Each day you must choose which stories to run and how much space to give them, impacting your paper's popularity and the government's approval with the general populace. The Republia Times - You're the editor of a newspaper in a totalitarian state in this game from the creator of Return of the Obra Dinn. Getting out of each one will test your brain, but you’ll be even more taxed trying to figure out what’s going on in their bizarre universe.Ĭorrypt - What starts as a relatively simple block-pushing game ends as one where you’ll reshape the world, by using magic to reprogram the state of the environment.
It’s a top-down, Sokoban-style puzzler where you have to hop between islands, by using magic mirrors to swap places with your reflection.Ĭube Escape - There’s a strange atmosphere to developer Rusty Lake’s series of locked room puzzle games. Mirror Isles - No list of puzzle games is really complete without a PuzzleScript game from Alan Hazelden, and Mirror Isles is one of the very best. And you’ll do so to unlock a friendly little fantasy world.
You might turn into a key to open a lock, or a boat to sail the open sea. Transmute!- Play as a wizard who can transform into different objects.
(Image credit: Rusty Lake) Best free PC games: Puzzle
Entropy: Zero 2 (opens in new tab) - This massive mod expansion to Half-Life 2 is practically a sequel: it's a full seven chapter campaign with new weapons and a sidestory to Gordon's adventure.But you can play them all in brief right now. This one features 18 games, most coming in full form later this year. Haunted PS1 demo disc: Spectral Mall (opens in new tab) - Low-poly horror gets another generous collection.Waves (opens in new tab) and Waves 2 were made by indie dev Rob Hale, who died of cancer in August and requested both games be made free posthumously.