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

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
  Baku Baku Animal
  Baku Baku Animal is a falling block puzzle arcade game released by Sega in 1995.-Gameplay:The player must line up falling blocks of animals and foodstuffs. When an animal is aligned adjacent to a tile of its favoured food, the animal eats the food...
  
  
• Bejeweled
  Bejeweled
  Bejeweled is a puzzle game by PopCap Games, first developed for browsers in 2001. Three follow-ups to this game have been released. More than 75 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold, and the game has been downloaded more than 500 million times....
  
  
• Clockwiser
  Clockwiser
  Clockwiser is a computer game, developed by Team Hoi for the Amiga, DOS and Windows. It was published in 1994 by Rasputin Software. In 2008, a free online version of Clockwiser was released by the programmer responsible for the original DOS and Windows versions...
  
  
• Columns
  Columns (video game)
  is a puzzle video game, first created in 1989 by Jay Geertsen. Early versions of the game were made and ported among early computer platforms, and then the Atari ST, until 1990, when Jay Geertsen sold the rights to Sega, where it was ported to several Sega consoles.-Description:The game takes...
  
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• Diamond Crush
  Diamond Crush
  Diamond Crush is a puzzle game developed by the Italian Diamonds Team . While originally slated to be released worldwide before the end of 2006, totally for free on different PC operating systems in the Public Domain. Its development status is currently on hold...
  
  
• Dr. Mario
  Dr. Mario (video game)
  is an action puzzle game designed by Gunpei Yokoi and produced by Takahiro Harada. It was developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy consoles and released in 1990 and 1991....
  
  
• Drop Mania
  Drop Mania
  Drop Mania is a falling-block puzzle video game, developed by Ninai Games and published by Suomen Kotijäätelö Oy in 1999 for Windows. It was sold in Finnish ice cream vans.-Gameplay:...
  
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• Faces
  Faces (video game)
  Faces is a computer game developed by Spectrum HoloByte in 1990 for the MacIntosh and Amiga.-Gameplay:Faces is third in a series after Tetris and Welltris. In Faces, horizontal slices of two persons' faces fall side by side fall from the top of the screen and the player must position them before...
  
  
• Gyromancer
  Gyromancer
  Gyromancer is a puzzle and role-playing video game developed by PopCap Games in collaboration with Square Enix. In the game, the player moves through a map of an enchanted forest, battling monsters using their own summoned monsters through a puzzle-game battle based on PopCap's Bejeweled Twist...
  
  
• Klax
• Lumines
  Lumines
  is a puzzle video game based on sound and light patterns. Created by game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his company, Q Entertainment, it was first released as a launch title for the PlayStation Portable in Japan on December 12, and released in North America on March 23 and released in Europe on...
  
  
• Magic Jewelry
  Magic Jewelry
  Magic Jewelry is a Taiwanese puzzle game for the Famicom. It was programmed by Hwang Shinwei and released in 1990 by the company RCM without a license from Nintendo....
  
  (Columns-clone for NES)
• Meteos
  Meteos
  is an action puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS portable gaming system. The name of the game comes from the English word meteor, transliterated to "meteo". Meteos was developed by Q Entertainment and published by Nintendo and Bandai. The producer for the game was Tetsuya Mizuguchi and lead...
  
  
• Navigator
  Navigator (video game)
  Navigator is an upcoming 1-4 player action puzzle game being developed by PixelxCore Independent Gaming, slated for release in mid 2011. It is being developed for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 platforms. It mixes platformer elements with classic block puzzle games, such as Bust-a-Move and...
  
  
• Pnickies
• Puyo Puyo
  Puyo Puyo
  is the inaugural game in the Puyo Puyo series originally released in 1991 by Compile for the MSX2. Since its creation, it uses characters from . It was created by Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani, the founder of Compile, who was inspired by certain elements from the Tetris and Dr...
  
  ; For the entire video game series, see Puyo Puyo (series)
  Puyo Puyo (series)
  Puyo Puyo refers to a series of puzzle video games created by Compile and later Sonic Team.- History :Puyo Puyo, originally released by Compile in 1991, featured characters from the 1989 RPG Madou Monogatari, also made by Compile...
  
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• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
  Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
  Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a game developed by Australian company Infinite Interactive and published by D3 Publisher. The game combines role-playing with strategy and puzzle elements...
  
  
• Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
  Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
  Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, or Galactrix, is a puzzle video game developed by Infinite Interactive for the PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network service....
  
  
• Quadrapop
• Rampage Puzzle Attack
  Rampage Puzzle Attack
  Rampage Puzzle Attack is a puzzle game for Game Boy Advance, developed by Finnish development house Ninai Games and published by Midway Games.The game is based on the Rampage characters...
  
  
• Super Swap
  Super Swap
  Super Swap is an action puzzle game developed by Teyon for the Nintendo DSiWare. It is available in the Nintendo DSi Shop for 500 Nintendo DSi Points.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Tetris
  Tetris
  Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
  
  ; for a full list of Tetris-like games, see List of Tetris variants.
• Twinflix
  Twinflix
  Twinflix is an Indie game developed by Franco Mellerio,-Gameplay:Twinflix is a twin fight block game concept having two different game modes, both based on Pentomino.- Classical :...
  
  
• Trioncube
  Trioncube
  is a puzzle video game developed by Namco and released for the Nintendo DS.-Gameplay:The game is a 'falling block' title, a la Tetris, and features many similar blocks. The objective of the game is to form 3×3 squares to clear blocks and reach a set objective...
  
  
• Wario's Woods
  Wario's Woods
  is a puzzle game, developed and published by Nintendo, for both the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES version was released in Japan on February 19, 1994, and both versions were released simultaneously in North America on December 10, 1994...
  
  
• Welltris
  Welltris
  Welltris is a puzzle video game, developed by Doka and licensed to Bullet-Proof Software. Adaptations were made by Sphere, Inc for Spectrum Holobyte, and by Infogrames. It was originally released for DOS in 1989...
  
  
• Wordtris
  Wordtris
  Wordtris is a Tetris offshoot designed by Alexey Pajitnov and published by Spectrum Holobyte in 1991 for the IBM PC platform. The title was later released for the Game Boy and Super Nintendo game console in 1992....
  
  
• Yoshi
  Yoshi (game)
  Yoshi, known as in Japan and Mario & Yoshi in Europe and Australia, is a puzzle video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. The game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy consoles...
  
  
• Zoo Keeper
  Zoo Keeper
  Zoo Keeper is an online puzzle game developed by Robot Communications that was later ported to the Nintendo DS by Japanese video game publisher Success...
  
  

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
  Ball Fighter
  Ball Fighter is a puzzle video game developed by Teyon for the Nintendo DSiWare. It is available in the Nintendo DSi Shop for 500 Nintendo DSi Points.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Collapse
  Collapse (game)
  Collapse! generally refers to a series of award-winning puzzle games by GameHouse, a software company in Seattle, Washington. In 2007, Super Collapse! 3 became the first game to win the Game of the Year at the inaugural Zeebys....
  
  
• Critter Crunch
  Critter Crunch
  Critter Crunch is a puzzle game in the vein of Magical Drop by Capybara Games for iOS and PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Network.In Critter Crunch, players assume the role of Biggs, a friendly, furry forest dweller with an unending hunger for tasty critters...
  
  
• Frozen Bubble
  Frozen Bubble
  Frozen Bubble is a free software Puzzle Bobble style computer game which is available on several operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, the Symbian Series 60, Windows Phone 7 and Android line of smartphones...
  
  
• Magical Drop
  Magical Drop
  , sometimes referred to by native Japanese users as , is a series of puzzle games originally released in the arcade, and later primarily released for several platforms such as the Neo Geo, Super Famicom, Sega Saturn and Neo Geo Pocket Color developed by Data East...
  
  
• Money Puzzle Exchanger (aka Money Idol Exchanger)
• Poker Smash
  Poker Smash
  Poker Smash is a puzzle game developed by independent software developer Void Star Creations for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service and iPhone OS...
  
  ; technically a rising block game in which the blocks are rising to the top, with a poker
  Poker
  Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
  
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• Puzzle Bobble
  Puzzle Bobble
  , also known as Bust-a-Move, is a 1994 arcade puzzle game created by Taito Corporation, based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from the original...
  
  (aka Bust-a-Move)
• Quarth
  Quarth
  is a hybrid puzzle game/shoot 'em up developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game, sold as Block Hole outside Japan. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX2 , Famicom, and Game Boy—home releases used the Quarth name worldwide is a hybrid puzzle...
  
  
• Snood
• Starsweep
  Starsweep
  Starsweep is a puzzle game for Japanese Arcades, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo Game Boy by Japanese developer Axela, published in 1997.The gameplay is similar to that of the Puzzle League series, but with a more traditional Tetris-like gameplay where pieces fall from the top of the screen.Pieces...
  
  
• TiQal
  TiQal
  TiQal is a Mayan-themed downloadable Tetris variant created by Slapdash Games for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows-based PCs. The title was released on Marketplace on March 26, 2008 for 800 Microsoft Points .-Gameplay:...
  
  , also a rising block game
• Panel de Pon
  Panel de Pon
  , also known as Panel de Pon: Action Puzzle Game, is a puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Famicom home video game console. It was released on October 27, 1995 in Japan, and was later ported to the North American and European markets as Tetris...
  
  
• Tetris Attack
  Tetris Attack
  Tetris Attack is a puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System home video game console and Game Boy handheld game console...
  
  
• Pokémon Puzzle League
  Pokémon Puzzle League
  Pokémon Puzzle League is a puzzle game for the Nintendo 64 console. It is based on Nintendo's Panel de Pon puzzle games, but with Pokémon likenesses. It was only available in North America starting in 2000, and in Europe in 2001, making it the first Pokémon game produced for North America first...
  
  
• Planet Puzzle League
  Planet Puzzle League
  Planet Puzzle League; known in Europe as Puzzle League DS, and in Japan as ; is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console in the Puzzle League/Panel de Pon visual matching puzzle game series...
  
  

Other visual-matching puzzles

• Alchemy
  Alchemy (game)
  Alchemy is a computer puzzle game from PopCap Games. This title can be played for free online at various websites minus some components, or a full version can be downloaded and unlocked for a nominal fee...
  
  
• Color Lines
  Color Lines
  Color Lines is a computer puzzle game, invented by Oleg Demin and first introduced as a video game by the Russian company Gamos in 1992.- Game rules :...
  
  
• Devet
• Dialhex
• GNUbik
  GNUbik
  GNU Gnubik is a puzzle game - a software implementation of the Rubik's Cube. It is cross platform and is included in all major operating systems including Debian, Red Hat and Ubuntu.- Features :...
  
  
• Gunpey
• Hexic
  Hexic
  Hexic is a puzzle game where the player tries to rotate hexagonal tiles to create certain patterns. The game was designed by Alexey Pajitnov, best known as the creator of Tetris. It was developed by Carbonated Games and is available online as part of MSN Games, as well as a downloadable deluxe...
  
  
• Lines (aka ColorLines)
• Loopz
  Loopz
  Loopz is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed created by Ian Upton for the Atari ST in 1989. Ian Upton had previously worked as head game designer for Audiogenic, who acquired exclusive rights to the game, then in 1990 arranged for Mindscape to publish the computer game in North...
  
  
• Lumines
  Lumines
  is a puzzle video game based on sound and light patterns. Created by game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his company, Q Entertainment, it was first released as a launch title for the PlayStation Portable in Japan on December 12, and released in North America on March 23 and released in Europe on...
  
  
• Lumines II
  Lumines II
  Lumines II is a sequel to the puzzle game Lumines. The game was released in November, 2006 in Europe and North America, and in February 2007 in Japan.-Gameplay:The gameplay in Lumines II is very similar to its predecessor, Lumines...
  
  
• Magnetica
  Magnetica
  Magnetica is a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, released as part of the Touch! Generations series. The game was developed by Mitchell Corporation and published by Nintendo, and is based on Mitchell's 1998 arcade game Puzz Loop.The game was first revealed at Nintendo Japan's 2006 Conference...
  
  (aka PuzzLoop)
• Zuma
  Zuma (computer game)
  Zuma is a fast-paced puzzle game developed by PopCap Games. It can be played for free online at several Web sites, and can be purchased for a number of platforms, including PDAs, mobile phones, and the iPod...
  
  
• Luxor
  Luxor (video game)
  Luxor is a game and series of action-puzzle computer games, developed by MumboJumbo, with the first initial release in 2005. The first sequel to this game was Luxor 2, which was released in 2006 and included new gameplay, levels and bonus. After that came Luxor 3, which featured 7 gameplay modes...
  
  
• Luxor 2
  Luxor 2
  Luxor 2 is an action-oriented casual puzzle game developed by MumboJumbo. First released in 2006, it is the sequel to the original Luxor, which was released in 2005...
  
  
• Luxor 3
  Luxor 3
  Luxor 3 is an action-puzzle computer game released by MumboJumbo. It is a sequel to Luxor and Luxor 2. As with the other Luxor games, it maintains an Egyptian theme and revolves around Egyptian deities, with a main gameplay goal of removing spheres in various lines of spheres on a set track by...
  
  
• Perception
• Plotting
• Puzznic
  Puzznic
  Puzznic is a puzzle arcade game. It was developed and produced by Taito in 1989 and was ported for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, PC Engine, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS and ZX Spectrum between 1990 and 1991. Home computer ports were handled by Ocean...
  
  
• Rainbow Web
  Rainbow Web
  Rainbow Web is a popular puzzle game developed by Sugar Games in 2005.Rainbow Web is a casual, puzzle game that became massively popular worldwide and received high ratings in Top-10 charts on all popular game portals, such as RealArcade, Yahoo Games!, MSN Zone, BigFish Games, Zylom and others.-...
  
  
• SameGame
  SameGame
  is a computer puzzle game featuring tile removal originally released under the name Chain Shot! in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe . It has since been ported to numerous computer platforms.-History:...
  
  
• Sega Swirl
  Sega Swirl
  Sega Swirl is a puzzle game that was created for the Dreamcast, Personal computer, and Palm OS. The game was included in various demo discs released for the Dreamcast , and is free to download and play on the PC.Sega Swirl was created by Scott...
  
  
• Swing
  Swing (video game)
  Swing is a computer puzzle game, released for the PlayStation and PC, developed in Germany by the now defunct Software 2000.In the USA, a similar game was released under the name "Marble Master"...
  
  
• Uo Poko
  Uo Poko
  thumb|Uo Poko arcade PCBUo Poko is an arcade puzzle game developed by Cave and distributed by Jaleco. It has gained some notoriety in gaming circles for the Japanese variant's engrish legal warning threatening that copyright violators will be "prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam".- Gameplay...
  
  
• Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles
  Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles
  Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles is an Independent developed commercial videogame developed by Yuan Works, a company based in Costa Rica. It is a puzzle game for the GP2X and Sega Dreamcast that combines strategy and action. As of January 31st, 2011, the game is freely available for Windows...
  
  
• Yoshi's Cookie
  Yoshi's Cookie
  is a puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, and SNES. It was re-released for the Virtual Console.- Overview :...
  
  
• Yosumin DS
  Yosumin DS
  is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS console. Developed and published in Japan by Square Enix on November 8, 2007, it is an enhanced port of the original Yosumin browser game released by Square Enix on the @nifty network. Another port of the game was released on Xbox Live. It features a...
  
  
• Zoop
  Zoop
  Zoop is a puzzle game developed by Hookstone, and published by Viacom New Media.Some of its rules resemble those of Plotting , but unlike Plotting, Zoop runs in real time....
  
  

Logic puzzles

• Mario's Picross
  Mario's Picross
  is the first in a series of Mario themed Picross titles released in the 1990s. It is a collection of nonogram logic puzzles involving a grid with numbers for every row and column, which refer to the amount of marked squares within the grid. The game features Mario as an archaeologist who chisels...
  
  
• Sudoku Gridmaster
  Sudoku Gridmaster
  Sudoku Gridmaster is a Touch generations puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, released on March 23, 2006 in Japan, June 26, 2006 in the United States and October 27, 2006 in Europe. It was developed and published by Hudson Soft in Japan, and published by Nintendo in the rest of the world...
  
  
• Atsumari
  Atsumari (puzzle)
  Atsumari is a binary-determination puzzle that was originally developed by Quadratic Games for the iPhone platform. The puzzle is played on a hexagonal grid. A rectangular board shape is standard but variations to the board shape can be part of the puzzle design. The puzzle starts with a subset...
  
  
• World of IQ
• Libra
• Professor Layton

Hidden object

• Black Box (game)
  Black Box (game)
  Black Box is a game of "hide and seek" for one or two players, which simulates shooting rays into a black box to deduce the locations of atoms hidden inside. It was created by Eric Solomon. The board game was published by Waddingtons from the mid 1970s and by Parker Brothers in the late 1970s...
  
  
• Minesweeper
• MineSweeper3D

Obstacle course navigation

• Archer Maclean's Mercury
  Archer Maclean's Mercury
  Archer Maclean's Mercury is a video game for the PlayStation Portable, first released in April 2005 in North America. In Japan, the game was released under the name Hg] Hydrium. Mercury is a puzzle game developed by the eponymous British game programmer, Archer MacLean who had previously developed...
  
  
• Atomix
  Atomix (computer game)
  Atomix is a transport puzzle video game developed by Günter Krämer and published by Thalion Software, released for the Commodore Amiga and other personal computers in late 1990...
  
  (for C64, Amiga, PC etc.)
• Ballance
  Ballance
  Ballance is a 3D puzzle computer game for Windows. It was developed by Cyparade, published by Atari and first released in Europe on 2 April 2004...
  
  
• Bomberman
  Bomberman
  Bomberman is a strategic, maze-based computer and video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft. The original game was published in 1983 and new games in the series are still being published to this day. Today, the commercially successful Bomberman is featured in over 70 different games...
  
  
• Castlequest
  Castlequest
  Castlequest is an adventure/puzzle-hybrid video game. It was developed and published by ASCII Corporation in 1986 for the Family Computer console and MSX computers, and was subsequently released in 1989 for the NES in the United States by Nexoft Corporation.It is the sequel to The Castle,...
  
  
• ChuChu Rocket!
  ChuChu Rocket!
  is a puzzle video game for Dreamcast developed by Sonic Team. The game was the first popular game with online mode support for any major video game console...
  
  
• Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
  Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
  Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum was an action game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1990 exclusively in North America.Players take the role of Dash Galaxy, a space scout who has been captured by a hostile civilization. Gameplay involves a series of floors with several rooms each....
  
  
• Enigma
• Flamin' Finger
  Flamin' Finger
  Flamin' Finger is an arcade redemption game and merchandiser released by Namco, notable for its retro design and electronic soundtrack.- Gameplay :...
  
  
• Kuru Kuru Kururin
  Kuru Kuru Kururin
  is a puzzle video game developed by Eighting and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan on March 21, 2001 and in Europe and Australia on June 22, 2001 as a launch title...
  
  
• Kururin Paradise
  Kururin Paradise
  is the sequel to Kuru Kuru Kururin on the Game Boy Advance. It was released only in Japan. However, as the GBA has no region lockout, any GBA unit can be used to play the Japanese version...
  
  
• Kye
• Lasertank
  Lasertank
  Lasertank is a computer puzzle game requiring logical thinking to solve a variety of levels. It is open source and careware and can be used for free. The player must be able to concentrate and think ahead as in playing chess or checkers. Contradicting its name, Lasertank is in no way an action game...
  
  
• Marble Drop
  Marble Drop
  - Gameplay :Players are given an initial set of 42 marbles divided evenly into six colors. These marbles are picked up and dropped by the player into funnels leading to a series of rails, switches, traps and other devices which grow more complex as the game progresses. The aim is to ensure that...
  
  
• Marble Madness
  Marble Madness
  Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide an onscreen marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limit. The player controls the marble by using a...
  
  
• Navigator
  Navigator (video game)
  Navigator is an upcoming 1-4 player action puzzle game being developed by PixelxCore Independent Gaming, slated for release in mid 2011. It is being developed for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 platforms. It mixes platformer elements with classic block puzzle games, such as Bust-a-Move and...
  
  
• Oxyd
  Oxyd
  Oxyd is a Trade Marked name for a patented chemical used by Reckitt Benckiser in some Optrex products.Oxyd is a computer puzzle game released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, PC, and the NeXT platform by Dongleware Verlags GmbH in 1990....
  
  
• Polarium
  Polarium
  is a puzzle game developed by Mitchell Corporation for the Nintendo DS. In the game, players use a stylus to draw lines on the DS's touch screen, flipping black and white tiles to clear puzzles.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Puzzle Dimension
• Rush Hour
  Rush Hour (board game)
  Rush Hour is a sliding block puzzle invented by Nob Yoshigahara in the late 1970s and first sold in the United States in 1996. It is manufactured by ThinkFun ....
  
  
• Sokoban
  Sokoban
  is a type of transport puzzle, in which the player pushes boxes or crates around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations. The puzzle is usually implemented as a video game....
  
  
• SokoSolve
• Switchball
  Switchball
  Switchball is a 3D action-puzzle game, made by Swedish developer Atomic Elbow, which was released for Microsoft Windows on June 26, 2007, on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on November 7, 2007 and on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 on September 17, 2009.-Gameplay:The game puts the...
  
  
• Theseus and the Minotaur
  Theseus and the Minotaur
  Theseus and the Minotaur is a type of logic maze designed by Robert Abbott. In this maze, the player acts as Theseus, the legendary king of Athens who is attempting to escape the Labyrinth. The main difference between this and the standard type of maze, beyond the fact that it's set on a grid, is...
  
  

Single character control

• Adventures of Lolo and the Eggerland series
  Eggerland series
  The Eggerland series consists of several puzzle games developed by HAL Laboratory. Its first release was in 1985 for MSX computer systems. Many titles were made in the series and the gameplay is almost exactly the same in every game as well...
  
  
• Banana
  Banana (video game)
  is a video game on the Nintendo Family Computer released only in Japan.-Overview:The player gets to control a mole which digs through dirt collecting various fruits and vegetables. In most levels, the produce must be collected in a specific order, or the player may become stuck and be forced to...
  
  
• Bobby Carrot
  Bobby Carrot
  Bobby Carrot is a video game series developed and published by German company FDG Mobile Games. The series currently consists of five games, all originally developed for mobile phones. The fifth game was also released for iOS, and will also be released as a WiiWare game for North America on July...
  
  
• Boxxle
  Boxxle
  Boxxle is a puzzle video game for the original Game Boy released by Fujisankei Communications International. The game is a Sokoban clone, with the plot being that the player must manoeuvre boxes in a warehouse in order to make enough money to woo his desired girlfriend. It had a sequel called...
  
  
• Braid
  Braid (video game)
  Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by independent software developer Jonathan Blow. The game was released on August 6, 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. A Microsoft Windows version was released on April 10, 2009. Hothead Games ported and released the game to Mac OS...
  
  
• Bombuzal
  Bombuzal
  Bombuzal is a computer puzzle game designed by Antony Crowther and David Bishop for Image Works. The game was released in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64...
  
  
• Boulderdash
• Buster Bros. series
• Closure
  Closure (video game)
  Closure is an independent video game currently being developed by programmer Tyler Glaiel and artist Jon Schubbe with music and sound by Chris Rhyne...
  
  
• Deadly Rooms of Death
  Deadly Rooms of Death
  Deadly Rooms of Death is a computer puzzle game. It was created by Erik Hermansen in 1997 and has been regularly extended since then...
  
  
• Eets
  Eets
  Eets is a 2D puzzle game developed by Klei Entertainment and first released on March 27, 2006 for Microsoft Windows. It was later released for Mac OS X on December 9, 2010. Both the Windows and Macintosh versions of the game are distributed digitally via Steam...
  
  
• Intelligent Qube
  Intelligent Qube
  is a puzzle game for the PlayStation. It is known as Kurushi in Europe and Australia. In the game, the player controls a character who must run around a platform made of cubes, clearing certain cubes as they approach...
  
  
• Interphase
  Interphase (video game)
  Interphase is a 1989 3D first-person and puzzle video game developed by The Assembly Line and published by Image Works for multiple platforms....
  
  
• Kickle Cubicle
  Kickle Cubicle
  Kickle Cubicle, known in Japan as , is a puzzle game developed by Irem for the arcades in 1988 and then ported to Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. Gameplay is somewhat similar to the Adventures of Lolo series.-Story:...
  
  
• Krusty's Fun House
  Krusty's Fun House
  Krusty's Fun House is a video game based on the cartoon series The Simpsons. Originally named Rat-Trap, it was developed by Fox William for the British software house Audiogenic, who licensed it to Acclaim Entertainment, the US-based publishers of a range of games based on The Simpsons.The game was...
  
  
• Kwirk
  Kwirk
  Kwirk, known in Japan as , is an action/puzzle video game first developed and published by Atlus in Japan on November 24, for the original Game Boy. The same port was later published in North America in March 1990 by Acclaim Entertainment...
  
  
• Lode Runner
  Lode Runner
  Lode Runner is a 1983 platform game, first published by Brøderbund. It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. This feature bolstered the game's popularity, as magazines such as Computer Gaming World held contests...
  
  
• Magical Puzzle Popils
  Magical Puzzle Popils
  Magical Puzzle Popils is a stage based puzzle, platform, video game for the Sega Game Gear. It was released in the early 1990s by Tengen in Japan...
  
  
• Narbacular Drop
  Narbacular Drop
  Narbacular Drop is an environmental puzzle video game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It was released free online in 2005 on PC . It was the senior game project of students attending DigiPen. The gameplay consists of navigating a dungeon using an innovative portal system...
  
  
• Oddworld
  Oddworld
  Oddworld is a comprehensive fictional universe presented in video game form, created by game developers Oddworld Inhabitants under the direction of Lorne Lanning. Throughout games set in the Oddworld universe, Oddworld's peaceful nature is in danger of being consumed by the industrial ambition of...
  
  series
• Portal
• Portal 2
• Pitman
• Pushover
  Pushover (game)
  Pushover is a platform puzzle game developed by Red Rat Software in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS and Super NES. Ocean Software published the game...
  
  
• Repton
  Repton (computer game)
  Repton is a computer game originally developed by 15-year-old Briton Tim Tyler for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and released by Superior Software in 1985. The game spawned a series of follow up games which were released throughout the 1980s. The series sold around 125,000 copies between 1985...
  
  
• Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf
  Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf
  Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf is a puzzle-platform style game/stealth style game for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows, developed by Infogrames in France. Unlike a standard platformer, the game incorporates stealth and strategy.The game is based on the popular Warner Bros. series of cartoons Sam Sheepdog...
  
  
• Solomon's Key
  Solomon's Key
  right|thumb|Arcade version of Solomon's Key is a puzzle game developed by Tecmo in 1986 for arcade release on custom hardware based on the Z80 chipset...
  
  and its sequel, Fire 'n Ice
  Fire 'n Ice
  Fire 'n Ice is a puzzle game released in limited numbers by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the prequel to Solomon's Key, and is known as Solomon's Key 2 in Europe and Solomon no Kagi 2: Coolmintou Kyuushutsu Sakusen in Japan.The aim of the game involves players extinguishing...
  
  
• Symbolica
• Toki Tori
  Toki Tori
  Toki Tori is a puzzle video game with platform elements originally released by Capcom in September 2001 for the Game Boy Color. It was developed by Two Tribes B.V. and is their first published video game. The game follows a young chick, Toki Tori, and his quest to rescue his younger siblings,...
  
  

Multiple character control

• Gobliiins!
• The Lost Vikings
  The Lost Vikings
  The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game series which was developed by Silicon & Synapse . The first game, The Lost Vikings, was released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for DOS, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive and SNES among others...
  
  
• Pingus
  Pingus (video game)
  Pingus is a free, open source computer game inspired by Lemmings and created by Ingo Ruhnke. It features penguins instead of lemmings. It has been reviewed favorably by CNN.com, about.com, Unix Review, and other publications.-History:...
  
  
• Pitman (aka Catrap) for the GameBoy

Lemmings series

• 3D Lemmings
  3D Lemmings
  3D Lemmings is a computer game released in 1995, developed by Clockwork Games and published by Psygnosis. The gameplay, like the original Lemmings game, requires the player to lead all the lemmings to their exit by giving them the appropriate "skills". It was the first Lemmings game to be rendered...
  
  
• All New World of Lemmings
  All New World of Lemmings
  All New World of Lemmings is a computer game released in 1994, as the third game in the popular Lemmings puzzle game series. In North America, the game was named The Lemmings Chronicles...
  
  
• Christmas Lemmings
• Lemmings
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes
  Lemmings 2: The Tribes
  Lemmings 2: The Tribes, a computer game released in 1993, is the first real sequel to the popular puzzle game Lemmings. As with the original, it was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis...
  
  
• Lemmings Revolution
  Lemmings Revolution
  Lemmings Revolution is a puzzle computer game released in 2000. Like previous games in the Lemmings series, the object of the game is to guide the lemmings characters to an exit by giving them specific skills...
  
  
• Oh No! More Lemmings
  Oh No! More Lemmings
  Oh No! More Lemmings is a computer game expansion to the Psygnosis game Lemmings. Sometimes referred to as the "data disk", it contains 100 unique single-player levels and six new music tracks. The Amiga version also includes 10 two-player levels...
  
  

Construction

• Armadillo Run
  Armadillo Run
  Armadillo Run is the title of a transport puzzle video game created by Peter Stock. The game is currently in version 1.0.6, and is only legally available from the .-Objective:...
  
  
• Bridge Builder
  Bridge Builder
  Bridge Builder is a series of computer games developed and published by Chronic Logic. Bridge Builder is the first in the series, followed by Pontifex, Pontifex 2 , and Bridge It. The object of each game is to construct a bridge which a train may cross over, given a limited budget and available...
  
  
• Bridge Builder 2
• Crazy Machines
  Crazy Machines
  Crazy Machines is a puzzle computer game created by a FAKT Software GmbH. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games...
  
  
• Crazy Machines 2
  Crazy Machines 2
  Crazy Machines 2 is a Puzzle video game developed by for the Microsoft Windows platform. It is available in retail form and on Steam for download.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Elefunk
• Fantastic Contraption
  Fantastic Contraption
  Fantastic Contraption is a Flash-based physics game created by Colin Northway, released September 16, 2008. Northway sold the rights to the game to inXile Entertainment who released the game for iOS on January 26, 2009. A sequel, Fantastic Contraptions 2, was released July 27, 2010...
  
  
• The Incredible Machine
• Pipe Mania
• World of Goo
  World of Goo
  World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees, released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android and WiiWare...
  
  

Multiple puzzle types

• 3 in Three
  3 in Three
  3 in Three is a 1989 computer game by Cliff Johnson.While bearing some similarities to his previous game, The Fool's Errand, 3 in Three brought the meta-puzzle to a new environment: inside the computer. The tale this time is of a wayward number 3, lost in the innards of the computer by a power surge...
  
  
• The 7th Guest
  The 7th Guest
  The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an FMV-based puzzle video game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac...
  
  
• Big Brain Academy
  Big Brain Academy
  Big Brain Academy, known in Japan as , is a puzzle video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan on June 30, 2005, and was later released in North America on June 5, 2006, in Australia on July 5, 2006, and in Europe on...
  
  
• Blue Toad Murder Files
  Blue Toad Murder Files
  Blue Toad Murder Files is a murder mystery puzzle video game developed and published by the British game company Relentless Software. The game is episodic and the first instalment was released for the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Store in December 2009. The entire "season" of the game, Blue...
  
  
• Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
  Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
  Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, also known as Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? in PAL regions, is an entertainment video game that employs puzzles. It was developed and published by the video gaming company Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console...
  
  
• Deadly Rooms of Death
  Deadly Rooms of Death
  Deadly Rooms of Death is a computer puzzle game. It was created by Erik Hermansen in 1997 and has been regularly extended since then...
  
  
• The Fool's Errand
  The Fool's Errand
  The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles and a cryptic treasure map...
  
  
• MILO
  Milo (video game)
  MILO is a first-person adventure-puzzle computer game that challenges the player to solve 14 puzzles based in the world of MILO, an artificially intelligent computer. The game was developed by Crystalvision Software and released in 1996...
  
  
• Professor Layton series
• Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
  Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
  Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure is a video game developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company.Safecracker was also released on Steam on August 29, 2007....
  
  
• WarioWare, Inc.
• Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Three Rings Design. The player takes the role of a pirate, adventuring on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships . The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles...
  
  

Collections

• Microsoft Entertainment Pack
  Microsoft Entertainment Pack
  The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack is a collection of simply-designed 16-bit computer games for Windows. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. Many of the games were later released in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack...
  
  
• Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection
  Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection
  Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection is a collection of 10 puzzle computer games developed by Mir - Dialogue and published by Microsoft Games. The creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, designed some of the games featured in the pack. It was released on CD-ROM for Windows 95...
  
  
• Zillions of Games
  Zillions of Games
  Zillions of Games is a commercial General Game Playing system developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler in 1998. The game rules are specified with S expressions, Zillions rule language. It was designed to handle mostly abstract strategy board games or puzzles. After parsing the rules of the game,...
  
  

Other

• Check Man
  Check Man
  Check Man is an arcade game released by Zilec-Zenitone in 1982. While being a fast paced action game, there are puzzle elements to the gameplay. The game uses the Namco Galaxian arcade board.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Chocolate Castle
  Chocolate Castle
  Chocolate Castle is a puzzle video game developed by New Zealand-based company Lexaloffle and published on April 2, 2007. The game was developed by Lexaloffle's owner and operator Joseph White, who designed Chocolate Castle as a platform for further puzzle games...
  
  
• CrossworDS (NDS
  Nintendo DS
  The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
  
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• Cuyo
• Devil Dice
  Devil Dice
  Devil Dice is a video game for the PlayStation. It was originally created by developer Shift on the "homebrew" Yaroze platform, and later turned into a commercial game. Released in 1998, it is one of only a handful of games to make the leap from the Yaroze to commercial release...
  
  
• enDice
• Every Extend Extra
  Every Extend Extra
  Every Extend Extra is a shoot 'em up video game by Q Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable .Every Extend Extra is a redevelopment of the popular freeware game Every Extend, which was a personal project by Kanta Matsuhisa under his "Omega" pseudonym...
  
  
• Gemsweeper
  Gemsweeper
  Gemsweeper is a thinking puzzle casual game developed by Lobstersoft.During the game the player rebuilds the ruins of El Dorado by solving over 225 nonogram logic puzzles.- Story :In Gemsweeper the player assumes the role of a treasure hunter...
  
  
• Kula World
  Kula World
  Kula World is a 3D platform-based puzzle game created for the Sony PlayStation, which places the player in control of a Kula beach ball. The main objective of the game is to collect keys which unlock the level exits, as well as coins and jewels along the way...
  
  
• Logos Panic
  Logos Panic
  is a Japan-exclusive puzzle video game published by Yutaka, which was released in 1995.The characters were designed by Kotobuki Shiriagari.-Summary:The game starts with an animated/cinematic intro sequence...
  
  
• Mr Driller
• New York Times Crosswords (NDS
  Nintendo DS
  The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
  
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• Onee-san to Issho! Janken Paradise
• Shanghai solitaire
• Snake
  Snake (video game)
  Snake is a video game that originated during the late 1970s in arcades and has maintained popularity since then, becoming something of a classic...
  
  
• UFO: A Day in the Life
  UFO: A Day in the Life
  UFO: A Day in the Life is an adventure/puzzle game developed by Love-de-Lic and published by ASCII Entertainment.-Gameplay:UFO: A Day in the Life puts the player in the role of an extraterrestrial attempting to save a group of 50 fellow aliens who have been stranded on Earth...
  
  
• Wheel of Fortune (video game)
  Wheel of Fortune (video game)
  Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, premiering in 1975 with a syndicated version airing in 1983. Since 1986, the show has been adapted into various video games, most based on the syndicated nighttime version. Most versions released before 1998 were...