Puzzles made with Puzzle Maker can be shared with other players through various ways. Players can either upload to Steam workshop or directly send eachother the .puzzle file generated by puzzle maker!
How to - Install Puzzles in Steam covers how to install .puzzle file manually.
The typical way is to play through Steam workshop. In your library click on Puzzling Places and navigate to workshop:
Navigate to any puzzle you like, click on thethumbnail.
This will show you information about the puzzle. Here you could find also more images from different angles to help you decide wether you want to play this puzzle or not! Once decided, click on Subscribe.
This will start the download of that puzzle. Steam will automatically place the puzzle in the right spot. Once you have downloaded the puzzle, start the game. In the game navigate to workshop tab, and your puzzle will be in there.
You can also access the workshop from within the game. Navigate to Workshop tab, click on How To on the top righ and click on Browse. This will open the steam overlay, bringing you to the same page.
2D Puzzles: Some puzzles are normal 2D jigsaw puzzles. These have been tagged as 2D both in Steams tag system as well as visually on the thumbnail. In case you don’t want to play 2D puzzles, you can use steams tag system to filter them out. All new 3D puzzles have 3D tag and 2D puzzles tag 2D. Since some of the earlier 3D puzzles are not tagged as 3D, the best method would be to exclude 2D tags from the filter of steam workshop. this will give you all the 3D puzzles.
Limit on number of UGC downloaded: Every user generated puzzle downloaded and subscribed to, eats in a bit of your PCs memory, so that it can be displayed in the menu. If you have all our puzzles and hunderds of UGC puzzles, this can lead to visual artifacts as the engine struggles to load all the images it needs in to the memory on time. Try to keep the number of workshop puzzles downloaded under that thershold.
Platforms: User generated puzzles only work in Steam at the moment.