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This is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category.
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Visual matching
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
- Bejeweled
- Columns and similar games:
- Diamond Crush
- Dr. Mario
- Drop Mania and similar games:
- Faces
- Klax
- Lumines
- Magic Jewelry (Columns-clone for NES)
- Meteos
- Pnickies
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
- Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
- Quadrapop
- Rampage Puzzle Attack
- Tetris; for a full list of Tetris-like games, see List of Tetris variants.
- Trioncube
- Wario's Woods
- Welltris
- Wordtris
- Yoshi
- Zoo Keeper
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.
- Collapse
- Frozen Bubble
- 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)
- Quarth
- Snood
- TiQal, also a rising block game
Other visual-matching puzzles
- Alchemy
- Color Lines
- Devet
- Dialhex
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
- Gunpey
- Hexic
- Kirby's Avalanche
- Lines (aka ColorLines)
- Loopz
- Lumines
- Lumines II
- Magnetica (aka PuzzLoop)
- Zuma
- Luxor
- Luxor 2
- Luxor 3
- Panel de Pon
- Tetris Attack
- Pokémon Puzzle League
- Planet Puzzle League
- Perception
- Plotting
- Puzznic
- Puyo Puyo
- Rainbow Web
- SameGame
- Sega Swirl
- Swing
- Uo Poko
- Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles
- Yoshi's Cookie
- Yosumin DS
- Zoop
Logic puzzles
These are video-game versions of traditional pen-and-paper logic puzzles.
Hidden object
- Mercury
- Atomix (for C64, Amiga, PC etc.)
- Ballance
- Bomberman
- Castlequest
- ChuChu Rocket!
- Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
- Enigma
- Flamin' Finger
- Kuru Kuru Kururin
- Kururin Paradise
- Kye
- Marble Drop
- Marble Madness
- Oxyd
- Polarium
- Rush Hour
- Sokoban
- SokoSolve
- Theseus and the Minotaur
Single character control
- Adventures of Lolo
- Banana
- Braid
- Bombuzal
- Boulderdash
- Closure
- Deadly Rooms of Death
- Eggerland series
- Eets
- Intelligent Qube
- Interphase
- Krusty's Fun House
- Lode Runner
- Magical Puzzle Popils
- Narbacular Drop
- Oddworld series
- Portal
- Pitman
- Pushover
- Repton
- Solomon's Key
- Symbolica
- Toki Tori
Multiple character control
- Gobliiins!
- The Lost Vikings
- Pingus
- Pitman (aka Catrap) for the GameBoy
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
- Bridge Builder
- Bridge Builder 2
- Crazy Machines
- Crazy Machines 2
- Elefunk
- Fantastic Contraption
- The Incredible Machine
- Pipe Mania
- World of Goo
Multiple puzzle types
- 3 in Three
- The 7th Guest
- Big Brain Academy
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
- Deadly Rooms of Death
- The Fool's Errand
- MILO
- WarioWare, Inc.
Collections
Other
- Check Man
- Chocolate Castle
- CrossworDS (NDS)
- Cuyo
- Devil Dice
- enDice
- Every Extend Extra
- Gemsweeper
- Kula World
- Mr Driller
- New York Times Crosswords (NDS)
- Onee-san to Issho! Janken Paradise
- Shanghai solitaire
- Snake
- UFO: A Day in the Life
See also
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