15+ Best Cozy Puzzle Games for Relaxing Challenges
If you’re in the mood for a little brain workout alongside your cozy gaming, a great puzzle game can offer just the right mix of challenge and satisfaction. From clever puzzle platformers to tile placing town builders, and even an ever growing hole controlled by a mischievous raccoon, these games are full of charm, creativity, and rewarding problem solving. Here’s a list of some of the best cozy puzzle games to help you find your next puzzle challenge.
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Unpacking
Developer Image: Witch Beam
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €19.99 or included in Xbox Gamepass
Unpacking is a unique zen puzzle game that transforms the tedious task of unpacking boxes and moving home into a soothing, meditative journey. Unpack, organise and arrange belongings into various homes over a period of 20 years as you learn more about the owner’s story through light puzzle-solving and subtle storytelling.
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Developer Image: Dogubomb
Blue Prince is a puzzle game that’s taken the gaming community by storm. Combining roguelike mechanics with intricate puzzles, it offers a refreshing experience for fans of both genres. With its eerie yet cozy atmosphere, challenging gameplay, and rewarding progression system, Blue Prince stands as one of the best puzzle games of 2025 so far and was my Game of the Month for May 2025.
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Developer Image: Q Games Ltd
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation, Xbox Gamepass
Cost: €14.99 or included on Xbox Gamepass
Play in couch co-op or online in this cozy, colourful puzzle game where you play as cute kawaii animal cubes, moving together to help each other fit into a series of puzzles.
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Developer Image: Tunic Team
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, Playstation
If you’re looking for a game with a bit more of a challenge but still feels cozy, Tunic is a quietly enchanting adventure where you play as a fox, exploring a mysterious world filled with secrets, puzzles, and hidden paths. With no dialogue or hand-holding, the game gently encourages curiosity as you piece together your journey from fragments of a cryptic guidebook written in a charming invented language. Power up your skills and battle monsters as you explore the land and uncover it’s secrets.
Developer Image: Nomada Studios
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €14.79 or Included on Xbox Gamepass
Play as a young girl lost in her own world coming to terms with a painful experience in this atmospheric platform adventure game. Complete puzzles and optional skill based challenges to unfold Gris’s story.
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Developer Image: Ben Esposito
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €11.99
A story base physics puzzle game where you play an ever growing hole in the ground, remote controlled by a raccoon who wants to collect the trash around the town, but in doing swallows up the residents and their homes into a deep hole. Find a way to catapult them out of the hole and back to the surface.
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Untitled Goose Game
Developer Image: House House
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch, PS4
Cost: €18.99
Play as a mischievous goose let loose on an village. Complete tasks to steal picnic baskets, setting up pranks and making a nuisance honking around town in this hilarious stealth sandbox game. Now available in 2 players, double the geese chaos!
Developer Image: Max Inferno
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €14.99 or included on Xbox Gamepass
A relaxing puzzle game where you need to sort, stack and organise household items with over 100+ puzzle messes to satisfyingly tidy. Keep an eye out for a mischevious cat who may cause a little chaos in your organising.
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Monument Valley
Developer Image: ustwo Games
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation, Xbox
Monument Valley and its sequels are critically acclaimed puzzle games known for their stunning art and mind-bending architecture. Players guide the silent protagonist through impossible landscapes, manipulating the environment to uncover hidden paths and advance through the serene narrative.
Is This Seat Taken?
Developer Image: Poti Poti Studio
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Solve satisfying seating puzzles in this cozy logic game all about reading the room, literally. From wedding banquets to noisy bus rides, find the perfect spot for every quirky character. Follow Nat’s gentle journey of self discovery as they travel the world in search of belonging. A no stress puzzler full of charm, heart, and quietly relatable moments.
Strange Horticulture
Developer Image: Bad Viking
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €15.99
Play as an owner of a plant shop who must find and identify new plants to sell to colourful customers as you solve an occult mystery within the town in this investigation puzzle game.
Dorfromantik
Developer Image: Toukana Interactive
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch
Cost: €12.99
Create a beautiful and ever growing village landscape by placing tiles in this peaceful building strategy and puzzle game. Complete quests and place tiles around their special requirements across different biomes and unlock new tiles.
Developer Image: Whitehorn Games
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox
Cost: €22.49 or Included in Xbox Gamepass
It’s 1890, and you are Arabella Greene, a retired botanist that has just inherited a Somerset Manor in the English Countryside. Your publisher has accepted your book proposal and you are now tasked to complete your herbarium, a collection of studies and research about Forgotten Flora in this exploration puzzle game.
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Islanders
Developer Image:
Coatsink, GrizzlyGames, Stage Clear Studios
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Islanders is a minimalist city-building game where you create beautiful settlements on colourful, procedurally generated islands. Place buildings strategically to earn points, expand your village into sprawling cities, and discover new islands endlessly.
Chants of Sennaar
Developer Image: Rundisc
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, Playstation
In Chants of Sennaar, you explore a mysterious tower where divided Peoples can no longer communicate, and it’s up to you, the Traveler, to reconnect them. Solve clever puzzles using ancient languages as keys, observing symbols and unraveling the meaning of each glyph. Each floor offers a unique culture and visual identity, inspired by European comics, with a beautiful, lyrical soundtrack.
Tiny Lands
Developer Image: Hyper Three Studio
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch
Cost: €6.99
Spot the differences in beautiful £D environments that are fully rotatable and zoomable. Set your favourite lo-fi music and complete puzzles at your own pace, while adding dynamic objects to change the aura with fire, rain, thunder and snow.
Stitch.
Developer Image: Lykkegaard Europe Limited
Available on: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €17.99
stitch. is a casual embroidary themed crafting puzzle game where the main objective is to complete a series of cute sewing designs by filling in each area with no gaps to complete Hoops. There are thousands of levels to complete ranging from easy to extremely challenging, each offering a final embroidered masterpiece with a realistic embroidary engine to make you feel as though you are playing with real embroidary thread.
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