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Best Xbox Puzzle Games

How many of the 23 rankings — not the rank
1Outer Wildson 6 of 23 rankings2BioShockon 5 of 23 rankings3Portal 2on 4 of 23 rankings4Resident Evil 4on 3 of 23 rankings5The Witnesson 2 of 23 rankings6It Takes Twoon 2 of 23 rankings7What Remains of Edith Finchon 1 of 23 rankings8Preyon 1 of 23 rankings9Shadow of the Tomb Raideron 1 of 23 rankings10Preyon 1 of 23 rankings11Superliminalon 1 of 23 rankings12Blue princeon 1 of 23 rankings13Brothers: A Tale of Two Sonson 1 of 23 rankings14Indikaon 1 of 23 rankings15Animal wellon 1 of 23 rankings16Return of the Obra Dinnon 1 of 23 rankings17Portalon 1 of 23 rankings18Chants of Sennaaron 1 of 23 rankings19Sexy brutaleon 1 of 23 rankings20Braidon 1 of 23 rankings21Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™on 1 of 23 rankings22Keep Talking and Nobody Explodeson 1 of 23 rankings23The Talos Principleon 1 of 23 rankings24Deponiaon 1 of 23 rankings25Resident Evil 7: Biohazardon 1 of 23 rankings26The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Editionon 1 of 23 rankings
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Genres
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Platforms
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Modes
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Years
Best Games of the 2010s93 rankingsBest Games of the 2000s73 rankingsBest Games of the 2020s58 rankingsBest Games of the 1990s44 rankingsBest Games of 201839 rankingsBest Games of 201538 rankingsBest Games of 201037 rankingsBest Games of 201735 rankings
How this ranking is made
The answer

According to Made the Cut's census of 23 independent rankings, recounted 20 October 2026, the best Xbox Puzzle game is Outer Wilds, followed by BioShock and Portal 2.

How this is counted

This chart counts 23 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Puzzle and on Xbox, 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.

Rankings behind this chart
My Top 100vintik91 · @6c3tk3zSavageLove2004: top 5 gamesSource: SavageLove2004 on RedditAshyLarry25: top 5 gamesSource: AshyLarry25 on RedditReasonable_Slide6304: top 5 gamesSource: Reasonable_Slide6304 on RedditPrinceChaz: top 10 gamesSource: PrinceChaz on Redditrbalmat: top 10 gamesSource: rbalmat on RedditJohncurtisreeve: top 10 gamesSource: Johncurtisreeve on RedditProfessional-Mud-877: top 10 gamesSource: Professional-Mud-877 on RedditTwitch-TullyTargus: top 10 gamesSource: Twitch-TullyTargus on RedditD1n0-: top 10 gamesSource: D1n0- on RedditKey_Treat_2346: top 9 games (excerpt)Source: Key_Treat_2346 on RedditComplex_Solution_909: top 7 games (excerpt)Source: Complex_Solution_909 on Reddit

12 of the 23 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.

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