Best Puzzle Games
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildon 17 of 55 rankings2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Timeon 11 of 55 rankings3
Outer Wildson 6 of 55 rankings4
BioShockon 5 of 55 rankings5
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomon 6 of 55 rankings6
Resident Evil 4on 3 of 55 rankings7
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Maskon 5 of 55 rankings8
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Paston 4 of 55 rankings9
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Wakeron 3 of 55 rankings10
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princesson 2 of 55 rankings11
Portal 2on 4 of 55 rankings12
Silent Hill 2on 2 of 55 rankings13
Half-Lifeon 3 of 55 rankings14
It Takes Twoon 2 of 55 rankings15
What Remains of Edith Finchon 1 of 55 rankings16
The Cat Ladyon 1 of 55 rankings17
Half-Life: Alyxon 1 of 55 rankings18
Conker's Bad Fur Dayon 1 of 55 rankings19
Fallout 2on 1 of 55 rankings20
Preyon 1 of 55 rankings21
Mario Party 8on 1 of 55 rankings22
Resident Evilon 1 of 55 rankings23
Papers, Pleaseon 1 of 55 rankings24
Shadow of the Tomb Raideron 1 of 55 rankings25
Preyon 1 of 55 rankings26
Superliminalon 1 of 55 rankings27
Rule of Roseon 1 of 55 rankings28
Blue princeon 1 of 55 rankings29
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sonson 1 of 55 rankings30
Indikaon 1 of 55 rankings31
Animal wellon 1 of 55 rankings32
Antichamberon 1 of 55 rankings33
Return of the Obra Dinnon 1 of 55 rankings34
The Roottrees are Deadon 1 of 55 rankings35
Portalon 1 of 55 rankings36
Chants of Sennaaron 1 of 55 rankings37
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DXon 1 of 55 rankings38
The Last Guardianon 1 of 55 rankings39
Sexy brutaleon 1 of 55 rankings40
Braidon 1 of 55 rankings41
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™on 1 of 55 rankings42
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodeson 1 of 55 rankings43
Crash bashon 1 of 55 rankings44
Professor Layton and the Curious Villageon 1 of 55 rankings45
The Witnesson 2 of 55 rankings46
The Talos Principleon 1 of 55 rankings47
The Lion Kingon 1 of 55 rankings48
World of Gooon 1 of 55 rankings49
Deponiaon 1 of 55 rankings50
Ōkamion 1 of 55 rankings51
Resident Evil 7: Biohazardon 1 of 55 rankings52
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battleon 1 of 55 rankings53
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worldson 1 of 55 rankings54
Silent Hill 3on 1 of 55 rankings55
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Editionon 1 of 55 rankings56
Icoon 1 of 55 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 55 independent rankings, recounted 20 October 2026, the best Puzzle game is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Outer Wilds.
How this is counted
This chart counts 55 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Puzzle, cut down to those titles, in the order that source listed them. A title's place is its average position across all sources counted: a title someone left off their ranking counts as tied with their last place (here, that source ranked titles of this kind and left this one out). A small pull toward the middle keeps one enthusiastic list from crowning a #1. Every title in the computed chart has a numbered position, with its source count shown beside it. It is recounted whenever a ranking is published, changed or removed, last on 20 October 2026. Member rankings and attributed external lists use the same calculation. Multiple lists from one member or external author count once; linked slices add no extra vote. Frozen links, private or unlisted lists and unmatched titles are never counted. The full method.
12 of the 55 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.