourth Trip Trades Charm for Time-Loop Headaches
Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Looks Stunning – Underneath It's Just Generic Open-World Busywork
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
Critter charms, the Yeti cave crashes the party
Survival Machine
A lovely rolling fortress, stalled by jank and two thin biomes