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A rough list of every puzzle game I’ve played, ranked by difficulty<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judging the difficulty of a game is pretty simple, I mainly look at how much effort it took me to fully complete it. The game’s duration, the number of puzzles, the gameplay and the puzzle design give me a good idea of which rating is the best when put together.
It’s of course easier to judge games that have no or a minimal difficulty curve, as the difficulty remains fairly constant. When it fluctuates a lot, I simply estimate an average difficulty, or create multiple ratings when it’s relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n <\/colgroup>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Difficulty<\/th>\n Games<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
0\/5 (Extremely Easy)<\/td>\n QUBE \u2022 Superliminal \u2022 Gravitas \u2022 Magnetic: Cage Closed \u2022 Frame of Mind \u2022 Evan’s Remains \u2022 Path of Giants \u2022 Time Breaker \u2022 Monument Valley \u2022 MIND: Path to Thalamus \u2022 Genius Moves \u2022 Linelith \u2022 20 Small Mazes \u2022 Poorzzle \u2022 Unpacking \u2022 SokoFrog<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1\/5 (Very Easy)<\/td>\n The Swapper \u2022 QUBE 2 \u2022 The Turing Test \u2022 Quantum Conundrum \u2022 Manifold Garden \u2022 Rethink Evolved 1 \u2022 Rethink Evolved 3 \u2022 Thinking With Time Machine \u2022 Perspective \u2022 LIT: Bend The Light \u2022 What Lies in the Multiverse \u2022 Ouros<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1.5\/5 (Easy)<\/td>\n Disoriented \u2022 Spring Falls \u2022 Sigils of Elohim \u2022 Rethink 1 \u2022 The Pedestrian \u2022 The Looker \u2022 The Entropy Centre \u2022 Professor Goodboi’s Ballistics \u2022 Portal Revolution \u2022 Handshakes \u2022 Astrodelia \u2022 Gravity \u2022 Robot Detour \u2022 Arranger \u2022 SPIN Protocol \u2022 The Electrifying Incident \u2022 Blobun \u2022 Knight Swap<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2\/5 (Normal)<\/td>\n Rethink Evolved 2 \u2022 Lightmatter \u2022 QUBE 2 (Lost Orbit) \u2022 Closure \u2022 Hue \u2022 Faraway Proximity \u2022 Summertime Madness \u2022 Ethereal \u2022 The Talos Principle 2 \u2022 Portal: Forbidden Testing Tracks \u2022 Treasure Journey \u2022 LightRay \u2022 AssassInvisible \u2022 Candle Prick \u2022 Patrick’s Parabox \u2022 So Fart Away \u2022 Double Trip<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2.5\/5 (A bit Hard)<\/td>\n Portal \u2022 Portal 2 \u2022 Portal Reloaded \u2022 The Talos Principle \u2022 Antichamber \u2022 Supraland \u2022 Supraland Six Inches Under \u2022 Braid \u2022 The Bridge \u2022 Helltaker \u2022 Sensorium \u2022 Linelight \u2022 Timelie \u2022 Ever Forward \u2022 Hiding Spot \u2022 A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build \u2022 A Monster’s Expedition \u2022 QUBE 10th Anniversary \u2022 Altered \u2022 Blooby Block \u2022 Aperture Tag \u2022 Push The Cat with WASD \u2022 ReThink Evolved 4 \u2022 Lines On Sides \u2022 The Legend of Lumina \u2022 Little Square Things \u2022 ReThink 5 \u2022 Paper Trail \u2022 Star Stuff \u2022 Nurikabe World \u2022 Mycelium Heaven \u2022 Sokobond<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
3\/5 (Rather Hard)<\/td>\n Portal Stories: Mel \u2022 Rexaura \u2022 The Talos Principle (Road to Gehenna) \u2022 Relicta \u2022 The Sojourn \u2022 Hourglass \u2022 Kine \u2022 Tetrobot & Co \u2022 Snaliens \u2022 Liquidum \u2022 Platonic \u2022 Mooselutions \u2022 Slider \u2022 Toki Tori 2+ \u2022 Chroma Zero \u2022 Reliquia Park \u2022 Croquet Conundrum \u2022 Shrink Rooms \u2022 Enigmash \u2022 Rats in a Cage \u2022 Spooky Express \u2022 Cipher Zero<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
3.5\/5 (Hard)<\/td>\n The Witness \u2022 QUBE 2 (Aftermath) \u2022 Rethink 2 \u2022 Deleveled \u2022 English Country Tune \u2022 Pipe Push Paradise \u2022 Puddle Knights \u2022 Meet me at NooN \u2022 Taiji \u2022 Splash Dino \u2022 Dodo \u2022 Temple of Snek \u2022 Dungeon and Puzzles \u2022 Isles of Sea and Sky \u2022 Court of the Wanderers \u2022 The Electrifying Incident (Meta) \u2022 Mistified \u2022 Glowkeeper<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
4\/5 (Very Hard)<\/td>\n Filament \u2022 Timelie (Hell Loop) \u2022 Rethink 3 \u2022 Bonfire Peaks \u2022 Recursed \u2022 Cosmic Express \u2022 P\u00e2querette Down the Bunburrows \u2022 Room to Grow \u2022 Void Stranger \u2022 Panda Go \u2022 Ligo \u2022 The Talos Principle: Reawakened (In the Beginning) \u2022 Only Sliding \u2022 Gentoo Rescue \u2022 ScaleBox<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
4.5\/5 (Extremely Hard)<\/td>\n Snakebird \u2022 Rethink 4 \u2022 Bonfire Peaks (Lost Memories Part 1) \u2022 A Monster’s Expedition (Snowmen) \u2022 Magicube \u2022 Understand \u2022 Inner Tao \u2022 Sokoban: The RPG \u2022 ReThink | Lite<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
5\/5 (Nightmare)<\/td>\n Baba is You \u2022 Stephen’s Sausage Roll \u2022 I Wanna Lockpick<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
\u221e\/5 (Insane)<\/td>\n Recursed (The Ice Palace) \u2022 Magnet Block<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rough list of every puzzle game I’ve played, ranked by difficulty. Judging the difficulty of a game is pretty simple, I mainly look at how much effort it took me to fully complete it. The game’s duration, the number of puzzles, the gameplay and the puzzle design give me a good idea of which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nDIFFICULTY RATINGS – Anokturnus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DIFFICULTY RATINGS – Anokturnus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A rough list of every puzzle game I’ve played, ranked by difficulty. 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