List of puzzle video games
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This is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category.
Tile matching[]
Tile-matching video games are a type of puzzle video game where the player manipulates tiles in order to make them disappear according to a matching criterion. There are a great number of variations on this theme.
Falling block puzzles[]
Puzzle pieces advance into the play area from one or more edges, typically falling into the play area from above. Player must match or arrange individual pieces to achieve the particular objectives defined by each game.
- Alien Hive
- Baku Baku Animal
- Blueprint 3d
- Clockwiser
- Columns
- Dialhex
- Dr. Mario
- Drop Mania
- Faces
- Klax
- Lumines
- Magic Jewelry (Columns-clone for NES)
- Meteos
- Pnickies
- Puyo Puyo
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Rampage Puzzle Attack
- Super Swap
- Tactic
- Tetris
- Trioncube
- (1986)
- Uo Poko
- Wario's Woods
- Welltris
- Wordtris
- Yoshi
Advancing blocks puzzles[]
Block-shaped puzzle pieces advance onto the board from one or more edges (i.e. top, bottom, or sides). The player tries to prevent the blocks from reaching the opposite edge of the playing area.
- Ball Fighter
- Collapse
- Critter Crunch
- Frozen Bubble
- Luxor
- Luxor 2
- Luxor 3
- Magical Drop
- Magnetica (a.k.a. PuzzLoop)
- Money Puzzle Exchanger (a.k.a. Money Idol Exchanger)
- Panel de Pon, Tetris Attack, Pokémon Puzzle League, and Planet Puzzle League
- Poker Smash; technically a rising block game in which the blocks are rising to the top, with a poker theme
- Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-a-Move)
- Puzzle Link
- Puzzle Link 2
- Quarth
- Snood
- Starsweep
- TiQal, also a rising block game
- Zuma
- Gunpey
Other matching puzzles[]
- 2048
- Alchemy
- Bejeweled
- GNUbik
- Godzilla: Smash3
- Gunpey
- Gyromancer
- Hexic
- Loopz
- Lumines
- Lumines II
- Perception
- Puchi Puchi Virus
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
- Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
- Puzzle Quest 2
- Puzznic
- SameGame
- Sega Swirl
- Swing
- Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles
- Yoshi's Cookie
- Yosumin DS
- Zoop
- Zoo Keeper
Logic puzzles[]
- Atsumari
- Colour Cross
- Mario's Picross
- Matches Puzzle Games, Example of Matchstick puzzle Android game
- Professor Layton
- Puzzle Agent 1 & 2
- Sudoku Gridmaster
- POP4
- World of IQ
Hidden object[]
- Black Box
- Criminal Case
- Minesweeper
- MineSweeper3D
[]
- A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
- Archer Maclean's Mercury
- Atomix
- Baba Is You
- Ballance
- Bomberman
- Castlequest
- ChuChu Rocket!
- Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
- English Country Tune
- Enigma
- Flamin' Finger
- iWing Maze 2
- Kumoon
- Kuru Kuru Kururin
- Kururin Paradise
- Kye
- Lasertank
- Marble Drop
- Marble Madness
- Oxyd
- Pico Park
- Polarium
- Pretentious Game[1]
- Rush Hour
- Sokoban
- Sokobond
- Switchball
- Theseus and the Minotaur
- XOR
Single character control[]
- Adventures of Lolo and the Eggerland series
- Antichamber
- Banana
- Bobby Carrot
- BoxBoy! series
- Boxxle
- Braid
- Bombuzal
- Boulderdash
- Buster Bros. series
- Closure
- Deadly Rooms of Death
- Eets
- Enigma Prison
- Faraway series
- Incredipede
- Intelligent Qube
- Interphase
- Journey to the Planets
- Kickle Cubicle
- Krusty's Fun House
- Kula World
- Kwirk
- Limbo
- Lode Runner
- Magical Puzzle Popils
- Mind: Path to Thalamus
- Moai-kun
- Mole Mania
- Myst series
- Narbacular Drop
- Oddworld series
- Pneuma: Breath of Life
- Portal
- Portal 2
- Pitman
- Pushmo series
- Pushover
- Q.U.B.E.
- Quantum Conundrum
- Repton
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Scratches
- Scribblenauts
- Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf
- Solomon's Key and its sequel, Fire 'n Ice
- Stacking
- Superliminal
- Sutte Hakkun
- Symbolica
- The Swapper
- The Talos Principle
- The Turing Test (video game)
- The White Door
- The Witness
- Toki Tori
- Unmechanical
Multiple character control[]
- Echochrome
- Echochrome 2
- Gobliiins!
- Pingus
- Pitman (a.k.a. Catrap)
- The Brainies
- The Lost Vikings
Lemmings series[]
- 3D Lemmings
- All New World of Lemmings
- Christmas Lemmings
- Lemmings
- Lemmings 2: The Tribes
- Lemmings Revolution
- Oh No! More Lemmings
Construction[]
- Armadillo Run
- Amazing Alex
- Bridge Builder
- Bridge Builder 2
- Bridge Constructor
- Crazy Machines
- Crazy Machines 2
- Elefunk
- Fantastic Contraption (2008 video game)
- Fantastic Contraption (2016 video game)
- Pipe Mania
- The Incredible Machine
- World of Goo
Algorithmic[]
- SpaceChem
- KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People
- The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
- Manufactoria
- Human Resource Machine
- 7 Billion Humans
Multiple puzzle types[]
- 3 in Three
- Azada
- Big Brain Academy
- Blue Toad Murder Files
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
- Dr. Brain series
- Castles (video game)
- Castle Breakout
- Faraway: Puzzle Escape
- Machinarium
- MILO
- Professor Layton series
- Puzzle Agent 1 & 2
- Puzzle Panic
- Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
- Smart Games Challenge series
- The 7th Guest
- The 11th Hour
- The Daedalus Encounter
- The Dig
- The Fool's Errand
- WarioWare, Inc.
- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Collections[]
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection
- Zillions of Games
Other[]
- Check Man
- Chocolate Castle
- CrossworDS (NDS)
- Cube Escape
- Cuyo
- Devil Dice
- Digi Follies[2]
- Every Extend Extra
- Flow Free
- Gemsweeper
- Kula World
- Logos Panic
- Mr Driller
- Photo Spot
- Numerium Challenge
- Onee-san to Issho! Janken Paradise
- Real Horror Stories Uitimate Edition
- Shanghai solitaire
- Sitespot
- UFO: A Day in the Life
- Wheel of Fortune (video game)
- Word War 5[3]
References[]
- ^ Howitt, Grant (December 20, 2013). "Pretentious Game". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 5. Imagine Media. May 1995. p. 95.
- ^ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 5. Imagine Media. May 1995. p. 94.
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