The Best Puzzle Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

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Update : Leila added at rank #40.
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The Entropy Centre (2022)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

Dive into The Entropy Centre, a mind-bending puzzle adventure set in a colossal space station. You'll reverse time, solve challenging puzzles, and uncover an engaging story with a witty AI companion. Will you conquer the conundrums and uncover the truth that awaits?

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What we like:
  • Smart and challenging puzzles
  • Engaging storyline with witty dialogue
  • Unique time-reversal mechanic
  • Stunning visuals and immersive world
What could be improved:
  • Some puzzles can be frustrating
  • Lack of truly hard puzzles
  • Repetitive dialogues
  • Unnecessary combat sections

  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • manipulation
  • sci-fi
  • time
  • futuristic
  • platform
  • funny
  • mind-bending
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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Outer Wilds (2019)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Android

Unravel the mysteries of the universe in Outer Wilds, an award-winning open world game. Explore an ever-evolving solar system, uncover alien secrets, and enjoy a thought-provoking narrative. With no enemies to fight, you're free to discover at your own pace. Get ready for an unforgettable adventure in space!

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What we like:
  • Unique and immersive gameplay experience
  • Beautiful and intricate world-building
  • Thought-provoking narrative
  • Encourages fearless discovery
  • Captures the mysteries of the universe
What could be improved:
  • May cause motion sickness
  • Game's physics can lead to unexpected deaths

  • exploration
  • mystery
  • puzzle
  • open-world
  • discovery
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • endless
  • day
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • story
  • narrative
  • beautiful

33

Tin Hearts (2023)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Xbox One osvr PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Step into the magical world of Tin Hearts, a captivating puzzle-adventure game. Guide tin soldiers through whimsical levels, solve ingenious riddles, and unravel the touching tale of inventor Albert J. Butterworth. With enchanting animation, a poignant soundtrack, and a decent length of gameplay, Tin Hearts is the perfect treat for puzzle enthusiasts.


What we like:
  • Challenging and inventive puzzles
  • Beautiful graphics and design
  • Engaging and emotional narrative
  • Memorable music
  • Satisfying length of gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Suboptimal isometric view can make puzzles hard to understand
  • Difficulty in placing and manipulating objects
  • Forced camera movement

  • puzzle
  • steampunk
  • lemmings
  • alternate-timeline
  • manipulation
  • platform
  • relaxing
  • fiction
  • first-person
  • time
  • vr
  • narration
  • 3d
  • choices
  • magic

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Storyteller (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle game about building stories. Start with a title, settings and characters and create a story that fits the story’s description. Play with stories of love, intrigue, crime, monsters, betrayal, and more!

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  • puzzle
  • romance
  • narrative
  • detective

35

The Last Campfire (2020)

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Playstation 4 IOS iPhone PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One

The Last Campfire is a puzzle adventure game with a beautiful story and immersive atmosphere. You play as an ember, a traveler who gets lost from a pack of explorers at the beginning of the game in an unusual strange world. Your job is to comfort these travelers by entering their dream state and freeing them from their slumber.

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What we like:
  • Beautiful story
  • Immersive atmosphere
  • Inventive puzzles
  • Lovely visuals
  • Poetic soundtrack with Nordic voice talent
  • Promotes hope friendship and kindness
What could be improved:
  • Lacking in number of puzzles and they are not difficult even at the end

  • puzzle
  • narration
  • adventure
  • relaxing

36

Portal: Companion Collection (2022)

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Nintendo Switch

Portal and Portal 2 come to Nintendo Switch with all the groundbreaking gameplay, dark humor, and exploration that earned the series hundreds of awards. Maneuver objects--and yourself--through space to puzzle your way through the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories.

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  • puzzle
  • cooperative
  • compilation
  • first-person
  • split-screen
  • wormhole
  • fluid
  • playing
  • paint
  • online
  • platform
  • robots
  • narrative
  • military
  • multiplayer

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Freshly Frosted (2022)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!


  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • automation
  • colourful
  • cute
  • puzzley
  • narration
  • top-down
  • logic
  • cooking
  • programming
  • challenging
  • stylized
  • building
  • asmr

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Beyond a Steel Sky (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone

Beyond a Steel Sky is a thrilling cyberpunk adventure game with engaging puzzles and a fast-paced narrative that will keep you hooked. Follow Robert Foster as he tries to rescue a kidnapped child in Union City, a futuristic utopia controlled by an altruistic AI. The game features a beautifully detailed comic-book style world and plenty of humor. Unravel dark conspiracies and defeat a terrifying antagonist in this innovative and exciting adventure!

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What we like:
  • Engaging storyline and characters
  • Built-in hints system
  • Great setting and world design
  • Innovative puzzle mechanics
  • Plenty of humor and nostalgia nods
What could be improved:
  • Controlling the character is clunky
  • Hacking can be repetitive
  • Lack of puzzle diversity
  • Story can be simplistic with bad pace
  • Cutscenes are too long and boring

  • cyberpunk
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • narrative
  • dystopian
  • classic
  • sci-fi
  • thriller
  • futuristic
  • cult
  • third-person
  • political
  • hacking
  • inventory

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Q.U.B.E. 2 (2018)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

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  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • physics
  • platform

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Leila (2025)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 j Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Enter the world of an everyday woman as you explore her past in this point & click narrative game. Hand-drawn animations bring her memories to life, and thought-provoking puzzles lay bare the reasons behind her choices. Immerse yourself in a story unfolds as you decipher its intricate pieces.


  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • emotional
  • puzzle
  • story
  • narrative
  • psychological
  • thought-provoking
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • hidden-object
  • soundtrack
  • drama

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