Puzzle games on Steam: market size, sales and what works
23 games on Steam carry the Puzzle tag as one of their main tags. The median one has 35,954 reviews and 83% pass 1,000.
Games released per year
- 1 2015
- 4 2016
- 1 2017
- 1 2018
- 1 2019
- 1 2020
- 3 2021
- 3 2022
- 0 2023
- 0 2024
- 0 2025
- 5 2026
2026 is the year so far.
What games make
| Percentile | Reviews | Estimated owners |
|---|---|---|
| Median game | 35,954 | about 1.8M |
| Top 25% | 78,774 | about 4.1M |
| Top 10% | 174,207 | about 5.9M |
83% of games get over 50 reviews and over 70% positive. Owners are modeled from review counts, see how the estimates work.
Pricing
Median paid price $19.99
- Free 4%
- Under $5 4%
- $5 to $15 26%
- $15 to $30 57%
- $30 to $60 9%
- $60 and up 0%
Most reviewed Puzzle releases of the last 24 months
Big Walk
96% positive of 46,600
890k to 2.1M owners
$19.99
Unknot!
93% positive of 41
900 to 2.6k owners
$4.99
Positron
100% positive of 26
550 to 1.3k owners
$14.99
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Space Cat Solitaire
100% positive of 11
230 to 550 owners
$9.99
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方块骑士Square Knight
100% positive of 7
Free
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Goblin and Recipes: Match-3 Adventure
83% positive of 6
$1.99
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Gravity Grove
100% positive of 6
$7.49
Cerebral
No reviews yet
$4.99
Upcoming Puzzle games 1 on Steam
- SYSTEM 21 Dec 2, 2026
- Cursed Dungeon Raider 2027
- Orbital Drift 2027
- Trine 6: Together in Time Mar 4, 2027
- Ink Shapes: Book One 2028
- Aristocats (Jigsaw Puzzles) Coming soon
- A Robot's Journey Coming soon
- Bargan's Treasure Coming soon
- Between the Days Coming soon
- Bottle Flip VR Coming soon
- Boxception To be announced
- Dimension Rift Zero To be announced
Tags these games also carry
- Adventure 14
- Singleplayer 13
- Indie 12
- Atmospheric 11
- Action 10
- Story Rich 10
- Exploration 9
- Dark 8
- Horror 7
- Platformer 7
What good store pages do
Medians across the 23 most reviewed Puzzle games.
- Screenshots
- 9
- Trailers
- 2
- Description length
- 1,732 characters
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