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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 31 August 2018

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.

A Little to the Left
A Little to the Left

Puzzle 15 February 2024

A relaxing puzzle game aimed towards players fond of organizing space. A Little to the Left has us sorting items to keep them ordered - the actual order is up to us.

The Witness
The Witness

Puzzle 13 September 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.

Balatro
Balatro

Puzzle 20 February 2024

A roguelike card game loosely based on the poker rules. Balatro has us participate in solo card duels, gradually unlocking new card decks and joker cards with unique abilities and effects. The game offers a story campaign, as well as various single challenges.

The Turing Test
The Turing Test

Puzzle 30 August 2016

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.

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.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution

Puzzle 24 March 2020

Extended edition of Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, prepared for the Nintendo Switch console. The title offers all the additional content issued for the original edition and adds more than two thousand cards. In addition, it introduces the latest rules of the paper card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, including a completely new type of monster cards.

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.

Whispering Willows
Whispering Willows

Puzzle 28 August 2015

Whispering Willows is a puzzle game developed by Night Light Interactive team. We play the role of a young girl looking for her father in a haunted house. In her adventures the heroine uses parapsychic powers, including astral projection skills.

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.

Please Fix the Road
Please Fix the Road

Puzzle 15 May 2024

Please Fix the Road is a puzzle game developed by one Polish developer, Ariel Jurkowski. Our task is to create a road from A to B, using a given set of tools to manipulate the terrain.

Contrast
Contrast

Puzzle 26 June 2014

Original indie production developed by Compulsion Games team, combining elements of platform games with numerous logical puzzles. The game intertwines the fate of two women: the older one named Dawn and the younger Didi, who after her mother's death is condemned to live with her cruel father. Dawn, concerned about the girl's fate, promises to change her past with her unique abilities.

Clockwork
Clockwork

Puzzle TBA

A two-dimensional platformer game with numerous logic elements developed by Appsquare. The world in which Clockwork takes place was struck with a plague that killed the majority of its population many years before. Few survivors have sheltered themselves behind the walls of the city of Watchtower, trying to find an antidote for the dangerous virus. Alas, it turned out that the only way to avoid the plague is to close one’s mind in a mechanical body that is immune to diseases.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist

Puzzle 30 July 2015

Another entry in the popular virtual card game series, based on a collective card game on the license of Kazuki Takahashi‘s manga from 1996. It has been developed by Other Ocean studio, which worked on titles like Mortal Combat Arcade Kollektion, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Spider-Man: Edge of Time. We are taken to a special program known as Duelist Simulator, in which the best players face each other, recreating events of five Yu-Gi-Oh! series.

Magnetic: Cage Closed
Magnetic: Cage Closed

Puzzle 28 August 2015

A first-person perspective logic game developed by Guru Games, an independent game developer from Sweden. Magnetic: Cage Closed was inspired by the genre classics, including Portal and The Talos Principle. The player assumes the role of an inmate of a futuristic prison called Facility 7. As can easily be imagined, our job will be to escape the facility. Getting out means completing numerous puzzles and avoiding various dangers and traps laid out along the way.

Four Sided Fantasy
Four Sided Fantasy

Puzzle 22 September 2016

An original game developed by the independent studio, Ludo Land. It combines the elements of a logic game with platformer mechanics. The player takes the control of a young boy who explores an amazing world full of environmental puzzles and seemingly inaccessible places trapping the protagonist. Nonetheless, the land itself is picturesque, covering its secrets under a blanket of quiet and peaceful atmosphere. As it soon turns out, it is an imaginary world where the laws of physics do not apply.

Pneuma: Breath of Life
Pneuma: Breath of Life

Puzzle 27 February 2015

An FPP logic puzzle game with adventure elements, developed by two independent teams: Bevel Studios and Deco Digital. You play as the eponymous Pneuma, a deity, who observes the beginnings of the universe. Like in the other games in the genre, the gameplay focuses on exploration and solving puzzles, which require good orientation, analytic skills, and unorthodox thinking. In addition, Pneuma: Breath of Life features an internal monologue of the self-congratulatory protagonist.

Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign
Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign

Puzzle 05 February 2016

The next installment of the popular series of logical games, this time created under license from Marvel. All the most important superheroes appear in the production, in the style of Spider-Man, Iron Man or Thor. The title is based on a free-to-play business model with a micropayment system.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends
The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Puzzle canceled

A strategy card game set in the universe of a well-known RPG series that has been developed since 1994 by Bethesda Softworks. In terms of game mechanics, The Elder Scrolls: Legends takes after the competing Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and the gameplay comes down to dueling with a self-built deck of cards representing heroes, equipment, spells, skills etc.

Hamster on Rails
Hamster on Rails

Puzzle 26 October 2023

Hamster on Rails is an isometric puzzle game, tasking players with building railways to acquire resources needed in the Hamster village. The game was developed by a small, Brazilian studio Virtual Arts.

Inscryption
Inscryption

Puzzle 10 April 2023

The work of Daniel Mullins - author of the original Pony Island and The Hex - combining elements of card games, FPP adventure games and roguelikes. In Inscryption we get to the Leszy's hut and in order to leave it we have to fight a victorious card duel with him.

Teslagrad Remastered
Teslagrad Remastered

Puzzle 19 April 2023

A remaster of a warmly received platformer with adventure and puzzle game elements. Teslagrad Remastered is set in the abandoned Tesla Tower, where as a young boy we must solve puzzles revolving around manipulating electricity and magnetism.