Best Puzzle Platformer Games on Steam
Platformers where movement challenges combine with switches, physics, logic, or timing.
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1Portal 2 - The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Apr 18, 2011
In this game, you can…
- hit a chapter title that literally says "this is the part where he kills you" as the game turns it into a set-piece
- bounce across chambers with repulsion gel, build insane speed with propulsion gel, then paint walls to make new portal surfaces
- play co-op where each robot has its own portal gun, and your solution can break the bridge your partner is standing on
- wake up from long-term stasis, get guided by a friendly AI, and then have the main villain come back online
- use portals to redirect lasers, light bridges, and tractor beams through moving machinery to power your way forward
- chain portals to fling yourself over pits, launch cubes onto buttons, and keep extending the same trick into bigger gaps
- replay co-op stages for least time and least portals, racing friends as they knock you off the leaderboard
- drop into community-made test chambers and keep getting brand-new puzzles long after the story ends
2It Takes Two - Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Mar 25, 2021
In this game, you can…
- pilot a pair of underpants.
- dj a night club inside an air conditioning vent for a crowd of living glow sticks.
- stop the story to play mini-games where you can electrocute the other player.
- fly a plane made of underpants later on.
- use a magnet turret to shoot magnets and turn a wall into a huge co-op traversal puzzle.
- fight through a shooter chapter where one player stuns enemies with goop while the other ignites bugs with flares.
- drop into an isometric hack-and-slash chapter where one player is a wizard and the other is a knight.
- get shrunk into dolls so a bed, a book, and a tiny pond become massive obstacles you have to climb and cross together.
3Human Fall Flat - Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Jul 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- lay siege to a Viking village, launch yourself from a catapult, slam a rock into a chasm with a battering ram, then barrel-ride through fjords to a longboat finish.
- play online with up to eight people, where seven other players flail around the same objectives and everything becomes a moving pileup.
- learn to scale walls, start chaining speed hops, and even pull off stuff like climbing straight up or "levitating" with a stick.
- grab your friends by the arms and collars, hoist them up, then toss them off cliffs or into the void when they get in the way.
- break a window, stack mattresses into a janky staircase, and climb through to skip the route the level clearly wanted you to take.
- swing on vines like Tarzan, row boats, fire yourself out of catapults, and mess with trucks and cranes to move through puzzles.
- drag a plank around for 20 minutes, finally line it up as a perfect bridge, then watch it vanish the moment you celebrate.
4Portal - 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.
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- fall into a portal to build speed, then explode out the other across impossible gaps.
- watch a simple cube become a lifesaver when it blocks a deadly energy ball for you.
- solve fights without shooting by redirecting enemies and danger through portals and props.
- place a blue portal and an orange portal to make an instant entrance and exit.
- use portals to turn a drop into a slingshot, launch onto a ledge, grab a cube midair, and land on a button before a hazard triggers.
- hear an AI narrate and taunt you the whole time, like the facility is watching and lying.
- tip over a turret that looked terrifying and it just collapses and stops.
- rip pieces off the final boss, carry each one to an incinerator, and repeat the cycle three times to finish it.
5Celeste - Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Jan 25, 2018
In this game, you can…
- welcome your shadow self back and gain a second midair dash.
- build momentum with no speed cap, carrying platform speed into jumps and stacking it into ridiculous velocity.
- turn on assist options like extra jumps or invincibility to push past a wall and keep the story moving.
- battle a physical version of your own self-doubt.
- chain jumps, air-dashes, and wall climbs as your dash refreshes on the ground, new screens, or dash-reset gems.
- read your remaining midair dashes from your hair color mid-jump.
- ride bubbles for a speed burst that refreshes your jump, then dash through wind, ice, and void zones in the same run.
- find secret routes by spotting tiny hints, then take an easier path or a wildly harder one to reach hidden areas.
6Split Fiction - Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Mar 6, 2025
In this game, you can…
- hit a sequence where the same map exists in cyber and fantasy at once, and you move through both versions simultaneously.
- become a ball and navigate through an actual pinball machine level.
- kill your co-op partner in absurd ways, then keep doing it on purpose for fun.
- get pulled into a machine that steals creative ideas, then watch your sci-fi and fantasy stories mash into one shared prison.
- jump from taming dragons to fighting as cyber ninjas in back-to-back chapters.
- fight across a futuristic flying highway, leaping between moving vehicles, swinging a laser whip, and carving enemies with a katana.
- play optional side stories like a full mini-adventure where you're two pigs on a farm.
- hunt down hidden Easter eggs like a Dark Souls-style bonfire tucked into the world.
- trigger a giant, unexpected dance battle as a sudden genre pivot.
7Little Nightmares - Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Apr 27, 2017
In this game, you can…
- solve puzzles by using the ship's machinery, like making a rope of sausages to swing across a gap.
- find tiny Nomes hiding in the dark and hug them like strange little companions.
- slip through child-sized passageways the adults can't fit into.
- hold your breath behind cover while a monster walks past your hiding spot.
- turn a careful sneak into a sudden sprint-and-climb escape when you get spotted.
- sneak around a pursuer with absurdly long arms that can grab you from far away.
- wake up with only a lighter, then navigate the Maw with no dialogue and almost no guidance.
- use boxes, keys, and levers to improvise a path upward while monsters patrol nearby.
8GRIS - Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Dec 13, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn into a literal square.
- paint platforms into existence with light to make your own path.
- survive being chased by nightmarish figures in scenes that feel dangerous, even though the game has no normal death state.
- restore color to a dead black-and-white world, and watch new routes and spaces appear as it comes back.
- get shoved around by hostile wind, then become heavy as a cube to force your way forward.
- flip gravity and platform while the whole world reorients around you.
- gain new movement powers as your dress changes, from double-jumping to swimming, dolphin-like dashes, and gliding.
- reach an ending where you sing as darkness closes in, and a second voice finally sings back with you.
9INSIDE - Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Jul 7, 2016
In this game, you can…
- wear a helmet to mind-control other people and use their bodies to solve puzzles.
- pretend to be one of the mindless workers by matching their steps, jumps, and where they face so guards let you pass.
- get swallowed by a giant writhing mass of human bodies, then take control of it and smash through the facility.
- blend into a marching crowd to avoid getting spotted and killed.
- pilot a tiny submarine and use underwater movement as a full-on traversal and puzzle mechanic.
- as that giant body, rampage through the complex, kill the person in charge, and end by collapsing into a strange pool of light.
- reach a secret ending by hunting down hidden orbs that unlock an alternate conclusion.
10BattleBlock Theater® - Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
May 15, 2014
In this game, you can…
- get kidnapped by giant cats and forced to run deadly theater obstacle courses for their amusement.
- slap and shove your co-op buddy, including launching them into hazards as part of the level plan.
- compete in multiplayer modes like Capture the Horse, Basketball, Whale Chasing, and Grab the Gold instead of standard combat.
- escape a level by grabbing just three gems, then come back for every gem and a hidden yarn ball to chase an A++ rank.
- play co-op levels where you hoist a friend up, throw them to high ledges, and blast them forward to reach impossible routes.
- use weapons like top-hat cannons, exploding marching frog dancers, acid bubbles, and grenades to kill or launch friends.
- build your own stages and share them through the level editor and Steam Workshop for others to play.
