Best Rated Puzzle Games Under $40
The best rated Puzzle games on Steam for games under $40. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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By price
Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Portal 2460,58598.42%98.70%
- 2Portal194,86297.88%98.52%
- 3Half-Life 2273,67397.18%97.61%
- 4MiSide138,70897.00%97.84%
- 5Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition152,92496.94%97.70%
- 6Stray173,34196.57%97.22%
- 7Resident Evil 2212,76396.52%97.04%
- 8OneShot62,99196.52%98.28%
- 9Inscryption145,26196.11%96.85%
- 10Papers, Please79,14495.96%97.30%
- 11Ori and the Will of the Wisps144,42395.81%96.53%
- 12BattleBlock Theater72,62495.76%97.19%
- 13Tomb Raider Game of the Year266,09795.65%96.04%
- 14INSIDE74,48295.62%96.99%
- 15Firework44,05995.41%97.69%
- 16Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy43,64495.28%97.55%
- 17Mirror84,23695.21%96.37%
- 18Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition84,52095.17%96.33%
- 19Chants of Sennaar31,25095.17%98.30%
- 20Teardown131,38395.09%95.83%
- 21GRIS94,80095.05%96.07%
- 22It Takes Two261,75795.04%95.41%
- 23The Room31,30494.75%97.74%
- 24Outer Wilds103,22094.71%95.61%
- 25Resident Evil 7 Biohazard121,60694.55%95.31%
- 26Buckshot Roulette119,96794.54%95.30%
- 27Human Fall Flat224,59694.24%94.63%
- 28There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension25,47194.23%97.70%
- 29SOMA51,42994.17%95.88%
- 30Return of the Obra Dinn34,24594.14%96.69%
- 31Baba Is You24,16394.13%97.74%
- 32Sally Face - Episode One26,74994.05%97.28%
- 33SIGNALIS32,85394.03%96.66%
- 34Little Nightmares116,00794.01%94.75%
- 35What Remains of Edith Finch51,04693.92%95.60%
- 36Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition70,62193.90%95.10%
- 37Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun38,26293.82%96.02%
- 38The Room 4: Old Sins18,01093.81%98.49%
- 39The Coffin of Andy and Leyley37,50493.76%95.99%
- 40Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc37,12393.75%96.00%
- 41The Room Two21,44993.70%97.58%
- 42Fran Bow22,26793.67%97.39%
- 43Besiege52,46293.63%95.20%
- 44Rise of the Tomb Raider152,54793.62%94.16%
- 45Unheard - Voices of Crime33,23893.61%96.09%
- 46Super Hexagon25,01693.60%96.88%
- 47Dorfromantik29,27993.57%96.36%
- 48Car Mechanic Simulator 202137,16993.53%95.72%
- 49LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga25,22093.50%96.72%
- 50Gorogoa20,21493.48%97.48%
- 51The Last Campfire19,58493.45%97.57%
- 52Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair31,55993.31%95.82%
- 53Nubby's Number Factory18,57793.25%97.49%
- 54Murders on the Yangtze River20,60793.22%97.03%
- 55HuniePop31,62393.14%95.59%
- 56Mini Motorways23,94993.06%96.27%
- 57LEGO Marvel Super Heroes29,92193.04%95.59%
- 58The Talos Principle32,81693.00%95.32%
- 59Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes16,87592.87%97.30%
- 60Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre27,29492.85%95.59%
- 61Untitled Goose Game24,47992.82%95.85%
- 62Tales of the Black Forest15,22592.77%97.61%
- 63Half-Life: Opposing Force28,26692.75%95.35%
- 64Webbed15,10192.73%97.58%
- 65ANIMAL WELL24,01292.71%95.75%
- 66TOEM: A Photo Adventure11,03692.68%99.18%
- 67Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons41,23792.64%94.40%
- 68Amnesia: The Dark Descent35,42992.56%94.59%
- 69Peggle Deluxe13,82392.53%97.61%
- 70FAR: Lone Sails25,95192.52%95.26%
- 71Superliminal33,26792.45%94.57%
- 72shapez 2 - Factory14,47992.44%97.31%
- 73Zup! S15,95792.41%96.82%
- 74CARRION30,93192.33%94.58%
- 75A Plague Tale: Innocence67,61892.33%93.36%
- 76Gunpoint13,28192.32%97.53%
- 77PC Building Simulator52,52892.22%93.52%
- 78Tactical Breach Wizards11,79892.22%98.00%
- 79Trine 2: Complete Story21,97892.18%95.27%
- 80Mini Metro16,52792.05%96.07%
- 81Machinarium20,10092.01%95.30%
- 82Little Nightmares II57,40391.94%93.08%
- 83shapez15,50391.81%95.96%
- 84The Case of the Golden Idol10,47791.78%97.88%
- 85Unpacking39,91791.65%93.22%
- 86Trine Enchanted Edition15,86091.65%95.59%
- 87Antichamber17,64691.60%95.12%
- 88West of Loathing10,18191.60%97.69%
- 89Pony Island17,99891.56%94.99%
- 90Into the Breach21,98091.48%94.24%
- 91LIMBO61,15791.30%92.27%
- 92Supraland14,96691.28%95.21%
- 93FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED12,99291.27%95.80%
- 94The Past Within16,52891.19%94.71%
