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🏆 Best Sci-Fi × Puzzle Adventure games

There are 351 games with both "Sci-Fi" and "Puzzle Adventure" elements. Here are the 30 most worth playing, ranked by Steam positive rate, player ratings, and popularity.

  1. 1

    Portal

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 99% · 2007
    PuzzleFPSPuzzle Adventure

    Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories,…

  2. 2

    Portal 2

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 99% · 2011
    PuzzleFPSCo-op

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you an…

  3. 3

    Crazy Machines 3

    · Very Positive 94% · 2016
    PuzzleStrategySimulation

    A hyper-realistic simulation with plenty of physical puzzles awaits! Did ever wonder what a leaping-…

  4. 4

    The Talos Principle

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 95% · 2014
    PuzzlePuzzle Adventure

    The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.…

  5. 5

    Half-Life: Opposing Force

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 95% · 1999
    PlatformerPuzzleFPS

    Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the pe…

  6. 6

    Aperture Desk Job

    · Very Positive 95% · 2022 · Free
    PuzzleActionAdventure

    Aperture Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in t…

  7. 7

    Half-Life: Blue Shift

    · Very Positive 93% · 2001
    PlatformerActionPuzzle

    Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter…

  8. 8

    CrossCode

    · Very Positive 92% · 2018
    ARPGPuzzleAction-Adventure

    A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graph…

  9. 9

    The Talos Principle 2

    · Very Positive 95% · 2023
    PuzzlePuzzle Adventure

    The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on …

  10. 10

    The Red Strings Club

    · Very Positive 93% · 2018
    PuzzleAdventureVisual Novel

    "The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the ext…

  11. 11

    Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 95% · 2015
    PuzzleActionSimulation

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-sim…

  12. 12

    COCOON

    · Very Positive 95% · 2023
    Puzzle AdventurePuzzle

    From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventur…

  13. 13

    An Arcade Full of Cats

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 98% · 2023 · Free
    Puzzle

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in '…

  14. 14

    Deliver Us the Moon

    · Very Positive 88% · 2019
    PuzzleActionAdventure

    Deliver Us the Moon is a sci-fi adventure game developed by KeokeN Interactive and released in 2019.…

  15. 15

    Half-Life: Source

    · Mixed 69% · 2004
    PlatformerFPSHorror

    Half-Life: Source is a port of Valve's original acclaimed game Half-Life to their new Source engine …

  16. 16

    Bridge Constructor Portal

    · Very Positive 92% · 2017
    PuzzleStrategySimulation

    Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique m…

  17. 17

    Operation: Tango

    · Very Positive 86% · 2021
    PuzzleAdventureAction

    It takes two to save the world in this Asymmetrical Spy Thriller. Pair up with a friend as a special…

  18. 18

    The Silent Age

    · Very Positive 93% · 2013
    Point & ClickPuzzleRPG

    Lose yourself in The Silent Age, the thrilling point-and-click adventure with over seven million mob…

  19. 19

    The Turing Test

    · Very Positive 88% · 2016
    PuzzlePuzzle Adventure

    The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava…

  20. 20

    Defy Gravity

    · Very Positive 86% · 2011
    PlatformerActionPuzzle

    Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puz…

  21. 21

    Out There Somewhere

    · Very Positive 93% · 2012
    PlatformerActionAdventure

    You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is…

  22. 22

    Machinika Museum

    · Very Positive 93% · 2021
    Point & ClickPuzzleAdventure

    Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysteriou…

  23. 23

    Valley

    · Very Positive 91% · 2016
    PlatformerAdventurePuzzle

    Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoske…

  24. 24

    35MM

    · Mostly Positive 71% · 2016
    PuzzleAdventureFPS

    Post-apocalyptic story about two travelers who set out on a long journey in the wasteland, left by p…

  25. 25

    The Drifter

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 98% · 2025
    Point & ClickAdventurePuzzle

    The Drifter is a point-and-click adventure in the classic style. Taking cues from the second wave of…

  26. 26

    Boxes: Lost Fragments

    · Very Positive 93% · 2024
    PuzzleAdventure

    As a legendary thief, your next assignment lures you into a grand and lavish mansion. There you find…

  27. 27

    Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 96% · 2014
    PuzzleRTSStrategy

    For billions of years empires rose to greatness. Each fell to the Creeper till none remained. Now al…

  28. 28

    Tinykin

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 98% · 2022
    PlatformerActionAdventure

    Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to help Milo discover the origins of humankind…

  29. 29

    Shenzhen I/O

    · Very Positive 95% · 2016
    PuzzleSimulation

    "BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM. - Build circuits using a variety of components from different man…

  30. 30

    Cobalt Core

    · Overwhelmingly Positive 96% · 2023
    PuzzleRPGCard

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, li…