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4D Golf
A first-person mini-golf puzzle set in a space with a fourth spatial axis on top of the usual three. You turn through it, compare cross-sections, and read hidden routes and shifting gravity on the way to the cup. Over 120 holes and a 4D course editor, from CodeParade, who made Hyperbolica.
puzzlephysicsfirst-personDonut County
A physics puzzle in which you steer a hole in the ground, swallowing a town's furniture and residents to make the hole grow. There is one verb — move the hole — and the levels are strung together by conversations with the townspeople. Made by Ben Esposito and published by Annapurna Interactive.
puzzlephysicscomedyTrine 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-opBridge Constructor Portal
A 2D physics puzzler in which you build bridges and ramps across 60 Aperture Science test chambers and thread vehicles through fixed portals and gels to the exit. ClockStone's entry in the Bridge Constructor series, built with Portal's own art and lore on loan from Valve.
puzzlephysicssimulationUntitled Goose Game
A sandbox stealth-puzzle in which you steer one goose through a quiet English village, working down a to-do list of pranks that sits in the corner of the screen. The goose can honk and it can carry things; the board is the villagers reacting. Made by House House, a four-person studio in Melbourne.
puzzlestealthsandboxHuman 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-opSUPERHOT
A first-person shooter built from white rooms and red figures, where the world's time advances only as far as you move. You take your weapons from the enemies who drop them, and a single hit ends the level. Grown by SUPERHOT Team out of a game-jam prototype.
puzzlefirst-persontime-manipulationPortal Reloaded
A free community mod built on Portal 2: alongside the familiar blue and orange spatial portals you fire a third, green time portal linking the present to the same facility twenty years on, and solve twenty-five test chambers by moving between them. Released in 2021 by the solo developer PORTANIS, with twenty cooperative puzzles added in 2023.
puzzlefirst-personphysicsWorld of Goo 2
A sequel to the physics-building puzzler: grab black goo balls, link them into bridges and towers, and route them to the exit pipe. New goo species that stretch, shrink and explode join liquid that runs downhill and pools, across five chapters and sixty-plus levels. From 2D BOY and Tomorrow Corporation.
physicspuzzleassemblySupraland
A first-person exploration puzzler set in a literal sandbox, where each ability you find reopens paths that were closed before. There is no map and no objective marker — hidden chests and handmade contraptions are the only signposts. Made by David Münnich's Supra Games.
puzzlefirst-personmetroidvaniaMosa Lina
A 2D physics puzzle-platformer where you collect the fruit on a stage and return to the exit. You can only walk and jump; everything else comes from three tools dealt at random each attempt. Stuffed Wombat calls it a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim.
puzzlepuzzle-platformersandboxEscape Simulator
A first-person escape-room puzzler where you move the furniture, smash the pots and pick up nearly everything you see. Solve 28 rooms designed with real-life escape room operators, alone or in online co-op, then keep going into thousands of community rooms built with the bundled editor. From Pine Studio.
puzzleescape-roomfirst-personLittle Inferno
A 2D point-and-click that plays out entirely in front of a fireplace: order toys from a catalogue, burn them, watch how each one goes, and pair two or three of them by wordplay to find 99 "combos." Released in 2012 by Tomorrow Corporation, the studio behind World of Goo.
puzzlepoint-and-clicknarrative-puzzleVessel
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-platformerphysicsMagrunner: Dark Pulse
A first-person puzzler in which a Magtech glove charges cubes and platforms so that like colours attract and opposites repel, carrying you through 40-plus test rooms. Frogwares' 2013 game pours Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos into a Portal-shaped mould.
puzzlefirst-personINSIDE
A 2.5D narrative puzzle-platformer that guides a hunted boy ever rightward through a dark dystopian facility, solving with push-pull, water, light, and the power to remote-control other bodies. Wordless, told entirely through its environment — Playdead's follow-up to LIMBO.
puzzleplatformeratmosphericPoly Bridge
A 2D physics puzzle in which you span two banks on a fixed budget, using a handful of parts — wood, steel, cable, hydraulic pistons — to carry cars and buses across. Alongside its campaign, Dry Cactus adds a sandbox and Workshop for sharing your own bridges.
puzzlephysicssandboxRelicta
A first-person physics puzzler set on lunar Chandra Base: flip the magnetic polarity of cubes (attract or repel) and cancel gravity to float them onto the devices that open each door. Two verbs — magnetism and gravity — carry you into a sci-fi mystery, in this game by Mighty Polygon.
puzzlefirst-personphysicsQ.U.B.E. 2
A first-person puzzler where manipulation gloves grow colored cubes on white walls — red steps, blue springs, green movable blocks — recombined to cross a sand-buried alien structure. The sequel to Q.U.B.E., made by Toxic Games.
puzzlefirst-personadventureThe Bridge
A 2D puzzle game where you rotate the entire stage to change which way gravity pulls, threading M.C. Escher-style impossible architecture to reach the exit key. From a single verb — turn the world — grow vortexes, a rolling boulder and full inversion, all in hand-inked black-and-white lithograph. A 2013 game by Ty Taylor and Mario Castañeda.
puzzlepuzzle-platformerphysicsThe Entropy Centre
A first-person puzzler in which you rewind an object's last 38 seconds with ASTRA, an AI companion gun, carrying and placing cubes to clear test chambers in a ruined orbital station. Stubby Games' debut, built around one verb: define the end state, then reverse-engineer the cause.
first-personpuzzlephysicsQuantum Conundrum
A first-person physics puzzler in which a boy searches a deranged mansion for his missing inventor uncle, armed with the Interdimensional Shift Device. Swap between four dimensions — Fluffy makes heavy things weightless, Reverse Gravity flips the pull, Slow slows time — and bend boxes and physics to clear each room. Built by Portal's lead designer Kim Swift (as reported) and published by Square Enix.
puzzlepuzzle-platformerfirst-personQ.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-puzzleWorld of Goo
Stack squishy goo balls into bridges and towers to deliver them to the goal. Physics building.
physicsassemblyPortal
Rewriting space itself with a portal gun. The textbook for 3D puzzle design.
physicspathfindingobservationHalf-Life 2: Episode One
A five-hour escape with Alyx, blending gravity-gun physics puzzles and FPS combat.
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