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Recommend me a good puzzle game

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Hello, Sir!
I'm going to get a new computer soon and I'd like to install a puzzle game on that. I'm going to go with Tetris until I summer.

Oh, and I told Santa that I would buy my Christmas gifts with a Best Buy Card. World in Conflict is a lock for me, but my parents don't want me to play an MMO of any sort, so that rules World of Warcraft out. I'm gearing towards Metroid Prime 3 for now.
 
But Portal is also a First-Person Shooter, and my parents are a bit anxious towards those. I also don't think you can get that separately from The Orange Box, and my parents don't allow any rated M games into my house. They're okay with me playing or watching them (I haven't played any rated M game, but my younger brother has played Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox) and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)). I want a REAL puzzle game.
 
Portal is not a shooter in any traditional sense and I let my kids play it with no qualms. The only "gun" that you get is the portal gun. That's it. You have to figure out clever ways to use that. I am pretty sure that you can buy just Portal from Steam.

The best traditional puzzle game released last year, IMHO, is PuzzleQuest. It has the Match-3 mechanic of Bejeweled (and others) merged with a decent RPG. True gaming goodness.
 
Puzzle quest
 
Portal. As has been said, it's not an FPS in the traditional sense, you have a gun that can create two portals, and get sent into several rooms and have to work out how to get out each time.

If anything else, it's one of the few examples of how games can contain fantastic writing. Totally black humour and best ending ever since the Solitaire cards bounced their way across the screen.
 
I want a puzzle game that's available for the PC that's not a First-Person Shooter.
 
Portal. Its actually not an FPS. If you checked out Game of the Year awards, it says Portal is the Best Puzzle Game of the Year. Although it is only about 2 hours if you're good at puzzles, its one of the funniest and at the end, most challenging puzzle games out there.
 
Why not go old school.

Games like Broken Sword and Myst. Myst will just f*** you up though. you've been warned.
 
Another voice in the choir for Portal. About as close to perfection as your ever likely to find in a game - sublime execution of a brilliant concept, very funny writing and probably one of the most fantastic endings to a game ever. The only downside is it's short length. There is no violence, the action is all puzzle based.

Although at the moment it is only available as part of the Orange Box I wouldn't be surprised to see a seperate download for it on Steam at some point.
 
Darth_Pugwash said:
Another voice in the choir for Portal. About as close to perfection as your ever likely to find in a game - sublime execution of a brilliant concept, very funny writing and probably one of the most fantastic endings to a game ever. The only downside is it's short length. There is no violence, the action is all puzzle based.

Although at the moment it is only available as part of the Orange Box I wouldn't be surprised to see a seperate download for it on Steam at some point.
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If there is no violence then how come Portal is rated T?
 
Sokoban.
It's fun, it has countless levels, and it'll show you if you have the brains to be a warehouseman!
 
Oh, there is violence in Portal. The test center is actively trying to kill you. You, however, are limited to using the portal device and your wits to deal with it.

"Not in cruelty, not in wrath, the reaper came today. An angel visited this gray path, and took my cube away."
 
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