- #1 7-in-1 Brain Sharpness Bundle
97% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: ALEKSANDER CHEPAIKIN
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
We transform science into delightful gamesFor decades, researchers have created tasks that measure cognitive abilities. We’ve adapted some of these tasks and made some of our own, creating cognitive games. It makes you smarter!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: This is a direct sibling title that offers a nearly identical collection of cognitive-focused mini-games.
- #2 Everyday Genius: SquareLogic
96% matchVery Positive98% of 440 reviews2009
Dev: TrueThought
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The next generation of puzzle games is here! Combining simple arithmetic with colorful cages and logical problem solving, this new puzzle game makes sure you never have to guess—and you don’t have to be a math wiz!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: It features a vast library of logic-based puzzles that directly challenge your deductive reasoning skills.
- #3 Professor Watts Memory Match: Shapes And Colors
96% matchMixed54% of 89 reviews2017
Dev: Ripknot Systems
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 12%
Hello Professor Watts here and I have some research to do on memory skills. I have assembled a wide variety of shapes and colors to put our memory to the test. We can see how we're doing by completing matches in a specific amount of time and earning points to track our overall progress.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses specifically on memory and pattern recognition, mirroring the cognitive training goals of the seed game.
- #4 6-in-1 IQ Scale Bundle
95% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: ALEKSANDER CHEPAIKINPub: ALEKSANDER CHEPAIKIN
Windows
6-in-1 IQ Scale Bundle - This is a set of games for brain training. Just a few minutes a day will help you improve your memory, attention, speed of decision making, etc. Improve your brain and compare your results with other people in the leaderboards!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: Another entry in the same series that provides additional cognitive tasks and brain-training exercises.
- #5 Tricone Lab
94% matchVery Positive94% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: Josh Singer
Windows · Mac
A unique abstract puzzle game with an emphasis on lateral thinking. Use catalysts to build compounds and manipulate cell structures. 100 puzzle levels and a level editor to create your own custom puzzle designs.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: An abstract, difficult puzzle game that tests your ability to manipulate shapes and logic in a minimalist setting.
- #6 Puzzle Dimension
94% matchVery Positive90% of 494 reviews2010
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Find solutions to 100 unique puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A spatial logic game that requires you to navigate 3D environments while solving complex pathfinding puzzles.
- #7 Hexcells
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,865 reviews2014
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A pure logic puzzle game that requires careful deduction and pattern analysis to solve grid-based challenges.
- #8 KAMI 2
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: State of PlayPub: Noodlecake
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kami 2 is a relaxing puzzle game where you fold colorful paper to fill each board with a single color in as few moves as possible. Solve hundreds of handcrafted levels or create and share your own with the puzzle builder. Designed with real sheets of folded paper.
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a series of increasingly complex logic puzzles centered on color and spatial manipulation.
- #9 Magnibox
92% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Joseph Gribbin
Windows · Mac
A puzzle game about magnets designed for human brains.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A clever puzzle game that uses magnet-based mechanics to test your logical thinking and spatial planning.
- #10 Cognizer
91% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Maniac Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new puzzle game of wits and recognition.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging, minimalist puzzle game that focuses on cognitive speed and accuracy.
- #11 LYNE
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,222 reviews2014
Dev: Thomas Bowker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, logic-based puzzle game that emphasizes pattern matching and spatial reasoning.
- #12 Opus Magnum
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,719 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A complex engineering-based puzzle game that requires high-level logical planning and optimization.
- #13 Human Resource Machine
89% matchVery Positive94% of 4,614 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: It uses visual programming logic to challenge your problem-solving abilities in a structured, brain-teasing environment.
- #14 Energy Balance
90% matchMixed69% of 322 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Energy Balance is a number puzzle. You have to swap power units in such a way that their sums form correct chains both vertically and horizontally. The game is easy to learn, but very hard to master. So, are you ready to peep under the hood of an alien spaceship?
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A numerical puzzle game that requires basic arithmetic and logic to solve balancing equations.
- #15 TIS-100
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,045 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: This game is a hardcore logic challenge that forces players to engage with assembly-style programming puzzles.
- #16 7 Billion Humans
85% matchVery Positive94% of 2,088 reviews2018
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A sequel to Human Resource Machine that expands on logic-based puzzles with multi-threaded programming challenges.
- #17 Achromatic
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: Studio Goya
Windows · Mac
Achromatic is a minimalist puzzle game about connecting dots in order to transform them all to one cohesive color. Along the way you will uncover unique dots with exciting properties to assist you on your puzzling adventure.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: This minimalist puzzle game relies on color-based logic and spatial awareness to progress through levels.
- #18 Baba Is You
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,702 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A highly inventive logic game where you manipulate the rules of the game itself to solve puzzles.
- #19 Trivia Quiz: All about everything!
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: DuCats Games Studio
Windows
Quiz allows you to learn a lot about the world, develop memory and test your knowledge!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: This game tests your knowledge and cognitive recall, offering a different but complementary type of mental exercise.
- #20 100$
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 276 reviews2019
Dev: KuKo
Windows
Money rules the world! This is a casual puzzle for all who loves to get his wallet full of cash. Embark on an unforgettable journey to parallel worlds - to regain the most important thing in the modern world - money.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle game that provides a series of quick, logic-driven brain teasers.
- #21 Again?
84% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: KillGamePub: HandMade Games
Windows
Just open and play!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A simple, indie-developed puzzle game that focuses on repetitive logic tasks to keep the mind engaged.
- #22 Pure Logic
77% matchVery Positive93% of 91 reviews2023
Dev: Sigmund Hoien
Windows
Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Electronics Puzzle Lab
75% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Sagitta Studios
Windows
Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!
- #24 The Witness
82% matchVery Positive85% of 20,427 reviews2016
Dev: Thekla, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world puzzle game that relies entirely on understanding and applying complex visual logic rules.
- #25 Ricochet Kills: Noir
82% matchVery Positive91% of 64 reviews2017
Dev: mibix
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Ricochet Kills: Noir. It is a puzzle-shooter game in original minimalistic noir style. Use bullets ricochets to kill your enemies and keep in mind that your ammo is limited. Try your skills on 100 different levels.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that requires calculating trajectories and logical outcomes.
- #26 Puzzling Wild IQ Test
76% matchVery Positive91% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Paul BirdPub: Marjupi Games
Windows
Puzzling Wild introduces this IQ Test of logic and visual reasoning. These IQ Tests were developed by a Professor to try to test the intelligence of AI robots. Can you solve all 400 by your self? The puzzles are introduced by our good friends Ginger the Giraffe, and Hugo Hippo.
- #27 Portal
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 192,498 reviews2007
Dev: Valve
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Why You'll Like It: A classic spatial logic game that challenges your ability to think in three dimensions to solve physics-based puzzles.
- #28 Stephen's Sausage Roll
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,914 reviews2016
Dev: increpare games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A simple 3d puzzle game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A notoriously difficult logic puzzle game that requires intense spatial reasoning and planning.
- #29 Scribblenauts Unlimited
81% matchVery Positive94% of 12,229 reviews2012
Dev: 5th Cell MediaPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A creative logic game where you solve puzzles by using your vocabulary to manipulate objects and environments.
- #30 Lab Rat
68% matchVery Positive98% of 346 reviews2025
Dev: Chump SquadPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 She Remembered Caterpillars
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 552 reviews2017
Dev: jumpsuit entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Pub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a color-based puzzle game. A tale as the bond between parent and child, this lush and bewildering title will have players testing their wits against a variety of challenges, all beautiful and very strange.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A color-based logic puzzle game that requires careful planning and pattern recognition to navigate levels.
- #32 Mini Metro
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,391 reviews2015
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy and logic game that focuses on optimizing complex systems under pressure.
- #33 808s&Genetics
72% matchVery Positive97% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Magnesiumteng Machine
Windows
A puzzle game that combines nonogram and genetics rules.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Propaganda Llama
78% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Space Wagon GamesPub: Electric Monk Media
Windows · Mac
Puzzling and adorable political intrigue. Journey through over 50 llevels of challenging puzzles populated with plenty of llamas.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward puzzle game that offers quick, logic-based challenges similar to the seed game's format.
- #35 Train Valley
78% matchVery Positive90% of 3,405 reviews2015
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: This game challenges your logistical planning and real-time decision-making skills in a puzzle-like environment.
- #36 Trans Neuronica
66% matchVery Positive92% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Evidently CubePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Trans Neuronica is a puzzle game that takes the concept of Numberlink and intertwines it with a story about human - AI interactions.The goal of the game is to connect nodes while adhering to the rules imposed by the special limiters, switches and stations that get progressively more challenging.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 Hidden Object 6-in-1 bundle
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 295 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Casual
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Play six incredible hidden-object games full of mystery and unpredictable twists!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler
73% matchVery Positive88% of 217 reviews2019
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Linux
Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler takes the spherical minesweeper concept from Globesweeper and twists it into a whole new logic puzzle.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 Bounce
76% matchMixed59% of 147 reviews2018
Dev: Mikhail MelnikovPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Bounce-puzzle game in which you have to apply your knowledge of geometry in practice to ricochet to remove all the pieces on the level.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 LIT: Bend the Light
71% matchVery Positive94% of 315 reviews2020
Dev: Copperglass
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Riddle Tower
63% matchVery Positive95% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: George Tavoularis
Windows
Riddle Tower is all about solving a wide variety of riddles, including classic riddles, math brain teasers, and rebuses. The main story features riddles inspired by two classic games from my childhood, Notpron and GodTower, known for being some of the toughest riddle games of their time.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Optika
74% matchVery Positive86% of 344 reviews2016
Dev: PlayZilla.tk
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Discover the world of light physics: play with lasers, prisms, mirrors, magnets and dozens of other optical devices. Explore the world of Optika with Prof. Opticus and his assistant, Sofia! Research and complete more than one hundred challenging puzzles!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Machine Learning: Episode I
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 107 reviews2016
Dev: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Machine Learning: Episode is a first person arcade puzzle game built for HTC Vive. You play as an A.I. robot created in DARPA laboratory in the near future. One of the scientists is here to test your physical, perception and cognitive skills. By using the power of room-scale VR and Vive controllers
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Chess Brain: Dark Troops
70% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: Caio Flavio
Windows · Mac
This game develops the ability to predict movement in Chess, using a playful and immersive concept. The dark troops march in a single sound. They are more organized and smarter
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 945 reviews2022
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 43.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory
67% matchVery Positive92% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Symbolic Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mind-bendingly challenging puzzle game that mixes homage to retro classics with funny dialogue and innovative puzzle mechanics. Over a hundred ultra-challenging pixelated puzzles will have you avoiding killer robots as you engage with memorable characters.
- #47 Mind Games
74% matchMixed69% of 204 reviews2016
Dev: AK GamesPub: My Way Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Mind games is a great set of extremely hard brain twisting puzzles! Warning: this game is for smarties! Only one out of ten people can solve the first puzzle!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Agent Brain: Tricky Puzzles
60% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Little Bittle
Windows
Every level introduces a unique solution method, breaking the fourth wall between the game and the player in unprecedented ways. From using a pause button to halt threats to turning off the sound to put an enemy NPC to sleep, the game continually surprises and engages players.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Quantum Chess
60% matchMixed66% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Quantum Realm Games
Windows · Mac
Completely change the strategy of the age old game of chess with quantum physics!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Take Notes
59% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Stoneware Game Studio
Windows
Take Notes is a puzzle game set in the near future within a bunker filled with 40 unique puzzles. Prepare yourself for a mind-bending adventure where every puzzle solved brings you one step closer to stopping the unthinkable
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Bongo Cat
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 95,599 reviews2025
Dev: Marcel ZurawkaPub: Irox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 26.7 hrsMean: 264.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Upside Down
71% matchVery Positive81% of 714 reviews2017
Dev: EGAMERPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Upside Down will immerse you in an incredible adventure. Sharpen your reflexes for this fast-paced, precise puzzle-platformer.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Spiral Splatter
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 99 reviews2017
Dev: Neonchimp GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Spiral Splatter is a brain-bending arcade puzzle game that will push your hand-eye coordination to the limit with nonstop, mind-boggling puzzles!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 ReThink | Evolved 2
70% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Yaeko
Windows
ReThink | Evolved 2 is a Puzzle Game in a futuristic setting. Solve a variety of Puzzles that utilize Lasers and the behavior of light in two and three-dimensional space. Created with the Feedback from its predecessor in mind, ReThink | Evolved 2 features: 40 new Puzzles, enhanced Gameplay...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Evo Explores
70% matchVery Positive94% of 349 reviews2016
Dev: Kyrylo Kuzyk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore impossible geometry and optical illusions!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Fallacy Quiz
58% matchVery Positive91% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Tim Krief
Windows · Linux
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies. Everyone likes this game so you must too, right?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #57 Cats Make You Smarter!
69% matchVery Positive92% of 273 reviews2017
Dev: SandorHQ
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 16%
Meet 50 hand-drawn, funny cats and let them make you smarter by matching 2, 3, 4 or 5 of them on a board in 5 game modes.
- #58 Hidden Object - 12 in 1 bundle
73% matchMixed56% of 168 reviews2016
Dev: MzonePub: Games for All
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Play awesome stories with this 12 in 1 Hidden Object Games Bundle : Investigate, solve mysteries in these games with various themes !
- #59 Tumblestone
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,985 reviews2016
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
Why similar: Indie 100%
