Those who claim that video games are harmful and develop nothing have never encountered logic games that can seriously challenge a player’s brain and require a substantial amount of thinking.
Logic Games – Selection of TOP Logic Games
Portal 2 is undoubtedly one of the most played logical games
Video games not only offer relaxation and killing time but also a way to warm up your brain and tickle its folds. The genre of logical games is intended directly for this purpose, with which you can spend more than one evening (and night, because the puzzles won’t let you sleep). All the games on our list are available on the digital platform Steam and achieve high positive ratings from critics and players alike. So if you enjoy solving complex puzzles and intricate stories, try playing some of the titles listed below.
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Portal 2
Just like in the first installment of this video game, the player is equipped with a gun capable of creating portals. Thanks to these portals, you progress through an interesting story, and the puzzles to solve become increasingly intricate. Portal 2, released in 2011, is undoubtedly the pinnacle of the logical game genre and also features a cooperative mode where you and your partner must work together to solve the puzzles.
The Case of Golden Idol
At first glance, this cute adventure from 2022 gradually turns into a logical game with a dark story. You step into the shoes of a detective solving a case of 12 serial murders that occurred over 40 years. Interviews with witnesses and suspects alternate with examining evidence and filling out your detective notes. These must make sense to lead you to solve the case.
Humanity
This Japanese game from 2023 transforms you, as the main character, into a dog. Your task is to lead crowds of people to light beams, allowing them to move to the next level. People follow your commands without question, and you are the only one who can save them. This relaxing game gradually turns into thought-out puzzles.
Viewfinder
Photos. Photos have the power to bring the past into the present, and this principle is also used to solve puzzles in this game from 2023. In each level, you will have several photos available that you need to align with the game environment, allowing you to reach the next terminal, which transports you to the next chapter, changing or expanding some game mechanics. It’s quite a fun pastime, at least until you get the camera and have to create the photos yourself.
Cocoon
Sometimes even the description of logical games can fry your brain. In this interesting endeavor from 2023, you encounter a mystery that spans several universes: what happened to the mysterious and ancient civilization? By traveling through worlds within worlds, you progress through the story, but the puzzles to solve become increasingly difficult. You overcome obstacles in the form of puzzles by combining and rearranging the worlds you encounter.
Escape Academy
Only the most skilled will manage to complete their studies at the Escape Academy. In the early parts of the game, you encounter relatively simple logical puzzles that need to be solved, but as you progress further in the story, the puzzles and riddles become increasingly difficult. Can you graduate from this peculiar school?
The Talos Principle
The ruins of ancient cities and modern technology? This is the combination you can find in this video game from 2014. To answer the big question about your creator, you must navigate a maze of puzzles, whose main core consists of lasers. Specifically, their proper combination to open the way to the next location. Over 120 puzzles will entertain you for several evenings.
The Witness
This 2016 video game offers more questions than answers, but by gradually finding tablets with puzzles on the colorful island, you learn at least small fragments of information. However, as you open other parts of the map, the difficulty of the puzzles increases, and our heads start to hurt. How to turn on the power? And what do the stone statues scattered around the island mean?
Superliminal
Perspective is the main gameplay factor in this 2019 game. Everything stands and falls on it, because the size of objects changes depending on where you look from and what is in the background. The rules of the real world do not apply here; you need to think in a surreal way and thus progress through the game levels to the very end. To this day, this game makes our brain itch.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
The work of bomb defusers is not easy at all, and this gem from 2018 for two players proves it. While one player is locked in a room with a bomb, the other holds a bomb disposal manual. The emphasis here is mainly on communication between the players and its speed, as each bomb is slightly different and requires a different disposal procedure.
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