A Puzzle-based Puzzle game is a type of Puzzle genre game, wherein the player needs to use the physics of the game to complete a variety tricky puzzles. Physics video games use the real-life physics to make the video game more complicated and challenging. The genre is found especially in Mobile Games and Online Flash Games. The Incredible Machine, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cut the Roe, The Talos Principle, Peggle, etc. are more prominent video games with Physics genre. In simple, Puzzle games revolve around conceptual and logical challenges, although often games involve time-pressure or other action components. Many Action and Adventure video games involve Physics-based Puzzle games like obtaining distant objects, and the regular puzzle game centers on puzzle-solving gameplay as its primary activities. These games typically include symbols, colours, shapes, or more and the player needs to indirectly or directly manipulate them into the required pattern. These games come with a series of related puzzles that are a variation on the same theme, rather than offering a random puzzle’s connection to solve.

11 Best Physics Based Puzzle Games for PS3

#1 Flock!

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Flock! is an Adventure, Puzzle, and Single-player video game developed by Proper Games and published by Capcom. It has an exciting gameplay that you have never played before. The game takes place in the 3D fantasy world full of hazardous environment. You can control a UFO throughout a series of levels with a task to herd the animals of the farm (pigs, chickens, cows, and ships) back to their home known as The Mother Flocker. There are hungry predators to attack animals and you must fend off them by doing the attack on animals and reach them all to their home safely. The game offers up to fifty-five challenging levels that span across three different seasons such as winter, autumn, and summer. It has both Single-player and Co-op modes. Flock! offers core features such as Fifty Levels, Level Editor, Real World Physics, Lots of Surprises and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#2 Pain

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Pain developed by Idol Minds and published by Sony Computer Entertainment is an Action, Physics-based Single and Multiplayer video game available to play on PlayStation 3. The game takes place in the realistic world and consists of a variety of challenging levels. In the game, your primary aim is to damage a ragdoll character as much as possible to score the best points by using the Havok physics engine, blasting and flying from a slingshot. The ragdoll character has different poses and phrases, can grab an object to throw, can move by ooching and more. There are many characters available including Elvira, Andy Dick, Santa Claus, David Hasselhoff, and more. Three unlockable environments are available to play and enjoy with tons of objects and sandbox elements. Complete each and every level with the highest points and damage your character to unlock further and progress through the game. Pain offers prominent features such as Multiple Characters, Dozens of Ways to Play, Online Multiplayer Supports up to 4-players, Fortress mode, Online Community and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#3 Anna

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Anna is a Puzzle, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game created by Dreampainters Software and published by Kalypso Media. One day the protagonist woke up and find himself in a haunted called Sawmill situated in the North of Italy. The game casts you in the role of the protagonist, and your main task is to explore the horrific world, find clues and solve a series of complex puzzles to find a way out. The game world filled with spirits, ghosts, and other deadly creatures and can raise your heartbeat. Explore the game world, unearth its secrets, interact with objects and NPCs and progress through the game to unlock further content. It features multiple ends depends on your decisions during the gameplay. Other unveil environment unlocks as you fulfill the game’s requirements. Anna offers core features such as a Hunting Tale, Physics-based Environment, Eight Endings, New Environments, Puzzles, Heart pumping Sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#4 Pid

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Physics-based Platformers are always fun, and the games like Pid makes it even more interesting with all the great things combines. Pid is an awesome Physics-based Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Might and Delight that offers a challenging game-play and lets you enjoy amazing environments, best ever visuals and the exploration element. The game tells the story of a boy named Kurt who finds himself stuck on a distant planet and the only way to survive is to find his way back home. In order to complete the objectives of the game, you’ll have to act as Kurt, find aliens and get help from them or use the bizarre tools stuffed into your backpack. You’ll have to also use the gravity-defying beams of light to overcome every obstacle and platform, solve some unimaginably difficult puzzles and get help from everything possible. Pid offers amazing Co-operative game-play and allows you to accompany up to 3 players on your journey, switch between the characters and use their abilities to solve the puzzles and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. With a great story-line, stunning visuals and soundtracks, challenging and immersive game-play and all the wonderful stuff, Pid is a marvelous game to play.

#5 Quantum Conundrum

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Quantum Conundrum is a challenging First-person, Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game features the protagonist as a boy who walks, runs, jumps and interacts with different objects to solve various physics based puzzles to make his way to the next level of the game. After manipulating the objects of the rooms, and solving enough puzzles, the protagonist reaches to the a door that leads to the finish line of the level and lets the player engage in the next puzzle. With all the wonderful scenarios and very good graphics, Quantum Conundrum is an interesting game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.

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#6 Fez

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Fez is another marvel in the Physics-based Puzzle and Adventure gaming genre. The game revolves around the character of Gomez, a 2D creature living in a 2D world happily until the 3rd dimension and all its mysteries are revealed to him. Out of curiosity, Gomez embarks on a journey to uncover the secrets of the 3rd Dimension. You are required to get into the character of the Gomez, explore strange worlds and 3D structures, and go to the limits of the time and space by using your special abilities of navigating 3D structures and find out the truth about the mysterious 3rd dimension. Fez offers an amazingly colorful 2D and 3D open game world, a lot of secrets, puzzles and hidden treasures for you to find and enjoy amazing visuals, immersive game-play and cool sounds. Do try it out, it’ll definitely entertain you with all the wonderful stuff it has to offer.

#7 Angry Birds

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Angry Birds a mighty Physics-based Puzzle video game franchise is created by Rovio Entertainment. With a worldwide fame and recognition, this wonderful game series includes 10 main games and 2 Spin-offs along with Angry Birds Trilogy. Books, Comics and movies are also groundbreaking achievements for the franchise. Talking about the Gaming series, Angry Birds features Wingless birds and Green Pigs with ultimate and lifelong conflict and rivalry between the two cliques. The whole series has been praised enormously around the globe for providing an amazingly addictive and engaging game-play, state of the art graphics, comical style gaming environment and a very low price for the paid versions of the game. Originally developed for iOS, Angry birds sold over 12 million copies of the game, later on, because of a huge demand for Android and other platforms, Rovio Entertainment launched the game for Android, Symbian, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone 8. For all those who haven’t played this cool game yet, try it out and enjoy and awesome Physics-based Catapult gaming experience.

#8 Puddle

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Puddle is a Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game created by Neko Entertainment and published by Konami. It offers the stunning environment where the game is set and put the player in the control of puzzle of fluid with a task to reach the specific locations by tilting the scene similar to Fluidity. During the gameplay, the player must work with physics such as momentum, friction, and the fluid properties and the environment. The player can deal with environment, fires, spills, etc. and can move through environments like laboratories, pipes, the human body, and more. The motion of the fluid looks real due to the physics-based element. It allows the player to be a liquid like Nitroglycerin and the player needs to assist it to the endpoint. There are a variety of levels, and each level offers unique gameplay. As the player advances, it becomes difficult to play. Puddle includes prominent features such as 3D Graphics, Tricky Puzzles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#9 Chariot

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Chariot is a Single-player and Multiplayer Puzzle-Platform video game developed and published by Frima Studio for multiple platforms. The game offers the different gameplay from other traditional platform video game and takes place in the stunning environment where the player must lug around an object, known as the Chariot, to the end of each stage. To complete the objective, the player has to use the physics-based mechanics like pulling and pushing, including a layer of the puzzle to the game. The game revolves around the quest of a princess who is struggling to fulfil the final wishes of her deceased father and bury him in peace. The whole game can be played with a companion or solo. The body of the king is on a coffin and connected to it with four wheels. The player can push the chariot down and up small hills or can attach a rope to pull it long. There are numerous levels available, and each level has its unique difficulty. The player can explore the land from a side-scroll perspective and can fulfil the puzzle to become the master. With immersive mechanics, superb graphics and cool visuals, Chariot is the best game to enjoy.

#10 Papo & Yo

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Papo & Yo tells the story about a very unusual friendship between a Human and a Monster. Quico is a Brazilian boy who loves to hang out with his Monster friend without any fear. Despite all the gory appearance of the monster, its razor sharp teeth and addiction to eating poisonous Frogs, Quico loves his friend and together they explore a magical world while solving challenging puzzles and manipulating the buildings and environment in an entirely unique way. The game tasks the players to control the character of Quico, build a friendship with the monster, and solve some of the hardest puzzles in an environment filled with all kinds of wonders. Papo & Yo lets the players learn to utilize monster’s emotions, use them to solve puzzles and to find the cure to save their friend. With a great mix up of action, puzzle solving and exploration-based elements, Papo & Yo lets the players enjoy an entirely unique and one of its kind story. All things considered, Papo & Yo offers a surreal, physics defying and one of the most heartfelt stories of all times. Try it out and it’ll take you to a whole new world of astonishment.

#11 EchoChrome

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EchoChrome is a Playstation Specific title that offers a series of unique and quite challenging puzzles and allows you to enjoy all the brilliant elements such as Action, Adventure and platform at the same time. The game offers realistic and rotatable physics based levels all filled up with challenges that will definitely question your skills and abilities of puzzle solving. EchoChrome fatures a characters of a wooden mannequin who moves in the game world autonomously. All you have to do is to guide the character and help him traverse through a world consisting of platforms based on twisted physics. You’ll have to move the environment around the character instead of directly controlling it and time your skills perfectly in order to save the character from falling off the platforms. EchoChrome offers almost 50 levels of pure awesomeness and lets you go through a series of puzzles and obstacles, complete the levels and enjoy immersing yourself into one cool gameplay. With amazing visuals, beautiful sounds and background music, challenging game levels and multiple difficulty levels, EchoChrome offers a truly very addictive and quite exciting gameplay.