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Puzzle games. In this category solving puzzles is the main purpose of gameplay. These titles usually don’t have any story or have it in a very simple form. Playing requires good perception and skills of logical thinking, strategic planning and recognizing schemes. more

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The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle

Puzzle 13 October 2015

A unique first-person puzzle game developed by the Croatian Croteam studio, the creators of the Serious Sam series. Our character wakes up in a world filled with ancient ruins and advanced technology, where he finds 120 puzzles prepared by a creator, employing various laws of physics and different mechanics. We travel across the game’s world nonlinearly, choosing our own path and completing the tasks presented to us, which consist of e.g.

The Talos Principle 2
The Talos Principle 2

Puzzle 02 November 2023

The Talos Principle 2 is a first-person puzzle game, in which we explore a megastructure in a robot-inhabited world. The game features many clever puzzles and an extensive, philosophical story.

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip
We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip

Puzzle 14 September 2023

The fifth game in the puzzle-adventure series We Were Here. We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip has us playing as two sailors, ending up in an abandoned amusement park on a deserted island while following a distress call.

Q.U.B.E. 2
Q.U.B.E. 2

Puzzle 13 March 2018

Q.U.B.E. 2 is a logic game, in which players observe the action from the first-person perspective. The game resembling the Portal series was developed by the Welsh Toxic Games and is based on Unreal Engine 4 created by Epic.

The Turing Test
The Turing Test

Puzzle 24 January 2017

A sci-fi FPP logic puzzle game by Bulkhead Interactive, a studio founded by the creators of Pneuma: Breath of Life. The story takes place an unspecified number of years in the future, when scientists discover a seemingly harmless alien life form on Jupiter's moons. You play as an astronaut named Ava Turing, whose task is to examine the new species, and who ends up finding more than she expected. The Turing Test is a part of the FPP logic puzzle genre, popularized by the Portal series.

The Witness
The Witness

Puzzle 26 January 2016

A first-person adventure game with logic puzzles, developed by the creator of Braid – Jonathan Blow and his independent studio Number None. The game takes you to a large, mysterious island, whose all inhabitants vanished without a trace. Gameplay has you explore this vast world, solve logic puzzles, and search for clues that will help you solve the mysteries of this place. Game mechanics resemble the cult Myst series.

Unmechanical: Extended
Unmechanical: Extended

Puzzle 10 February 2015

A puzzle platformer about a robot that tries to get out of a mysterious maze. The game consists of about 30 physical, mental or memory puzzles. Most of them are solved by interacting with the environment, e.g. moving objects. The production is distinguished by quite climatic graphics and music.

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game

Puzzle 04 December 2018

A stand-alone version of collective card game (CCG) that debuted in the bestselling RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, by CD Project RED, and quickly became acknowledged as one of the best minigames in history. In Gwent: The Witcher Card Game players compete against each other with progressively collected decks of cards from five different factions. As in most CCG, the gameplay is turn-based, but quite unusually, the player’s objective is to gather more attack points than opponent.

The Room VR: A Dark Matter
The Room VR: A Dark Matter

Puzzle 26 March 2020

Another main part of the series of puzzle games from Fireproof Games. The Room VR: A Dark Matter tells the story of a London police investigation into the disappearance of a well-known Egyptologist in 1908.

Escape Academy
Escape Academy

Puzzle 14 July 2022

FPP puzzle game in which we play the role of a student of the academy and try to escape from successive escape rooms. You can play Escape Academy solo or in co-op mode (online or via split screen).

Superliminal
Superliminal

Puzzle 07 July 2020

First-person puzzle game offering a range of riddles based on manipulating perspective, depth and creating or discovering optical illusions. Pillow Castle Games studio is responsible for creating and releasing this production.

Fantavision
Fantavision

Puzzle 22 December 2015

Fantavision is a game of the genre that combines fast entertainment with strategy. The title, in a unique way, combines action, shooting and logical thinking, necessary to solve subsequent puzzles. It is the closest to the hit classic Missile Command.

echochrome
echochrome

Puzzle 23 June 2022

Echochrome is a puzzle game based on the original idea of playing with perspective. The production was developed by the Japanese studio Sony Computer Entertainment.

Teslagrad 2
Teslagrad 2

Puzzle 19 April 2023

Teslagrad 2 is a sequel to a popular metroidvania from 2013. It revolves around manipulating the environment through the use of magnetism. The game was developed by Rain Games, the same studio responsible for its predecessor.

We Were Here
We Were Here

Puzzle 09 February 2021

An unusual, first-person perspective logic game developed by Total Mayhem Games. The title is a game focused on cooperation mode. We Were Here takes place in a mysterious, abandoned castle in the middle of nowhere. One of the players assumes the role of a man imprisoned in a small part of the fortress. The second player has access to a much greater area and is tasked with finding and freeing his companion.

We Were Here Together
We Were Here Together

Puzzle 23 February 2021

The third part of a series of cooperative logic games in which players travel through the gloomy Castle Rock castle, trying to find a way out. As in the previous parts of the series, the key to success in We Were Here Together is close cooperation of the two players who communicate via walkie-talkies.

Tandem: A Tale of Shadows
Tandem: A Tale of Shadows

Puzzle 21 October 2021

Interesting platform and puzzle game hybrid. In Tandem: A Tale of Shadows we control a girl named Emma and her teddy bear - Fenton. Protagonists explore a 19th century mansion, solving clever puzzles and facing dangers.

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind

Puzzle 20 August 2020

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a unique gangster puzzle-adventure game based on the popular Peaky Blinders TV series, produced by BBC television and Netflix. The game was created by FuturLab and Curve Digital.

Knot
Knot

Puzzle 20 July 2016

A three-dimensional logic game created by Warlock Arts - a Turkish developer. The game was inspired by ancient Chinese puzzles and the modern-day Rubik's cube. The player's task is to solve subsequent, gradually more difficult puzzles. By moving and rotating particular elements of the mechanism (different in their shape, blocks made of various materials, such as wood, metal or stone), the player tries to disassemble the structure.

Melbits World
Melbits World

Puzzle 14 November 2018

A colourful puzzle game enriched with arcade elements, in which we take control over the titular Melbits - creatures inhabiting a data cloud. While playing Melbits World, our task is to safely guide the Melbits through the consecutive levels, which are swarming with various traps.

Magic Duels: Origins
Magic Duels: Origins

Puzzle canceled

A video game adaptation of the Magic: Origins card game from Wizards of the Coast, developed by Stainless Game. Unlike the earlier digital renditions of Magic: The Gathering, the game is available as a free-to-play title and developed mostly through free updates. The creators changed some features in the game modes, with the biggest novelty being the return of the Two-Headed Giant variant, in which the players fight in pairs with shared life points.

One Upon Light
One Upon Light

Puzzle 28 October 2014

Original logic-arcade game, realized in black-and-white graphic design. In the game we play the role of a scientist who has to get out of an abandoned research center. As all light sources are deadly for him, in order to pave the way, our protagonist has to solve further riddles using the mechanics of light and shadow.

Human: Fall Flat
Human: Fall Flat

Puzzle 09 May 2017

An unusual logic action game in which the realistic physics engine is the main element. It was developed by No Brakes Games, a Lithuanian studio. The protagonist of Human: Fall Flat is an ordinary man named Bob. He is trying to solve the mystery of dreams of falling that haunt him. In the game, we are taken to a slightly surreal world from Bob’s dreams, where he has to face his own fears, traversing several lands full of various obstacles.

Cocoon
Cocoon

Puzzle 29 September 2023

A puzzle adventure game, in which we solve puzzles while traveling between worlds contained in small spheres. Cocoon was directed by Jeppe Carlsen, the main designer of Limbo and Inside.