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| Community | Puzzling Places Dev Chat - Puzzle Maker, Steam Workshop, and more! Hey Puzzlers, Curious about PuzzleMaker and what we're building for Puzzling Places? We’ve just released a new Dev Chat where we sit down to talk about PuzzleMaker, how it works, and our plans for turning it into a platform for creating and sharing your own puzzles. In the video, we cover: 🧩 What PuzzleMaker is and how you can use it 🛠️ Creating puzzles from your own 3D scans and models 🌐 Th… | — | |
| Release | All Puzzles of 2024 are Now Available! Hey Puzzlers! 🧩 Puzzles of 2024 are now on Steam! 🧩🎉 Another whole year of Puzzling Places has arrived on Steam! All of the puzzles released throughout 2024 are now available; giving you plenty of new places to explore and puzzles to piece together. The 2024 collection includes favourites such as Monthly Pack #22 – Streets of San Francisco , Monthly Pack #26 – Inside & Outside , and New York… | — | |
| Release | Puzzle Packs of 2025 are OUT NOW! Hey Puzzlers! 🧩 We’re excited to announce that the Puzzles of 2025 are now available! 🎉 Looking to expand your puzzling library? 🧩 A whole year of puzzling has arrived, bringing together a fantastic collection of puzzles released throughout 2025 — now all in one place! Whether you want to relax in flat-screen mode, puzzle on the go with Steam Deck, or immerse yourself in SteamVR, you can now… | — | |
| Release | Monthly Pack #46 - Faraway Lands - Out Now! Hey Puzzlers, Monthly Pack #46 - Faraway Lands is OUT NOW! Journey beyond the ordinary with Monthly Pack #46: Faraway Lands ! Explore six imaginative worlds brought to life entirely through handcrafted 3D scenes. From magical hideaways to floating farms and colourful villages, every puzzle is packed with charm, personality, and delightful details waiting to be discovered. Included Puzzles: Magi… | — | |
| Community | PuzzleMaker Update! Hey Puzzlers, We've just released a new PuzzleMaker version, bringing a whole host of improvements to make creating community puzzles faster, easier, and better looking than ever. Here's what's new: Faster Puzzle Processing Previously, generating puzzles could take anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the model or scan. With this new system, many puzzles can now be processed in just… | — | |
| Community | Puzzling Places is now Steam Frame Verified! Hey Puzzlers, We’ve got some exciting news to share - Puzzling Places is officially Steam Frame Verified! 🧩 We've been working behind the scenes to ensure Puzzling Places delivers the best possible experience on Steam Frame, and we're happy to say the game now meets Valve's requirements for full compatibility. When Steam Frame arrives, you’ll be able to enjoy building your favourite 3D puzzles… | — | |
| In-game event | Puzzling Places Steam Workshop Update - Out Now! Hey Puzzlers, We have a big announcement - The Puzzling Places Steam Workshop is now open! 🧩 Starting today, all Steam players can browse, download, and play community-made puzzles directly through the Puzzling Places Steam Workshop. Whilst the PuzzleMaker creation tools are still in closed beta, there’s already a growing library of free community puzzles waiting to be discovered. These creati… | 24356167 | |
| Release | Dinosaur Disaster is Available Now! Hey Puzzlers, Containment has failed. The fences are down, the facility is in ruins, and something enormous is roaming free... Piece together the aftermath of a catastrophic experiment: towering giants roam free, enclosures lie in ruins, and the remnants of a once-ambitious project are scattered across the landscape. Every piece brings you closer to uncovering what went wrong.... Welcome to Din… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 2026-07-07 VR : · Fix trigger buttons always activating for both hands for Vive and Index headsets · Fix hint tool visualization staying active after a successful connection when mode was set to "always" 2D : · Fix a potential crash when pressing 'g' to dissolve a group · Fix "Scroll Wheel Piece Rotation" setting not being saved · Fix "X-Ray tool" not being adjustable with mouse wheel when "Scroll Wheel P… | 24088010 | |
| Release | Monthly Pack #45 - Out Now & Quality of Life 2.0 Update! Hey Puzzlers, Monthly Pack #45 is OUT NOW! From grand châteaux to cosy pubs, Monthly Pack #45 brings six brand-new locations to explore! Visit Château de La Gadelière, admire a vibrant Butterfly Display, dive into the details of a Gamer Bedroom, cross Baker and the Bridge, wander through the Anhui Residential Buildings, and stop by the Rose and Crown Pub. Included Puzzles: Rose and Crown Pub ·… | — | |
| Community | Join the Puzzle Maker closed Beta! Would you look at that - the first few puzzles created by players with Puzzle Maker! Join the beta! While we are not quite ready for the full release just yet we just decided to open up a few more spots for the closed Beta Test! So if you always wanted to create your own puzzles from scans or 3D models, sign up here to join the closed beta ! | — | |
| Sale | Grab Puzzling Places in the Steam Summer Sale! Hey Puzzlers, We’re excited to share that Puzzling Places – 3D Jigsaw Sim is now part of the Steam Summer Sale! 🧩✨ For a limited time, you can pick up the base game at a discounted price and dive into a world of relaxing 3D puzzles, handcrafted dioramas, and real-world locations waiting to be pieced back together. Now is the perfect time to start your journey or continue building your collecti… | — | |
| Release | Monthly Pack #44 - Inside & Out - Out Now! Hey Puzzlers, Monthly Pack #44 - Inside & Out is OUT NOW! Explore beautiful interiors and striking exteriors in Monthly Pack #44! This month’s collection takes you from the historic Esmahan Sultan Mosque and Upnor Castle to the cosy Artigas’ Ceramic Workshop and the grand Château de Paley. Climb aboard the El Sevillano Train and venture into the world of The Viking Village! Included Puzzles: Es… | — | |
| In-game event | Puzzle Packs OUT NOW! Hey Puzzlers, We’re excited to share that a wide selection of our most popular puzzle packs and premium puzzles are now available for Puzzling Places - 3D Jigsaw Sim! Newly available Single Premium Puzzles include: The King's Port, A Painter's Dream, Undead Afterparty, Summer Dive, Monastery of Batalha: Day & Night, Our Planet Earth, Halloween Special: The Haunted House, Halloween Special: Drac… | — | |
| In-game event | Quality of Life Update Hello everyone, here is Sha! We have been working on a new quality of life update, based on the feedback we collected from you! For this update we are adding new features to make organizing your space on higher piece counts easier! Here’s what’s included in the update: · The VR Grouping Tool is now available in 2D You can now drag and drop pieces into a movable group container in Classic Mode.… | 23215568 | |
| Game update | Quality of Life Update 2D Specific · New Grouping tool functionality for Classic mode. You can use this to group pieces together for sorting and managing higher piece count puzzles · Multiselect functionality. Press Shift (+) and Ctrl (-) with mouse or toggle selection mode with R3 in the controller to multi select several pieces. Move them together by grabbing any selected piece, or cancel selection by clicking some… | — | |
| Community | What We are Working On Hey fellows, Sha here. This post is a bit of a heads-up. There are three things coming up that I wanted to share with you. Quality of Life Update Based on your feedback, here are some things we are working on. I am not 100 percent sure if all of them will make it, because sometimes in development certain things prove to be way more challenging than we initially thought, but here is the plan: ·… | — | |
| Community | Puzzling Places is now Steam Deck Verified! ✅ Hey Puzzlers, We have even more good news to share — Puzzling Places is now officially Steam Deck Verified! ✅ We’ve been working hard to ensure the best possible experience on Steam Deck, and we’re happy to share that the game now meets Valve’s requirements for full compatibility. That means you can enjoy the complete Puzzling Places experience wherever you like, whether you’re relaxing on the… | — | |
| Game update | Week One Patch 2D Specific · Fixed the sparkle delay not working when you rotate a piece on the right spot · Improved text readability overall for steamdeck (Settings, tutorial, library …) · Improved switching between mouse and controller · Fixed navigation with controllers getting stuck on the fish in Persian Garden · Increased max zoom level by 1.5x for 1000 piece puzzles · Fixed the Journey mode cards not… | — | |
| Community | Post Launch Roadmap Hey Puzzlers, after an awesome launch yesterday, we want to share a bit more about what we have in store for Puzzling Places on Steam after launch (spoiler: plenty of puzzles, a new headset, and an exclusive new tool!). 5 years in, we still love working on this game! From the early days of our first prototype, one of our core guiding principles has been: ship a solid first version and then list… | — | |
| News | Puzzling Places is Out Now on Steam! Hey Puzzlers, the wait is finally over, Puzzling Places has officially launched on Steam! 🎉 Puzzling Places is all about building relaxing 3D jigsaw miniatures of real-world locations from around the globe. No timers. No scores. No pressure. Just placing pieces, noticing tiny details, and unwinding at your own pace. For the first time, you can experience our relaxing 3D jigsaw puzzles on deskt… | — | |
| Community | A Growing Library Of Puzzles Hey Puzzlers, With Puzzling Places coming to Steam, we wanted to take a moment to explain what you’re getting when you buy the game and our plans around additional free and paid downloadable content (DLC) and community puzzles. As a small indie team and gamers ourselves, it’s important to us to be transparent, so you can decide if this is something you’ll enjoy =) If you prefer watching over re… | — | |
| Community | Puzzle Maker Announcement Hey Puzzlers, we are finally ready to share the news about something we've been working on for a long time: Puzzle Maker! With Puzzle Maker, you’ll be able to create your own puzzles and bring them into Puzzling Places. You can turn compatible 3D models into fully playable puzzles, load them into the game, and share them with others via Steam Workshop. You’ll also be able to browse and play puz… | — | |
| Community | Behind the Puzzle: Preparing The Football Night Hey everyone, In this post, we will give you a small peek at how we prepare and fix real-world 3D scans to create puzzles for our game. Now let’s see how one of our puzzles, The Football Night , looked at first. And Kickoff! Finding the Sweet Spot Crop Once we’ve found a scan one of the first things we have to decide is how to crop the model. A lot of scans come in with unclean edges, or large… | — | |
| In-game event | Pre-Launch Demo Update Hey Puzzlers, to warm up for our upcoming launch on April 9th and celebrate our featuring in The VR Game Showcase we thought it was high time to update our demo that has been out since Next Fest last year! This new version is pretty close in functionality to our 1.0 release. Here are some of the highlights: · much improved VR support: more set ups, better performance, improved stability · new t… | — | |
| Community | Behind the Puzzle: Christmas on Fell Street Hey everyone, In this post, we want to give you a small glimpse behind the scenes and show how puzzles in Puzzling Places are created from real-world 3D scans. We’ll look at how we turned a Victorian-style commercial building in Baltimore into a cozy Christmas scene. Let’s dive right in! Finding a Scan Creating a new puzzle usually starts with finding a great 3D scan. Sometimes we scan location… | — | |
| Community | First Look: The Locations & Puzzles in Puzzling Places - 3D Jigsaw Sim Hey Puzzlers, As we count down to launch, we wanted to give you a closer look at some of the puzzles waiting for you when the game launches! Let’s take a moment to talk about the heart of Puzzling Places, the puzzles themselves! Puzzling Places includes a curated collection of 18 3D dioramas from around the world, each one made from photogrammetry scans or carefully built environments, complete… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.