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
[edit]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
[edit]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
- Dream of Pixels
- Faces
- Klax
- Lumines
- Meteos
- Moujiya
- Oh My God!
- Pac-Attack
- Pnickies
- Puyo Puyo
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Rampage Puzzle Attack
- Suika Game
- Super Swap
- Tactic
- Tecmo Stackers
- Tetris
- Trioncube
- Uo Poko
- Wario's Woods
- Welltris
- Wordtris
- Yoshi
Advancing blocks puzzles
[edit]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 series
- Magical Drop
- Magnetica
- Money Puzzle Exchanger
- Puzzle League series
- Poker Smash
- Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-a-Move)
- Puzzle Link, Puzzle Link 2
- Wordle Unlimited
- Quarth
- Snood
- Starsweep
- TiQal, also a rising block game
- Zuma
Other matching puzzles
[edit]- 2048
- Alchemy
- Bejeweled
- GNUbik
- Godzilla: Smash3
- Gunpey
- Gyromancer
- Hexic
- HuniePop, HuniePop 2: Double Date
- Loopz
- Lumines, Lumines II
- MNUM2
- Perception
- Plotting
- Prism
- Puchi Puchi Virus
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, Puzzle Quest 2
- Puzznic
- Rainbow Web
- SameGame
- Sega Swirl
- Swing
- Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles
- Yoshi's Cookie
- Yosumin DS
- Zoop
- Zoo Keeper
Logic puzzles
[edit]Hidden object
[edit]- Black Box
- Criminal Case
- Drawn series
- Mystery Case Files series
- Minesweeper, MineSweeper3D
Obstacle course navigation
[edit]- A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
- A Monster's Expedition
- Archer Maclean's Mercury
- Atomix
- Baba Is You
- Ballance
- Bomberman
- Bonfire Peaks
- Castlequest
- ChuChu Rocket!
- Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
- English Country Tune
- Enigma
- Golf Peaks[1]
- iWing Maze 2
- Kumoon
- Kuru Kuru Kururin
- Kururin Paradise
- Kye
- Lasertank
- Marble Blast Ultra
- Marble Drop
- Marble Madness
- Navigator
- Oxyd
- Patrick's Parabox
- Pico Park
- Polarium
- Pretentious Game[2]
- Puzzle Dimension
- Railbound
- Rush Hour
- Snakebird
- Sokoban
- Sokobond
- SokoSolve
- Switchball
- Theseus and the Minotaur
- XOR
Single character control
[edit]- 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
- Digi Follies
- Eets
- Enigma Prison
- The Entropy Centre[3]
- Faraway series
- Incredipede
- Intelligent Qube
- Interphase
- Islands of Insight
- 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
- Please, Don't Touch Anything
- Pneuma: Breath of Life
- Portal, Portal 2
- Pitman
- Pushmo series
- Pushover
- Q.U.B.E.
- Quantum Conundrum
- Repton
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Roniu's Tale
- Scratches
- Scribblenauts
- Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf
- Solomon's Key and its sequel, Fire 'n Ice
- Stacking
- Superliminal
- Supraland
- Sutte Hakkun
- Taiji
- Teardown
- The Room series
- The Swapper
- The Talos Principle, The Talos Principle 2
- The Turing Test (video game)
- The White Door
- The Witness
- Toki Tori
- Unmechanical
- Void Stranger
- WitchWay
Multiple character control
[edit]- Dumb Little Creatures
- Echochrome, Echochrome 2
- Fireboy and Watergirl in the Forest Temple
- Gobliiins!
- Humanity
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong (series)
- Pingus
- Pitman (a.k.a. Catrap)
- Spirits
- The Brainies
- The Lost Vikings
- Scarab Tales
Lemmings series
[edit]- 3D Lemmings
- All New World of Lemmings
- Christmas Lemmings
- Lemmings
- Lemmings 2: The Tribes
- Lemmings Revolution
- Oh No! More Lemmings
Construction
[edit]- Armadillo Run
- Amazing Alex
- Bridge Craft Story
- Bridge Constructor
- Crazy Machines, Crazy Machines 2
- Elefunk
- Fantastic Contraption (2008 video game)
- Fantastic Contraption (2016 video game)
- Pipe Mania
- Poly Bridge, Poly Bridge 2, Poly Bridge 3
- The Incredible Machine
- World of Goo
Algorithmic
[edit]- 7 Billion Humans
- Human Resource Machine
- KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People
- Manufactoria
- SpaceChem
- The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
Multiple puzzle types
[edit]- 3 in Three
- Azada
- Big Brain Academy
- Blue Toad Murder Files
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
- Castles (video game)
- Castle Breakout
- Dr. Brain series
- Faraway: Puzzle Escape
- Machinarium
- MILO
- Professor Layton series
- Puzzle Agent, Puzzle Agent 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
[edit]Other
[edit]- Blek
- Check Man
- Chocolate Castle
- CrossworDS (NDS)
- Cube Escape
- Devil Dice
- Every Extend Extra
- Flow Free
- Gemsweeper
- Kula World
- Mr Driller
- Photo Spot
- Shanghai solitaire
- The Password Game
- UFO: A Day in the Life
- Wheel of Fortune (video game)
References
[edit]- ^ Reseigh-Lincoln, Dom (2019-03-15). "Golf Peaks Review (Switch eShop)". Nintendo Life. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ^ Howitt, Grant (December 20, 2013). "Pretentious Game". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ Hafer, Leana (2022-11-03). "The Entropy Centre Review". IGN. Retrieved 2023-04-09.