List of puzzle video games

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This is a partial list of notable puzzle-based computer and video games, sorted by general category.

Contents 1 Visual matching 1.1 Falling block puzzles 1.2 Advancing blocks puzzles 1.3 Other visual-matching puzzles 2 Logic puzzles 2.1 Hidden object 3 Obstacle course navigation 4 Single character control 5 Multiple character control 5.1 Lemmings series 6 Construction 7 Multiple puzzle types 8 Collections 9 Other 10 See also

[edit] Visual matching

[edit] Falling block puzzles

In these video games, the player must match individual pieces which fall onto the puzzle.

• Tetris; for a full list of Tetris-like games, see List of Tetris variants.
  • Welltris
  • Wordtris
• Columns and similar games:
  • Magic Jewelry (Columns-clone for NES)
• Klax
• Dr. Mario
• Drop Mania and similar games:
  • Rampage Puzzle Attack
• Bejeweled (aka Diamond Mine) and similar games:
  • Zoo Keeper
• Pnickies and similar games:
  • Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
  • Diamond Crush
• Wario's Woods
• Yoshi
• Meteos
• Trioncube

[edit] Advancing blocks puzzles

In these video games a block of puzzle pieces advances on the player, who must prevent them from reaching the bottom of the playing area.

• Magical Drop
• Money Puzzle Exchanger (aka Money Idol Exchanger)
• 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) and similar games:
  • Snood
  • Frozen Bubble
• Quarth
• TiQal, also a rising block game

[edit] Other visual-matching puzzles

• Alchemy
  • Rainbow Web
• Collapse
• Devet
• Dialhex
• Hexic
• Lines (aka ColorLines)
• Loopz
• Lumines
• Lumines II
• Magnetica (aka PuzzLoop) and similar games:
  • Zuma
  • Luxor 2
• Panel de Pon and similar games:
  • Tetris Attack
  • Pokémon Puzzle League
  • Planet Puzzle League
• Perception
• Plotting and similar games:
  • Zoop
  • Puzznic
• Puyo Puyo and similar games:
  • Kirby's Avalanche
  • Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
• SameGame
• Sega Swirl
• Swing
• Uo Poko
• Yoshi's Cookie

[edit] Logic puzzles

These are video-game versions of traditional pen-and-paper logic puzzles.

• Mario's Picross
• Sudoku Gridmaster

[edit] Hidden object

• Black Box (game)
• Minesweeper
• MineSweeper3D

[edit] Obstacle course navigation

• Atomix (for C64, Amiga, PC etc.)
• Ballance
• Bomberman
• ChuChu Rocket!
• Flamin' Finger
• Kuru Kuru Kururin
• Kururin Paradise
• Marble Drop
• Marble Madness
• Mercury
• Oxyd
• Polarium
• Rush Hour
• Sokoban
• Theseus and the Minotaur
• Kye

[edit] Single character control

• Adventures of Lolo
• Banana
• Bombuzal
• Boulderdash
• Deadly Rooms of Death
• Eggerland series
• Eets
• Intelligent Qube
• Krusty's Fun House
• Magical Puzzle Popils
• Narbacular Drop
• Oddworld series
• Portal (developed by same team as Narbacular Drop)
• Pushover
• Repton
• Toki Tori
• Wonderland

[edit] Multiple character control

• Gobliiins!
• The Lost Vikings
• Pingus
• Pitman (aka Catrap) for the GameBoy

[edit] Lemmings series

• Lemmings
  • Christmas Lemmings
  • Oh No! More Lemmings
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes
• All New World of Lemmings
• 3D Lemmings
• Lemmings Revolution

[edit] Construction

• Armadillo Run
• Bridge Builder
• The Incredible Machine
• Lights
• Pipe Mania
• World of Goo

[edit] Multiple puzzle types

• The Fool's Errand
• 3 in Three
• Deadly Rooms of Death
• WarioWare, Inc.
• Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
• Big Brain Academy

[edit] Collections

• Microsoft Entertainment Pack
• Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection
• Zillions of Games

[edit] Other

• Cuyo
• Devil Dice
• Every Extend Extra
• Mr Driller
• Seven Seas
• Shanghai solitaire
• Snake
• CrossworDS (NDS)
• New York Times Crosswords (NDS)

[edit] See also

• Adventure game
• List of physics-based computer and video games