85 لعبة مستقلة في هذه القائمة، صدرت بين 2017–2026، من مطوّرين مثل Witch Beam، House House، Sad Owl Studios. اختر لعبة لقراءة ملاحظتنا التحريرية والانتقال إلى صفحتها في المتجر.
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Unpacking is a relaxed puzzle game with simulation elements, built around a calm, casual pace rather than pressure or combat. It was developed by the independent Australian studio Witch Beam and released in 2021 across PC and consoles. The game was widely celebrated, winning two BAFTA Games Awards and Eurogamer's Game of the Year, plus a D.I.C.E. honour recognising outstanding achievement by an independent game.
Untitled Goose Game is a comic stealth puzzle game in which you play a troublesome goose loose in an English village. Using the goose's abilities, players move objects and manipulate the villagers to tick off a list of objectives, all without any violence. Developed by the Australian studio House House and published by Panic in 2019, it took Game of the Year at both the D.I.C.E. Awards and the Game Developers Choice Awards.
Viewfinder is a puzzle game from UK developer Sad Owl Studios, published by Thunderful Publishing. It debuted on Windows and PlayStation 5 in July 2023, with later releases on PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch through 2025. Store tags also place it in the adventure genre, critics gave it a generally positive reception, and it holds a Metacritic score of 84.
Released in 2023, Void Stranger is a sokoban-style puzzle game from System Erasure, an independent developer in Finland made up of Eero Lahtinen and Antti Ukkola. Players guide a character toward the bottom of a labyrinth, solving block-pushing puzzles to advance, while layered secrets and shifting mechanics gradually transform how it plays. It is known for its difficulty and intricate story, and it followed the pair's first game, ZeroRanger.
Weaving Tides is a puzzle adventure game with action elements, listed under action and adventure genres on Steam. It was developed and self-published by Follow the Feathers, an independent developer from Austria. The game launched on May 27, 2021 for Windows and macOS, and was also released on Nintendo Switch on the same day.
When the Past Was Around is a point-and-click adventure about Eda and her partner, an owl in human form, told through a chain of escape-room puzzles. It uses no dialogue or text, relying on music and hand-drawn art to carry the story and leave it open to interpretation. It was developed by Mojiken Studio in Indonesia and published by Toge Productions in 2020, and it won Best Visual Art at the 2019 SEA Game Awards.
Arkan: Dawn of Knights combines match-3 puzzle battles with 4X kingdom building. After a villain shatters the key of time, heroes from different eras and myths arrive in the player's world, and the player summons them from key shards to fight monsters in puzzle-driven combat while expanding a kingdom on a shared map. It was released for iOS in 2023. It is published by Babil Games LLC, a company PocketGamer.biz lists as based in Dubai, UAE.
Silly Suspects is a comic detective game built on the guess-who formula. You investigate absurd crimes in a strange world, question suspects, learn their habits and rule them out one by one until the culprit remains, with a lighthearted parody of classic murder mysteries. It is in early access from Classy Games, a studio that now operates in Saudi Arabia.
3D48 takes the number-merging idea of 2048 into three dimensions: players merge matching numbered cubes and try to keep the board from filling up as the numbers grow. It is a casual mobile puzzle game for Android and iOS. The game is released under the Shusmo label, a studio listed in Jordan's 962Games industry directory, and Amman-based Kolide Studio lists 3D48 among its own games.
Arabian Puzzle: Ludo Quest combines spot-the-difference puzzles with Ludo. Each difference found earns dice powers used on the Ludo board. The story follows Zarqa al-Yamama, the sharp-eyed woman of pre-Islamic Arabian legend, and her companion Saqr across the desert. It is developed by Maysalward, a studio in Amman, Jordan, that makes culturally relevant games for Arab players.
Arrow Challenge is a logic puzzle game in which each arrow on the board must be moved in the right direction until the board is clear. Its 300 levels get steadily harder, and bombs and a drill can help with tricky boards. It is a departure from the driving games usually made by Ambrator Games, a small studio based in Amman, Jordan, that develops for mobile devices.
AVO Escape Space is a story-driven escape-room game for VR set aboard a spaceship caught in a meteor storm. Playing as the last passenger, PatientZ, you solve a chain of puzzles with help from the ship's AI, AVO, while uncovering what the vessel was really for. It won at the Very Big Indie Pitch in Dubai. It comes from Game Cooks, the VR and mobile studio founded in Beirut by Lebanese brothers Arz and Lebnan Nader.
Bathroom Please! is an absurd comedy puzzle adventure about desperately needing a toilet. With no timer but a shrinking step counter, you cross a park, an office and a public pool, talk your way past strangers and learn each map by heart to reach relief in time. Failure means public humiliation and another attempt. It is listed among the projects of Istikan Studio, a game studio based in Kurdistan, Iraq.
Fateel is a puzzle adventure about a crime detective who wakes from a coma locked in a basement with a gang's explosives. Across 25 rooms of rising difficulty you push boxes, carry and place bombs and read dialogue clues to reason your way out. The game began on mobile and was brought to PC with improved visuals and sound by Evolite Studio, a Jeddah-based Saudi studio.
Kitiplant is a grid-based puzzle game about a group of cats that bring dormant forests back to life. Players guide the cats through handcrafted levels where they must share resources and ration their energy, so every move has to be planned. It was made by Moroccan solo developer Soufiane Tacherifine under the TACSOU name and is available on Steam and, as Kitiplant Mobile, on Google Play.
KoroNeko is a relaxed puzzle game where you roll Koro the cat, trapped inside a jelly jar, through colourful worlds to free her siblings from the witch Strawberry. There is no timer and no move counter, so each puzzle can be worked out at your own pace as new mechanics appear world by world. It was developed and published by Nomadroid, a studio from Saudi Arabia.
Lefty is a cozy 3D puzzle game about a left-handed character who can only move to the right. To reach home you rotate each whimsical maze level so that right-only steps lead somewhere useful, with puzzles growing more complex as you go. The idea is drawn from the Arabic cultural habit of favouring the right hand, and the game was developed by Saudi team Light Studio (Naqsh Al-Daw).
My Father Lied is a story-driven mystery with Lovecraftian influences. Huda follows the trail of her father, missing for 20 years, into an abandoned Mesopotamian museum whose former residents left puzzles to hold on to their fading memories. The studio says Huda is the first Iraqi female lead in a video game, named after the ancient writer Enheduanna. It is developed by Lunar Games, a studio from Iraq.
Odd Skunk Out is a short 2D puzzle game set in Zoocity, where animals distrust skunks after a series of bad incidents. Players guide Skunky, a young skunk who moves to the city to study, as he helps the residents and tries to win them over despite his unwelcome arrival. It is a free Windows prototype built in Unity. The game is published by Regnum Studio, an indie game development studio founded in 2018 and based in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Pieces Puzzle is a tile-placement puzzle game played on 3x3 and 4x4 boards. Players place each animal in a suitable environment and arrange tiles so that predators cannot reach the other animals. It is a simple logic game for mobile devices. It is developed by Koala 4D, a game development studio founded in 2013 and listed in 962Games, the directory of Jordan's game industry.
Project-Robot is an atmospheric 2.5D puzzle adventure set in a desolate, decaying world. The player travels with a loyal companion, solving environmental puzzles with the machinery that still works and piecing together what happened to those who lived there before. Its themes are loss, hope and not being alone. It is an original title from 2024 Studios, an Egyptian studio better known for its educational and work-for-hire games.
Rangi is a single-player virtual reality puzzle adventure in which players explore hidden temples, cross dangerous platforms and fly through the world to restore the Musiki's stolen rhythms. It stands out for tribal art and music and landscapes inspired by African mythology and folklore. The game was designed by Funsoft, a Moroccan indie studio whose members include former Ubisoft Casablanca developers, and published by Digigo.
Reflecto Ray is a VR puzzle game in which players guide a beam of light to its target by turning mirrors in the right directions. The story frames it as keeping city power stations running so magic tools can keep demons turned to stone. It supports headsets such as HTC Vive, Oculus Quest and Windows Mixed Reality. It is developed by Mahfouz Games, a studio founded in Erbil, Iraq in 2018 by Omar Mahfouz.
Shelve the Potions! is a cosy logic puzzle game set in a witch's cellar after her cats have knocked everything down. As her new apprentice, you put more than 2,000 potions back in the right order by reading clues, learning odd symbols and decoding notes left around the room. Each shelf is its own handmade puzzle. It was released in 2026 by Knight Owl Games, an indie studio based in Alexandria, Egypt.