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.
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[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.
- Columns and similar games:
- Magic Jewelry (Columns-clone for NES)
- Klax
- Dr. Mario
- Drop Mania and similar games:
- Bejeweled (aka Diamond Mine) and similar games:
- Pnickies and similar games:
- 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:
- Quarth
- TiQal, also a rising block game
[edit] Other visual-matching puzzles
- Alchemy
- Collapse
- Devet
- Dialhex
- Hexic
- Lines (aka ColorLines)
- Loopz
- Lumines
- Lumines II
- Magnetica (aka PuzzLoop) and similar games:
- Panel de Pon and similar games:
- Perception
- Plotting and similar games:
- Puyo Puyo and similar games:
- SameGame
- Sega Swirl
- Swing
- Uo Poko
- Yoshi's Cookie
[edit] Logic puzzles
These are video-game versions of traditional pen-and-paper logic puzzles.
[edit] Hidden object
[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
[edit] Construction
[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
[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