List of puzzle video games
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This is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category.
Contents
Tile matching
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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.
- Baku Baku Animal
- Clockwiser
- Columns and similar games:
- Dialhex
- Diamond Crush
- Dr. Mario
- Drop Mania and similar games:
- Faces
- Klax
- Lumines
- Magic Jewelry (Columns-clone for NES)
- Meteos
- Navigator
- Pnickies
- Puyo Puyo
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Quadrapop
- Rampage Puzzle Attack
- Super Swap
- Tactic
- Tetris
- Twinflix
- Trioncube
- Tube-It
- 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 (aka PuzzLoop)
- Money Puzzle Exchanger (aka 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 (aka Bust-a-Move)
- Quarth
- Snood
- Starsweep
- TiQal, also a rising block game
- Zuma
Other matching puzzles
- Alchemy
- Bejeweled
- Color Lines
- Devet
- GNUbik
- Godzilla: Smash3
- Gunpey
- Gyromancer
- Hexic
- Lines (aka ColorLines)
- Loopz
- Lumines
- Lumines II
- Perception
- Plotting
- 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
Hidden object
- Drawn The Painted Tower
- Black Box
- Criminal Case
- Mystery Case Files Return to Ravenheart
- Minesweeper
- MineSweeper3D
- 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
- Puzzle Dimension
- Rush Hour
- Sokoban
- SokoSolve
- Switchball
- Theseus and the Minotaur
Single character control
- Adventures of Lolo and the Eggerland series
- Antichamber
- Banana
- Bobby Carrot
- 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
- 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 (aka Catrap)
- The Lost Vikings
- Scarab Tales
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
- Pipe Mania
- The Incredible Machine
- World of Goo
- Bridge Craft Story
Algorithmic
Multiple puzzle types
- Castle of Dr. Brain
- 3 in Three
- Big Brain Academy
- Blue Toad Murder Files
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
- Dr. Brain series
- MILO
- Professor Layton series
- Puzzle Panic
- Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
- Smart Games Challenge series
- The 7th Guest
- The Island of Dr. Brain
- The Fool's Errand
- WarioWare, Inc.
- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates