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Best Puzzle Games
Puzzle video games are a broad genre, as there is something puzzling, or something to solve in most games. The games we specify here focus on a puzzle or conundrum as the main interactive mechanic. They test many problem-solving skills, logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, spatial recognition, and word completion.Some puzzle games will focus on a traditional, self-contained, puzzle board with pieces to move. Other video games take this in more conceptual directions, offering puzzles that involve Action, Platforming, Shooting or even Role-Play relationships with other characters.
In this way, the puzzle can be used to communicate frustration, difficulty or tension as well as offer a sense of control, understanding and ease in or Adventure games. Most Puzzle video games are, by their nature, Turn Based but they can also be integrated into more pressured and time-limited Action game experiences.
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Outright_Games
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is a running and jumping game in the world of Trollhunters. You play Jim Lake Jr. and work to stop Porgon the Trickster Troll and his sneaky plans. With the help of other characters and their abilities you solve...
Roblox
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/06/2016
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle, Rhythm, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @Roblox
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 100 players online
In this game, amateur game-makers create simple online games that often mimic real-world grown-up scenarios, like working in a pizza restaurant, surviving natural disasters, escaping prison, scuba diving or playing hide-and-seek. The library of games is...
Impostor
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Impostor is a space survival game like Among Us. It is a community created version of that official game on Roblox as Impostor, but also on Minecraft as a couple of minigames called Among Us and Impostor. The Roblox game is a version of Among Us for...
Webbed
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Sbuggames
Players: This is a single player game
Webbed is a running and jumping game with a twist. You play a spider who can make webs, swing, climb and all the while create music as she goes. It follows the story of our happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big dumb...
Bake 'n Switch
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Puzzle
Developer: @bakenswitch
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Bake 'n Switch is a puzzle fighting game where 2-4 players are apprentice bakers fighting the "Mould" and taking on various Guardian bosses. It's ridiculously cute and a lot of silly fun, as you catch, merge and sacrifice the anthropomorphised dough...
Pokémon Cafe Mix
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: This is a single player game
Pokemon Cafe Mix is a puzzle game. Similar to the icon-connection challenge of Disney Tsum Tsum, you play as Eevee and delivering orders in a cafe by linking Pokemon icons in a ring. It's a low pressure puzzle with a swirl-to-connect interaction that is...
Roki
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @PolyTreehouse
Players: This is a single player game
Röki is a Scandinavian folklore point-and-click style adventure game where you play Tove on a journey to save her family. As you help her to come to terms with loss, you explore deep into a snowy fairytale landscape with strange locations and creatures.
Townscaper
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 30/06/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @OskSta
Players: This is a single player game
Townscaper is a town building toy. You pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea. As you continue to add houses of different colours the game automatically orientates the architecture for you.
Paradise Killer
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @KaizenGameWorks
Players: This is a single player game
Paradise Killer is a detective game set in the open world of Paradise Island. It's a strange place with quirky characters and an alien obsessed, demon worshiping world. You an exiled investigator brought back to solve the mass murder of the island's...
New Super Lucky's Tale
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @PlayfulStudios
Players: This is a single player game
This is a platform game where you play a fox on a quest to recover pages from a magical book that will save his world. It takes gameplay in a more action-oriented direction but the islands and characters are full of quirky character and treasures like...
Astro's Playroom
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/11/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: PlayStation 5
Developer: @SonyJapanStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Astro's Playroom is a running and jumping game that launched with the PlayStation 5. It not only showcases the PS5's new DualSense controller but offers a loveable adventure with novel interactions and considerable substance.
Puzzle Quest (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/03/2007, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @i2Games
Players: This is a single player game
Puzzle Quest 3 is the latest in a series of games that combine role-playing with tile-matching puzzles. Set in a fantasy world, you move around the map, encountering monsters and other enemies. When you go the battle are played out as tile puzzles where...
Phasmophobia
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/09/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @KineticGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Phasmophobia (Phasmophobia VR) is a horror survival game where you and your team investigate paranormal activity. It focuses on creating a realistic world built to get your heart racing, through the interactive ghost hunting equipment and teamwork.
Scribble It
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @DetachOfficial
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 16 players online
Scribble It is a digital take on the classic board game Pictionary. You take turns drawing a word as the other players try to be the first one to guess it. The benefit is that you don't have to be in the same place to play. Also, there's the added...
Spyder
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/03/2020
Platforms: Mac and iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @SpyderTheGame
Players: This is a single player game
Spyder is a puzzle adventure where you play as Agent 8, a small 6-legged spider-robot that was designed by a British spy agency for attempting to stop an evil organization. You take on different challenges using your special abilities in a game that...
Kill It With Fire
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/08/2020
Platforms: PC
Developer: @tinybuild
Players: This is a single player game
Kill It With Fire is a fighting game where you kill spiders. Lifting objects, looking under things and generally exploring the houses means you find spiders. The challenge is then to kill them with increasingly ridiculous weapons.
Bugsnax
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @YoungHorses
Players: This is a single player game
Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you do, you literally become what you eat. It's silly puzzling fun from the creators of [link to game/Octodad+Dadliest+Catch...
Shady Part of Me
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @ShadyPartOfMe
Players: This is a single player game
Shady Part of Me is a narrative platform game where you play as a young girl and her shadow. You help her overcome emotional struggles through solving 2D and 3D puzzles. The game world is based within the young girl's dreams. The young girl is afraid of...
Frogger In Toy Town
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/10/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @Konami
Players: This is a single player game
Frogger In Toy Town is a jumping and running game that updates the classic Frogger road-crossing challenge. You play in rich three dimensional environments with objects that interact with each other. As well as looking nice, this adds a physical...
Metamorphosis
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @OvidWorks
Players: This is a single player game
Metamorphosis is a surrealist adventure game about a man turned into a small insect. It's inspired by Franz Kafka books. From a first-person view you run, jump and climb around in unusual ways on your insect legs, meet bizarre characters and solve...
Teardown
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @TuxedoLabs
Players: This is a single player game
Teardown is a strategic game where you plan and execute a heist in a fully destructible environments. Your objective is to claim the key cards that are hidden around the map. However taking one triggers the alarm, giving you only sixty seconds before...
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @MediaMolecule
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is running and jumping game. It's a spinoff of the LittleBigPlanet series and follows Sackboy and three friends as they explore, collect and battle their way through a fantasy world.
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/06/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Open World, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Werefivegames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Totally Reliable Delivery Service is a package delivery game, where you use different means to get parcels to their rightful owners in the time limit.
Umurangi Generation
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Veselekov
Players: This is a single player game
Umurangi Generation is an adventure you play by exploring a city and taking photographs. Unlike other games where the photography is secondary, this is the main way you progress. As you do, you discover a story about ecology, friendship and the...
Hitman (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Puzzle, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @IOInteractive
Players: This is a single player game
Hitman 3 is a stealth game where you take on assassination missions and then figure out how to execute them. The dynamic situations you enter unfold as you play and you can try different approaches.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/07/2003, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Puzzle, Role-Playing, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @Obsidian
Players: This is a single player game
The Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is a series of hard narrative-driven role-playing and combat games set in the Star Wars universe, 4000 years before Luke Skywalker and the Empire. You fight enemies and discover secrets by talking to the...
Portal (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Web Browser, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @ValveSoftware
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/12/2014, updated in 2019
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @CapcomUSA_
Players: This is a single player game
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a courtroom murder mystery series where you piece together clues to challenge testimonies and uncover the truth. It’s like a visual novel, although you must interact with characters and evidence to progress.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 24/03/2003, updated in 2013
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an adventure game in the Zelda series. This one is set on a group of islands in a vast sea, and follows Link as he attempts to save his sister from the sorcerer Ganon. This soon develops into a struggle to find the...
New Super Mario Bros. U
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/11/2012, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
New Super Mario Bros. U is platform game where you play with 4 main players (and an optional assistant player) to traverse from one side of the level to the other. Along with the usual running, jumping, stomping and collecting you are racing other...
Mario Party (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/10/2010, updated in 2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Racing, Sports and Strategy
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Mario Party (Wii, Wii U, 3DS and Gamecube) is an interactive board game. Players compete in different mini-games to earn the chance to throw dice and proceed around the board. You play as Nintendo characters and take on challenges that make use of the...
There Is No Game
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @ThereIsNoGame
Players: This is a single player game
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is a comedic adventure with a strange twist. From the outset the game’s narrator insists that there is no game to play. As you inevitably ignore his instruction you go on a journey through silly and unexpected video...
Pac-Man Geo
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Pac-Man Geo combines the classic pill-collecting arcade game with the real world. Unlike Pokemon Go, you don't run around outside, but use real world locations to make the mazes around which you are chased by ghosts.
Human Fall Flat
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/12/2017, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @NoBrakesGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Human: Fall Flat takes the idea of rag-doll characters and movement in the direction of a platform game. You run, jump and solve puzzles with your elastic character, either on your own or with another player. Get it wrong and you fall flat on your face,...
Moving Out
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @SmgStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Moving Out is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company. With up to four players you work together to get items out of the house and into the van. Although this starts simply you soon find furniture that is an awkward shape or needs two...
The Touryst
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @ShinenGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Touryst is a puzzle based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to of course, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time...
Fancade
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 30/04/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting, Puzzle, Racing and Shooting
Developer: @MartinMagni
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Fancade is a collection of simple games played on smartphones. It offers simple running, jumping, puzzle, shooting challenges depicted with simple pixel visuals. Like Roblox, these offer simple versions of other commercial games. Unlike Roblox, these...
Photographs - Puzzle Stories
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
"Have you ever made a mistake, or hurt people you care about?" Asks the Photographs trailer. It's a puzzle game that aims much higher than to distract you while on the way to work.
Lost Ember
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/07/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @MooneyeStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Lost Ember is an animal exploration adventure game. While forward progress is relatively linear, it involves beguiling flying, swimming, digging and running to explore the mysterious world through the eyes of different animals.
To The Moon
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 10/11/2011, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Reives_FreeBird
Players: This is a single player game
To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon. With only a few ways to interact with the game, you control the doctors, exploring and solving puzzles to reconstruct the dying man's...
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/1991
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an adventure game in a long "Zelda" series. Like the other games, you play Link, who must defeat an evil force in the land of Hyrule. You do this by exploring the world, killing spawning enemies and finding a...
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @HonigStudios
Players: This is a single player game
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale is a stealth puzzle game, where you play a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother. It's a non-violent adventure game where you must sneak past the dangers of the Wild West to build self-confidence, cunning, and new...
Dandara: Trials of Fear
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @LongHatHouse
Players: This is a single player game
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil. You can defy gravity to jump from wall to wall and ceilings to ceiling. This combines the action of...
Bonkies
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/01/2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @BonkieCorp
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Bonkies is a co-operative building game where you construct buildings from different blocks. With a jetpack and a grab-arm you work with other players to maneuver the blocks into place. It starts quite simply but soon gets everyone shouting.
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/10/2012
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Chubigans
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a series of three games where you run a restaurant. You have full control over how you improve your restaurant and what food or drink you want to sell. Each game plays in a similar way, adding new locations, challenges and modes.
Hundred Days, Winemaking Simulator
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/05/2021
Platforms: Android, PC, Stadia and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @BrokenArmsGames
Players: This is a single player game
Hundred Days is a strategy game about making wine. You control every aspect of a new Winery, choose vines, learn how to grow them and when to harvest. You make decisions about the process with a simple interface that takes you through each day. It's a...
Five Nights at Freddy's (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/07/2014, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @SteelWoolStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a series of puzzle horror games. You play the night-guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and have to survive the night while in your office, checking the cameras and closing the doors, or make repairs, all while being hunted...
Return of the Obra Dinn
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Dukope
Players: This is a single player game
You play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have all mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each...
Overcooked (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/08/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @Team17Ltd
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Overcooked, Overcooked 2 and Overcooked! All You Can Eat are collaborative cooking games for up to 4 players. You must keep talking to other players to coordinate the various elements of the dishes. It starts simply enough but soon gets more complicated...
The Witness
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @Thekla_inc
Players: This is a single player game
The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story. It’s a game with puzzles at the core, but the real mystery is solving what has happened in the world you find yourself in.
I Am Dead
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @A_i
Players: This is a single player game
I Am Dead is a puzzle game from the creators of Wilmot's Warehouse. You play a recently-deceased museum curator trying to avert a disaster from his home town of Shelmerston.
Ibb and Obb
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 3
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Sparpweed
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Ibb & Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for co-operation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...
Sniks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/08/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @ShellyAlon
Players: This is a single player game
Sniks is a puzzle game about guiding colourful worms to matching coloured fruit and food. Each level is a self contained arena with a number of snakes. Each snake can only consume fruit of a matching colour and they can't pass each other. It poses some...
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/08/2017
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @Naughty_Dog
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is an action-adventure game where you Chloe Frazer, and seek the Tusk of Ganesh in the Western Ghats mountain ranges of India in the midst of a civil war. It's the first Uncharted game not to feature protagonist Nathan Drake.
Get Together
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/05/2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Developer: @StudioSterneck
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Get Together is a puzzle adventure where you and a friend explore a strange world to solve mysteries and discover an ancient story. What's unusual is that you play on two separate devices and need to talk to each other to solve the puzzles.
Nuts
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 20/01/2021
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @JoonTurbo
Players: This is a single player game
Nuts is an adventure game where you play a rookie field researcher. You use your camera, caravan, GPS and map to investigate the depths of the enigmatic Melmoth Forest. As you study the local squirrel population you uncover a strange mystery.
Papers, Please
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 08/08/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @Dukope
Players: This is a single player game
You play the role of a border-crossing immigration officer in the fictional dystopian Eastern Bloc-like country of Arstotzka. You review each immigrant’s and returning citizens’ passports and paperwork according to an increasing list of changing...
Snipperclips
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/03/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Developer: @SFBTom
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a game where you play a piece of paper that can be cut into different shapes. Through a series of puzzle levels, you adjust your shape by clipping and overlapping other players. Sometimes this is to match a shape, at others it is to catch a ball...
Pikuniku
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/01/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Sectordub
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikuniku is an adventure where you play a red creature, Piku, on a mission to harvest the colourful world's resources. You interact with different objects to trigger switches and open doors. You can also lasso your legs to swing from hooks or curl into...
Hey! Pikmin
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/07/2017
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: This is a single player game
Hey! Pikmin is a spinoff game from the Pikmin series. In this game Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet and needs to find fuel to escape, leading a group of Pikmin through 2D side scrolling levels collecting the Sparklium. Players enter a level and...
A Hat in Time
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/10/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HatInTime
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
A Hat in Time is a running, jumping and exploring game inspired by retro platform games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts. As you explore each of the worlds, you discover characters to talk to, enemies to battle and an...
Akurra
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/07/2021
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @Gojirra
Players: This is a single player game
Akurra is a block pushing puzzle and exploration game. Its look is inspired by classic games like Zelda, Star Tropics, and Chip’s Challenge. It looks simple, but offers a rich and complex puzzles backed by visuals and sounds that take you back to the...
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @RajiTheGame
Players: This is a single player game
Raji: An Ancient Epic is a running and jumping puzzle game drawing on Hindu and Balinese history. Taking inspiration from tales like Mahabharata and Ramayana you play a young girl named Raji how is chosen by the gods to defend the human race.
Legends of Runeterra
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/01/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @RiotGames
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Legends of Runeterra is a collectible card game that takes place in the League of Legends universe. You battle other players using the cards you've collected that bring in champions, creatures, weapons, and powers.
The Cost of Recovery
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @OffTheBtnTrack
Players: This is a single player game
The Cost of Recovery is a narrative adventure where you play as four different people, one of whom has a stroke. How this impacts each of them is experienced first hand. Can they all get through this together or will everything start to fall apart?
Little Nightmares (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/02/2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @TarsierStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Little Nightmares II is a running and jumping game wrapped in a horror theme. You play a little boy named Mono who explores a dark and disturbing world. On your journey, you meet a little girl called Six and together you try to survive and uncover the...
Voyage
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/02/2021
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @VenturousGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Voyage is a short cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home.
Conduct Together (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/12/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @HeyNorthplay
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Conduct Together is a strategy game where you control toy trains along the overlapping train tracks. Each train can be started and stopped with a specific button. Other buttons change different points. The aim is to transport the people from one station...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/11/2006, updated in 2016
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure game in the Zelda series. As with the other games, you play Link, who must prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by corruption from a parallel dimension. Unlike other Zelda games, you can take the form...
Carrion
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Kroskiewicz
Players: This is a single player game
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Kine
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @DireGoldfish
Players: This is a single player game
Kine is a 3D puzzle game where you control three robot instruments: Roo, the accordion; Quat, the drum; and Euler, the trombone. To help them become a band, you solve puzzles that involve their different abilities in various ways.
Disc Room
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @DevolverDigital
Players: This is a single player game
Disc Room is an action survival game set in a sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse. You are a scientist from the future exploring the facility and must get through each room that is filled with sharp discs by running and dodging. You have special...
Balance - Power Grid
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/08/2016
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Genres: Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @HyperGames
Players: This is a single player game
Balance - Power Grid is a puzzle game about power grids. You place cables, pylons and power generators to make sure there are no blackouts. Through a series of challenges you build power grids that are functional, and that produce the right amount of...
Dorfromantik
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/03/2021
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @_Toukana
Players: This is a single player game
Dorfromantik is a peaceful village-building strategy puzzle game for one player. It's inspired by tile-based board-games like Carcassonne and Tantrix.
Car Quest
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/10/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Puzzle and Racing
Developer: @EZoneCom
Players: This is a single player game
Car Quest is an exploration puzzle adventure you navigate by driving your car. With no time pressure and a relaxed vibe you can take your time to drive, collect, explore, solve, discover.
Teacup
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Smarto_Club
Players: This is a single player game
Teacup is a narrative adventure about a shy young frog who loves drinking tea and reading. You explore the world and make choices that change the direction of the story. It's a gentle game about friendship, stepping out into the world and, of course,...
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/10/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @Fictiorama
Players: This is a single player game
Do Not Feed the Monkeys is an adventure game where you sit at a computer and spy on live video feeds of various events and characters. Your job is to gather information about "the monkeys" while also looking after your character's health and apartment...
Tunic
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @Dicey
Players: This is a single player game
You wake up on an island as a small fox, with no memory of how you got there. From a fixed overhead perspective, you push through trees, pick up weapons and learn new moves to discover an expanse of forests, caves and landscapes. Choose your own way...
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/10/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo 2DS|3DS and Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Adventure and Puzzle
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
The three Luigis Mansion (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Gamecube or Nintendo Switch) games each challenge you to investigate a haunted mansion. As longstanding Nintendo character Luigi, you play a ghostbuster to capture various mischievous ghouls. The puzzles...
Nintendoland
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/11/2012
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle, Racing and Shooting
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Nintendo Land is a collection of Nintendo games was created for the Nintendo Wii U launch. It uses the console’s tablet screen to create specific roles for different players. In Mario Chase, the hiding player uses the tablet controller screen while...
Ghost Trick
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/06/2010
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Nintendo DS and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @CapcomUSA_
Players: This is a single player game
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens. His ultimate aim is to use his memories to find out how he...
Tetris (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @AlexeyPajitnov9
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Tetris is a longstanding puzzle game where you make horizontal lines by placing different shaped tiles in a well. It's simple and fun, but as the pieces speed up it gets increasingly difficult.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/10/2016
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @SteelCrateGames
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room
In this game you’re confronted with a bomb on the screen that has to be defused, requiring a series of modules to be disarmed. The bomb defuser player can see and operate the bomb but the other players, who have the defuse instructions, can’t. The...
Night in the Woods
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/01/2017, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @NightInTheWoods
Players: This is a single player game
Night in the Woods follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs. But the place is different now her friends have grown and changed. There’s something suspicious happening in the nearby...
Bad North
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RawFury
Players: This is a single player game
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...
Silly Walks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/08/2017
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @ParttimeMonkey
Players: This is a single player game
Silly Walks is an adventure where you control household-objects by tapping the screen to get them to walk. Each tap switches legs so you can control their direction as well as their speed. It sounds simple but takes some considerable skill. The...
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/01/2014, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @YoungHorses
Players: This is a single player game
Most games design their controls to be easy and accessible. Octodad: Dadliest Catch takes a different approach. Using a combination of sticks and buttons, it creates an awkward, stomach-churning feeling of having too many limbs that you can’t directly...
Okami
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 20/04/2006, updated in 2012
Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @PG_kamiya
Players: This is a single player game
Okami (Okamiden on Nintendo DS) is an unusual action-adventure. Combat is interactions are achieved with brush strokes rather than weapons. It has a unique visual style that invites you to inhabit its painted world with brushstrokes of your own. Whether...
Triple Agent
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/07/2017, updated in 2019
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @Tasty_Rook
Players: You can play with 9 players in the same room
Triple Agent is a parlour-style game that uses one device passed between 5-9 players, assigning them either an agent or double-agent role as the game starts. There are tip-offs from the game about other players, the discussion around the table with each...
Assemble With Care
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @UsTwoGames
Players: This is a single player game
From the makers of Monument Valley, this puzzle game is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to...
Teach Your Monster To Read
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/03/2014, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @MonstersCanRead
Players: This is a single player game
Teach Your Monster to Read is a game about phonics, letters and reading. Children create a monster for a journey through three games. The combination of colourful well-animated characters and proper reading learning is both fun and powerful.
Returnal
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 30/04/2021
Platforms: PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @HouseMarque
Players: This is a single player game
Returnal is a sci-fi adventure played in repeating rounds that slowly change the world and your character. You are a pilot stranded on a mysterious planet and must investigate and fight through the world to both survive and solve the repeating problem.
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2018
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
A Good Snowman (Is Hard To Build) is puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen. On each level you must roll your snowballs to be the right size and then position them on each other to make a snowman.
Frequency Missing
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 07/11/2018
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @UNIofSkovde
Players: This is a single player game
This is a point and click adventure. You play young radio reporter Patricia who has just started her first job at a radio station. However, strange things are happening. Richard, her friend who got her the job has vanished and someone is tampering with...
Wonderbox
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Platforms: Mac and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative and Puzzle
Developer: @AquirisGS
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Wonderbox is a action-adventure game where you tap to build beautiful miniature diorama scenes in which to explore. Like Toad Treasure Tracker Each of these worlds has its own micro-adventure with enemies,...
All Of You
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Developer: @AlikeStudio
Players: This is a single player game
All of You is a platform game where you can pause time and control the levels rather than the character. By rearranging the timing, order and orientation of the world you play in you can help the mother hen get her chicks back.
Pikmin
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/10/2001, updated in 2009
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: This is a single player game
Pikmin is a real time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin. You are able to control and use these creatures to knock down walls, build bridges and attack...
Morkredd
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/12/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Developer: @HyperGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Morkredd is a puzzle game about light and shadow, where 2 characters work together to push a glowing orb of light in a pitch black world, avoiding to step into shadow - even each others' - which results in their death.
One Hand Clapping
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/07/2020
Platforms: Stadia
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Rhythm
Developer: @BadDreamGames
Players: This is a single player game
One Hand Clapping is a running and jumping game where you sing into a microphone to interact with the world. The game acknowledges how challenging this idea may be, and gently leads you into using your voice to create platforms, adjust the wind and...
Pile Up
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Handy_Games
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Pile Up is a running and jumping game where up to four of your play as boxes. You run (slide?) and jump around the level and need to jump gaps, open doors and solve puzzles to progress. You need to coordinate with each other to progress through the...
Daylife in Japan
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/10/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @QuByteGames
Players: This is a single player game
Daylife in Japan is a jigsaw puzzle game. You choose the difficulty and the animated puzzle picture which is then divided in jigsaw pieces scattered around the play area. As with a real puzzle, you then need to piece it back together the picture.
Yoku's Island Express
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 29/05/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @YokuGame
Players: This is a single player game
Yoku's Island Express combines pinball and running and jumping games. You run, bounce and collect special items, engage in battles with fantasy enemies and explore a large open-world. Just like a classic pinball machine you use paddles and bumpers...
Potion Craft
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @TinyBuild
Players: This is a single player game
Potion Craft is a puzzle adventure game where you create potions in an ancient looking workshop. More than learning recipes, your potions need to strategically combine the qualities of each ingredient to explore the potion-map and create brews to help...
Heave Ho
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @LeCartelStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
The Unfinished Swan
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/10/2012
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @GiantSparrow
Players: This is a single player game
The Unfinished Swan invites you to explore a world by splashing paint on it. The tactile experience leads you into a fairy tale about an unfinished painting that leads a child back to his parent.
Untitled Goose Game
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @House_house_
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
This is another silly and funny game but with a dastardly vibe. You play a mean goose who is intent on ruining the day of the inhabitants of a sleeping English village. By stealing items, squawking and otherwise making a nuisance of yourself you slowly...
Life Is Strange (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 19/01/2016
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @DONTNOD_Ent
Players: This is a single player game
This is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover the ability to...
Donut County
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/08/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Torahhorse
Players: This is a single player game
Donut County offers a similarly simple style of play. You drag a hole around the screen; the more things you can make fall in, the bigger the hole gets. You start with bricks, road cones and bushes, but eventually you’re swallowing whole houses.
Hidden Through Time
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @RoguesideGames
Players: This is a single player game
This is a spot the item game that also takes you on a journey through different time periods. You are task with finding specific items and must zoom, interact and uncover things to find each one.
Superliminal
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/11/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @Pillowcastle
Players: This is a single player game
Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...
Dishonored (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/10/2012, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Puzzle, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @ArkaneStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Dishonored is an adventure game series set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall. You play Corvo Attano, bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. But you are framed for her murder and forced to become an assassin.
Oceanhorn (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 14/11/2013
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Cornfox
Players: This is a single player game
Oceanhorn is an adventure game series that brings Zelda-style exploration, battling and dungeon solving to non-Nintendo platforms. You play as a boy on a quest to find his lost father and defeat the living fortress, Oceanhorn. You explore dungeons,...
Wii Party U
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/10/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Racing
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Wii Party U is a collections of games to play with families in the same room. Different modes suite different groups and ages but are all light hearted fun and make use of the Wii U Gamepad in creative ways.
Wildfire
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WildfireGame
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Wildfire is a running, jumping and hiding game where you hide from (and distract) enemies to get through levels and complete missions. You have specific powers to start fires, freeze water, and move earth that offer different ways to solve the puzzle of...
A Monsters Expedition
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
A Monsters Expedition is a puzzle game where a monster finds creatures on an island and learns about the history of humanity. The puzzle is how to get from one island to the next.
KeyWe
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Developer: @StoneWheat
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
KeyWe is a puzzle game where you control two Kiwi birds running a postal service. At first the jobs are simple but as you complete more missions they start to become more complex. These tasks range from typing out telegrams, sending urgent messages and...
Embracelet
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @MachineboyCom
Players: This is a single player game
Embracelet is an adventure game, where you use a magical bracelet to interact with objects and solve puzzles. As you explore the fishing community, make friends and solve puzzles, you subtlety affect the outcome of the story.
Minit
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Fighting and Puzzle
Developer: @DevolverDigital
Players: This is a single player game
Minit is retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks in within a 60 second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60 second...
Qomp
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/11/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WombatStuff
Players: This is a single player game
Qomp is a bat and ball game with a difference. You control the ball rather than the bat. Trapped in between paddles for decades, you finally escape and start an adventure through a maze of dungeons.
Unrailed!
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @IndoorAstronaut
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Unrailed! is a co-op strategy game where you work with friends to build a train line across endless landscapes. Along with finding the resources to build track, bridges and tunnels you need to deal with local inhabitants, upgrade your train, and watch...
Luna The Shadow Dust
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/10/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @LanternStudio_
Players: This is a single player game
Luna The Shadow Dust is an adventure game where you play two companions drawn together in a hand-animated world. Each part of the game is beautifully realised and presents a puzzle to solve.
Empty
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/09/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @_Dstrm
Players: This is a single player game
Empty is a minimalist puzzle game that teaches the value of simplicity in life. You rotate and interact with different vignettes to line up items with the same background colour. As you do this they disappear and the scene slowly empties.
Offroad Mania
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 10/02/2020
Platforms: PC and Web Browser
Developer: @ActiveGames
Players: This is a single player game
Offroad Mania is a physics focused driving game that has you trying to navigate difficult off-road terrain. It's unusual because of the focus on travseral, vehicle administration and driving skill.
Lost and Hound
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @DaisyAleSounds
Players: This is a single player game
Lost and Hound is an adventure puzzle game where you play as a scent tracking rescue dogs, Corgi and Biscuit. You use your sense of smell to find things and solve mysteries. Your heightened hearing and senses enable you find your goals, eventually...
Fishy 3D
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @SokPopCo
Players: This is a single player game
Fishy 3D is a small game where you play a little fish in a polluted riverbed. Your objective is simply to escape to the sea! This is done by navigating through your pond and eventually releasing enough water that you can reach the pipe that leads to the...
A Juggler's Tale
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @kaleidoscube
Players: This is a single player game
A Juggler's Tale is a running and jumping game where you guide Abby, a string puppet through a dangerous world where you need to solve puzzles and avoid traps. You move crates, pull levers, jump over hazards and try to outrun chasers.
Dordogne
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Cedric_Babouche
Players: This is a single player game
Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother. You explore the house and area to find letters and puzzles that bring back memories of the past.
Ink
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/08/2015
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @SpaceboyGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Ink is a running (sliding) and jumping game where you see the platforms you are jumping on by splashing them with ink. You control a little white square that, along with splashing colour everywhere, can jump on enemies and climb walls.
Supraland
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/03/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @SupraBall
Players: This is a single player game
Supraland is an adventure game that involves exploring, running, jumping, solving puzzles, and fighting monsters. You play a member of the Red Village and you must discover why the Blue Village has sabotaged your water supply. Your character is a...
Venba
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/11/2021
Platforms: PC
Developer: @TmoritaA
Players: This is a single player game
Venba is a narrative-cooking game about an Indian mother who immigrated to Canada in the 1980s. You cook various traditional Indian dishes and restore the lost recipes which were damaged in the move to Canada. As you talk to your mother's family you...
MO: Astray
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @MOAstrayRayark
Players: This is a single player game
MO:Astray is a puzzle, jumping and exploration game. Rather than control a character who runs, you control an amorphous blob. To get around you have to use the game's unique movement mechanics to take advantage of the cleverly designed levels.
Hoa
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/04/2021
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HoaTheGame
Players: This is a single player game
Hoa is an adventure game where you walk and jump through a hand-painted world as the mysterious main character. You solve environmental puzzles and meet magical creatures while trying to find your way back home.
Evil Genius (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 30/03/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Rebellion
Players: This is a single player game
Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain. You must build a detailed, functional lair from where you can take control of the world. Similar to Sim City and 2 Point Hospital, you use your resources wisely as you...
Wilmot's Warehouse
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @FinjiCo
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
This is a game for people who like to organise things. You are in charge of a warehouse and must manage 100s of items of stock. These identical square boxes are labelled with rudimentary icons. On your own or with another player, you must decipher what...
Concrete Genie
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 20/08/2019
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Pixelopus
Players: This is a single player game
You play a young boy, who is isolated and bullied, in this exploration platform game with a twist. Using motion controls and buttons you can draw beautiful graffiti on the buildings, which come to life. These become the habitat for the creatures you...
Spy Party
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 12/04/2018
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Shooting and Strategy
Developer: @SpyParty
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Spy Party is a one-versus-one game about observing behaviour. One player is a spy at a party among many computer-controlled guests, with a list of missions. The other player is a sniper who must spot the human-controlled spy by watching the way they are...
Heaven’s Vault
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @InkleStudios
Players: This is a single player game
In Heaven’s Vault you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices can open or close vast swathes...
Limbo
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Playdead
Players: This is a single player game
Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...
Peggle (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/02/2007, updated in 2014
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @Popcap
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
In Peggle, you fire a small ball into an array of pins that are triggered and disappear when the ball touches them. It's like a bright, saccharine pachinko game. But. being electronic you can earn all sort of bonus balls and abilities by hitting...
Baba is You
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/03/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @ESAdevlog
Players: This is a single player game
Baba is You requires some lateral thinking. Each level is controlled by rules written on the screen, such as ‘Lava is Hot’, ‘Wall is Stop’ and ‘Flag is Move’. By moving the words around with your pixilated character, you subvert the...
WordHunters
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/11/2018
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @Thumbfood
Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room
This is a world-travelling word game you play on the PlayStation using a smartphone or tablet rather than controller. The smartphone and tablet screens makes picking letters easy for all ages and the camera on these devices is used to put each...
Wattam
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/06/2019
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Open World and Puzzle
Developer: @Funomena
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Wattam is an absurd adventure where characters are everyday objects with problems to solve and fun interactions to enjoy. You play as The Mayor and start on your own. As you complete simple tasks you populate the world with other strange characters.
What Remains of Edith Finch
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @GiantSparrow
Players: This is a single player game
Edith Finch is the surviving member of the Finch family, who seem to have died from a curse. In first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.
The Last Campfire
Rating: PEGI 7+
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HelloGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Last Campfire, from the same developer as No Man's Sky, is an adventure about Ember who is trapped a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting...
Monument Valley (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/05/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @UstwoGames
Players: This is a single player game
Monument Valley and Monument Valley 2 are puzzle mazes made from optical illusions. You interact with each level to change the pathway and get your character to the exit. Its striking, calm visual theme is used to build atmosphere and slowly reveal a...
I Am Bread
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/01/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @BossaStudios
Players: This is a single player game
I Am Bread takes the malleable, real-world physics gameplay and applies it to a slice of bread. By controlling each corner with a different stick or button you make your way around the kitchen and other rooms of the house. Playing a slice of bread is...
Metamorphabet
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/02/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Explore the alphabet by pushing and pulling the letters around to create different things beginning with that letter. It’s simply presented with sound effects and voiced words for each object. It excels at making each letter and object feel tactile...
Old Man’s Journey
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/05/2017
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @BrokenRules
Players: This is a single player game
Old Man’s Journey is a game about memory and old age. You help a grandfather-figure traverse the countryside by raising and lowering the landscape. Along the way he visits places that evoke the story of his life: a wife, a child and a love of the sea.
Professor Layton
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 07/11/2008
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @LEVEL5_IA
Players: This is a single player game
Professor Layton is a puzzle-game series. In different locations, you must solve brainteasers with maths, logic, maze-solving and lateral-thinking skills to move the story on.
Spaceteam (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2012
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Physically Active, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @Hengineer
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Players pilot a spaceship, each with their own control panel on their smartphone or tablet screen. The switches, dials, sliders and levers are labelled with randomly-generated peculiar names: ‘Astral Synth’, ‘Gripvent’, ‘Starmesh’,...
Myst
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/01/1983
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation Portable and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @cyanworlds
Players: This is a single player game
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and selling over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming. Exploring by clicking in the world to move, you use a special book to...
Where Cards Fall
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @TheGameBand
Players: This is a single player game
Where Cards Fall, from the same developer as Alto's Adventure, is an adventure where you build houses of cards to advance. In a beautifully hand-drawn world, you need to create pathways with the cards through the dreamlike...
Monomals
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/11/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Rhythm
Players: This is a single player game
This is a game about fishing and music. You drop your line into the water, catch a fish and make music along the way. There are different animal DJ's to choose, each with a different sound and 21 different underwater courses to fish in.
Fractured Minds
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/11/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @EmilyMGames
Players: This is a single player game
Fractured Minds is a short game that explores the implications of living with mental illness. You explore everyday spaces that behave in strange and sometimes disturbing ways. To progress, you need to solve some simple puzzles.
Tint
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 13/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @LykkeStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Tint is a puzzle game you solve by painting. You mix watercolours to match the colour of the origami. The aesthetic and the low-pressure puzzles make for a soothing experience. There are no timers, no countdowns, no points and certainly no rush,...
Pilgrims
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 07/10/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @Amanita_Design
Players: This is a single player game
Pilgrims is an adventure game where you help the characters you meet by playing cards. As you progress you assist them to complete their little stories in different ways. It's a little like Scribblenauts, but with less focus on the breadth of options...
Fire Escape
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Platforms: Android and PC
Developer: @iNKStories
Players: This is a single player game
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...
Planet Coaster
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 17/11/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @FrontierDev
Players: This is a single player game
Planet Coaster Console Edition is a pleasure park construction and management game. It draws on games like Theme Park and RollerCoaster Tycoon. You build different theme park rides and roller-coasters in considerable detail, to score design points and...
Beyond Eyes
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/08/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Team17Ltd
Players: This is a single player game
Beyond Eyes is game about a blind girl, Rae, who uses her senses to visualize the world around her. As you play, the game only shows you parts of the world you can hear. This means you can see immediately around you, and further away if things are...
Naiad
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Developer: @HiWarp
Players: This is a single player game
Naiad is a gentle adventure game where exploration is fuelled not by extreme distances, dangers or enemies, but by the simple joy of floating in rivers and pools. As a story about nature unfolds you control a nymph-like character who swims through...
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @EmberLab
Players: This is a single player game
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an adventure about a young girl who travels to an abandoned village in the hope of finding a sacred mountain shrine. To get there she must find and grow a team of charming spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their...
Stray
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @HKdevblog
Players: This is a single player game
Stray is a game about a cat lost in a futuristic city where robots live. You guide your feline friend in and out of buildings, across roads and generally poke your nose in to see what is going on.
Scribblenauts (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/09/2009
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @5THCell
Players: This is a single player game
Scribblenauts is a series of puzzle games where you solve by typing the names of everyday objects so they appear in the game and let you progress. What's surprising is the sheer number of items included in the game. This means you can solve problems in...
Way To The Woods
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Tamagotchi44
Players: This is a single player game
Way to the Woods is an adventure game where you play a fawn and a deer trying to survive their long journey home after human civilization has collapsed. Interacting with the world and exploring both urban and barren landscapes leads you to discover the...
Lost in Random
Rating: PEGI 12+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @ZoinkGames
Players: This is a single player game
Lost in Random is an adventure where you play an anthropomorphic dice and a young girl called Even. In her world, when she turns 12 she must roll a magical die to be assigned a region to live in and a life to live. But seeing her sister go through this...
It Takes Two
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 26/03/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HazelightGames
Players: This is a single player game
It Takes Two is a running, jumping and exploring game that tells a story of a young girl, Rose, who's parents are divorcing. The girl creates two dolls to represent her parents, which unexpectedly come to life. The game proceeds to share the girls...
Maquette
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 02/03/2021
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @MaquetteGame
Players: This is a single player game
Maquette is a puzzle game played in a series of nested identical worlds. What you do in the larger world effects things in the smaller one, and so on. Every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
Carto
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @SunheadGames
Players: This is a single player game
Carto is an adventure puzzle game that is unusual in letting you rearrange the map tiles while you are playing. This enables you to access new areas of the world previously impossible to get to. This can be as simple as redirecting a river out of your...
Dodo Peak
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @DodoPeak
Players: This is a single player game
Dodo Peak is a platform game where you play as a dodo bird, rescuing your babies scattered across each level. The simple layout and clever design is reminiscent of the classic QBert game, and presents streamlined logic puzzles to solve. The hand crafted...
Alt-Frequencies
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @AccidentalQ
Players: This is a single player game
Alt-Frequencies is an adventure game played by listen to a series of radio shows. It's a story about people stuck in a time loop without realising it and what you can do to save them.
A Space for the Unbound
Rating: PEGI 12+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: This is a single player game
A Space For The Unbound is an adventure about everyday life where you explore your location, chat with people and solve puzzles. Unusually, you do this by stepping into the mind of people you meet and helping them solve their stuck and knotted...
The Gecko Gods
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Inresin
Players: This is a single player game
The Gecko Gods is a puzzle game where you control a small lizard reptile exploring a world and solving puzzles. You interact with the flora and fauna, catch insects and visit other animals. Because you have sticky feet you can climb any surface.
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 21/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @Rocketship_Park
Players: This is a single player game
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building. As you do you learn about the lives of the people that live there. You can manipulate the building to move floors between...
Typoman
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/11/2015
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @BrainSeed_Fcty
Players: This is a single player game
Typoman is a running, jumping puzzle game where you use letters and words to solve puzzles and progress. You play as a character made of letters in a hostile land with evil creatures. As this unusual character, you make your way through the world...
Part Time UFO
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/02/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @HALGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Part Time UFO is a puzzle game where you use your flying craft and claw to solve various problems. Sort out a farm, support cheerleaders, cook up the ultimate dessert at a restaurant or even build a castle. It's like the sort of coin-operated crane...
Love You To Bits
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @AlikeStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Love You to Bits is an adventure where you tap to move and interact with objects, like classic point-and-click games. You play Kosmo, a clumsy, rookie space explorer in search of Nova, his robot girlfriend. After a fatal accident, all of Nova’s pieces...
Pikmin 2
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/10/2004, updated in 2009
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikmin 2 is the second in the Pikmin Series, Captain Olimar is joined by his assistant Louie on a mysterious planet. You are collecting treasures consisting of scrap metal, broken toys. You do this by controlling plant like creatures called Pikmin,...
Under Leaves
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/04/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @CircusAtos
Players: This is a single player game
Under Leaves is a puzzle game where you search of colour-filled hidden objects in scenes made of flora and fauna. Each one is a hand-drawn watercolour illustrations and accompanied with a soothing soundscape. It's a game about observation and attention...
Rivals
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/09/2020
Platforms: PC
Developer: @TimSheinman
Players: This is a single player game
Rivals is a puzzle game where you piece together the story of Josh and Luke and the breakup of their band. Playing detective, similarly to Return of the Obra Dinn, but rather than murder it's musical betrayal you are sleuthing here. You inspect sources,...
Grapple Dog
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @JoGribbin
Players: This is a single player game
Grapple Dog is a platform game where you play a pixel dog with the ability to grapple onto surfaces to swing and jump around a level. You can extend the length of the rope for a longer swing. In this way you take on puzzles, enemies and various...
Out of Space
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @BeholdStudios
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Out of Space is a co-operative game about living together on a space ship. You and your cohabitants have to build a sustainable spaceship, as well as making it a cosy home. All is not plane sailing though, as you come across deadly alien infestations, a...
The Good Life
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Swery65
Players: This is a single player game
The Good Life is a narrative adventure, where you experience a slower pace of life in an English town. Although, before long you are drawn into an intriguing web of murder, bodily transformations and photographic tasks. It's an absurdist exploration of...
You Suck at Parking
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Racing
Developer: @HVGames
Players: This is a single player game
You Suck At Parking is a tactical racing game where the ultimate goal is to stop in a parking spot. The game features cartoon style parkour racing tracks with loops, sharp bents, bombs and other hazards, on the route to a parking spot.
Biped
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @NextStudios
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Biped is an adventure game where two players closely collaboration to walk through levels, solve problems. It has unusual controls and friendly cute characters that make it great to share in the family.
Radical Relocation
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/08/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Racing and Simulation
Developer: @_Winglett
Players: This is a single player game
Radical Relocation is an action-puzzle game about moving house. You load objects onto a vehicle and drive from point A to point B without losing or breaking any. Carefully stack and balance your belongings on top of different vehicles before driving...
Playerless
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @MoonLitGs
Players: This is a single player game
Playerless: One Button Adventure is a puzzle adventure game you can play with a single button. You play a robot in a game who has become self-aware.
Fe
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/02/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @ZoinkGames
Players: This is a single player game
You play a fox in a magical fairy tale forest. The world extends in front of you in stylised form, with trees, mountains and streams glistening with sparkles of life. You run, jump, climb and dip your paws in every aspect of the world. But it’s the...
Bounden
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/05/2014
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Physically Active and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Bounden is a smartphone dance game that gets players to use their bodies. Two people hold opposite ends of one smartphone then move together to keep a cursor over the ball.
My Child Lebensborn
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/05/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @Sareptastudio
Players: This is a single player game
You nurture a Lebensborn child in Norway after World War II who faces a hostile community because they’ve been born to parents of both occupied and occupying forces. With meagre resources yourself, you must feed, clothe and bathe the child, but more...
That’s You!
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 04/07/2017
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
That's You! is a family quiz game played on the PlayStation using Android or iOS phones/tablets as controllers. The game displays a challenge on the main TV screen that each player tries to complete on the device in their hand.
Tricky Towers
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/07/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @WeirdBeardGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
This battle puzzle uses shapes but instead of creating lines you must balance them in towers that mustn’t fall over. Real-world physics apply, along with wind and attacks from other players to make your stack topple. Up to four players can race to...
Unravel (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/02/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @ColdwoodGame
Players: This is a single player game
Unravel and the two-player Unravel Two are a pair of jumping and swinging platform games where you control a character made out of wool. As well as making him look super cute, the wool is used to swing around and interact with objects.
Her Story
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 24/06/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Developer: @MrSamBarlow
Players: This is a single player game
Solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves are short films with real actors. Although there are only...
Reigns (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 11/08/2016
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @DevolverDigital
Players: This is a single player game
Take charge of a kingdom, one decision at a time. Each choice is presented to you as a playing card with some advice or a question from one of the 38 different characters. Swipe left or right to make a decision that will impact the church, people,...
Marching Order
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/11/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Marching Order puts you in charge of a disorderly animal marching band. Listen to each animal’s requests to get them in the right order in the game about sequence, rules and order.
WarioWare (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/07/2018
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle, Rhythm and Shooting
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Games don’t get any sillier than the WarioWare series. Each of its mini-games presents a basic yet peculiar challenge for the player. A simple scene appears on the screen with a one-word clue about what to do. In the few seconds of the countdown you...
The Secret of Monkey Island (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/10/1990
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @LucasfilmGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Secret of Monkey Island is a classic tongue-in-cheek pirate adventure game. You click or tap the screen to explore locations, find items and complete puzzles. Playing a young man, Guybrush Threepwood, with a dream of being a pirate, you become...
Valiant Hearts The Great War
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/06/2014, updated in 2018
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: This is a single player game
Valiant Hearts is an adventure game set during World War I. You play four characters who help a young German soldier find his love in a story about survival, sacrifice and friendship. This is achieved by solving puzzles and interacting with various...
Knack 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @SonyJapanStudio
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Knack is a platform action series where you control a shape-shifting robot called Knack. Through beautiful arcade-style battles and worlds, you collect Relics that enable you to grow bigger and gain more powers.
Little Misfortune
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/11/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @KillMondayGames
Players: This is a single player game
Little Misfortune is a dark adventure where you play a small girl called, Misfortune, who, guided by a voice in her head, seeks the prize of eternal happiness for her mother. It's played side-on and unfolds a narrative about the girl's family as you...
Subdefuge
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/03/2017
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Open World, Puzzle, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Subterfuge is a strategy game played with human opponents. The game is designed to be played over a week or so, to give players time to talk between goes. This encourages players to team up, trick or double-cross other players to get them to make the...
Snake Pass
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/03/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @SumoDigitalLtd
Players: This is a single player game
Snake Pass is a puzzle game where you move around objects and through the world like a snake. Rather than running around the levels like you do in games like Mario games, you have to slither along the ground and coil around...
Dicey Dungeons
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 13/08/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Fighting, Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @TerryCavanagh
Players: This is a single player game
Dicey Dungeons is video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.
My Brother Rabbit
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @ArtifexMundi
Players: This is a single player game
My Brother Rabbit is a hand-drawn hidden-object puzzle game about an ill sister. As her plight is told through water-colour animation, you play her brother's rabbit and unfold a parallel story in a fantasy world.
Signs of the Sojourner
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @EchodogGames
Players: This is a single player game
Signs of the Sojourner, an introspective narrative where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with cards that represent emotions. It's a coming-of-age story set in the near-future and explores how relationships form, break, and mend in the...
Clubhouse Games (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/09/2006, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo DS and Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @Clubhouse
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Clubhouse Games, is a series that offers classic board and card games in one large bundle. It's not only great value but introduces children to a wide range of real-world games to play with the family.
The Stanley Parable
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 31/07/2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @HelloCakebread
Players: This is a single player game
The Stanley Parable is an interactive drama with no combat or action to speak of apart from walking around and interacting with everyday objects. You guide a silent protagonist, Stanley, while discouraging narration plays in your ear. As you discover...
Spring Falls
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/11/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Spring Falls is a puzzle where you erode a geometric landscape to let water flow down the mountain and help plants grow. Along with the low-pressure puzzle play, the game offers a calming experience with soft visuals, ambient music and interactive...
Patterned
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @BorderLeap
Players: This is a single player game
Patterned is a puzzle game where you piece together beautiful patterns. It's a bit like a jigsaw but without the stress of forever finding more blue sky pieces. Each pattern begins as a sketch and you use visual clues to reassemble its scrambled pieces.
Over The Alps
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 31/03/2020
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @StaveStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Over The Alps is an adventure with intrigue and espionage set in 1939 Switzerland. Designed to look like retro photographs. The story unfolds as you select stamps to indicate how your character should approach interactions. Discover a secret history in...
Hue
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 30/08/2016
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @HenryHoffman
Players: This is a single player game
Hue is a puzzle game where you run and jump through platforms. You explore a grey land while searching for your missing mother. The novelty is in the coloured pieces you uncover, which when matched against obstacles will cause them to disappear,...
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/10/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @Yakandco
Players: This is a single player game
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan. Each location is full of retro futuristic contraptions, hidden gizmos, gadgets and clever logic based puzzles.
Gerrrms
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Fighting, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @BugbombGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Gerrrms (yes, Germs with three r's) is a light-hearted infection themed fighting game. You control one of 12 tiny germs and fight for dominance within the human body. However, you can only move around by swinging from hooks inside a corporeal arena....
Fling Smash
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/11/2010
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Fling Smash is an action throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller.
Game & Wario
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/06/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Game & Wario is a series of small games designed for families to enjoy. Like NintendoLand it shows off the different sorts of game you can play on the Wii U not possible on other systems. Because of this the quality and depth...
Wii Party
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/07/2010
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Racing
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Wii Party is a party game that offers a variety of challenges that each use the Wii Remote motion controls. These 80 mini game challenges are organised through three sections of the game: Party Games, House Party Games, and Pair Games.
De Blob 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/09/2008, updated in 2011
Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @BlitWorks
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
De Blob is a platform-puzzle game where you explore cartoon-style urban landscapes to recolour the city. You play a sponge-like creature that can collect coloured paint and take it to different locations to turn the buildings and landscape features to...
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/11/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a running, exploring, puzzle game where you guide the Toad character to save Todette from the villain Wingo and retrieve the Power Stars on each level. You navigate puzzles and obstacles, fighting enemies to reach the...
Puyo Puyo Champions (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Puyo Puyo Champions (Puyo Puyo eSports in Japan) is the latest in a puzzle game series where you line up slime-like Puyo creatures who fall from the top of the screen. The trick is to rotate the groups of two, three, and four colours to line up with...
The Gardens Between
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/09/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @TheVoxelAgents
Players: This is a single player game
The Gardens Between is a puzzle game set in dreamlike island gardens where you play as best friends Arina and Frendt. You work around the island levels collecting balls of light in your lantern, manipulating time to solve puzzles and removing obstacles....
Pode
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/06/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HenchMangoon
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pode is a co-operative puzzle game, where two players on the same system can use different abilities to help each other unlock new areas of a beautiful world and advance a cute little story. It's a good game if you like combining abilities in clever...
Blind Spot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2019
Platforms: Android
Developer: @BlindSpotGame
Players: This is a single player game
Blind Spot is a hidden target game. However you have to identify the location of the targets without any audio or visual clues. As you run your two fingers over the screen you are provided vibration feedback that increases as you home in on the two...
Cats Are Cute
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/09/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @KKirukStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Cats are Cute is a pet care game where you look after cats and build a town. You collect a variety of cats and buildings around which the cats play and hide. It's really easy to play for youngsters and relaxing for older players.
The White Door
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Developer: @RustyLakeCom
Players: This is a single player game
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black and white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Sokobond
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 27/08/2013
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
Sokobond is a puzzle game where you create chemical molecules by manoeuvring atoms around the screen, avoiding obstacles. The game is streamlined to not need instructions with its minimalistic design the enables ease of use. As you move through the...
Evergate
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @StnLntrnGames
Players: This is a single player game
Evergate is a running and jumping game where you can slow down time to make difficult jumps through hand-drawn environments. It combines the need for timing and puzzle solving in a game that slowly tells the story of the characters you meet.
Sticky Terms
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/03/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @Kamibox_ph
Players: This is a single player game
Sticky Terms is a puzzle game where you construct words from other languages with portions of letters. You rotate, drag and overlap the different elements to create words, once you do you are rewarded with a drum hit and a definition of the word.
Rolando
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Developer: @HandCircus
Players: This is a single player game
Rolando is a puzzle-adventure game where you control the ball-like Rolandos. You direct the collection of creatures through levels by tilting the device and interacting with elements like conveyor belts and elevators via the touch screen. It's a lovely...
Hot Swap
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/11/2016
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @JoGribbin
Players: This is a single player game
Hop Swap is a platform game where you can flip gravity and jump through the ground. The sky becomes the ground and the ground becomes the sky. This simple premise is used to create a complex and weaving puzzle adventure where you journey through two...
Magnibox
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/03/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @JoGribbin
Players: This is a single player game
Magnibox is a puzzle game about a magnet that's also a box. Through 160 hand made levels, you have to use your magnetic and box-like abilities to collect all the keys and stars. The game starts simple but steadily adds in lots of clever twists and...
Lunark
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @CanariGames
Players: This is a single player game
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixilated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Kolumno
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/11/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @DevilishGames
Players: This is a single player game
Kolumno is a puzzle game where you drop a ball down the side of a sphere aiming to reach the bottom without being blocked. Your task is to manipulate the ball so it fits the rotating elements with gaps in them.
YesterMorrow
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @BitmapGalaxy
Players: This is a single player game
YesterMorrow is running, jumping, climbing and collecting game where you play Yui, whose world has been destroyed and family kidnapped. To save them you journey through the four islands, forest, desert, ice, and clockwork, to collect "everlight" and...
Backbone
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @EggNutGames
Players: This is a single player game
Backbone is an adventure game inspired by film noir where you role-play as a human-like raccoon detective. As a detective, you search for clues and evidence, talk to witnesses, and choose which leads to follow.
Find the Balance
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/09/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @DigitalMelodyPl
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Find the Balance is a puzzle game where you stack awkwardly shaped objects - stones, boxes, bananas. You place these items to create stable towers by planning, selecting and rotating objects before cutting the line and dropping them gently.
Journey of the Broken Circle
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @NakanaGames
Players: This is a single player game
Journey of the Broken Circle is a rolling and jumping game about looking for a life partner. You play as a simple circle with a piece missing. As you progress by making jumps and solving puzzles, you meet partners who slot in specific abilities and...
The Talos Principle
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 11/12/2014, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Croteam
Players: This is a single player game
The Talos Principle is a narrative driven puzzle game, praised for its cerebral and philosophical nature, where you play an android with a human conscience. You explore environments to complete complex brain-teasing puzzles to collect "sigils".
Burly Men at Sea
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 29/09/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Brain_And_Brain
Players: This is a single player game
Burly Men at Sea is an adventure where you play three seafaring brothers who explore the Scandinavian seas. It's novel because it requires multiple playthroughs to discover the full narrative. It has a unique cyclical gameplay loop that remembers your...
The Jackbox Party
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/11/2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
The Jackbox Party series offers collections of party games using the smartphone and TV combination but can be played on most devices. This, like That's You, offers a novel way to play together as a family.
Rhythm Thief and The Emperor's Treasure
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/04/2012
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Rhythm
Developer: @Sega
Players: This is a single player game
Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure is a more substantial story told with cartoons interwoven with rhythm-action challenges. You play an 18-year-old boy with a secret identity as an art-thief. He’s searching for his father and, in order to find...
Beholder (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/11/2016
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @Beholder_Game
Players: This is a single player game
Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...
Catastronauts
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/11/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Inertia_Game
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a team-work space survival game where you must take on tasks to keep your ship together and also fire at enemy invaders. Controlling a team of Cat Astronauts, it’s a management challenge as you repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the...
Dragon Box
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/05/2012
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @DragonBox
Players: This is a single player game
DragonBox is an educational series of games that teaches young children maths, such as algebra using pattern matching with symbols. Unlike other educational games, the fun is in the doing in DragonBox, rather than incentivising learning with separate...
Hidden Folks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/02/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @AdriaandeJongh
Players: This is a single player game
Hidden Folks tasks you with exploring hand-drawn worlds to find particular people. It’s simple enough for youngsters to control but complex enough to keep parents and carers involved too.
Gone Home
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 15/08/2013, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Fullbright
Players: This is a single player game
Gone Home places you in the role of Katie, returning from overseas to her family home. But the house is deserted and by exploring the rooms you piece together what happened to her sister, Sam. It’s a mystery to solve, but a common one of family...
Kids
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Michaelfrei10
Players: This is a single player game
Kids is an unusual game where you tap to interact with groups of monochrome cartoon children. Seeing the little kids run around and respond to each other creates a playful and intriguing game than only lasts half an hour but will be played many times.
Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/09/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @AsteroidBase
Players: This is a single player game
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime offers a similar space-survival challenge, but this time you must collaborate to defend your circular spaceship. Each player needs to take on specific tasks to manage offensive or defensive duties.
Nintendo Labo
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Creative, Physically Active and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Nintendo Labo is another game themed around physical folding, colouring and cutting. Here, though, you get a cardboard pack with the game that folds up to make objects into which you slot the screen and controllers. Whether it’s cardboard steering...
The Stillness of the Wind
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/02/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Developer: @StillnessGame
Players: This is a single player game
In The Stillness of the Wind you are an old woman who looks after a dilapidated farm. Over the course of a few hours, no matter what your efforts, the farm falls apart as you learn about the woman’s family and have the chance to ruminate on her...
The Gunstringer
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/11/2011
Platforms: Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Narrative, Physically Active, Platform, Puzzle and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
The Gunstringer is an Xbox Kinect camera game where you use your body to control a cowboy puppet and shoot the villains by forming a gun with your fingers. You can play with two people working together, with one player controlling the character’s...
Sizzle And Stew
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/02/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Sizzle & Stew is a cooking game where you don’t have to follow the rules. It’s a lot of fun and works well in the two-player split-screen mode. Experiment as you explore all the kitchen gadgets to make a meal, or just see what happens when you put a...
In Other Waters
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/04/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
This is an underwater exploration game where you play an Artificial Intelligence assistance to a stranded xenobiologist in a mysterious alien ocean. The world is not seen except through the instrumentation available to you. This creates a non-violent...
Tangle Tower
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @SFBDim
Players: This is a single player game
Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and it’s intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each...
Chime (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/02/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Developer: @ZoeMode
Players: This is a single player game
Chime is a block-dropping music puzzle game where you control a single shape to move, rotate, and then place it onto a grid. A beatline moves across the grid in time with the music, setting off events when it hits placed shapes.
Phogs
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/06/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Coatsink
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Phogs is a game where you control a stretchy dog that has a head at both ends of its body. It sounds a little strange, but is actually an endearing adventure where, on your own or with another person, you control each end of the dog separately to...
Last Day of June
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/08/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @Ovosonico
Players: This is a single player game
Last Day of June is a game about a couple called Carl and June, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes June's life and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. You control Carl, remembering life with June and discover that you can interact with her...
Curious Expedition (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19th century. You join historical people to explore a world map to gain fame, science and treasures. Each time you set out the world is different, with unique challenges requiring particular...
Yooka-Laylee
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/04/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @PlaytonicGames
Players: This is a single player game
Yooka-Laylee is a running, jumping, collecting and exploration game where you play a pair of animal friends: a chameleon called Yooka and a bat called Laylee. They act as one, each contributing different abilities, on a quest to retrieve a magical book...
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @PlaytonicGames
Players: This is a single player game
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a side-on running and jumping game starring the characters from the 3D platform game Yooka-Laylee. You control Yooka, a male chameleon, and Laylee, a female bat and take on a level...
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @GamesSketchbook
Players: This is a single player game
Lost Words is an adventure game where you run, jump and explore inside a young girl’s diary. You control Izzy as she writes her diary by walking on words, move them around and solve different puzzles. This develops two parallel stories, one about Izzy...
Sunless Sea
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/02/2015
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Sunless Sea is a sea-faring adventure where you pilot a small steamship to explore a Victorian-era London that has been moved beneath the earth's surface. You take on the role of captain but select different ambitions that determine how you will play.
Chariot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Chariot is a co-op platform game where you haul around a wheeled Chariot, to the end of each level. Pushing, pulling or dragging with ropes, you need to use the real physics of the game to solve puzzles and time jumps to get the heavy object to the...
The Pedestrian
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 29/01/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @SkookumArts
Players: This is a single player game
The Pedestrian is a puzzle game where you control a stick man navigating a series of road signs around a virtual city. It sounds a little odd and quite simple, but by layering its interconnected sign-based puzzles it creates an experience that is both...
Murder by Numbers
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: This is a single player game
Murder by Numbers is a detective game where you find clues by solving math-square nonogram-style logic puzzles. A little like Phoenix Wright games where you have a murder to solve, but here you have to use...
Here Kitty!
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 04/05/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Action, Physically Active and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Here Kitty! is a real-world hide and seek game you play by hiding your phone. It's from the same team behind Heads Up. When the child calls out or gets near the phone makes cat noises to give them clues to find it. When it's...
Death Squared
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/03/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @SmgStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Death Squared is a cooperative puzzle game for 1, 2 or 4 players. Together, you solve puzzles by guiding a robot to a colour-coded goal. Getting there requires co-operation and communication as each player's path has deadly traps and hazards.
PiAwk
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @HiWarp
Players: This is a single player game
PiAwk is an adventure you explore as PiAwk, a little bird-like creature that is both a little awkward and shy, but also bold and curious. As you interact with the environment, architecture, landscape and other characters you realised you are enclosed in...
Framed (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Framed is a puzzle adventure where you re-arrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.
Lumino City
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/11/2014
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Lumino City is a puzzle adventure game in a hand made world. This is not unusual for a video game, but this world was literally made by hand in a physical studio and then filmed. It creates a unique experience that feels like you are poking around a...
Opus Magnum
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/12/2017
Platforms: PC
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Zachtronics
Players: This is a single player game
Opus Magnum is a puzzle game about assembling machines to convert spherical chemicals into different compounds. Each challenge can be tackled by creating different machine configurations, and each is awarded points on how compact, quick and efficient...
Elsinore
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/07/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Elsinore is a mystery-adventure set in Shakespeare's Hamlet. You play Elsinore who repeats the same four days as she tries to find a way to avoid the tragedy that lies before her.
Cross Code
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @RadicalFishGame
Players: This is a single player game
CrossCode is a retro-inspired role-play where players control a mute character who has lost their memory called Lea. The sci-fi story contains fast-paced battles, puzzles and quests as well as a wide range of abilities and equipment to level up and...
Toodee and Topdee
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Developer: @Dietzribi
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Toodee and Topdee is a platform puzzle game where you control two characters to complete single-screen levels. The twist is that each character exists in a different plane. Toodee is a top-down block-pushing world, while Topdee is side-on platforming....
Breath of Light
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/03/2015
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Breath of Light is a meditative puzzle game where you guide the breath of light through sand and water. With no score or time-limits and with all levels unlocked from the start, the focus is on relaxation and breathing rather than the challenge and its...
Singled Out
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @crowbarska
Players: This is a single player game
Singled Out is a spot the difference shooting game. Like the classic Guess Who game you have seconds to identify your target in a crowd. Make sure you only shoot the character matching the eyes, nose and mouth clues and you score points. The quicker you...
Creature in the Well
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @FlightSchoolHQ
Players: This is a single player game
Creature in the Well is a pinball-inspired fighting game that reimagines the ball bouncing fun of Arkanoid. You play the last remaining robot who ventures deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility and save the village that...
Degrees of Separation
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @DofsGame
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Degrees of Separation is a running and jumping game where you control two characters from different seasons, Ember and Rime. Each has different abilities to change the environment and help you to progress: freezing water, melting ice and the like.
Infernium
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 05/04/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Infernium is an adventure horror game where you need to carefully consider your strategy to progress through the non-linear interlocking chapters. Exploring the world, avoiding getting caught by the ethereal enemies and solving puzzles uncovers a story...
Locomotion
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/05/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @PolyFoxGaming
Players: This is a single player game
Locomotion is a puzzle game where you are a train chasing an alien who stole your gold. You control the direction of the train and the points. Each level is a puzzle where you need to find all the gold and hidden items. It's like a simplified western...
Cosmic Express
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/05/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
Cosmic Express is a puzzle game where you plan a train route to collect the waiting passengers. Although the gamelooks super simple, as it progresses you have to also deal with different hazards and requirements for your route.
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/07/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @BfB_Labs
Players: This is a single player game
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a role-playing game with puzzles and tasks that help 7-12 year olds deal with anxiety about different situations. You create a character in the game, explore dungeons and find treasure. Along the way characters offer...
Recompile
Rating: PEGI 12+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @phi6
Players: This is a single player game
Recompile is a platform game about hacking and exploring an expansive virtual world. Drawing inspiration from the Tron film, It's a combination of classic platform games where you slowly get more powers to advance further, and branching narrative games....
Traffix
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/07/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @8InfinityGames
Players: This is a single player game
Traffix is a puzzle game that puts you in charge of traffic lights on different road systems. By changing the lights to red, orange and green you work to get traffic to flow on increasingly complex and busy roads. It sounds complex, but with simple...
Brunch Club
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @FoggyBoxHQ
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Brunch Club is a cooking game where you possess and move food around the kitchen to complete different recipes. This unusual way to cook creates a unique and silly challenge you take on with up to four people.
When The Past Was Around
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: This is a single player game
When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unraveling the secrets of its silent narrative. Without any words it tells the tale of a young woman, Eda, and her love, the...
Lego Hidden Side
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/08/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Narrative, Physically Active, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @Lego
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Lego Hidden side is an adventure game you play by building physical Lego kits and then interacting with them via an augmented reality app on your Smartphone. After building, when you put the kids on the camera they come to life on the screen, offering...
Rain on Your Parade
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @UnboundCreations
Players: This is a single player game
Rain on Your Parade is a slapstick puzzle game where you play a mischievous cloud ruining everybody’s day. "You are a cloud jerk," says the trailer. In each of the varied levels you have to work out what it is you need to do to make people's lives a...
Twelve Minutes
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @FacaElectrica
Players: This is a single player game
Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click and drag interface. What starts as a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police...
Unspottable
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Rhythm and Simulation
Developer: @GrosChevaux
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Unspottable is a puzzle game where you try and work out which of the identical characters are controlled by other players and which are computers. It's a race to punch your friends before they punch you, but the more times you get it wrong the more...
Family Tree
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @InfiniteStates
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Family Tree is a pinball game where you also aim your shots like jumping around a platform game. You bounce on enemies to traverse hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles.
Bring You Home
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @AlikeStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play a doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the panels...
She Remembered Caterpillars
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @TheJumpSuits
Players: This is a single player game
She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage. As you do you eavesdrop on...
Impossible Bottles
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @HonigStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Impossible Bottles is a rhythm game where you control mechanical robots. You create musical loops with each robot and solve puzzle to get them in harmony. It's a game about the global energy crisis and a scientist’s effort to provide an...
Growbot
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @GrowbotGame
Players: This is a single player game
Growbot is a point-and-click adventure from the developers of Machinarium. In Growbot you explore beautifully drafted locations to find objects and solve puzzles.
HackyZack
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/08/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @SpaceboyGames
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Hack Zack is a running and jumping game where you also have to hit a ball through the level to win. Because the game simulates real physics this can be quite a challenge. It's an unusual game that requires planning as well as careful execution.
Tied Together
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/10/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Developer: @HeadupGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Tied Together is a platform game for two to four players tied together. Like a three-legged-race you have to co-ordinate how you move. But here you are negotiating jumps and enemies too. Any player can grab the ground and act as a fixed point for...
Tori
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Physically Active, Puzzle, Racing and Shooting
Developer: @BandaiNamcoUK
Players: This is a single player game
Tori combines physical and virtual play. The game comes with toys that you place on a play surface to control the game’s spaceships and catapults. Children can also create and colour their own cardboard versions of the toys and use them to control the...
Another Lost Phone
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 21/09/2017
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @AccidentalQ
Players: This is a single player game
Another Lost Phone places a stranger’s smartphone in your hands. As you use the phone interface to explore the social life of its young woman owner, Laura, you piece together messages, pictures and profiles to solve her disappearance. Although it...
Hacktag
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/06/2017
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Hacktag is a fast two-player game: one player is the stealth ‘Agent’ while the other is the virtually-infiltrating ‘Hacker’. You work with the other player to carry out espionage in different settings and complete each challenge.
Fez
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/04/2012
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and iOS
Developer: @PHIL_FISH
Players: This is a single player game
Fez is a dimension based puzzle game where you, as a small character called Gomez, can rotate between four 2D views of the 3D world (as four sides around a cube-like space). This sounds confusing but actually develops into a mind-stretching and...
Observation
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 21/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @_NoCode
Players: This is a single player game
Observation puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than human protagonist. Your limited view,...
Vignettes
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/03/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @SkeletonBiz
Players: This is a single player game
Explore shapes that change into different objects as you spin them around with your fingers. What starts as a novelty evolves into a collecting challenge where interacting with one item leads to another. Rescue a stray cat, awaken an ancient...
Steamworld Dig (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/08/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @ImageForm
Players: This is a single player game
The SteamWorld Dig series are action platform games where you play steam-powered robots trying to recover their lost civilisation. The two games in the series draws on classics like Dig Dug, Rick Dangerous, Repton and Boulderdash.
Lego Builder's Journey
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 20/12/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Players: This is a single player game
This isn't what you expect it to be. Rather than a brick-based puzzle for kids it's more like a thoughtful and nostalgic work of art for adults. You work through abstract levels by following instructions but also by breaking the rules. Take the time to...
Wingspan
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @MonsterCouch
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for one to five players. You create flocks of birds to extend a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to...
Zero Escape (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/12/2009, updated in 2016
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Zero Escape, is a series of adventure games that follows a group of nine individuals, who are kidnapped and held captive by a person who goes by the name "Zero", and are forced to play a game of life and death in order to escape.
No Heroes Here
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @MadMimic
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
No Heroes Here is a co-operative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
Frog Detective (Series)
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/11/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @GraceBruxner
Players: This is a single player game
This is a comedy adventure game where you play a detective frog, named (unsurprisingly) "Frog Detective".
Wunderling
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @RetroidOfficial
Players: This is a single player game
Wunderling is a jumping game controlled by just two buttons: jumping and boost. The levels scroll automatically so you have to think ahead to decide how to get past each section. It's a combination of time reactions and forward planning.
HyperDot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative and Puzzle
Developer: @TribeGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
HyperDot is a dodging game, where you control a small circle and must move to avoid collisions with other shapes. It sounds too simple to be fun, but the cover design and variation in challenge make it a really enjoyable game.
Golf Peaks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Developer: @AfterburnGames
Players: This is a single player game
Golf Peaks is a golf game you play by picking different shot cards and swiping in a direction. Unlike other golf games it more of a puzzle than a test of skill or timing. You don't even need to understand of golf.
Buissons
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 03/02/2021
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @DrGeraud
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Hide and seek game where you control a bush. You move around the screen in the dark during the night. Then, the next day, one of the players tries to spot where the bushes are by observing what has changed. The seeking player stands in the middle with a...
Timelie
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 21/05/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @UrniqueStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Timelie is a stealth puzzle game played in a surreal world where a girl and a mysterious cat work together to escape a series of room patrolled by enemy robots. The novelty is that you can control and rewind time to help you solve each puzzle. This not...
Song of Bloom
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @Kamibox_ph
Players: This is a single player game
Song of Bloom is a narrative puzzle game where you explore chalk drawn animations to discover a melancholy story. Working through these moving pictures you interact with clue elements highlighted in red that unlock the next chapter of the story.
Frost
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 25/03/2017
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Frost is a puzzle game where you control living particles with gestures to guide them home. Using flocking mechanics the game lets you direct thousands of elements with super simple controls. Each level presents a different scene in which to direct the...
Affordable Space Adventures
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/04/2015
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @NapNokGames
Players: You can play with 3 players in the same room
Three people work to pilot a diminutive spacecraft through a hostile environment. One player uses the Wii U game tablet to control engines, power and shields. A second player controls lights and weapons. A third player steers the craft through the...
39 Days to Mars
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @philipbuchanan
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
39 Days to Mars is a game where players cooperate to build and fix a nineteenth-century steam-powered spaceship en route to Mars. With another player, you play one of two full voice-acted characters and solve puzzles by interacting with switches, levers...
Tick Tock: A Tale For Two
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/03/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @OtherTales
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Played simultaneously with a friend, this is a narrative-driven puzzle game where you must escape an eerie world created by a clockmaker. It's unusual because each player's game is slightly different and must be combined to solve the puzzles. Through...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/07/2014
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Shooting
Developer: @AdamSpragg
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This unique battle requires keen observation rather than quick reflexes. Up to four players fight to protect or assassinate the king, catch a thief or race across the screen without being stopped. The twist is that you each have numerous...
Aviary Attorney
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/12/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @Sketchy_Jeremy
Players: This is a single player game
A courtroom drama set in nineteenth-century Paris, populated with beautifully drawn animals. Guiding JayJay Falcon, defence attorney, you help investigate each case before each of the four court dates; combing crime scenes, interrogating suspects and...
Beast of Balance
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/11/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Physically Active and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Beasts of Balance comes with beautifully sculpted physical toys that interact with your iPad to create and nurture creatures in a magical land. You place a toy creature on the plinth provided and it appears in the game. Balance another creature on top...
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/08/2013
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @StarbreezeAB
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an action-adventure game where you control two brothers at the same time with a single controller. After their mother passes away, they must find some water from the Tree of Life to save their father. The controls weave...
Papo and Yo
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 14/08/2012
Platforms: Mac, PC and PlayStation 3
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Papo & Yo pits you as a young boy, Quico, exploring a Brazilian city slum. As you solve puzzles and perform well-timed jumps to progress through the city, you must also deal with a monster – both real and metaphorically representing your alcoholic...
Passage
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/2007
Price: Free
Platforms: Web Browser
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @JasonRohrer
Players: This is a single player game
Passage passage.toolness.org is a super-simple game from the same developer as One Hour One Life on the theme of a life well lived. Although just a few minutes long, it offers an unusual interactive metaphor for the...
Heads Up!
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/10/2013
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Heads Up! is a word-guessing game where one person holds the tablet or smartphone on their forehead and guesses the word it displays from clues given by the other players. The others confirm if they got it right or wrong and they flip the smartphone up...
Prune
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/11/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Prune involves slicing, but here you must carefully cut off tree branches to encourage the tree to grow in a particular direction. It starts simply but turns into a challenge for parents and young children to work on together.
Telling Lies
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 31/07/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @MrSamBarlow
Players: This is a single player game
Telling Lies is from the same developer as Her Story. It's named as an investigative thriller game with non-linear storytelling by the developer.
The First Tree
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Creative, Narrative, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @DavidWehle
Players: This is a single player game
The First Tree is an exploration narrative game. In a dream, you explore a forest wilderness as a mother fox looking for her cubs. Simultaneously, you revisit childhood memories in spoken reflection from two lovers remembering the dream and their...
Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/10/2018
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Rhythm
Developer: @Superbcorp
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso is a rhythm game where you play classical piano music by pressing buttons in time with each note. This starts easily buy builds up so you are playing complex pieces of music from a range of composers.
Manifold Garden
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Open World, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WilliamChyr
Players: This is a single player game
Manifold Garden is inspired by Escher drawings and the reality-bending moments in the film Inception. You play from a first-person perspective and explore a beautiful, and what seems to be an abstract world, bereft of colour. It takes time to master and...
N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/05/2015
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
N.E.R.O. is a story-driven first-person indie game with puzzles to solve and story threads to follow. The player character essentially walks a linear path and solves puzzles blocking their way, while a story is narrated.
Pushy and Pully
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @ResistanceStdio
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Pushy and Pully is a puzzle game where you push blocks into enemies to kill them, or into each other to gain special attacks. The action takes place on a single screen with up to two players. After 10 levels there is a large enemy to defeat before...
Dropsy
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/09/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Dropsy is an adventure video game where you move around and interact with the world by simply clicking. You play a clown called Dropsy in a surreal world. As you explore and interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and talk to characters you learn...
Spek
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @RAC7Games
Players: This is a single player game
A puzzle game where objects are seen only in outline and you must travel the world with your dot, by manipulating the perspective. You navigate through minimalist yet colourful environments full of challenging puzzles, dangerous inhabitants, and...
Lost Winds (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/05/2008, updated in 2016
Platforms: Nintendo Wii, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @FrontierDev
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
LostWinds is a running and jumping video game with a difference. As well as controlling a young boy named Toku you also control the wind. On the Wii you do this by gesturing with the Wii Remote controller, on iOS you draw the direction on the screen. A...
Lumines
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Rhythm
Developer: @PixelJunkNews
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Lumines is a music puzzle game where you rotate and align small blocks to form squares of a single colour. As you do this, in time with the music, they are erased as the beat line passes over them. The game is lost when the blocks reach the top of the...
Meteos
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/06/2005
Price: Free
Platforms: Nintendo DS and iOS
Developer: @Sora_Sakura
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Meteos is a tile-matching game inspired by Missile Command and Tetris. You stack coloured blocks which fall from the top of the screen. The aim is to launch three or more blocks of the same colour onto the top of the screen to make them disappear.
Winding Worlds
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @KOOPMode
Players: This is a single player game
Winding Worlds is a colourful puzzle game played in a mythic world where you solve your way through the afterlife. The characters you meet don't always want to help, but you can help them deal with their problems and find peace. The puzzles are logic...
No Time to Explain
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/06/2015
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @tinyBuild
Players: This is a single player game
No Time to Explain is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a man chasing his future self through time. As the game evolves you must progress to solve time puzzles and complete platforming challenges.
Stacking
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 08/02/2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @DoubleFine
Players: This is a single player game
Stacking is puzzle game where characters are Russian stacking matryoshka dolls. Controlling the smallest doll in the game, Charlie Blackmore, you go on an adventure. Your main ability is that you can stack and unstack into larger dolls and gain their...
One Person Story
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/08/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @Lampogolovii
Players: This is a single player game
This is a simple puzzle game played by pressing a single button to help a bouncing ball through a maze. It's voiced with a narrative about life's difficulties and challenges. It starts simply but gets more difficult as you have to open and close doors,...
Collapsus
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @WraithGames
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Collapsus is a puzzle game where you match tiles. You rotate the screen to adjust which way is down, then tapping a single tiles makes it disappear. And vertical or horizontal lines with matching colours you create also disappear. Tapping a single tile...
Inbento
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @AfterburnGames
Players: This is a single player game
Inbento is a food-themed puzzle game where you solve puzzles to prepare lunch boxes. As you complete each "bento" lunch box a story unfolds about the highs and lows of parenthood. There are over 100 fun puzzles, aesthetically served with traditional...
Combo Postage
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 06/07/2019
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Combo Postage is a jumping and stacking game. You play as Sue at her summer job as she dodges, tapes, and stomps boxes with a high-tech tape gun. Run into a box to tape it up then stomp to seal. It’s simple, hectic fun and as you realise you can line...
Arise: A Simple Story
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/12/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Piccolo_Studio
Players: This is a single player game
Arise: A Simple Story is a narrative game about an old man living in a pre-agricultural tribe. He has just been cremated and as get travels to the next life, begins a pilgrimage of revisiting memories of his life.
Toem
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @SWMGames
Players: This is a single player game
Toem is a small adventure about helping peoeple. You play a small figure travelling through black and white, hand drawn, scandinavian-style landscapes. As you encounter characters and architectural environments you hear about the problems people have...
Severed
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 26/04/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Severed is a dungeon adventure game where you wake up in a strange place, dazed and confused your family has been taken and with a severed arm. You embark on a perilous journey to find them and return home.
Twelve a Dozen
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 05/10/2016
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @BossaStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Twelve a Dozen (originally called just, Twelve) is a running and jumping game where you solve mathematical based logic problems to help Dot save her family. While many games use learning as a gate to the reward of some fun, Twelve integrates the maths...
Ghost Grab
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Ghost Grab is a puzzle game where you shoot a beam of light at ghosts to chain them together before popping them to score points. It's simple to start with but soon gives way to a frantic score-attack challenge with it's unique way to score points.
She and the Light Bearer
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/01/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: This is a single player game
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure game with hand-drawn visuals, where you find and interact with items to solve puzzles and advance through its narrative. It’s accompanied by an instrumental acoustic soundtrack that reveals a new...
Grindstone
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Fighting and Puzzle
Developer: @CapyGames
Players: This is a single player game
Grindstone is a colour matching puzzle game, where you plot the right path through each grid-level to attack enemies and gain treasure. The aim it to join together as many similar coloured monsters as possible in once go.
10 Second Ninja X
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/06/2016
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @GameDesignDan
Players: This is a single player game
10 Second Ninja X is a super-fast puzzle game with a difference: every level lasts ten seconds or less. In each level, your challenge is to destroy all of the enemies on screen before the timer runs out. The faster you complete each level, the higher...
Yellow
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/05/2017
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @BartbBonte
Players: This is a single player game
Yellow is a spatial puzzle game. Each level you need to turn the screen yellow. How you do this varies from level to level. Dragging objects to match a silhouette, tapping and holding in time with a rhythm, spinning your finger, tapping in order. The...
Blek
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Blek is a puzzle game where you control the repeating motion of a moving line. Your challenge is to pass through coloured dots. However, you can only enter a short motion that repeats. In this way you have to draw in a motion that, as it repeats,...
Not Not, A Brain-Buster
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/04/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Developer: @QubicGames
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 4 players online
Not Not is a puzzle game about following simple instructions in limited time. All you have to do is read the instructions and then direct your character in one of four directions. It sounds simple but the instructions get increasingly convoluted and...
Project Makeover
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/11/2019, updated in 2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Project Makeover is a game where you solve puzzles to earn furniture, clothing, haircuts, facials and makeup for virtual characters. To solve the puzzles you switch icons in a grid to match sets of three together, earning points and revealing items of...
Disco Elysium
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 15/10/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @StudioZAUM
Players: This is a single player game
Disco Elysium The Final Cut is a role-playing game set in the fictional city of Revachol where you play Harrier "Harry" Du Bois who must solve a complex murder. Unusually, your choices and actions not only determine how the story unfolds but affect...
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