10 Best Puzzle Games on PlayStation Plus (2024)

Puzzle games are loved by many gamers. They're fun, make us think, and often come with great stories. These games are more than just entertainment; they challenge our brains and give us a sense of achievement. PlayStation Plus is one place that has loads of these amazing games. It’s like a treasure chest filled with puzzle adventures waiting for players. But what are the best puzzle games you can find on PlayStation Plus? Well, we have curated a list of the five best puzzle games on PS Plus. So, let's get started!

10. Tricky Towers

Tricky Towers is one such game, which gives out great Tetris-like game feel with a physics-based twist. Players do not stack bricks blocks as in Tetris; instead, they craft towers from a variety of odd-shaped bricks. The weirdness of the physics engine comes into play by making blocks tumble and sway if not perfectly balanced in the tower. It is pretty tricky, since players have to place pieces strategically so that their tower will not come crashing down. The main intent of the game is to build as tall a structure as possible without it crumpling.

9. Carto

Carto is this really exciting puzzle adventure where you'll actually be changing the world by just moving different pieces of the map. Essentially, it's your protagonist, Carto, who discovers new parts of her map, and you can rotate or move them to create new paths and solve puzzles on her journey. This lets you explore these different areas, find secrets, and help Carto on her own quest in finding her family, where you meet some very interesting characters and conquer some challenges. The game is focused on exploring as well as using the player's creativity to progress through the story.

8. Kurushi

Kurushi is a pretty classic puzzle game for the PlayStation with a basically easy but very challenging premise. Players stand on a platform while large cubes roll toward them. The objective is to clear these cubes and thus to destroy them before they reach the player. When too many cubes reach the edge, the platform shrinks, with the game becoming progressively harder. What makes Kurushi unique is its mix of strategy and timing.

7. Human: Fall Flat

Human: Fall Flat is a funny physics-based puzzle game where the wobbly human character has to navigate through lots of levels. Controls are designed deliberately clunky so that the player needs to handle each limb of the character, which, of course leads to various funny situations. Each level in the game tries to solve some sort of puzzle involving objects, platforms, and mechanisms. Those need to be solved without getting the awkward character fall off from ledges or get stuck.

6. FantaVision

FantaVision is another unique puzzle game where fireworks and color matching are integrated into the gameplay in an incredibly striking visual form. One has to chase the cursor and catch those same-colored fireworks and connect them so detonation may occur in great firework displays. The goal of the game is to create long chains of fireworks, which are highly rewarded with higher scores and bigger effects.

5. Mr. Driller

Mr. Driller is a colorful and fast-paced action-strategy puzzle game; the player has to control a character who drills through layers of colored blocks in order to get to the bottom of the screen. The challenge of the game comes from falling blocks that follow the movements of the player. If there are too many blocks in one spot or fall on the player, the game is over.

4. echoshift

echoshift is this great puzzle game that, really and truly, lets you play with time. In it, you must traverse increasingly stuffy levels; but the twist of the game is that you can rewind your time, making “echoes” of your past actions. Those echoes interact with objects in the environment, allowing the player to work cooperatively with his or her previous self to solve puzzles.

3. LocoRoco Midnight Carnival

LocoRoco Midnight Carnival is a puzzle platform where you have cute, bouncing creatures called LocoRoco. You must advance them by tilting the world to the left or right to roll. When you press both sides simultaneously, they leap. There's also a “boing” move that'll cause them to bounce higher and into really hard places. It does contain some of the harder challenges in the form of ghost enemies and challenging-looking platforms. In order to solve the puzzles and navigate through levels, one requires good timing and proper moves.

2. I Am Bread

I Am Bread is a pretty weird puzzle game wherein you are a slice of bread. It's your mission in life to progress through various rooms to become toast. The player must use objects like toasters, stoves, or lamps to toast his bread. Well, to make it hard, this flops around. That does not help you control the item. So players are supposed to steer the bread off dirty surfaces and onto clean surfaces to keep their edibility meter high. The game requires a lot of patience and strategy to achieve the ultimate goal of becoming toast.

1. Mystic Pillars – Remastered

Mystic Pillars – Remastered is a puzzle game in which you move gems between pillars to come to a solution. You have to adhere to simple rules by positioning the right amount of gems at each pillar. You are limited by just so many moves, and you therefore have to plan ahead very carefully. The more you unlock new rules, the more difficult it gets, and you have to make plans for even more. It's a way of testing your thinking and strategy skills in an easy going way.

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