The Best Puzzle Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

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Update : No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files added at rank #39.
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Chants of Sennaar (2023)

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

Embark on a mysterious and addictive puzzling adventure in Chants of Sennaar. Explore stunning environments, decipher languages, and piece together a captivating story through visual storytelling. With a compact install size, amazing visuals, and lush sound design, this game offers a unique and immersive experience. The glyph mechanics and language deciphering are surprisingly addictive, although the stealth sections could have been better. If you're looking for a fresh and captivating gaming experience, Chants of Sennaar is a must-play.

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What we like:
  • Unique and addictive glyph mechanics
  • Stunning visuals and immersive environments
  • Captivating visual storytelling
  • Compact install size
  • Lush sound design
What could be improved:
  • Stealth sections could have been better

  • puzzle
  • stealth
  • adventure
  • translation
  • puzzling

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The Last Campfire (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

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

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Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story (2022)

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

Two best friends, one wild adventure. Join best friends Nunu and Willump on an adventure across the frozen wilds of the Freljord. Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story is a single-player story adventure developed by Tequila Works.

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  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • story
  • platform
  • narrative
  • fight
  • combat
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • battle
  • single-player
  • action
  • stealth
  • boss-fight
  • moba

34

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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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

37

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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No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files (2025)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch 2

Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!


  • mystery
  • illuminati
  • visual-novel
  • noir
  • psychedelic
  • fiction
  • detective
  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • anime
  • conspiracy
  • choices
  • adventure
  • sci-fi
  • crime

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Beyond a Steel Sky (2020)

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

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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