Summary
Puzzle games offer something a bit different from the over-the-top action that can be found in most triple-A titles that overpopulate the medium. They require you to stop and slow down as you use your brain to figure out the satisfying and tricky challenges that lie ahead.
Luckily forPlayStationgamers, there’s a whole host of high-quality puzzle games available on the PS4 and PS5. They come in all shapes and sizes, from colorful sidescrollers, to refreshingly unique mind-bending platformers, and critically acclaimed classics. Whatever your pick, there’s a head-scratching puzzle game here that’s sure to test your brain as it fires on all cylinders.
Updated May 14, 2025, By Mohamed El Ouardighi:Challenging your brain with a puzzle game can be one of the most enjoyable ways to pass the time, but tackling those puzzles with a friend takes the experience to a whole new level. If you’re the kind of person who loves solving things as a team, we’ve updated this list with a few more picks and some enhanced formatting.
Learning a new language can feel like a puzzle, and deciphering unfamiliar words and phrases might be more frustrating than fun. Chants of Sennaar magically turns this process into a riveting adventure that requires you to use visual clues to understand fictional languages and unravel the truth behind this mysterious land.
It may sound complicated at first, but every step forward becomes incredibly satisfying once you start figuring out how to solve the game’s language-based puzzles. Chants of Sennaar will enchant you with its art style and story, but the puzzles are the heart of the experience.
Viewfinder is a unique puzzle game that has an incredible core mechanic driving its story. Each level requires you to take photographs with a camera and then overlay them onto other parts of the world to create new paths and solve puzzles.
You’ll need to look at each area carefully to know what to take a photo of, and how to use that photograph to clear obstacles and advance the narrative. The colorful environments are the perfect backdrop for some excellent head-scratchers, and the game isn’t too long, so you can easily beat it in a sitting or two.
Imagine a married couple living in a house with their daughter, but they start arguing a lot and things get bad. Amidst this, the daughter makes a prayer to bring her parents together, and the couple has their souls transferred to small dolls who then have to survive the harsh world that they face at that height.
Throughout It Takes Two, you’ll not only be solving various puzzles but also getting an understanding of how it must feel to be tiny, which is quite fascinating. As you progress in the game, you’ll also enter plenty of new areas, with each one being more beautiful than the last.
From the creator of the action-packed co-op hit A Way Out, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a quiet, emotional puzzle game that does something really clever - you control both brothers at the same time, one with each thumbstick. It sounds weird at first, but it quickly becomes second nature, and the puzzles are all built around that mechanic in really smart ways.
Whether you’re pulling levers, distracting enemies, or helping each other across gaps, the game constantly finds new ways to challenge how you think. It’s short, simple, and surprisingly moving, with puzzles that actually feel meaningful.
The original Braid was an exceptional puzzle-platformer that released before the PS4 and PS5. Yet, the remastered Anniversary Edition has come out on the later Sony systems. It features improved visuals and some new levels.
It contains the same high quality of platforming and puzzle-solving as the original. Most of the puzzles revolve manipulating time to create a path forward. While completing these well-designed trials, you get to appreciated the title’s beautiful art-style and surprisingly deep story.
In Human: Fall Flat, you are put in control of a very wobbly human-like creature. Along with waddling around, you can also grab things and pull yourself up on ledges. With these limited abilities and wacky physics, you must complete various different puzzles throughout the game.
What’s interesting is how open the game is. You’re simply placed into an area and told to reach the end goal. As such, you’re free to complete the puzzles anyway you deserve. Sometimes, you can even climb over walls to avoid puzzles completely. This is seemingly allowed, as you’re encouraged to be creative.
Puzzle games aren’t tied to a specific visual style. Some puzzlers are bright and colorful, while others are dark and creepy. Little Nightmares 2 certainly fits into the latter group, as this is an unsettling puzzle-platform adventure.
You play as a little protagonist, who journies through many dark places. Some of them include weird creatures that are trying to get you. So, most of the puzzles revolve around avoiding their gaze and grasp. If you are caught, you die instantly. Therefore, there is a bit of a survival element to this title.
The core concept of Untitled Goose Game is as simple as it gets. You play as an obnoxious Goose who roams around a village and torments the people living there. The village is split into a few different areas.
When you enter one, you’re given a list of things to accomplish in that area. Most of the tasks involve stealing things or tricking people in some way. While it might not sound like it, these are actually puzzles that you must complete. Some are small and obvious, while others are a lot trickier. All of them are a lot of fun, and the game is very comical. It’s also unique, as not many games put you in the role of a mischievous goose.
While there are manyfirst-person puzzle titles, there aren’t many first-person shooter puzzlers. After all, the genres are complete opposites. Yet, the team behind Superhot has managed to meld them together in a clever way.
For every level, you’re put into a completely white room that contains red enemies. Each one of them can kill you in one shot. You have to figure out a way to get them first. To do so, you have to make use of the fact that time only moves forward when you move. So, you have to figure out when and where to move at any given point so you can avoid their fire and get them with your own. This process is compelling and surprisingly challenging.
Unravel Two is one of the best puzzle platformers you can play on PlayStation systems. You control two adorable creatures that are completely made of yarn. The advantage of their strange biology is that they can use a bit of themselves as a rope to swing on.
Most of the puzzling and platforming in the game revolves around swinging. You also need to push some things and do the occasional wall jump. It’s all about progressing to the end of each colorful level.
