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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.

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
  • Constricting Cubes
  • 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[]

Logic puzzles[]

  • Atsumari
  • Colour Cross
  • Libra
  • 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[]

Obstacle course navigation[]

  • Archer Maclean's Mercury
  • Atomix
  • Ballance
  • Bomberman
  • Castlequest
  • ChuChu Rocket!
  • Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
  • Enigma
  • Flamin' Finger
  • Kumoon
  • Kuru Kuru Kururin
  • Kururin Paradise
  • Kye
  • Lasertank
  • Marble Drop
  • Marble Madness
  • Navigator
  • Oxyd
  • Polarium
  • Pretentious Game[1]
  • Puzzle Dimension
  • Rush Hour
  • Sokoban
  • SokoSolve
  • 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
  • Incredipede
  • Intelligent Qube
  • Interphase
  • Kickle Cubicle
  • Krusty's Fun House
  • Kula World
  • Kwirk
  • Limbo
  • Lode Runner
  • Magical Puzzle Popils
  • Mind: Path to Thalamus
  • 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
  • Scribblenauts
  • Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf
  • Solomon's Key and its sequel, Fire 'n Ice
  • Stacking
  • The Swapper
  • Symbolica
  • The Talos Principle
  • The Witness
  • Toki Tori
  • Unmechanical

Multiple character control[]

  • Echochrome
  • Echochrome 2
  • Gobliiins!
  • Pingus
  • Pitman (a.k.a. Catrap)
  • The Brainies
  • The Lost Vikings
  • Scarab Tales
  • Dumb Little Creatures

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
  • Bridge Craft Story

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!
  • Castle of Dr. Brain
  • 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 Island of Dr. Brain
  • 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
  • Chromatron
  • CrossworDS (NDS)
  • Cube Loop
  • Cubicks
  • Cuyo
  • Devil Dice
  • enDice
  • Every Extend Extra
  • Flow Free
  • Gemsweeper
  • Kula World
  • Logos Panic
  • Mr Driller
  • Numerium Challenge
  • Onee-san to Issho! Janken Paradise
  • Shanghai solitaire
  • Sitespot
  • The Turing Test (video game)
  • UFO: A Day in the Life
  • Wheel of Fortune (video game)

References[]

  1. Howitt, Grant (December 20, 2013). "Pretentious Game". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved January 29, 2019. {{cite web}}:
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