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138 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
138 reviews
A well-regarded VR escape room with genuinely clever puzzles, let down by real, specific motion-sickness reports from experienced VR players, a short three-room runtime, and a promised fourth room this review confirmed via the developer's own 2017 news post was never delivered.
5.4 / 10
A beloved, nostalgic third entry in a genuinely well-regarded hidden-object adventure series, undercut by a severe, independently corroborated bug that makes the mouse cursor disappear for a meaningful share of players — described by more than one reviewer as making the game nearly unplayable.
5.3 / 10
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The rough, genuinely enjoyable first entry in what became a long-running franchise — a puzzle-like repair loop reviewers say works well in short bursts, undercut by real repetition, a lack of goals or garage progression, and a wobbly first-person camera several reviewers say induces motion sickness.
5.3 / 10
A genuinely well-regarded hidden-object mystery with strong art and atmosphere, undercut by a single, dominant, decade-old problem — broken Steam achievements that this review confirmed the developer never fixed, alongside real resolution and scaling issues on modern displays.
5.1 / 10
A distinctive stealth-puzzle game about robbing graves while dodging vengeful ghosts, genuinely enjoyed for its original concept, undercut by real complaints about unreadable low- quality graphics settings, divisive humor, and rough voice acting.
5.1 / 10
A charming season-manipulation fantasy adventure with a genuinely smart central mechanic and a well-told story, sunk at launch by a level of bugs, screen-tearing and broken abilities that both critics and players describe as feeling closer to a beta than a finished game.
5 / 10
A charming, faithful How to Train Your Dragon spin-off with genuinely well-liked art and music, undercut by a near-universal complaint from both sides of its review sample — a 3-to-8-hour runtime that reviewers say doesn't match its original full price — plus real accessibility gaps like no control remapping.
5 / 10
A janky, confusing Chinese indie horror game that's become a genuine cult favourite for co-op streaming with friends, undercut by real translation and puzzle-design problems reviewers say make it genuinely difficult to finish without outside guides.
4.6 / 10
Albireo Games' cheap, no-frills tile-matching solitaire does exactly what its title promises and nothing else — pleasant enough for a short sitting, but its own players report a shuffle algorithm that regularly hands out unsolvable boards.
4.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive chess-piece roguelike that built real goodwill through a year of Early Access, then left it on 25 June 2026 in a state reviewers overwhelmingly describe as a regression — after a publisher change and, according to a Steam review quoting the developers' own Discord post, the original team losing their jobs weeks before launch.
4.5 / 10
A ricochet-shooting, box-lighting puzzle-platformer with genuine VR ambitions, undercut by a headtracking mismatch that a near-unanimous run of negative reviews says causes motion sickness within seconds, plus jump and movement controls several players call broken outright.
4.3 / 10
An aggregator filed this NZ$1.49 release as a Clicker; it is a 50-question Russian internet-meme trivia quiz with AI-recreated images, no sound, a fixed question order that guts its own replay value, and a review corpus that is 86% Russian-language.
4.3 / 10
A small puzzle-crafting shop-management game that has received zero Steam reviews, zero configured achievements, and no public update in over three and a half years — this review is built honestly from the store's own description and screenshots, since there is no player testimony to draw from at all.
4 / 10
A deliberately absurd, meme-heavy point-and-click adventure set in a Soviet bunker, split sharply between reviewers who find its humour genuinely funny and a larger group who find it grating — compounded by illogical puzzle design and bugs the developer stopped patching in early 2016.
3.9 / 10
A visually appealing mobile-derived hidden-object game, actively maintained with monthly updates, gated by an energy system nearly every negative reviewer says limits sessions to 10-15 minutes before demanding real money — including two independent, extremely long-tenured players who allege the game adapts its difficulty to spending behaviour, a claim this review could not verify but is reporting plainly given who's making it.
3.8 / 10
A basic but originally decent Flash-style stealth puzzler, now overwhelmingly defined by the developer's later addition of roughly 5,000 near-meaningless achievements — a widely condemned "achievement spam" update that reviewers say buried the actual game underneath it.
3.6 / 10
The rough, dated first entry in a long-running hidden-object franchise, with a genuinely interesting premise buried under low-resolution graphics, unremovable text, and repetitive puzzle design that reviewers consistently say hasn't aged well.
3.4 / 10
A casual mini-game collection with a genuinely decent underlying concept, undercut by a messy, buggy implementation reviewers say is at times dreadful, a specific level-73 bug that can block completion, and a widely repeated claim that it largely reuses assets from its own predecessor.
3.2 / 10
