The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin. In the dystopian document thriller Papers, Please, your job as an immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists. Using only the documents provided by travelers and MoA's primitive computer dispatch system you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.

Play with squishy clusters of soap bubbles in this mesmerizing new puzzle game. Winner of over a dozen indie gaming awards!  Fill bubbles with colorful air and push nearby bubbles around using the playful physics of real bubbles! Break edges between bubbles to mix new colors and create matches of 4 or more. Plan your strategy from a tetris-style queue to build up cascading chain reactions and longer matches for dazzling bonuses and wilds.

In Monument Valley you will manipulate impossible architecture and guide a silent princess through a stunningly beautiful world.

Enter The Room: Old Sins and be transported to a place where tactile exploration meets challenging puzzles and a captivating story. 
The sudden disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes the hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse…
Explore unsettling locations, follow obscure clues and manipulate bizarre contraptions as you uncover the mysteries within Waldegrave Manor.


How to play: To clear a floor of a dungeon, use your finger to draw a path between the entrance and the exit. Along the path, the Hero (that's Yamada-kun (that's us (that's you))) will encounter monsters, treasures, traps, and obstacles. The path you choose determines what you encounter, and when. The Hero moves along the path, battling in real-time. Use whatever items you've brought in your Item Bag to heal, attack, defend, and keep the Hero alive. Clear floors with a path covering all squares of the 5-by-5 grid for a bonus! Clear entire dungeons for big rewards! Get stuff! Get tough! Help Yamada-kun make a videogame in which he rescues a princess who looks exactly like the girl who lives next door to him, except in the game her hair is blonde instead of brown ("Original Character")!



Linelight is a refreshingly inventive, minimalist puzzle-adventure game. It takes the wildly simple premise of "What if everything takes place on a line?" and rockets it into outer space. Each mechanic is immediately understandable, then gradually combined with familiar elements, leading to an exponentially large array bursting with puzzles, each with a one-of-a-kind solution.

Following the release of The Room in 2014, Fireproof Games are proud to bring the critically acclaimed sequel to PC. The Room Two continues the time-spanning journey of its predecessor while significantly expanding its unique puzzle gameplay. Follow a trail of cryptic letters from an enigmatic scientist known only as “AS” into a compelling world of challenging mystery and tactile exploration. Development on this fully-enhanced HD version of The Room Two began shortly after the mobile release of The Room Three late in 2015 and has involved creating more detailed environments for each level as well as rebuilding and re-texturing every asset in the game. Fireproof Games are a small independent team working in Guildford in the UK. We self-published our first game The Room on iPad in September 2012 and were stunned with both the critical success and our new-found fan-base, not to mention multiple international awards. The Room games have since changed our lives and we hope you enjoy playing them as much as we enjoyed making them.

A chilled out puzzle game to help you relax and find your groove. From the creators of the Apple Design Award winning Old Man's Journey, a new musical puzzle game about feeling the rhythm to find the solution.

Slow down, start listening and let the groove guide you through 85 levels.  No ticking clock, no ads, no paywalls.  Just satisfying gesture controls designed for touch, with a smooth learning-curve and pressure-free attitude. 



Part time worker, full time UFO! In Part Time UFO, fly a UFO around and complete odd jobs. Help out at a farm, support cheerleaders, cook up the ultimate dessert at a restaurant, build castles, and much more! Wherever the UFO goes, there are sure to be plenty of jobs waiting. At the center of all this is the UFO's super special awesome claw! Use the claw crane to grab, move, and stack objects to complete jobs.


Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts.

Knotwords is a minimal and elegant logic puzzle — with words. Arrange each section so every word across and down is valid. It may look difficult at first, but you'll be surprised at how quickly you pick it up! This is the kind of game I've been trying to design my whole career — I hope you like it

Draw paths to guide the flocking spirits to their home planets. Watch countless beautiful creatures emerge from light, bring balance to a world in constant motion, and unravel its mysteries. 


As so many of these things do, it all begins on a magical island. In this case, Gogapoe Island, a place populated by both humans and monsters. What starts out as a mission to get back Niko's birthday cake becomes a quest for the fate of Gogapoe itself. But, ya know, cake is still super important, too! Oodles of friendly monsters will join Niko's quest and use their kooky powers to help him explore the island, solve puzzles, demolish obstacles, and just generally humiliate enemies. Hordes of evil monsters will cause mayhem and generally be jerkfaces, but that's nothing you can't fix with headbutts, frost breath, stink clouds and rainbow barf. Save the day and fulfill your monstrous cakelust all at once in MONSTERS ATE MY BIRTHDAY CAKE!

Tu tens cinco varinhas mágicas mas não sabes o que eles fazem.  Tenta descobrir seus efeitos e atravessar todas as cinco zonas.  Toma os tesouros também se tu podes! Cinco Paus e um novo labirinto de morte aleatória de Michael Brough, criador de 868-HACK, Imbroglio, et mais.

Bigger and better than ever, MovieCat 2 features over 1,000 all-new text and visual puzzles about all of your favorite and least-favorite movies!

A curious invitation from an old friend leads to the attic of an abandoned house. Centred in the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and placed on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises that the iron chamber conceals a secret artefact, something ancient and astonishing - you need only find a way in.

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure that puts players in the role of a young boy traveling through a hostile world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.
Limbo challenges players with traversing dark forests, trap-filled underground complexes, and stormy rooftops brought to life with hand-drawn visuals. They must be quick, clever, and fearless if they want to survive their journey and unravel the mysteries at Limbo's sinister heart.

Shadowmatic is an imagination stirring puzzle where you rotate abstract objects in a spotlight to find recognizable silhouettes in projected shadows, relevant to the surrounding environment.

A magical mishap has accidentally teleported Om Nom to a mystical world filled with challenging puzzles for players of all ages. Can you use Om Nom’s new skills to solve an evil wizard’s tricks and traps? The latest installment of this globally popular entertainment franchise puts a fresh spin on Cut the Rope’s iconic physics-puzzle gameplay, introducing more than 100 all-new magic-themed levels across a richly imagined, colorful world.

Million Onion Hotel is an action puzzle packed with a lot of elements!! A mysterious world of crazy sound and unique pixel arts and animations! In BitSummit2014, This won the Media Highlights Award, Bit King Popularity Awards chosen by visitors' vote, and the game was chosen for IndieCade official Selection the same year. And now, It is released At last !


The King Rabbit must rescue his bunny citizens from devious enemies! A mix of puzzle and action levels will challenge your mind and delight your senses. Immerse yourself in a beautiful world ripe with secrets which may never be discovered.

Immerse yourself in the touching story of four unsung heroes swept up by World War 1 in this unique interactive graphic novel that combines action, puzzles and adventure.

Paint, sketch, and solve puzzles to uncover a tale of chance and artistry.

Behind the Frame is a vivid, interactive fiction about an aspiring artist on the cusp of finishing the final piece of her gallery submission.

A relaxing, eloquent experience that can be played at any pace. Become immersed in a panoramic world filled with resplendent colors, beautiful hand-animated visuals, and a smooth, easy-listening soundtrack.

In the second chapter, the plot thickens as our heroes plunge down into the mist below the Edge and wind up in the foggy and treacherous town of Port Artue where they find themselves cornered by pirates and on the run from the law.

I think you should play Photographs. I tried to make it a little bit different from most games. It sort of mixes puzzle and narrative in a ( hopefully ) interesting way. You might get stuck on some puzzles, but you should never not know what you need to do to proceed.

So what do you actually do? Well, you search around and solve puzzles, and as you do so you'll be developing a scene in front of you and hearing a story. I want to the story to really stand out, so the game has got really beautiful pixel art and top notch music, combined with gameplay and narrative beats that individually would do a pretty good job of telling that story, but come together to really make something special. It's a pretty short game too. I would say about three hours. There are loads of games these days and who has time to play them all? I've tried to keep things as condensed as possible rather than add filler, to be as respectful for your time as I can be.

Best iOS Puzzle Games

Ranked games, page 1 of 80

Papers, Please

Tiny Bubbles

Monument Valley

The Room: Old Sins

DANDY DUNGEON Brave Yamada

Linelight

The Room Two

ELOH

Part Time UFO

Gorogoa

Knotwords

FROST

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake

Cinco Paus

MovieCat 2 - The Movie Trivia Game Sequel!

The Room

LIMBO

Shadowmatic

Cut the Rope: Magic

Million Onion Hotel

King Rabbit - Find Gold, Rescue Bunnies

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Behind the Frame

The Journey Down: Chapter Two

Photographs - Puzzle Stories

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