Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask is a handheld game for the Nintendo 3DS system where you must solve puzzles to advance the story. Using touch screen controls, you'll need to perform a wide variety of actions to tackle hundreds of engaging puzzles. From logic dilemmas to riddles, visual brain teasers and more, you'll find something new and delightful at every turn.

Chip away at a three-dimensional block puzzle to reveal the object hidden within. Only this time, blocks can be painted with two colors of paint to mold detailed shapes. Enjoy more than 300 puzzles at the Café or even tap compatible amiibo™ figures (sold separately) to solve 10 more puzzles hiding secret Nintendo characters!

A kindly old inventor created a park and filled it with incredible puzzle-like climbing toys called Pushmo. But a little trickster has trapped kids inside the Pushmo, and now it’s up to our hero, Mallo, to push, pull and climb his way through the puzzling playground to save his friends! The Pushmo game features more than 250 fun and challenging puzzles. As you solve them, you’ll discover new gadgets that will add to the challenge. Complete certain sets of Pushmo to open additional game features, such as Pushmo Studio, which lets you create, play and even share your very own Pushmo puzzle creations. With adorable characters, charming 3D graphics and endless replay value, Pushmo offers fun for puzzle fans of all ages

Journey across the globe aboard the airship Bostonius while solving mind-bending brainteasers themed to their environments. Can you help Professor Layton and his assistants solve the greatest puzzle mankind has ever faced and uncover the mystery surrounding the ancient Azran civilization? The Professor Layton series couples brilliant puzzle games with a fascinating story to create a riveting formula that has provided great entertainment for mystery fans and puzzle-solving gurus alike. And now, you can complete the Professor Layton storyline with this puzzle-driven narrative from LEVEL-5. This adventure can either stand on its own, or act as the glue that connects the two Layton trilogies into one epic story.

Embrace the laws of gravity, and challenge yourself with a whole new kind of action-puzzle play in this exciting sequel to the critically acclaimed Pushmo&trade; game. New gravity mechanics and gadgets like floating blocks, doors, and move switches await. Push, pull, and slide each puzzle's colorful blocks in order to climb to the top&mdash;just be careful where those blocks go. Unsupported blocks will come crashing down! The Crashmo game contains plenty of puzzles to test your skills, and enhanced puzzle-creation and puzzle-sharing features mean that even when all the puzzles are cleared, the fun never has to stop!

Two very different gentlemen join forces in a bewitching adventure, packed with challenging brainteasers and dramatic courtroom action. Solve puzzles to investigate as Professor Layton, present evidence to the judge as Phoenix Wright, and crack the ultimate case!

Kisaragi Academy student Mayu Suzumoto is transferring to a new high school, leaving behind a sizable group of friends and countless lovely memories. To help her cope with this move, her friend Ayumi has devised a seemingly innocent plan: the whole group will come together to perform a charm she found on the internet called "Sachiko Ever After", which is supposed to bind all of its participants together as friends to the end. 

Following an intense earthquake, the group awakens to find themselves separated and trapped in an alternate reality version of Heavenly Host Elementary School, a tragedy-stricken institution that once stood on the site of their own school but was torn down long ago. Here, the vengeful spirits of elementary-aged children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival - much less escape - is to uncover the chilling details surrounding the murders of those trapped before them.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, which originally launched for Wii U, is coming to Nintendo Switch. The new version includes new miniature courses based on various Kingdoms in the Super Mario Odyssey game. Also, anyone can play with a friend or family member by sharing a pair of Joy-Con controllers. While one player controls Captain Toad, the other can assist with things like turnip cover fire.

Well, fear not—Qbby is no ordinary box. Using his four startling new powers, you must solve hundreds of puzzles across 18 deadly worlds. Create boxes to climb, hover, warp, and bomb your way to salvation! Whether you're a newcomer or an old vet, thinking outside the box has never been more fun.

Scattered across many challenging worlds, Black Smoke and other new hazards threaten to destroy Qbby. Survive vicious winds, viscous water, and more on your mission to rescue the mysteriously cute little wonders known as Qbabies. Each Qbaby you rescue will offer a new power: hit high buttons with a Boxrocket, destroy parts of the environment with a Bombox, teleport with a Warpbox, and even levitate a Remotebox. To the victor goes the goodies: earn new in-game costumes, comics, music, and challenge worlds by beating levels or tapping amiibo. Tap a Kirby™ series amiibo™ figure to receive a costume based on the tapped character! King Dedede box, anyone?

The Minis are Making Their Move&hellip; Fans of puzzle games or the Mario vs. Donkey Kong&trade; series are about to discover an all-new 3D action-puzzle experience that puts an emphasis on quick thinking. Mario and Donkey Kong&trade;: Minis on the Move is jam-packed with more than 180 puzzles! You&rsquo;ll race against the clock across four game modes with different puzzle styles to create safe paths for your Minis. Experience the endless possibilities of this Nintendo eShop exclusive by creating your own puzzles with the game&rsquo;s robust but easy-to-use level editor, then share them with players from around the world. Unlock four exciting minigames to test your gaming skills, and collect new Mini Toys as you play.

HQ calls on cybernetic peace-keeper Patricia Wagon to bring these renegades to justice. With the help of Corporal Gendarmor and her trusty Pellet Gun, there's nothing she can't handle. When the going gets tough, Wagon activates her Helmet Siren, altering the world around her in 3D space. Even the third dimension can&rsquo;t hide criminal ne&rsquo;er-do-wells from the long arm of the law. Enter the mechanical shape-shifting, dimension switching world of Mighty Switch Force and blow crime away.

The stars of Chicken Wiggle are an improbable duo: a young chicken and his best buddy – a wiggly worm – nestled in his backpack! Together, they team up for adventure to jump, peck, and worm-grapple across a myriad of perplexing platforming levels – full of fun gadgets, tricky hazards, and sneaky foes – determined to rescue their friends from the wicked witch in her sky towers. But wait, there's more! Aspiring game designers and playful doodlers alike can spend hours of fun hatching their own levels with the user-friendly level creator included with the game. You can even choose different gameplay rules, art themes, and provide custom hints, tips, and search tags. Once you're ready, it's easy to share your creations on-line with other Chicken Wiggle players via the community portal. Now, anyone can be a game designer on the go!

Think outside the box to save a world in peril! Traverse tricky landscapes by creating boxes to help Qbby navigate more than 20 puzzling worlds. Just watch out-tons of obstacles stand in your way, so fortify yourself with a Shielding Afro or other boxy defenses. Then beat some more stages to earn sweet square costumes, like a superhero outfit!

It's time to think outside the box once again. Our boxy hero, Qbby, has a brand-new power that lets him duplicate his blocky bod into TWO sets of boxes. He'll put every box to use to survive perilous traps across 11+ worlds of puzzling levels. Learn new tricks and box formations to get past obstacles, like switches, spikes, and even lazers!

Two puzzling RPG adventures await you! Rescue Princess Peach from Bowser or defeat the evil group Paradox by battling enemies with the awesome power of orbs. Drag and match orbs, or chain together combos to deal massive blows to your enemies. Then bolster your forces with hundreds of unique monsters in this two-in-one game pack. In Puzzle

Tappingo 2 is an awesome puzzle game, in which you create small pictures by solving puzzles. Your goal is to solve each puzzle picture by making all the numbered blocks extend into lines of the correct length. The number on each block indicates exactly how long the line needs to be. The game keeps track of the time taken to solve each puzzle. You can challenge your friends or yourself to set a better time! How fast can you solve it?

Raphael has a secret life as a heroic thief who is famous among Parisians for stealing famous works of art only to return it days later. Feel the beat and conquer the rhythmic riddles in pursuit of the hidden truth about the city and his father’s disappearance. Tap the screen, swipe the stylus, control the gyro to the beat of the music to maneuver Raphael in a variety of rhythm-based challenges

Venture into a wide-open world featuring gorgeous 3D elements where the most powerful tool is your imagination. Help Maxwell solve robust puzzles in seamless, free-roaming levels by summoning any object you can think of.

Quell Reflect is an enchanting game of logic, which has taken the puzzle world by storm. Quell Reflect is an enchanting game of logic, which has taken the puzzle world by storm. Put your brain to the test with this charming puzzle game that features over 100 levels of addictive, lateral thinking. Featuring a beautiful exclusive soundtrack by Steven Cravis, Quell Reflect is a deceptively simple, and easy to pickup game that will test your brain in new ways. Be prepared to lose yourself in this entrancing Zen classic!

Brain Age is back with all-new devilishly tricky brain-training exercises designed to help retrain the modern mind. With all of the technological distractions of modern life, information overload and information addiction can make it difficult to stay focused. Brain Age: Concentration Training uses newly designed exercises that will test your short term memory access and help to improve your concentration skills to combat these daily distractions. New Devilish Training exercises dynamically adjust their difficulty based on your real-time results, always pushing to improve your ability, alongside additional new and classic puzzles. Discover the next level of brain-training &ndash; only for Nintendo 3DS.

Mallo's Playtime Plaza has 100 great puzzles for players of all skill levels! Looking for a challenge? Then come on over to Polly's Sculpture Square, where 50 animal and object puzzles await. Keep the fun going in Corin's Fortress of Fun, which packs in 50 action-packed puzzles filled with special objects, like manholes and even enemies - a series first!

Get that ‘aha!’ feeling over and over as you guide Minis – toy versions of Nintendo characters - to the exit in each puzzling stage. Tap objects—like bridges and springs—with the stylus to perfect your strategy. You can create, play and share stages online, and use the new tipping system to reward your favorite creators and unlock more content! If you like a level someone built, tip them some stars and they’ll be able to create more imaginative levels using the stars you tipped them!

All Grace and Savannah want is to make it in Tokyo, but what’s with all the scenesters, bomb balls, flower displays, and ninjas getting in their way?! And don’t even get me started on the UFO abductions, or how easy it is for a visit to Tokyo to end with getting sucked into outer space... You’ll need lightning-fast reflexes and an eye for strategy to succeed in this fast-paced puzzle game, where live-action video blends seamlessly with wacky digital graphics. Throw and roll hapless bystanders into lines of people, trying to group three or more who wear the same color together so that they’ll form a clique and disappear. Form cliques and eliminate the lines you’re facing as fast as you can to progress through the game’s many stages. With two different play modes—Story Mode and Challenge Mode—this game’s got you covered whether you’re looking for quick gaming sessions or longer endurance challenges.

Shift DX marks the return of the classic Shift series. The game will feature all of the levels contained in Shift 1 and 2, along with 100 all-new levels designed specially for this release.

Many have tried to emulate the gameplay of Shift since its first release in 2008, but none have managed to capture the frantic, mind-bending nature of the series. Players are tasked with making their way through a series of perplexing rooms, equipped with nothing more than their ability to "shift" the playing field. Is a wall blocking you from progressing? Flip that level upside down and turn that wall into a pit! Of course, that's only the beginning of the challenges players will encounter in Shift DX. The road to victory is paved with mysterious items, complex environmental puzzles, and a variety of deadly traps.

Fairune2 is a fantasy puzzle-solving adventure RPG. Which has you explore the map by solving puzzles, tricks and beating monsters.

You are requested by the mysterious book that can say where to find the lost fairy. In this adventure, you encounter the wonderful girl that may lead you to the truth of the world. With much greater content than the prequel game, the power-up 8-bit taste graphics and sounds will bring forth the new reminiscent game-play.

Best 3DS Puzzle Games

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask

Picross 3D: Round 2

Pushmo

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

Crashmo

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Corpse Party

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

BYE-BYE BOXBOY!

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move

Mighty Switch Force!

Chicken Wiggle

BOXBOY!

BOXBOXBOY!

Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros.

Tappingo 2

Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure

Scribblenauts Unlimited

Quell Reflect

Brain Age: Concentration Training

Stretchmo

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars

Tokyo Crash Mobs

Shift DX

Fairune2