The Best Head-scratching Games for PC Windows

Update : Brassheart added at rank #2.
Here are our 10 Best Head-scratching Games for PC Windows:
1

Doors: Paradox (2022)

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A relaxing puzzle escape game! Make your way through a variety of hand-crafted 3D dioramas, look for useful objects, find hidden clues and solve fun puzzles! Unravel this mysterious adventure about chaos, order and the surreal.


  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • cozy
  • wholesome
  • head-scratching
  • point-and-click
  • travel
  • multiple-endings
  • time
  • mystery
  • clicker
  • rich
  • atmospheric
  • hidden-object
  • linear

2

Brassheart (2025)

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Brassheart is an adventure game set in the alternative 1920s, inspired by dieselpunk and the classics of the genre. In this world, you play as Pola, a spunky pilot. She follows the clues that may provide a way to save her father kidnapped by his own invention, a rebellious supermachine, Valkiria.


  • point-and-click
  • head-scratching
  • adventure
  • art
  • dieselpunk
  • two-click
  • steampunk
  • puzzle
  • inventory
  • graphic
  • alternate
  • hand-drawn
  • classic
  • robots
  • historical

3

What's The Point? (2024)

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Experience the ultimate existential crisis simulator! Our FPS-loving indie studio took an unexpected detour into philosophy. Push a metaphorical boulder, question life's purpose, and maybe find meaning (or just sore muscles). It's Sisyphus meets game dev madness in our debut title.

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  • simulation
  • casual
  • cinematic
  • action-adventure
  • hidden-object
  • head-scratching
  • emotional
  • action
  • 3d
  • third-person
  • exploration
  • rpg
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • book

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