Age of Heroes - The Beginning takes matching 3 to a whole new level.
A terrible villain has escaped from prison and his evil is released upon the world once more. The peace and beauty of the land have turned to fear and darkness. It’s up to you to stop him and help the poor peasants who had their homes destroyed. Match your way through this incredible journey, meet great heroes and use their skills to help you save the day in Age of Heroes: The Beginning.

What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, insane cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Scare" of the 1980s.


A 3D adventure puzzle game set on the verge of mythical legends and the modern world. Harmony’s Odyssey offers engaging and thoughtful tile-based riddles based on classic jigsaw idea, brought to the new heights, accompanied by mighty creatures and their unpredictable attitudes.

This famous and easily understandable puzzle was created in 2001. "Akari" is a puzzle in which you set lights based on the hint numbers in order to light up the entirety of the white space. The main features of "Akari" are the easy to understand rules, and the depth of the game. There are great numbers of patterns for which you will figure out "When the numbers and lights and spaces are combined like this, then THIS is how they are sure to match up", so you have plenty of opportunities to taste "the excitement of discovering new patterns".

Lucy is a young girl with a sharp wit and a recurring nightmare! Adventure between dreams and reality to explore strange environments, colourful characters and unique puzzles. Can you unlock the secrets of dream control and discover the disturbing truth behind Lucy’s nightmares before it's too late?

Word Attack is a game suite, predominantly based around words. Some of the games encourage playing at a faster pace, however you can play slowly if you like, as thought and planning is often required. See below for more information about Battle Boards, Codeword, Decipher, Pairs, Slide, Unscramble, Word Escape, Word Hunt, and Wordsearch. BATTLE-BOARD Place a line of letters onto the board to form more words. Some features of the BATTLE-BOARD game: - Multiplayer. You can play in parallel or in turn against other human players. When playing in parallel you use the same set of tiles and the best scoring play stays on the board, all players getting their score. Steam lobbies are used, with the first computer hosting the game server and everyone being a client to the host. You can auto join/create a new lobby, choose a lobby to join or create a new lobby. Manually creating a lobby you can set it to &quot;Friends only&quot;. While waiting for a game to start everyone can play an anagram game and text each other. The lobby leader can decide if there will be any computer players, the board to play on, the tiles to use, the rules in play and how and when the game will start. If the lobby leader drops out, then someone else's computer should fill the role. When the game is about to start, the lobby owner will automatically start a server and the server will pass the game setup to the clients. - If you don't want to play against other people then in local/single player mode, you can always choose to play against the computer (note that some of the computer players are exceptional at playing the game) or on your own in Patience mode. - You can play against the clock, either by defining a round length or by setting the overall active time that can be taken, or not have a clock and just take your time. - Non-rectangular boards based on areas you can't place tiles (Design your own 2D collage backgrounds, then use the board designer to define where you can place tiles, and set where bonuses and score traps are). - 3D boards. Want to try playing around a cube? In this game you can. (Design you own 3D boards, define 3D shapes with the Voxel designer, then use the Board designer to specify where you can place tiles, and set where bonuses and score traps are). - Cylinder boards, go around and around... - You can set the game rules, e.g. choose to play words left and/or right and up and/or down the board. Set how blank/wildcard tiles score. - Scores are based on the value of the tiles and where you place them. Try to use bonuses the board may have, but avoid any scoring traps. - Multiple sets of tiles to play (make up your own tile sets). - Tiles can contain single or multiple characters. Blank tiles can be replaced with contents of other tiles (e.g. multiple characters where applicable). - Multiple computer players with different playing styles and vocabulary that they will use. - Game modes where you can vote to attack (for double scores) or defend (prevent double scores). Play these when you think it's going to benefit you and not everyone else, because everyone gets the score boost if it happens (when all playing in parallel). - Adjustable interface layout. Drag and resize things like the score panel, clock etc. While playing you can either drag individual tiles from the tile rack onto the board or you can pick which tiles to place and where to start placing them from. When placing selected tile(s) you can either gesture which direction they should be placed (eg click and drag the mouse in the required direction) or click on the arrow control on the tile rack to specify the direction, then click on the tile to start placing from. To remove placed tiles you can click on them with the secondary mouse button or click on a cancel button. CODEWORD Letters of the alphabet have been replaced with numbers. Find the letters each number represents to break the code. Some features of the CODEWORD game: - Choose which word list/computer personality words are taken from. - A list of words are shown in coded form to enable you to break the code. - Choose the minimum/maximum size of the words shown. - Set the minimum number of tiles to show (the longer the words then the less words will be shown, but the easier it should be to decide what words they are). - To help, you can ask for the for as many numbers as you like to be solved for you - it just reduces your score (tiles are shown in green**). - When you fill a row of tiles with a valid word it is ticked off. - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. DECIPHER Decide what the hidden word is. The tiles of the word start off blank, drag letters onto them to form the hidden word. Some features of the DECIPHER game: - Choose which word list/computer personality words are taken from. - Choose the minimum/maximum size of the words to find. - Correctly placed letters turn green**. - Letters needed in the word but placed in the wrong position turn blue**. - Letters not needed in the word turn red**. - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. PAIRS A memory game where you flip tiles to find pairs of words, images or match words to their definitions. Some features of the CODEWORD game: - Choose which word list/computer personality words are taken from. - Choose the minimum/maximum size of the words chosen. - You can set the game so that the pairs are words, but you can also match words to their definitions, as well as images to the name of the image. - Clearing boards opens up larger boards to play on. - Correctly paired tiles turn green**. - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. SLIDE Slide words around the grid and highlight as many words as possible at the same time, without highlight adjacent tiles the don't make words. Some features of the SLIDE game: - Move the letter tiles around to form words. Note that tiles that drop off are not automatically replaced, so make space sparingly. Tiles move differently depending on how many tiles need to be pushed along the way, although you can stop this for a short while by depressing the yellow** button. - Mark the tiles that make words. - The bigger the word, the bigger the score. - Push and bump highlighted tiles together to form new words to gain bonuses. - End a go with multiple words highlighted at the same time to gain big bonuses. - Bring new tiles onto the board by pressing one of the blue** buttons - but be warned, there's a penalty as bringing on new letters will (slightly) reduce your score! - Remove your current highlights by pressing the red** button. - Take your go and bank your score by pressing the green** button. You can make the same words again, but the used tiles will be replaced. - Playing boards opens up other boards to play on. - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. UNSCRAMBLE Words are scrambled up, unscramble them. Some features of the UNSCRAMBLE game: - Choose which word list/computer personality words are taken from. - Choose the minimum/maximum size of the words to unscramble. - Choose if you need to find an exact match to the word chosen, or just to a word that exists. - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. WORD ESCAPE This is a sliding block puzzle, where you need to help our hero &quot;WORD&quot; to escape from imprisonment. Some features of the WORD ESCAPE game: - Slide blocks out of the way to clear the path to the exit (blocks only slide along the their primary axis). - 4 sizes of block (1x1=Static Block, 2x1=Gate, 3x1=Guard, 4x1=Warden). - Rotator blocks (2x1 gates that can rotate into 4 positions). - Variable size boards. - Variable exit points. - Solve boards to open up new ones. WORD HUNT This is a bit of a cross between a battleships type game, a wordsearch game, with a bit of minesweeper thrown in... Find the list of words hidden on the board. Some features of the WORD HUNT game: - Choose which word list/computer personality words are taken from. - Choose the minimum/maximum size of the words to find. - 3D boards. Want to try playing around a cube? In this game you can. Design you own boards (using the Voxel designer - Using Cube or Basalt shaped Voxels). - Special cylinder shaped boards. - Find words horizontally, vertically, diagonally, forwards, backwords, around corners... - Can show the number of adjacent letters where you choose a cell that doesn't contain a letter. - Mark tiles you don't think contain letters and therefore don't need to expose (score is based on how many tiles you expose). - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. - Resume games in play. - Finish the game by finding all the words in the list. WORDSEARCH Find the list of words hidden on the board. Some features of the WORDSEARCH game: - Choose which word list/computer personality words are taken from. - Choose the minimum/maximum size of the words to find. - Words are hidden in random boards of letters. - 3D boards. Want to try playing around a cube? In this game you can. Design you own boards (using the Voxel designer - Using Cube or Basalt shaped Voxels). - Special cylinder shaped boards. - Find words horizontally, vertically, diagonally, forwards, backwords, around corners... - Select the first tile of a word in the list, and then the last tile of that same word and it's marked off. - You can play against the clock or not have a clock and just take your time. - Resume games in play. - Finish the game by finding all the words in the list. CUSTOM BOARDS Some features of the Voxel designer. - Define 3D shapes using cube (six sided with square faces) or basalt (8 sided with hexagons on top and bottom, square faces between them) shaped Voxels. - Optional board for voxels to rise off. - Mirror options for 3 axis duplication. - Fill option to fill in gaps between mirrored voxels. - Place voxels using the primary mouse button, remove them with the secondary mouse button. - The Voxel shapes created can be used in the Wordsearch and Word Hunt games, and can be used in the Board designer as the basis to design boards for the Battle-Board game. Some features of the Background designer. - Create montages from multiple images. - Use masks to morph the shape of images. - The backgrounds created can be used as the basis to design boards for the Battle-Board game. Some features of the Board designer. - Define your own cell types, how they score, icon overlays, their colour, wording etc. - Draw where cells should be, optional brush to ensure cells around the placed cell are active. Some features of the Shape modifier. - Add background images/texture to 3D shapes created in the Voxel designer. - Modify the part of the image used for each cell. Some features of the Tile designer. - Define your own set of tiles. - Specify how many of each tile are in the tile set. - Multi character tiles allowed. - Tiles that can only be used via wildcard tiles allowed. - Specify how much the tile scores. - Specify the size of the letters text. - Specify the size of the score text. General With a touch screen you can zoom and pan the board by using 2 fingers and rotate with 3 fingers. Otherwise you can use the middle mouse button for movement and the secondary mouse button for rotation. Alternatively you can use a gizmo to zoom, pan, tilt and reset the position of the board on screen. The top right icon of the gizmo changes the mode for the arrows and the central sphere between rotate, twist and move. Notes: ** Based on the standard colour scheme. Choosing a different colour scheme may change the colour used.

In this hidden object game you can visit 9 European countries and search for interesting items in unforgettable old European towns and play a bunch of new mini games. You’ll visit Bullring in Seville, walk around La Rioja vineyards, see the ancient lighthouse San Sebastian in Spain and Theme park in Senlis, France. You’ll enjoy a walk in several national parks, go around Venice, experience the European music culture, have a look in luxurious casino in Monaco, visit two interesting museums, ancient castle and much more...

- over 15 locations to search
- find over 500 objects and a hidden raccoon in every level
- play over 15 new mini-games
- beautiful desktop wallpapers
- an album with exclusive virtual postage stamps to collect

Solve your way through this fast-paced rogue-lite puzzle game and outwit unforgiving creatures as you venture into the mysterious Power Plant!

Somber is an atmospheric action-platformer that takes place in the semi-open world of Gloom. A hand-painted game filled with stunning environments, Somber demands absolute precision from players who wish to unlock its many secrets.

“Hello! I'm Ralph, and my parents have just gone out for dinner. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced all my toys, including my beloved little blue ball. Would you be able to assist me in finding them?”

Embark on a very charming hidden object short game based on a true story.

FEATURES:
♥ 13 Toys for you to find
♥ 8 hand crafted levels
♥ Gallery with all the levels.
♥ Unique and Charming pixel art style.

The omnipotent Frog God has promised you the gift of reincarnation. All you have to do first is to save the lost souls of 40 frogs, which is no easy task. You’ve been gifted with the ability to suspend and resume time at your will. Jump over moving platforms, avoid pits, spikes, and enemies, and even create your own hover-board that doubles as a projectile attack! How many souls can you save? Will the Frog God grant your wish? Find out in this timeless puzzle platformer.

Do you want to experience the sights and sounds of Europe? Then prepare for a journey through 30 amazing tourist spots around Europe!
Hunt for hidden objects and solve brain-teasing mini-games as you visit the Paleontological Museum in Paris,
see the Pena Palace in Portugal, enjoy a walk in Bruges, and even ride the tram in Lisbon!
This is the most convenient and fun way to experience some of Europe’s finest museums, most beautiful natural landmarks, and much more!

Shadows over Silesia is a dark action adventure game set in real medieval Europe. With true historical events in the background, challenging puzzles, difficult battles but also stealth passages and important decisions are waiting for you.

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?

In each level you have the task to catch a certain amount of the moving dots by starting a chain reaction. Choose wisely where to start it! 
 
• 105 varied levels 
• up to 1000 dots per level 
 
5 different types of special dots, each with special abilities for new fun: 
 
• white dots: you get an extra starting shot 
• blue dots: remain permanent and the other dots bounce off 
• orange dots: remain permanent and the other dots explode on them 
• green dots: you have to catch these dots to complete the level 
• red dots: you must not catch these dots, because... you'll see :-) 
 
Additional content: finish all levels and unlock the ultimate hard mode!

Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle game.

Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories.
Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together.
Made in Ukraine.

Design
The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time.
We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure.
The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options.

Story
Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll...
Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way.
He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal.


What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville:
- Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists.
- Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction.
- Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game.
- Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game.
- There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.

Welcome to Finity: a thoughtful, handcrafted matching game.

A few rules lead to endless strategy, flow, and exciting close calls.
1. Tiles wrap around.
2. Slide rows or columns to match 3.
3. Moves are limited, so think carefully!

Climb the leaderboards as you level up your skills to unlock challenging special tiles, power ups, and new themes to suit your mood in Classic Mode. 
Or swipe over to Tempo Mode and get lost in music while you make swift matches and find your flow.

Listen carefully, my friend – and I shall tell you the story of courage, love, luck ... and the importance of reading skills! Move and rotate pieces of stained glass to complete mosaics and uncover the story in Mosaic Chronicles, a story-driven puzzle game.

These Pretty Girls are no stranger to mahjong solitaire, but this new version freshens up the action puzzling with a skill-based game of match-3! Instead of pairs of tiles, here you’ll need to find 3 identical tiles to erase them from the board, while layers of trapped tiles beneath are darkened and “locked” until you uncover them.

Meet 5 lovely female companions as you play and earn points to unlock new adorable outfits for them across a whopping 120 stages, all featuring unique tile layouts and randomized patterns that pose a tough-but-fair challenge! Then head to the enhanced Dressing Room mode where you can view unlocked outfits and assemble your own custom dioramas!

Features:

• Match 3 mahjong tiles to clear them from the board!
• Test your skills across 120 stages with unique tile layouts.
• Meet 6 lovely female companions voiced in Japanese!
• Earn points to unlock new outfits in the Dressing Room shop.
• Create your own dioramas and save them to view anytime!

You find yourself shipwrecked on a beautiful unsunken island that was once part of Atlantis. Explore the mysteries of the island, and solve unique puzzles to enter the sunken lighthouse into the depths of Atlantis.

A new jigsaw puzzle game to remember a beloved classic story. With 12 beautiful illustrations created by Katia Numakura, with inspiration from “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll.

- Complete the jigsaw puzzle scenes at five different levels of difficulty - from 60 to 735 pieces;
- Relax with a comforting and exclusive soundtrack;
- Features include zooming the scene, highlighting border pieces, highlighting pieces from a specific quadrant, shuffling the remaining pieces, previewing the scene, dragging the board;

Jigsaw Puzzle: Belgium Through The Lens is a relaxing yet challenging puzzle game for PC and Mac. Gizmo the globetrotter dog is visiting his friend, the well known Belgian photographer Nano. Through the beautiful pictures Nano took over the years of his home country the player will get an impression of the wonders Belgium has to offer. From people, animals and objects to art, culture, history and architecture. There are 34 categories with 10 different puzzles each with the number of pieces ranging from 4 (very simple) to 625 pieces (puzzle expert).

Enjoy a personal zen moment filled with casual gaming by solving easy, intermediate and more challenging digital jigsaw puzzles with an ever increasing number of pieces to puzzle together. Accompanied by relaxing music and at a leisurely pace you will find bliss in this adventure through one of Europe's most beautiful countries.

An innovative voice-controlled adventure game, played through a series of interactive 'phone calls'. Join the heist and save the world... using nothing but your voice. Will you answer the call?

Save Falafel from within a towering, puzzling laboratory in this super challenging retro puzzler!

Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory is a puzzle game that has been described as “a combination between Pac-Man and chess”. Guide the adventurous Ayla as she attempts to rescue her dog, Falafel, from the confines of a mysterious towering laboratory deep within a solitary forest. Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory combines puzzle and strategy elements with an engaging storyline full of memorable characters and biting humor.

Over 100 puzzles: Can you beat Dr. Kobushi's tower? Over 100 thought-provoking puzzles will challenge your creativity and insight.

- Meet new frenemies: Anton, Maurice, Janine and Clowes are the Puppet Panics, a gang of robotic puppets created by Dr. Kobushi to surveil his tower. Get to know them, solve their puzzles and show them who's boss!

- Innovative and classic mechanics: Puzzles mix innovative mechanics, such as entangled blocks, with four different types of robot enemies as well as classic dungeon mechanics you've come to know.

- Challenging for adults, accessible for kids: Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory offers highly challenging puzzles even for puzzle game veterans, while adopting a style that makes it great for younger players (who might appreciate receiving puzzle hints from older friends or family members!)

- Original chiptune soundtrack by Fearofdark!

You've been invited to a strange party at Lady Tealwoods' new mansion. It's not long until a sudden murder is revealed, and you must piece together who is lying, and who is the murderer as you uncover the secrets of the different strange guests of Tealwoods Manor.

Best PC Puzzle Games

Ranked games, page 78 of 80

Age of Heroes: The Beginning

FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

Harmony's Odyssey

Puzzle by Nikoli W Akari

Lucy Dreaming

Word Attack

Big Adventure: Trip to Europe 3 - Collector's Edition

Overhaul

Somber

Ralph and the Blue Ball

A Frog's Job

Big Adventure: Trip To Europe 2 Collector's Edition

1428: Shadows over Silesia

Once Again

Boomshine Plus

Boxville

finity.

Mosaic Chronicles

Pretty Girls Tile Match

Kredolis

Alice in Wonderland Jigsaw Puzzle

Jigsaw Puzzle: Belgium Through The Lens

Unknown Number: A First Person Talker

Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory

Murders at Tealwoods Manor

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