This is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category.
Tile matching
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. Alien Hive Baku Baku Animal Blueprint 3D Clockwiser Columns Dialhex Dr. Mario Dream of Pixels Drop Mania Faces Klax Lumines series Meteos Moujiya Oh My God! Pac-Attack Pnickies Puyo Puyo series Puzzlejuice Rampage Puzzle Attack Suika Game Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Super Swap Tactic Tecmo Stackers Tetris Trioncube 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 series Magical Drop Magnetica Money Puzzle Exchanger Poker Smash Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-a-Move) Puzzle League series Puzzle Link, Puzzle Link 2 Quarth Snood Starsweep TiQal, also a rising block game Zuma
Other matching puzzles 2048 Alchemy Bejeweled GNUbik Gunpey Gyromancer Hexic HuniePop, HuniePop 2: Double Date Loopz Perception Pixel Defenders Puzzle Piyo Blocks Plotting Prism Puchi Puchi Virus Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, Puzzle Quest 2 Puzznic SameGame Sega Swirl Swing Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles Yoshi's Cookie Yosumin DS Zoo Keeper Zoop
Logic puzzles Colour Cross Life Eater Mario's Picross Picross series Strimko Sudoku Gridmaster Suzuki Bakuhatsu
Hidden object Black Box Criminal Case Drawn series Mystery Case Files series Minesweeper, MineSweeper3D
Obstacle course navigation A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build A Monster's Expedition Archer Maclean's Mercury Atomix Baba Is You Ballance Bomberman Bonfire Peaks Castlequest ChuChu Rocket! Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum English Country Tune Enigma Golf Peaks Kuru Kuru Kururin Kururin Paradise Kururin Squash! Kye Lasertank Marble Blast Ultra Marble Drop Marble Madness Oxyd Patrick's Parabox Pico Park Polarium Pretentious Game Railbound Rush Hour Snakebird Sokoban Sokobond Stephen's Sausage Roll Switchball Theseus and the Minotaur XOR
Single character control Adventures of Lolo and the Eggerland series Antichamber Banana Bobby Carrot Bombuzal Boulderdash BoxBoy! series Boxxle Braid Buster Bros. series Closure Cosmic Express Deadly Rooms of Death Diabolical Digits Eets ElecHead Faraway series I.Q.: Intelligent Qube Incredipede Interphase Islands of Insight Journey to the Planets Kickle Cubicle Krusty's Fun House Kula World Kwirk Limbo Lode Runner Magical Puzzle Popils Mind: Path to Thalamus Moai-kun Mole Mania Myst series Narbacular Drop Oddworld series Öoo Please, Don't Touch Anything Pneuma: Breath of Life Portal and Portal 2 Pitman Pushmo series Pushover Q.U.B.E. Quantum Conundrum Repton Return of the Obra Dinn Scratches Scribblenauts Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf Solomon's Key and Solomon's Key 2 Stacking Superliminal Supraland Sutte Hakkun Teardown The Entropy Centre The Room series The Swapper The Talos Principle and The Talos Principle 2 The Turing Test The White Door The Witness Toki Tori and Toki Tori 2 Unmechanical Void Stranger
Multiple character control Echochrome, Echochrome 2 Fireboy and Watergirl in the Forest Temple Gobliiins! Humanity Mario vs. Donkey Kong (series) Pikmin Pingus Pitman (a.k.a. Catrap) Spirits The Brainies The Lost Vikings
Lemmings series 3D Lemmings All New World of Lemmings Christmas Lemmings Lemmings Lemmings 2: The Tribes Lemmings Revolution Oh No! More Lemmings
Construction Amazing Alex Armadillo Run Bridge Constructor Crazy Machines, Crazy Machines 2 Elefunk Fantastic Contraption (2008 video game) Fantastic Contraption (2016 video game) Pipe Mania Poly Bridge, Poly Bridge 2, Poly Bridge 3 The Incredible Machine World of Goo, World of Goo 2
Algorithmic 7 Billion Humans Human Resource Machine SpaceChem The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
Multiple puzzle types 3 in Three Azada Big Brain Academy Blue Toad Murder Files Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! Castles Dr. Brain series Faraway: Puzzle Escape Machinarium MILO Professor Layton series Puzzle Agent, Puzzle Agent 2 Puzzle Panic Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure Smart Games Challenge series The 7th Guest The 11th Hour The Daedalus Encounter The Dig The Fool's Errand WarioWare, Inc. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Collections Microsoft Entertainment Pack Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection Zillions of Games
Other
Blek Check Man Chocolate Castle CrossworDS (Nintendo DS) Cube Escape Devil Dice Dude, Stop Every Extend Extra Flow Free Gemsweeper Kula World Mr Driller No One Has to Die Photo Spot Shanghai solitaire SpellTower The Password Game Tricky Towers UFO: A Day in the Life Wandersong Wheel of Fortune Word War 5
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