10 Cozy Puzzle Games for a New Challenge
If you’re looking for a bit more of a brain workout in your cozy gaming, finding a great puzzle game is a great way to get a new challenge and endorphins thrill. Here are 10 of the best cozy puzzle games, from a challenging puzzle platformer, to tile placing town building to an ever growing ground hole controlled by a mischevious racoon to help find your new puzzling experience.
Unpacking
Developer Image: Witch Beam
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox
Cost: €19.99 or included in Xbox Gamepass
Unpacking is a unique zen puzzle game that transforms the tedious task of unpacking boxes and moving home into a soothing, meditative journey. Unpack, organise and arrange belongings into various homes over a period of 20 years as you learn more about the owner’s story through light puzzle-solving and subtle storytelling. Read my full review here!
Celeste
Developer Image: Maddy Makes Games Inc
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €19.99 or included on Xbox Gamepass
Play as Madeline and help her to survive her inner demons as she ascends to the top of Celeste Mountain in this puzzle platformer. Complete hundreds of challenges, uncover secrets and solve the mystery of the Mountain with a gorgeously atmospheric synthy soundtrack.
GRIS
Developer Image: Nomada Studios
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €14.79 or Included on Xbox Gamepass
Play as a young girl lost in her own world coming to terms with a painful experience in this atmospheric platform adventure game. Complete puzzles and optional skill based challenges to unfold Gris’s story. Read my full review here!
Donut County
Developer Image: Ben Esposito
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €11.99
A story base physics puzzle game where you play an ever growing hole in the ground, remote controlled by a raccoon who wants to collect the trash around the town, but in doing swallows up the residents and their homes into a deep hole. Find a way to catapult them out of the hole and back to the surface.
Untitled Goose Game
Developer Image: House House
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €18.99
Play as a mischievous goose let loose on an village. Complete tasks to steal picnic baskets, setting up pranks and making a nuisance honking around town in this hilarious stealth sandbox game. Now available in 2 players, double the geese chaos!
A Little to the Left
Developer Image: Max Inferno
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €14.99 or included on Xbox Gamepass
A relaxing puzzle game where you need to sort, stack and organise household items with over 100+ puzzle messes to satisfyingly tidy. Keep an eye out for a mischevious cat who may cause a little chaos in your organising.
Dorfromantik
Developer Image: Toukana Interactive
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch
Cost: €12.99
Create a beautiful and ever growing village landscape by placing tiles in this peaceful building strategy and puzzle game. Complete quests and place tiles around their special requirements across different biomes and unlock new tiles.
Botany Manor
Developer Image: Whitehorn Games
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox
Cost: €22.49 or Included in Xbox Gamepass
It’s 1890, and you are Arabella Greene, a retired botanist that has just inherited a Somerset Manor in the English Countryside. Your publisher has accepted your book proposal and you are now tasked to complete your herbarium, a collection of studies and research about Forgotten Flora in this exploration puzzle game. Read my full review here!
Tiny Lands
Developer Image: Hyper Three Studio
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch
Cost: €6.99
Spot the differences in beautiful £D environments that are fully rotatable and zoomable. Set your favourite lo-fi music and complete puzzles at your own pace, while adding dynamic objects to change the aura with fire, rain, thunder and snow.
Stitch.
Developer Image: Lykkegaard Europe Limited
Available on: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €17.99
stitch. is a casual embroidary themed crafting puzzle game where the main objective is to complete a series of cute sewing designs by filling in each area with no gaps to complete Hoops. There are thousands of levels to complete ranging from easy to extremely challenging, each offering a final embroidered masterpiece with a realistic embroidary engine to make you feel as though you are playing with real embroidary thread.
