Free: Best puzzle games

Beneath a Steel Sky is a cyberpunk, point and click, adventure game. You assume the role of Robert Foster and embark on a quest to make the world a better place, along with your robot companion Joey.

Revolution Software · 1994 · Amiga CD32, Linux, PC · 91/100

You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

Mob Entertainment · 2021 · Xbox Series, PS4, Android

Aperture Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in the lightning-spanked, endorphin-gorged world of sitting still behind things. You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work — your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams…

Valve · 2022 · Linux, PC

Samorost is a short point-and-click adventure game. The goal is to help the little space gnome save his home asteroid from a collision with another asteroid by solving diverse puzzles.

Amanita Design · 2003 · Web, PC, Mac

"Embark on an unforgettable social adventure and an ever-expanding world. Sky: Children of the Light is a heartwarming and beautifully animated social adventure experience designed to be played together by you and your loved ones. Set in a wonderland above the clouds, Sky invites you and your…

ThatGameCompany · 2019 · PS4, Android, PC · 82/100

You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Rusty Lake · 2020 · Web, Android, PC

The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

Rusty Lake · 2018 · Android, PC, iOS

You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you. A parody of Jonathan Blow's The Witness.

Subcreation Studio · 2022 · PC

Transformice is a multiplayer game, where you are a small mouse out to get a cheese and bring the cheese back to the hole. The game includes a physics engine, so interactions between players are realistic. Each round lasts 2 minutes max, and in order to help the 20 or so mice-players to get the…

Atelier 801 · 2010 · Web, Linux, PC

Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

Amanita Design · 2021 · Android, PC, iOS

King’s Quest is a collection of five different chapter releases, each focusing on an untold tale in Graham’s past. In each chapter, an aging King Graham reflects on his life of adventure with his granddaughter, Gwendolyn, while players are transported back to influence first-hand the decisions and…

The Odd Gentlemen · 2015 · PS3, PS4, PC · 71/100

The Secret World is a massively-multiplayer online world with a unique modern-day setting and unparalleled storytelling. Imagine if every myth, conspiracy theory and urban legend was true--a world where you align with secret societies and face the looming darkness.

Funcom · 2012 · PC · 72/100

What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.

Acke Hallgren · 2019 · Linux, PC, Mac

NaissanceE is a first-person adventure game in which you play Lucy, a lone roamer who finds herself trapped inside an enormous, surreal architectural structure. The environment is built around large-scale geometric spaces with shifting architecture, and you must navigate its corridors through…

Limasse Five · 2014 · PC

From the creators of Puzzle Quest, play the new Puzzle/RPG/Strategy mash-up, GEMS OF WAR! Match gems to power your spells, and match skulls to smite your enemies! It’s easy to learn yet has tons of depth.

Infinity Plus 2 · 2014 · PS4, Android, PC

Welcome to the tunnel maintenance crew. If the generators fail, it's your job to fix them. Check what's wrong, craft all the needed parts and deliver them. It's simple. Just stay clear of anything that randomly cracks bolts of electricity, spews fire, throws sharp pieces of scrap at high-velocity…

Vanripper · 2024 · Linux, PC, Mac

Eternal is a free-to-play online collectible card video game developed and published by Dire Wolf Digital. Eternal is currently available for iPhone and iPad iOS devices on the App Store, PCs using Steam, and for Android devices using Google Play. It is also available on Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.…

Dire Wolf Digital · 2018 · Android, PC, iOS

Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve's room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more.

Valve · 2016 · Oculus VR, Windows Mixed Reality, PC

This is a puzzle game with twenty small mazes. They're good mazes, though.

FLEB · 2024 · PC, Mac

Hello Charlotte Ep.2 is a visual novelesque RPG with sci-fi elements and dark humor, written and drawn by etherane. Requiem Aeternam Deo follows the events of Ep.1: Junk Food, Gods and Teddy Bears.

etherane · 2016 · PC

Venture deep into the Cavern of Longing. Plunge your sword deep into the dragon’s heart! How deep is your resolve?

Cosmic Adventure Squad · 2021 · Web, Android, PC

Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. You play as Anthony Clyde, who, after a heavy night of partying, wakes up to find himself in an unfamiliar bed with no memory of the previous night's events. Unfortunately, escaping these unfamiliar, opulent surroundings will prove to be no…

Creability · 2014 · Linux, PC, Mac · 80/100

Octodad is a third person adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless…

DePaul University students · 2010 · PC

Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

Devcats · 2023 · Linux, PC

Unsolved Case is the free prequel to the popular cooperative point-and-click puzzle game 'Cryptic Killer' series. Dip your toes in and go back to where it all began as you team up in two as detective duo Old Dog and Ally, up against the Cryptic Killer. For the first time in the series, you'll…

Eleven Puzzles · 2022 · Android, PC, iOS

In Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy, you'll be immersed in an incredible adventure full of mysteries and with many developments. Take on the role of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and get ready to avoid numerous traps and to solve riddles. A mysterious murder, numerous suspects, and…

Frogwares · 2002 · PC, iOS · 60/100

Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

Leef 6010 · 2020 · Linux, PC, Mac