Best NEW Upcoming Puzzle Games of 2025

You’ll need your brain power to progress through these games. Here are the best new upcoming puzzle games of 2025.

#6 Star Overdrive

Are you ready for an adventure that’ll take you all over an alien planet while you travel in style via your board? If so, you’ll want to check out Star Overdrive when it drops.

The game puts you as a person who gets a hold of a distress signal, and you decide to go check it out. The planet you arrive on is vast, and you’ll need your board to get around safely and reach places you couldn’t on your own.

While you travel, you’ll have to fight enemies, solve puzzles, and more! So, what are you waiting for? Get ready to ride in style!

#5 Carmen Sandiego

Are you ready to save the day as one of the greatest thieves around? Naturally, we’re talking about the one and only Carmen Sandiego! She’ll get a new game in 2025 that is a tribute to all that came before, while also paying homage to the new version that is on Netflix. As such, you’ll travel around the world and attempt to capture the various criminals of the organization VILE. You’ll need to use your thief and investigative skills to get the job done and show that no one is better than Carmen Sandiego.

The world is your oyster, so go and ensure no one steals it.

#4 Little Nightmares III

If you’re familiar with the first two games in this series or have played them before, then you know what’s in store with Little Nightmares III. The title will put you as two new characters, Low and Alone, and set you within the terrifying world known as Nowhere. Trapped within The Spiral, your only choice for survival is to work your way through it and see how you can get past the monsters that lurk within. It won’t be easy, but at least you’ll have someone at your side throughout.

In fact, this is the first game in the series’ history to allow for true co-op! So, use that to your advantage to get out!

#3 Necrophosis

Death is supposed to be the end of everything, but in Necrophosis, you’ll find that there is something far worse beyond death, something that even the concept of death fears. As you awaken in this world of decay, you’ll work your way through the terrifying and weirdly-shaped structures that lie within. Your mission is survival and to find out the truth of what is this world you’ve ended up on.

Why is everything decaying? What does it all mean? What are the stories that are hidden within the very walls you’re wandering past? These questions and more will be answered as you play the game. Good luck.

#2 The Occultist

You are Alan Rebels, an occultist with unique abilities who is on a mission to learn the truth about his father’s disappearance. However, the place he must go to is the one place his father never wanted him to enter: The Godstone. His father grew up there but never went himself until he had no choice, and soon, he’ll wish he had never gone at all.

For while Alan wields a mystical pendulum that allows him to see things beyond the human world, there are dangers in using this kind of power. Wield it wisely, or be threatened by the very spirits you’re using to your advantage.

#1 Second-Loop

Welcome to the future, a dystopian version of the future, but it’s still the future! You play a robot who actually pilots a giant robot that has the ability to manipulate gravity. That’s important, as you’ll need to use that ability to construct things, solve puzzles, and move around the world. Creativity is one of the key elements of Second-Loop, as you’re encouraged to build whatever you think will help you get through the next challenge.

The more you do, the more you’ll inspire those around you, as you are a key element in the resistance meant to free this world from those that oppress you!