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 2467,86798.49%98.71%
- 2Portal199,99498.03%98.52%
- 3Half-Life 2280,43897.27%97.60%
- 4Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition156,13896.94%97.69%
- 5MiSide142,62996.92%97.74%
- 6Helltaker128,21296.77%97.67%
- 7Stray178,95696.73%97.21%
- 8Resident Evil 2225,26696.66%97.04%
- 9OneShot65,29696.50%98.23%
- 10Inscryption148,73096.09%96.82%
- 11Papers, Please80,59695.96%97.30%
- 12Ori and the Will of the Wisps146,36495.78%96.50%
- 13Tomb Raider Game of the Year270,98495.74%96.02%
- 14BattleBlock Theater72,90895.73%97.17%
- 15INSIDE75,99695.62%96.99%
- 16Firework44,46295.37%97.67%
- 17Chants of Sennaar34,89795.33%98.24%
- 18Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy45,15095.31%97.55%
- 19Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition87,75695.22%96.37%
- 20It Takes Two271,43395.18%95.44%
- 21Mirror83,95595.17%96.36%
- 22Teardown136,38495.12%95.85%
- 23GRIS96,45195.03%96.05%
- 24The Room31,81894.73%97.74%
- 25Outer Wilds108,31994.72%95.60%
- 26Resident Evil 7 Biohazard127,33094.55%95.29%
- 27Buckshot Roulette126,38794.36%95.09%
- 28Human Fall Flat227,49994.34%94.61%
- 29Baba Is You24,62394.26%97.70%
- 30There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension26,11194.23%97.70%
- 31Sally Face - Episode One29,65094.18%97.33%
- 32SOMA53,04694.15%95.84%
- 33Return of the Obra Dinn35,25194.15%96.69%
- 34Little Nightmares116,62894.00%94.76%
- 35SIGNALIS34,48493.95%96.59%
- 36What Remains of Edith Finch52,95693.94%95.59%
- 37Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,78293.88%95.96%
- 38Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition71,55593.84%95.06%
- 39Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun38,47493.79%96.03%
- 40The Coffin of Andy and Leyley39,51393.73%95.89%
- 41The Room 4: Old Sins18,37493.70%98.46%
- 42Rise of the Tomb Raider156,31493.64%94.18%
- 43Car Mechanic Simulator 202138,72793.56%95.72%
- 44Besiege53,29093.55%95.12%
- 45Super Hexagon25,13393.54%96.87%
- 46Dorfromantik29,63893.51%96.32%
- 47Unheard - Voices of Crime34,02393.49%95.93%
- 48Gorogoa20,81293.47%97.45%
- 49LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga25,52793.46%96.71%
- 50Fran Bow23,05393.44%97.41%
- 51The Room Two21,80793.36%97.53%
- 52Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,91693.31%95.77%
- 53LEGO Marvel Super Heroes31,45793.29%95.68%
- 54Nubby's Number Factory19,60193.21%97.31%
- 55Murders on the Yangtze River21,26793.19%96.96%
- 56The Last Campfire20,64793.18%97.50%
- 57TOEM: A Photo Adventure12,20293.09%99.09%
- 58Outcore: Desktop Adventure18,40193.09%97.39%
- 59HuniePop31,66993.08%95.57%
- 60Mini Motorways24,45893.05%96.26%
- 61The Talos Principle33,06292.95%95.29%
- 62Half-Life: Opposing Force29,02492.90%95.36%
- 63ANIMAL WELL24,63292.85%95.72%
- 64Untitled Goose Game25,25192.85%95.88%
- 65Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre27,60092.82%95.59%
- 66Tales of the Black Forest15,50492.72%97.59%
- 67Peggle Deluxe14,55292.71%97.66%
- 68Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons41,28592.58%94.38%
- 69Amnesia: The Dark Descent35,76992.53%94.58%
- 70Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes17,14292.48%97.27%
- 71Superliminal34,19292.47%94.60%
- 72FAR: Lone Sails26,47292.41%95.26%
- 73CARRION35,98092.38%94.39%
- 74Webbed15,29592.32%97.58%
- 75Gunpoint13,33092.23%97.51%
- 76A Plague Tale: Innocence72,75692.21%93.18%
- 77Tactical Breach Wizards12,19092.19%97.93%
- 78PC Building Simulator52,75992.18%93.50%
- 79Trine 2: Complete Story22,05992.12%95.27%
- 80Zup! S16,20892.03%96.83%
- 81shapez 2 - Factory15,34091.94%96.94%
- 82Little Nightmares II58,71991.84%92.98%
- 83Eternal Senia12,06691.81%97.49%
- 84shapez15,95191.78%95.91%
- 85Machinarium20,82791.73%95.32%
- 86Unpacking40,88591.65%93.24%
- 87Mini Metro16,76791.62%96.00%
- 88Sven Co-op32,49491.60%93.57%
- 89Trine Enchanted Edition15,95391.59%95.60%
- 90Antichamber17,77991.56%95.15%
- 91West of Loathing10,31891.53%97.68%
- 92Pony Island18,14791.48%94.95%
- 93Into the Breach22,41691.40%94.17%
- 94The Case of the Golden Idol11,00491.35%97.78%
- 95Cube Escape: Paradox12,23991.31%97.06%
- 96Supraland15,40391.25%95.20%
- 97LIMBO62,13091.22%92.20%
- 98The Stanley Parable45,82791.16%92.46%
- 99ISLANDERS16,78890.99%94.44%
- 100Pikuniku11,86690.98%95.86%
