Best Puzzle Games of the 2000s
BioShockon 5 of 22 rankings2
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Maskon 5 of 22 rankings3
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Wakeron 3 of 22 rankings4
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princesson 2 of 22 rankings5
Silent Hill 2on 2 of 22 rankings6
Conker's Bad Fur Dayon 1 of 22 rankings7
Professor Layton and the Curious Villageon 1 of 22 rankings8
Mario Party 8on 1 of 22 rankings9
Resident Evilon 1 of 22 rankings10
Preyon 1 of 22 rankings11
Portalon 1 of 22 rankings12
Rule of Roseon 1 of 22 rankings13
Braidon 1 of 22 rankings14
Crash bashon 1 of 22 rankings15
World of Gooon 1 of 22 rankings16
Ōkamion 1 of 22 rankings17
Silent Hill 3on 1 of 22 rankings18
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Editionon 1 of 22 rankings19
Icoon 1 of 22 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 22 independent rankings, recounted 19 October 2026, the best Puzzle game of the 2000s is BioShock, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
How this is counted
This chart counts 22 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Puzzle and released in the 2000s, 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 19 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 22 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.