Tag: Puzzle
Games where the main gameplay elements involve mental challenges or obstacles, or that require some thought or logic in order to complete.
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Discolored
A short little point and click puzzle game. Some of the puzzles are a tiny bit obtuse, but my partner and I solved it in 2-3 hours without a walkthrough or anything. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
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Wandersong
A cute little game about a bard trying to save the world. Explore many fantastic locales and sing to solve puzzles. Recover the parts of the Earthsong to try and save the world!
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Opus Magnum
Welcome to the age of alchemy and automation, you’ve been hired as the alchemist to a nobelman, and been given access to their transmutation engine, which you can configure and automate however you need to achieve your goals. Starting with a set of inputs and programmable arms, and create a set of outputs to complete…
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Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
It’s literally just a super lightweight collection of free and open-source newspaper puzzles. No concrete progression, no unlock system, no ads or IAPs, just pure puzzles and nothing else.
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TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Tri is a platformer, one with a very slightly off atmosphere, and in some cases a bit of non-euclidean map design, but its a puzzle platformer nontheless. Your goal is to find your missing fox friend by adventuring through areas, solving puzzles, and unlocking new tools.
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14 Minesweeper Variants
If you thought that Minesweeper was too easy, or that guessing in Minesweeper is a sin that should be avoided at all costs, then this is the game for you. 14 Variants is a brutally hard game that expects you to follow a bunch of potentially obscure logical trails to deduce every square and can…
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DemonCrawl
It’s basically Minesweeper but with rogue-like mechanics.
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Oh Jeez, Oh No, My Rabbits Are Gone
Something spooked your 100 bunnies in the night and now you have to adventure out to find them. This is a puzzle platformer where not only do you have to explore the world to find your rabbits, you have to call out to them and tell them to move, stop, etc in order to try…
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RiME
RiME is a beautiful little short to medium story game. It has some rudimentary puzzles in it but it’s mostly a game about visual storytelling. You play as a young boy who wakes up on a beach, where you can use your voice to activate statues around the island to raise platforms, open doors, or…
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I Love Hue Too
A very simple free to play puzzle game about sorting puzzle pieces by colour. You start seeing the end result of the puzzle, then it shuffles most of the pieces, and you have to move the pieces around again to put things back into colour order.
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WitchWay
WitchWay is a charming little puzzle platformer about escaping a well and rescuing bunnies. Early on, you find a wand that you can use to control purple blocks scattered all throughout the well, which you’ll then use to either press buttons remotely or traverse the rooms you’re in.
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The Entropy Centre
Portal inspired puzzle game with a talking puzzle gun. Need I say more1?