Category: Puzzle

Manifold Garden is an upcoming exploration puzzle game set in an Escher-esque world, where you can walk on any visible surface.

I Can't Escape: Darkness tickled my fancy when I first heard about it, and I had access to play it a bit early and get some impressions.

Induction creator Bryan Gale recently released a new trailer for his upcoming game, featuring music by Duet composer Tim Shiel.

In Between is a story-driven puzzle platformer with gravity rotation mechanics that has the makings of a new classic.

Trine 3 looks absolutely beautiful, and I was sad when it didn't release on Linux day-1, but the good news is the Linux release isn't far off.

Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is the latest in the puzzle platformer series by Frozenbyte, and they confirmed in their newsletter that the Linux and Mac versions are in development.

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is an excellent looking first person puzzle game, and the developer has confirmed Linux & Mac ports are currently in progress.

The long-awaited expansion to last year's first-person puzzle favorite has been released on Steam, and comes with a massive price cut on the base game for new customers.

The Magic Circle is a free-form puzzle game that pokes fun at the game industry, and was released for Linux earlier this week.

The update is meant to fix more than 160 bugs and address controller issues, and also includes new missions and hardcore levels for an estimated 5 hours worth of additional content.

The Architect is a game I covered way back last year, and now it's had a full release I gave it another run. If you like puzzle games done a bit differently, this will be a good fit for you.

The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna is the official name of the new DLC coming on July 23rd, I really need to play the first part sometime.

It's been a while, but Trine Enchanted Edition is finally available for Linux users on GOG. It's well worth checking out, so hopefully a few more of you can play it now.

The sandbox factory puzzler by SpaceChem and TIS-100 developer Zachtronics has left Early Access after five months of tweaks and bug fixing.

A free standalone(-ish, I'll talk about that a bit later) Portal 2 mod called Portal Stories: Mel has been released on Steam. So those who want more Portal can get it in the form of 22 levels and approx. 6-10 hours of gameplay.

Shift Happens is a co-op platformer in development built around the concept of shifting mass between two player characters, and it promises a "shiftload" of fun action and puzzles.

So I heard you like puzzle games. Well, since relatively recently we have gotten two light-weight and relatively simple (as in, simple concept) puzzle games I decided to be more super productive and put them both in the same article. Enjoy the double first impressions!

Developer and publisher Nicalis, Inc. has made an improved version of the popular physics platformer available on Steam for Linux.

Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol now ships with FNA, and is for the first time available for Linux on Humble and Steam.

SpaceChem developer Zachtronics is out with a new game where you're tasked with fixing corrupt code to uncover the secrets of the mysterious TIS-100 hardware unit.