Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim
A relaxed 3D jigsaw puzzle game about building detailed miniature dioramas of places from around the world.
Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim is an indie developed by REALITIES.IO, released 9 April 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $7.99 at Steam.
What Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim is
Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim is an indie game developed by REALITIES.IO and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tex Murphy is a series of video games designed by Chris Jones. The eponymous main character is portrayed in live-action by Chris Jones himself. He is characterized as a down-on-his-luck private investigator in a post-nuclear future San Francisco, borrowing tropes from both the film noir and cyberpunk genres.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 28 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim holds a critic score of 98 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Quad-core CPU (Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 3 class), 4 GB RAM and Modern integrated graphics or entry-level dedicated GPU. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $7.99 at Steam. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Russia is the cheapest region we track at ₽320.00 (about $3.87), while Germany pays €7.99 — 2.3 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 4 on Steam, which is about $4.49.
What it launched against
Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim launched on 9 April 2026, within three weeks of Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced and Saros. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced, Saros.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Puzzling Places: 3D Jigsaw Sim yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Official · on Steam
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