About This Game

Takes you on a journey across four chapters. Take the scenic route through quiet countryside and still water, settle in with cozy creatures by lamplight, set off on a train voyage along the coast and out into the snow, and end the trip with a day in a world of mushrooms. Finish a box to open the next, and clear a shelf to move on to the next chapter. Every box keeps its own save, so you can leave one halfway and find it just as you left it.

Puzzle together with up to 4 players at one table, each with a cursor colour of their own. Invite friends from the main menu, or from an empty slot in game, and everyone works on the same pieces at once. Puzzles you made in The Lab come along too, with every modifier they were made with.

Turn your own pictures into puzzles. Upload a holiday photo, your pet, or a favourite piece of art, and choose how many pieces to cut it into, from a quick 30 up to 3,000. Then pick a colour for the box and give it a name. Your picture is printed on the lid, and the box goes on a shelf of your own.

Pick one of the game’s pictures or upload one of your own, then choose how many pieces, from 30 up to 40,000 for a big enough picture. Try one of ten preset cuts like Classic, Mushroom, Jagged or Tiny and watch the cut redraw across your picture as you go. When it looks right, press Create and you are ready to play.

Every part of the cut is yours to change: how far the tabs stand out, where they sit and how they lean, the curve of every tab and the corners of every piece. Save a cut you like and it joins the presets.



Set a puzzle up your way with Basic modifiers like Flipped, Rotated, Charms and Edges sorted, or make it harder with Challenges like Upside down, Greyscale, Blind, Countdown and no picture to work from.

Pieces come out of the box the way they do in real life: some face up, most face down, and different every time. Turn them over, then pick a mat from the Mat Wheel and send pieces to it by edge, by colour, or by whatever the picture needs.

Hold and drag across the table, and every piece you pass over is sent to the mat you picked in one go. Gathering all the sky or all the edges takes a single sweep.

With Sort, click a mat and its loose pieces are laid out in neat rows inside its edges, so everything on it can be seen at a glance. Pieces already joined together are left as they are, and anything sent to the mat afterwards lands in the next free spot in the rows.

Place a Warp anywhere on the table, then send a piece straight to it with a click. Pieces you have set aside are right where you need them, however far away the rest of the puzzle is.

Glue a piece down and it stays exactly where you put it, along with every piece already joined to it. Nothing can move, sweep, turn or send it while it is glued, so a finished corner or a sorted run is safe while you work around it. Click it again with Glue to free it.

Eight pieces in every Story Mode box hide a charm. The only way to find one is to turn that piece over, so they turn up while you work. Once found, it stays on the box for good.

Join pieces one after another to build a combo. Every join adds to the count under the clock, it climbs through On a roll!, On fire!, Unstoppable! and Legendary!, and your best combo on each box is kept for you to beat.

Make the table your own from the Table Design menu. Pick a cloth colour, from classic baize to walnut and navy, in soft felt or flat, then choose colours for the board and the mats to go with it.

Put a record on while you work. The game comes with its own tracks, and you can upload your own music to play at the table. In co-op, friends can listen along to whatever the host has playing, uploads included.

Waiting on a queue, a friend or a patch? Set the Table Timer for 5 to 30 minutes. It rings when time is up, and your puzzle stays right where you left it.

Tune every sound and every part of gameplay exactly how you want it. Each sound has its own volume, from the snap of a piece to the sweep across a mat, and you can change how pieces pick up, how the wheels open, how the camera zooms and pans, and every key binding.

We are a two-person team from Canada, and we want Puzzle Simulator to grow together with the artists in it. Every box in Story Mode is cut from an artist’s picture and credited with their name and links, so every player who opens it can find them. We would love to feature upcoming artists and new talent, so if you have a picture you are dying for people to see, this is your chance. Press Submit your art on the main menu to see what we need, and your art could be the next box on the shelf!

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AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Music was produced with generative AI tools. All artwork in story mode was licensed from an artist, and it is not known whether it was made with AI tools. The developers plan to replace it with work from real artists, after submissions are received and approved.