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.

10 Best Physics Based Puzzle Games for Xbox 360

#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 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.

#3 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.

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#4 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.

#5 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.

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#6 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.

#7 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.

#8 Trials HD

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Trials HD is a Puzzle, Racing and Single-player video game developed by RedLynx and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game lets the player drive the motorcycle with improve physics through different obstacles and struggle to reach the end of each stage to complete the race. It mixes the Physics, Racing, and Puzzle elements and offers an opportunity to the player assume the role of the rider, unleash your inner driving skills and show off insane stunts to impress your fellows. During the gameplay, the player has to guide the physics-based bike from the beginning of the level to the end while exploring a number of insane obstacles. The primary objective of the player is to finish the course as fast as possible while avoiding crashes known as Faults. It takes place in the 3D environment, but the game is played on a Two-dimensional plant so that the player can move backwards and forwards. The game offers the variety of courses, ranging from beginner to extreme. Trials HD includes core features such as Thirty-five Courses, Tournament Mode, Twelve Skills, Power-ups, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

#9 Happy Tree Friends False Alarm

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Happy Tree Friends False Alarm is an Action, Puzzle, and Single-player video game developed by Stainless Steel and published by Sega. The game takes place in the exciting world based on cartoon series known as Happy Tree Friends False. It combines the elements of Adventure and Physics-based realistic environment. It offers the similar gameplay to Lemmings and lets the player control almost everyone in the game. The world consists of candy factory, mine shaft, museum and hospital. There are four different abilities available such as Fire (burn objects), Scaring, Nitro (destroy obstacles), Water (freeze objects), and Action (interact with environment and friends). It has a series of levels filled with deadly obstacles, mind-bending puzzles and more. Happy Tree Friends False Alarm offers prominent features such as lots of Levels, Overcome Obstacles, and more. With exciting gameplay, superb mechanics, attractive sounds and smooth controls, Happy Tree Friends False Alarm is the best game to play and enjoy. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

#10 Contrast

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Contrast, as it tells by the name, is a wonderful Action, Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform video game that lets you jump in to the two worlds (Real and Shadow) in blink of an eye. The game is set in two different worlds, one is realistic 3D world and the other is a 2D Shadowy world. In the times of 1920’s, your task is to jump into the play, get into the character of a young girl named Didi, and use your special powers to dreamscape from one realistic world to another shadowy world. Both of the worlds are connected by an unknown force and you are required to manipulate the laws, move to worlds and engage yourself into epic Physics-based puzzles, solve them and complete the story. It allows you to manipulate the light sources, make shadows and go through an immense amount of obstacles to complete the objectives of the game. With an ability to shift whenever you want, crafting abilities, amazingly challenging puzzles, exploration on a large scale and easy controls, Contrast offers a dreamlike film-noir game-play, amazing story-line and beautiful visuals to enjoy. Do try it out, it’ll definitely entertain you well.