19 Best Physics Based Puzzle Games on Steam

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.

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.

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.

Tabletop Simulator is a Tabletop, Single-player and Multiplayer Simulation developed and published by Berserk Games for Multiple Platforms. The game enables the player to create the tabletop games in the physics-based sandbox environment. It comes with a player-driven physics sandbox without any specific victory or failure conditions. After choosing the table, the player needs to interact with the game by moving and spawning virtual pieces. Online Multiplayer mode supports up to 10 players. Aside from moving and spawning pieces, the game comes with mechanics to help with common board game’s style such as automatic hiding the pieces of the player and dice rolling from another. There are several types of games available such as chess, poker, and checkers. The player can mix and modify the pieces to create new games which can be saved to share and play with other players. The game enables models and images to be imported to build new pieces and tables. With addictive gameplay, superb graphics and core mechanics, Tabletop Simulator is the wonderful game to play.

Mini Metro mixes the Strategy and Puzzle elements and supports Single-player mode developed and published by Dinosaur Polo Club. The game offers the levels based on realistic cities, passengers and the appearance of the stations. In the game, the primary task of the player is to create an efficient network for a growing city. There are lots of levels, and each level starts with three stations. Multiple shaped nodes offer the train stations. The player can build multiple routes to link train stations by drawing lines between them, and each route has its unique color. Lots of passengers reach the station with a shape that identifies the location where the passenger has to travel. It has three different modes such as Extreme, Normal, and Endless. In normal mode, each station has a limited capacity to accommodate passengers. In Endless mode, the stations don’t have limited capacity, while in Extreme mode, the lines between multiple trains stations can’t be adjusted once the position of the lines is set. With excellent mechanics, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Mini Metro is the best game to play.

TransPlan is a Physics-based, Puzzle and Single-player video game developed and published by Kittehface Software for multiple platforms. It offers a simple gameplay, in which the player must transfer a payload from its initial position to end position using a few tools and applying the law of physics. In the game, the player creates catapults and ramps, see objects fall and tumble and how it reaches its destination. There are multiple levels available, and each level offers a hand-drawn puzzle for the player to interact, make a planet, perform an experiment and make it happen. It includes dozens of projects to manipulate, beginning from a simple and growing ever more challenging. After completing several puzzles, the game unlocks new projects with increasing difficulties and lets to him them at any cost to progress through the game. TransPlan offers prominent features, addictive gameplay, and brilliant mechanics. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Yankai’s Triangle is a 2D, Puzzle, and Single-player video game created and published by Kenny Sun. The game brings a fun-filled puzzle gameplay, in which you can tap the screen on triangles to spin them and stuff. There are multiple levels and each level offers a different solution to complete compared to others. You must tap the screen to adjust the color and make a triangle to complete the level. Each level has its unique background a set of puzzles to accomplish. In the beginning, the game looks easy to play, but after progressing it becomes tough to master. A level consists of multiple triangles and each triangle has a unique shapes. You must rotate the triangle to find the accurate shape and combine to create a big triangle. With challenging gameplay, excellent graphics, and smooth controls, Yankai’s Triangle is the wonderful game to play.

Cosmic Express is a Puzzle, Isometric and Single-player Train video game developed by Cosmic Engineers and published by Draknek. The game is about creating the route for the space colony, and transport passenger to their desired locations. It brings an exciting gameplay, in which you can use different materials to build a route for a train, solve puzzles, and take the passenger from a stop and transport them to their destiny. There are hundreds of levels with the similar task but increasing difficulties. Unleash your creativity, connect two different tunnels to create a path, and complete a level to move to the next. Each level comprises an empty land with cute creature waiting for your train. Unlock additional levels and score the highest points to become the master. Different Levels with unique Background, a variety of Materials, Mind-bending Levels, etc. are key features in the game to enjoy. With exciting gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, Cosmic Express is the incredible compared to other Puzzle games.

Dreii is a Physics-based, Puzzle, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by Etter Studio for cross-platform. The game deals with logic, skill, and friend and offers a unique gameplay that you have never experienced before. In the game, you can connect with other players in real-time across the world to assists one another in the fight against gravity. There are a series of levels, and each level comes with a unique puzzle to solve. The primary objective is to build a tower against gravity and fulfill the demands of the level to complete. As the game progresses, it becomes tough to master. Each level contains a number of blocks, and you have to pick the boxes one by one and place them in the correct place to hide the white dot. The game connects the screens around all platforms when you are playing with your friends. Other levels will be unlocked as you advance through the game to play. Immerse yourself in puzzle experience and score the best points to become the master. With unique gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Dreii is the best game to play.

Tricky Towers is a Puzzle-based Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by WeirdBeard. The game focuses on physics-based tower-building gameplay where the player uses the blocks to build as long tower as possible. The game uses the form of block-stocking problem as its central mechanic. It has some similarities to Tetris video game, but the gameplay is entirely different. The game comes with falling blocks but the main objective of the player is to stock blocks onto the tower rather than remove the rows. Random blocks drop from the screen’s top and row don’t disappear, but the blocks fall off the tower. In the game, the player one of the available avatars, depending on the mode of the game, where the player needs to compete against other wizard for the longest towers. There are seventeen different spells available which the player can use during the gameplay while creating the tower to score the best points. Spells in the game is split into Dark and Light magic, the light magic revolves around augmenting the tower of the player while the dark magic consists of interacting with opponents. With amazing gameplay, superb graphics, and smooth controls, Tricky Towers is the wonderful game to play.

Tiny Bubbles is an addictive Puzzle and Single-player video game developed and published by Pine Street Codeworks. The game introduces the physics-based gameplay that players have never experienced before. It lets the player to mix, inflate, pop, match, and win with dozens of super fun goals to accomplish. In the game, the player needs to fill the bubbles with air and push other nearby bubbles using the real physics. The player must struggle to edges between bubbles to combine new colors and create matches of four or more. During the gameplay, he can plan his strategy from a Tetris-style to build up a chain reactions and huge matches. The player can experience the unique surprises during the gameplay and the game comes with over 170 handmade puzzles needs new twisting strategies and thinking with increasing challenges. The game has three modes such as Infinity, Puzzles and Arcade. Tiny Bubbles includes prominent features such as Relaxing and Atmospheric Gameplay, Amazing Content, Charming Creatures, Color-Blind Mode, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

Poly Bridge is a Physics-based Puzzle, Building, and Single-player Simulation with an emphasis on Crafting and Strategy elements developed and published by Dry Cactus for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the fantastic environment and lets you a chance to become an engineer. You have to unleash your creativity with an immersive and bridge building gameplay and create unique to impress your fellows. There are dozens of levels full of tricky puzzles and you must solve physics-based levels in the Campaign to jump in Sandbox mode to create and design your unique bridges. During the gameplay, you can challenge your friends and can unlock achievements by completing plenty of levels to become the master. The sandbox mode lets you go wild with your skills and create most complex bridges the world has ever seen. Poly Bridge offers key features such as Line Tracer Tools, Node-based Event System, Multi-phase Hydraulics Controller, Advanced Mechanics, Copy and Paste Tools, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

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.

Happy Room is a Ragdoll, Physics-based and Single-player video game created by Mana Potion Studios for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the laboratory and lets the player control a ragdoll-based character to perform various text in the lab environment. Different newest weapons are available to carry out a dangerous test on a durable human clone. The primary objective of the player is to damage the clone enough to fulfill the goals and win the level. During the game, the player uses different arms like a flamethrower, machine gun, melee combat, and firearms. It offers the similar gameplay to Beat the Boss game. Place grenades in various locations, and jump the clone on it to receive as many damages as possible. As the progress, it becomes challenging to play and unlock further content in the game to play and enjoy. With exciting features, impressive gameplay, touch controls and fantastic mechanics, Happy Room is the best game to play.

Trine 2: Complete Story is an Action Role-playing, Puzzle-Platform, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Frozenbyte. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Puzzle, Action and Platform and offers an exciting gameplay where you can take on the role of one of three heroes. It takes place in the fantastic fairytale world invaded by deadly creatures. Get into the world by selecting your character and immerse yourself in fun-filled activities. Navigate the game world, interact with objects, solve physics-based puzzles using water, magic, gravity and fire and progress through the game. The primary goal is to accomplish a set of levels to fend off antagonist and destroy his unholy plans to destroy your world. Trine 2: Complete Story includes features such as three different Heroes, Physics-based Puzzles, Twenty Exciting Levels, Plenty of Skills and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Have you played Trine? Yes or no! This enchanted edition of Trine will surely take you to further heights of excitement. The game actually continues the Puzzle oriented adventures of your three favorite heroes (Thief, Wizard and Knight) and takes you to a world of fairy-tales where your task is to simply engage yourself into amazing environment, solve some classical and challenging physics-based puzzles and enjoy beautiful environments, sights and the beauty of almost everything surrounding you. Trine: Enchanted Edition offers both online and Local Co-operative game-play in which you can accompany up to 3 players, save game in mid-level play, and enjoy enhanced and stunningly attractive visuals. It also allows you to create and craft physics-based objects to simply use them in order to beat the enemies and to clear the obstacles. With a beautiful setting consisting of huge castles, bizarre machines, amazing heroes, you are tasked to go through all the hazards of an enchanted environment and defeat the enemies and monsters in order to save the kingdom and the sacred machine named as Trine.

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.

Evo Explores is a fantastic new Indie Puzzle and Platform video game developed by Kyrylo Kuzyk. The game draws inspiration from the popular Monument Valley video game and offers a similar type of gameplay and mechanics. With all the Gravity Defying and Physics denying aspects, Evo Explores lets you control both of the elements with simply your imagination, explore a vast impossible world based on huge optical illusions, manipulate the structures and use them to solve mind-boggling complex puzzles and enjoy a totally unforgettable Puzzle gaming experience. The game lets you be a little Robot named as Evo and tasks you to uncover the secrets about the Planet Byte and all of its citizens. You can also construct a number of optical illusions yourself to build paths that will lead you to the finish line of each and every game level. Evo Explores offers 45 unique and beautifully designed game levels, surreal background music along with gorgeous graphics and a totally addictive gameplay.

Back to Bed is a fantastic 3D puzzle Platform and Physics based video game developed by Bedtime Digital games. The game offers a surreal and quite twisted story and features the character of Bob, an unlucky and narcoleptic being who loves to sleep during his office hours and while he sleeps he starts off his journey into the dangers and unseen challenges of the world. Bob Sleepwalks and this habit leads him to the world of unknown terrors and challenges. Back to Bed offers a Monument Valley type environment where it lets you walk on physically impossible platforms situated in an environment based on painting-like cityscapes, interact with a number of unknown and bizarre entities, solve some of the challenging and quite strange puzzles etc. When Bob sleeps and starts Sleepwalking, Subob, Bob’s Subconscious guardian wakes up who protects Bob from all the dangers, keeps him safe and guides him back to his bed (the Office Chair). Back to Bed offers a truly artistic experience for all the hardcore Puzzle Platform enthusiasts. Back to Bed offers a unique and a very well balanced dream like surreal game universe, amazingly challenging 3D puzzles, picturesque visuals and environment, easy game controls and a mind blowing and quite engaging gameplay.