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The Last Campfire
A 3D puzzle adventure in which Ember, a small lost flame, walks an underground world and works through the small contraptions blocking the stranded souls it finds there. A storybook-shaped project from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man's Sky.
puzzleadventurenarrative-puzzleEscape Goat 2
A 2D puzzle platformer about escaping a trap-filled stronghold with a goat and its mouse companion. Each room is a single screen, solved with jumps, an immortal mouse that crawls walls and stands on switches, and a magic hat that swaps the goat's position with the mouse's. Over a hundred rooms across ten zones, from MagicalTimeBean in 2014.
puzzlepuzzle-platformerplatformerTrine 2: Complete Story
A side-scrolling physics puzzle-platformer in which you switch between a knight, a thief and a wizard, conjuring boxes and planks to get past each obstacle. Made by Finland's Frozenbyte, the Complete Story edition bundles the main campaign with the Goblin Menace expansion and an extra level.
puzzle-platformerphysicsco-opBrothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Two brothers set out to find the Water of Life for their dying father. The left stick moves the older brother and the right the younger, both at once, and you cross ravines, waterways and the bones of giants by pairing what each of them can do. Every line is spoken in an invented language. Directed by Josef Fares at Starbreeze Studios, released in 2013.
puzzleadventurepuzzle-platformerHuman Fall Flat
A physics puzzle platformer about Bob, a wobbly figure you steer by grabbing, climbing and dragging your way through buildings that float in a dreamscape. Each arm is controlled separately, and no puzzle has a single fixed solution. Made by Lithuania's No Brakes Games, with online co-op for up to eight players.
puzzle-platformerphysicsco-opLara Croft GO
A turn-based puzzle adventure that walks Lara down isometric ruins one tile at a time. You slip past snakes and spear traps, pull levers, and count the turns left on a cracking floor. Square Enix Montréal folded Tomb Raider's jumping, climbing and shooting into single board moves, in the second game of their GO series.
puzzleadventurepathfindingSyberia 3
A third-person adventure in which the lawyer Kate Walker joins a Youkol migration north, assembling clockwork devices along the way. Microïds' third Syberia, which trades the fixed painted screens of the first two games for a 3D space you walk around in.
narrative-puzzleadventurepoint-and-clickLinelight
A minimalist puzzle game in which you steer a small bar of light along thin lines, working past switches, doors, keys and lethal red lines. No jump button and no shoot button — over 250 levels across six worlds, from My Dog Zorro.
puzzleminimalistpuzzle-platformerIs This Seat Taken?
A 2D logic puzzle in which you seat a cast of little shapes — in a cinema, a bus, a taxi, a wedding reception, a diner — pulling them one at a time out of the queue and settling them where they want to be. Someone refuses to sit behind a big hat, a child wants to stay next to their parent, a nose objects to the coffee two seats over; you look for the one arrangement nobody complains about. Poti Poti Studio, published by Wholesome Games Presents in 2025.
puzzlelogicnarrativeWilmot's Warehouse
A 2D organisation puzzle: push the delivered goods into your warehouse and file them however you decide. No rule governs the shelves, and when the service hatch opens you retrieve orders from memory alone. By Richard Hogg and Ricky Haggett, who previously made Hohokum, with 200 kinds of pictorial tile piling up.
puzzleobservationsimulationSokobond Express
A grid puzzle in which you draw one unbroken path for a single atom, bonding it to the atoms it passes until the target molecule is assembled — a minimalist crossbreed of Sokobond and Cosmic Express, published by Draknek & Friends.
puzzlepathfindinglogicVessel
A 2D physics puzzle-platformer where a single liquid-spraying backpack lets you move water, lava and glowing protoplasm, and grow living liquid creatures called Fluros to repair a machine-run world. Set across a foundry, orchard and mines, Strange Loop Games builds its grammar out of fluid simulation rather than a grid.
puzzlepuzzle-platformerphysicsArranger
A grid puzzle-adventure where taking one step moves everything sharing your row or column, and the board loops at its edges. No sword or keys — you shove the things on the floor to open the way. The debut from Furniture & Mattress, folding movement, combat, and exploration into a single verb.
puzzlegrid-basednarrative-puzzleSokobond
A 2D Sokoban puzzle where you move a single atom around a grid and bond it with the atoms it touches to assemble a target molecule. Each atom's number of free 'hands' is the only grammar; tiles that break, double, and rotate bonds arrive one per chapter. By Alan Hazelden and Lee Shang Lun, 2014, scored by Allison Walker.
puzzlesokoban-likelogicThe Turing Test
A first-person sci-fi puzzle on a moon of Jupiter: redirect energy orbs between sockets to open doors and cross a series of test chambers, wrapped in a story about machine and human judgment.
puzzlefirst-personnarrative-puzzleTaiji
A grid-based logic puzzle in the lineage of The Witness: toggle tiles on panels by deducing unwritten rules through pure observation, as you roam a quiet open world.
observationlogic-gridopen-worldThe Pedestrian
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you rearrange and wire together public signs, building a path through the signage for a little stick figure to cross a living city.
puzzleplatformerassemblyChants of Sennaar
Climbing a Babel-like tower, you decipher the unknown logographic language of each floor's people from pictures and gestures. A game of observation and inference.
observationnarrative-puzzlemeta-puzzleManifold Garden
A first-person puzzle about choosing your gravity inside an Escher-esque world of infinitely repeating architecture.
puzzlefirst-personexplorationA Monster's Expedition
Push trees to make logs and bridge to the next island. An open-world Sokoban.
sokoban-likeobservationBlue Prince
A mansion roguelite where each day you draft the room behind the door.
logic-gridpathfindingmeta-puzzleLorelei and the Laser Eyes
In an eerie monochrome hotel, over 150 ciphers, numbers, and symbol puzzles weave through every floor.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzleThe Talos Principle 2
Lasers and cubes and philosophical dialogue weigh equally in this first-person puzzle.
logic-gridnarrative-puzzleassemblyCOCOON
A world inside an orb, an orb inside that world, all the way down.
meta-puzzlenarrative-puzzleassemblyUnpacking
Pull things from boxes and place them on shelves. A 'life-told-by-objects' puzzle.
assemblynarrative-puzzleobservationOuter Wilds
Explore a solar system on a 22-minute loop and unravel the mysteries of an ancient race.
narrative-puzzleobservationmeta-puzzleThe Witness
More than five hundred line-drawing panels. Observation itself becomes the verb.
observationnarrative-puzzlepathfindingThe Talos Principle
A robot solves trials in Roman-style ruins while a voice in their head questions their selfhood and divinity.
logic-gridpathfindingnarrative-puzzleQ.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary
Inside a white box, push, raise, and bounce off colored blocks. A first-person physics puzzle.
physicspathfindingPortal 2
Gels and lasers expand the portal vocabulary into a larger, co-op-ready peak of the genre.
physicspathfindingobservationLIMBO
A boy walks through a monochrome forest searching for his sister. Trial and death advance the way.
physicsobservationnarrative-puzzlePsychonauts
Dive into other characters' minds and solve the puzzles their inner worlds present. A peculiar 3D adventure.
narrative-puzzleobservationassemblyEscape from Monkey Island
Pirate Guybrush's last classic, the era of 3D LucasArts adventure, with wildly inventive item combinations.
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