Best PC Puzzle Games
Outer Wildson 6 of 27 rankings2
BioShockon 5 of 27 rankings3
Portal 2on 4 of 27 rankings4
Resident Evil 4on 3 of 27 rankings5
Half-Lifeon 3 of 27 rankings6
It Takes Twoon 2 of 27 rankings7
What Remains of Edith Finchon 1 of 27 rankings8
The Cat Ladyon 1 of 27 rankings9
Fallout 2on 1 of 27 rankings10
Preyon 1 of 27 rankings11
Papers, Pleaseon 1 of 27 rankings12
Shadow of the Tomb Raideron 1 of 27 rankings13
Silent Hill 3on 1 of 27 rankings14
Preyon 1 of 27 rankings15
Superliminalon 1 of 27 rankings16
Blue princeon 1 of 27 rankings17
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sonson 1 of 27 rankings18
Indikaon 1 of 27 rankings19
Animal wellon 1 of 27 rankings20
Return of the Obra Dinnon 1 of 27 rankings21
The Roottrees are Deadon 1 of 27 rankings22
Portalon 1 of 27 rankings23
Chants of Sennaaron 1 of 27 rankings24
Antichamberon 1 of 27 rankings25
Sexy brutaleon 1 of 27 rankings26
Braidon 1 of 27 rankings27
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™on 1 of 27 rankings28
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodeson 1 of 27 rankings29
The Witnesson 2 of 27 rankings30
The Talos Principleon 1 of 27 rankings31
The Lion Kingon 1 of 27 rankings32
World of Gooon 1 of 27 rankings33
Deponiaon 1 of 27 rankings34
Resident Evil 7: Biohazardon 1 of 27 rankings35
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Editionon 1 of 27 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 27 independent rankings, recounted 20 October 2026, the best PC Puzzle game is Outer Wilds, followed by BioShock and Portal 2.
How this is counted
This chart counts 27 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Puzzle and on PC, 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 27 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.