Top 10 Games: Puzzle
The highest-graded puzzle games we have reviewed, best first.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomUltrahand turns a physics engine into a design language, and Hyrule bends to whatever nonsense you build.Read the review
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeThe template for 3D adventure design, and still the measuring stick everything else gets held against.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildNintendo replaced thirty years of lock-and-key design with a chemistry set and got away with it completely.
Resident Evil (2002 Remake)The rare remake that beats the original at its own game and then quietly keeps going.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastThe Zelda formula, cast in its definitive form on the first try.
Portal 2A perfect short story stretched into a novel without diluting the joke, and Wheatley is the reason it works.
Shadow of the Colossus (2018 Remake)The same sixteen fights rebuilt surface by surface, by a studio that understood it was not allowed to change them.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind WakerThe best-looking Zelda ever made, wrapped around an ocean that runs out of ideas before it runs out of water.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskThree days until the moon lands, and a whole town's worth of people you can only save by starting over.
Indiana Jones and the Great CircleMachineGames delivers the best Indiana Jones story in decades, a globetrotting first person adventure whose puzzles outshine its fights
