The Best Puzzle Games for Mac OS - Page 3

Update : Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure added at rank #43.
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Mini Motorways (2019)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

Mini Motorways is a city-building game that challenges you to craft the road system of a growing city. You have limited resources to manage traffic, build roads and bridges, and create roundabouts. You must carefully plan your layout in order to encourage growth and minimize traffic jams.

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What we like:
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Intuitive design
  • Beautiful visuals
  • Relaxing soundtrack
  • Color-blind mode
What could be improved:
  • Can be difficult to manage traffic on complex maps
  • Limited resources can make it hard to keep up with the demand of the city

  • minimalist
  • puzzle
  • management
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • strategy 
  • strategy
  • zen
  • pause
  • relaxing
  • fast-forward
  • grid

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The Last Cube (2022)

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

Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.

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  • puzzle
  • platform
  • 3d
  • science
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • logic
  • atmospheric
  • movement
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • third-person
  • futuristic
  • grid
  • robots

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Harmony's Odyssey (2022)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Harmony’s Odyssey is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic. Embark on a fantastic journey through remote fabled lands tangled by a rowdy cat and bring peace to its inhabitants.

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  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • logic
  • magic
  • local
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • funny
  • controller-support
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • cooperative
  • platform

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Patrick's Parabox (2022)

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Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Patrick's Parabox offers a unique and inventive twist on the classic sokoban block-pushing puzzle genre. You'll need to guide a two-eyed box to the exit, while navigating cleverly crafted levels filled with over 350 handcrafted puzzles - think inside and outside the box!

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What we like:
  • Over 350 puzzles
  • Unique twist on sokoban puzzle genre
  • Recursive paradoxes for an extra challenge
  • Variety of new mechanics introduced
  • Optional challenges for added complexity
What could be improved:
  • Some levels can be tricky to solve without hints

  • sokoban
  • puzzle
  • logic
  • minimalist
  • abstract
  • 2d

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Return to Monkey Island (2022)

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

Join Guybrush Threepwood on an adventure in the Monkey Island series with Return to Monkey Island. Experience an intuitive design with puzzles that are tricky yet solvable, self-referential humour, familiar music with a modern edge and voice acting from the original cast. Enjoy accessibility features like subtitles, level adjustments and post-credit sequences.


What we like:
  • Intuitive design
  • Puzzles are tricky yet solvable
  • Self-referential humour
  • Familiar music with a modern edge
  • Voice acting from original cast
  • Accessibility features available such as subtitles
  • Level adjustments and post-credit sequences
What could be improved:
  • Art style may be off-putting for some players
  • Colour blind players may not benefit from all of the accessibility features
  • No insult-based combat as in previous titles

  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • pirates
  • inventory
  • classic
  • funny

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Gardenscapes (2016)

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Nintendo 3DS Mac OS PC Windows ds Android IOS iPhone

Gardenscapes is the first hit from Playrix's Scapes™ series. Solve match-3 puzzles to restore a wonderful garden to its former glory. Dozens of in-game characters you can make friends with.


  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • baby
  • time-management
  • relaxing
  • customization
  • difficult
  • simulation
  • local
  • zen
  • entertainment
  • match-three
  • open-ended
  • golf
  • chess

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Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (2021)

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

Play as an adorable yet trouble-making turnip. Avoid paying taxes, solve plantastic puzzles, harvest crops and battle massive beasts all in a journey to tear down a corrupt vegetable government!


  • zelda
  • dungeon
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • cute
  • puzzle
  • veggie
  • adventure
  • food
  • past
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • fight
  • action-adventure
  • action

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Superliminal (2019)

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Android IOS iPhone Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Superliminal invites you into a dream world full of mind-bending puzzles and optical illusions. Manipulate objects and change their size to solve cleverly designed challenges. It's a surreal, inventive journey that will keep you hooked with its thought-provoking narrative and unique gameplay. Ready to change your perspective?


What we like:
  • Innovative gameplay that challenges your perception
  • Thought-provoking narrative
  • Brilliantly designed puzzles
  • Immersive dream-like atmosphere
  • Fantastic original soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Short duration of gameplay

  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • mind-bending
  • narration
  • surreal
  • chess
  • vision
  • thriller

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INSIDE (2016)

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IOS iPhone Mac OS PC Windows Xbox 360 Xbox One

Get drawn into a haunting journey as you play as a hunted and alone boy, face challenging puzzles and intense action, and uncover secrets in this award-winning indie adventure game, INSIDE. The stunning art style, chilling soundtrack, and eerie atmosphere will leave you feeling unsettled and craving more.


What we like:
  • Stunning visual design
  • impressive sound design
  • captivating and mysterious storytelling
  • innovative gameplay
  • offers opportunities to explore and find secrets
What could be improved:
  • Relatively short
  • Puzzles not that hard

  • puzzle
  • platform
  • narrative
  • physics
  • dystopian

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The House of Da Vinci 3 (2022)

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The grand finale to The House of Da Vinci trilogy is here! Solve numerous new puzzles and mind benders and explore new mystifying locations of ravishing beauty.

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  • historical
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • grand
  • 3d
  • travel
  • logic
  • detective
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • time
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • realistic

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