Puzzle Adventure

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

Investigating a petty theft, solving a gruesome murder case, forestalling a sinister plot to overthrow the government: it's all in a day's work for London's most famous clue-sniffing eccentric.

Antichamber

This can be a vary challenging, psychological mind bending, frustrating Game. That can test your skill at not following the norm, and what direction games normally make you follow, but instead makes you think out side the box, in more of 4 dimensions way. If you are use to just following the norm, and get frustrated easy, might be much for you, but still fun.

The Cave

The Cave is a platform/adventure game that follows the underground journey of three characters to choose from a cast of seven, each with a special ability. Gameplay revolves around the team-based resolution of puzzles.

Vessel

Vessel is a physics-based, steampunk puzzle-platform video game available for Microsoft Windows. It is the first title developed by Strange Loop Games, a Seattle based video game developer that creates games which use today's modern hardware for gameplay mechanics, rather than graphics improvements. Vessel uses a custom built engine that specializes in physics and fluid simulation.

Q.U.B.E.

Q.U.B.E. (Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion) is a physics-based puzzle video game developed by Toxic Games, and published to the Microsoft Windows platform with help from the Indie Fund, a group of successful independent game developers. The game, an expansion of a student project by the founding members of Toxic Games, was released in December 2011 and January 2012 through a number of digital distribution platforms.

The Tiny Bang Story

The Tiny Bang Story is set in a fictitious world that is hit by an asteroid, leaving you to literally pick up the pieces and put it back together. Over several chapters, you need to rebuild machines and solve puzzles to find all the pieces you need to rebuild the world.

Blocks That Matter

Blocks That Matter (also known as BTM) is a two-dimensional indie puzzle platformer developed by Swing Swing Submarine. The player takes the role of “tetrabot”, a robot which is able to collect blocks by jumping into them or drilling them, and can then construct shapes in a “puzzle mode” using four blocks at a time. BTM heavily references the games Minecraft and Tetris through the main characters, in-game mechanics and concepts such as “Pajitnovian physics”.

Unmechanical

You're a tiny utility robot stranded in a strange underground place. Using only the rotor on your head and the tractor beam... underneath, it's time to explore, push buttons, haul stuff around and make your way through puzzles that involve physics, logic or memory. A demo is available in Steam and also as a DRM-free download, so there's absolutely no reason not to check this lovely little game out.

Limbo

Limbo (stylised as LIMBO) is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The player guides an unnamed boy through dangerous environments and traps as the boy searches for his sister. The developer built the game's puzzles expecting the player to fail before finding the correct solution. Playdead called the style of play "trial and death", and used visually gruesome imagery for the boy's deaths to steer the player from unworkable solutions.

Hamilton's Great Adventure

Hamilton's Great Adventure is a top-down tile-based puzzle adventure. You play as Hamilton with his trusty bird offsider. You must guide them through the various levels to collect as many coins as possible. The game has a cool coop mode where one player controls Hamilton while the other controls the bird, working together to beat the game.