10 Best Environmental Puzzle Games on Steam

Rise of the Tomb Raider offers a wonderful combination of Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash aesthetics. This remake of the original Tomb Raider game by Crystal Dynamics features a new ace for the protagonist and allows you to be Lara Croft and go on an epic journey to free your friends from the pirates taking refuge on a distant and god-forsaken island. Equipped with only a Bow and Arrows, you’ll have to survive through hostile environments, encounter the most notorious and vindictive groups of pirates and enjoy immersing yourself into hardcore action and thrill filled game-play. As compared to the previous Tomb Raider games, you’ll experience enhanced mechanics and visuals, a totally new story and plenty of new perks available with the purchase. With a third-person perspective, a new face of protagonist and boldness of the character, Rise of the Tomb Raider offers a totally immersive and one of its kind gaming experience.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Lume is a marvelously engaging and quite addictive 3D Adventure and Puzzle video game that offers Action aesthetics as well. The game is all set up on a cardboard like environment and allows you to set yourself up into the character of a young girl who lives in her grandfather’s home. In the start of the game, the electricity goes out and the game tasks you to go on an adventure to restore it by solving a series of challenging puzzles. While on your adventure, your grandfather mysteriously disappears and you get an additional task to find him. In a world entirely made of cardboard and papers, you must solve the puzzles to find you grandfather and restore the power and enjoy the puzzle-adventure aesthetics. Lume offers brilliant visuals, an awesome story-line and an immersive game-play to enjoy.

The 11th Hour is a wonderful addition to the series of The 7th Guest. This wonderful Puzzle Adventure video game will once again take you to an abandoned mansion, lock you up good and will let you escape by solving the challenging puzzles. The game allows you to be the famous Carl Denning Jr. who works a T.V to host a Mystery show named as Case Unsolved. After the sudden disappearance of your girlfriend and the producer, it is now your duty to solve the mystery and finally know about the truth. The 11th Hour takes you to the abandoned mansion and tasks you to solve some really interesting and challenging puzzles in order to know the real thing. Interaction with objects, collecting them and solving puzzles by combining them or by using them individually are the trickiest parts of the game, so you better be good at that. With a whole bunch of amazing puzzles, the creepiest setting of the game, brilliant visuals, a good story and a wonderfully immersive game-play, The 11th Hour is a great game Adventure and Puzzle video game to play and enjoy.

The Room is a 3D puzzle, adventure, and mystery-based video game developed by Fireproof Games. The game offers a brilliant and challenging game-play in which you go through several boxes built using complex physical mechanisms. You are tasked with solving the mysterious puzzles to open the boxes. Each box has a different mystery that takes the character to new levels. Furthermore, it offers a tutorial mode to learn about the game environments and master gaming skills.

It offers layers of compelling problems that do not allow you to take your eyes away from the gaming screen. It consists of realistic graphics that provide you a natural view of various levels of the game. In addition, the amazing secrets of all the stages make it difficult for the user to stop playing. So start playing and solve enigmatic mysteries and give yourself an enhanced dose of entertainment.

Starship Titanic is a Point-and-Click, Graphics Adventure and Single-player Puzzle video game developed by The Digital Village and published by Nightdive Studios. The game offers the huge starship where the game takes place, and the player is tasked with repairing by finding the missing parts of the control system. The main gameplay involves interacting with bots inside the ship and solving the mind-bending puzzles. It introduces the text parser like other Adventure games where the player can interact with other characters. The story starts with the house of the player character on the planet Earth, which is demolished when a cruise ship crash-lands through the roof. The game is played from a first-person viewpoint and can move on the ship by clicking on the locations using the mouse cursor and moving to the next frame. The player can also use the mouse to pick up and store items in his inventory and can use when needs. In the starting of the game, the player has a device known as PET (Person Electronic Thing), serving as the toolbar on the screen’s top. The device has five modes such as Personal Baggage, Chat-O-Mat, Remote Thingummy, Designer Room Number, and more.

Receiver is a First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game developed and published by Wolfire Games for Multiple Platforms. The game tries to portray the realistic gun mechanics through the use of unique reloading system, where the reloading’s each step is assigned a different button. In the game, the player scavenges audio tapes and items which uncover the storyline in the randomly generated environment. In the game, the player as the protagonist must search for eleven audio taps scattered around the randomly generated land. Flashlights and ammunition are scattered throughout the game environment to collect as well. The player starts the game with a handgun, either a Colt M1911A1 pistol, a Smith and Wesson Model 10 Revolver, or a Fire Glock 17 Pistol. The player has a random inventory of spare magazines and ammunition for his weapon, and the game starts with the player searching for audio tapes using the flashlight. The player will encounter sentry turrets and hover drones while navigating the environment that will attack the player to kill. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning graphics, Receiver is the best game to play.

Rising World is a Voxel based Sandbox, Action-Adventure, Indie and RPG video game that takes you to an amazing world of procedurally generated and fully destructible environments. Co-op mode of the game allows you to play this cool game with your friends and have an amazingly addictive game-play experience. Your duty in the game is to explore, gather resources, craft basic tools to dig and store the resources fight off the enemies, survive and build massive cities or huge castles etc. You can get help from your friends and build the whole game world together if you want. With random game worlds, modifiable gaming environments, over 200 different materials to build, great environmental physics and so cool upgrades this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

DeadCore, developed by 5 Bit Games is a First-Person Action-Adventure and Physics-Based Puzzle-Platform video game set in an alternate reality. The game lets the players traverse through a number of environmental hazards by using their special abilities and eliminate the enemies by the use of futuristic weapons and skills. The basic objective of the game is to reach to the top of a revolutionary Tower and finish the level. DeadCore is one of the best games of this specific genre and is a great source of entertainment for all the enthusiasts. With a number of challenging puzzles, a lot of different environments to go through, Unique skills and abilities to master, DearCore offers beautifully created visuals, objective-based story and an engaging game-play to enjoy.

MouseCraft is an Adventure, Strategy, Puzzle and Action video game developed and published by Crunching Koalas. The game takes place the marvelous world where the player has to assist the crazy cat scientist in his project to solve a variety of mysteries. The primary aim is to create a secure path using different bricks for lots of mice and collect valuables, fight against enemies and solve complex puzzles. The player can use different blocks to create a path, blow up things and can overcome environmental obstacles to progress through 80 handcrafted levels. Assist the cat to unlock the mice-powered machine. The game world consists of up to four different locations and introduces level editor to create a unique level. Unlock achievements and score the highest points to become the master. Make the path for mice to reach at the end of the level. MouseCraft offers prominent features such as Eighty Levels, four different Locations, Level Editor, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.