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The most popular action puzzle games

Action puzzle games require the player to manipulate game pieces in a real-time environment. Action puzzle games show features of both action games and puzzle games; it's a broad definition that can be applied to a lot of puzzle games.

Most popular action puzzle games

Lemmings 95
puzzleWindows XP/98/95
Arkanoid
actionDOS
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Lemmings 2: The Tribes

DOS19934.3/5 DMA Design
Lemmings 2: The Tribes is an abandoned puzzle game part of the acclaimed Lemmings series. It was developed by DMA Design and released by Psygnosis in 1993. Lemmings 2: The Tribes runs on DOS but was also published for Acorn, Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy, Genesis, SNES. 
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Lemmings 95

Windows XP/98/9519944/5 DMA Design
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Arkanoid

DOS19884.1/5 Taito
Arkanoid is a classic arcade video game that was first released in 1986 by Taito. It is a breakout-style game, which means that the primary objective is to break a wall of bricks or blocks by bouncing a ball off a paddle at the bottom of the screen. The game takes its name and inspiration from Atari's Breakout, which was released in the 1970s. ...
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Lemmings

DOS19914/5 DMA Design
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The Lost Vikings

DOS19934.2/5 Silicon & Synapse
The Lost Vikings is an old DOS platform-puzzle game, developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions in 1993. In The Lost Vikings you have to solve puzzles by controlling three characters (glorious vikings!), each with a single skill of its own.
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DX-Ball 2

Windows XP/98/951998freeware4.4/5 Longbow Digital Arts
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Marble Cooking

DOS1994NSFW3.5/5 Negative
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3D Ultra Lionel Traintown

Windows XP/98/9520004/5 Dynamix
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Arkanoid 2: The Revenge of Doh

DOS19894.1/5 Taito
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Pushover

DOS19923.8/5 Red Rat software
Pushover is a puzzle platformer video game developed by Red Rat Software and released by Ocean Software in 1992. It was initially available for the Commodore Amiga and later ported to various other platforms, including MS-DOS and SNES.In Pushover, players control a character named G.I. Ant, a marching ant with the goal of arranging a set of dominoe...
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Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x19914.1/5 Microsoft
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The Humans

DOS1993protected4.2/5 Imagitec Design
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Bust-A-Move

DOS1997freeware4/5 Taito
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Night Shift

DOS19904.2/5 LucasArts
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Super ZZT

DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
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Chagunitzu

DOS19904.1/5 Softdisk Publishing
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Locomotion

DOS19924.2/5 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
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Boulder Dash

DOS19843.7/5 First Star Software
Boulder Dash is a classic action-puzzle video game that was first released in 1984 by First Star Software. In Boulder Dash, players control a character named Rockford as he digs through caves to collect diamonds while avoiding falling boulders and other hazards. The game is set in a scrolling, grid-based environment, and players must strategic...
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Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in Time

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Imagitec Design
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Airball

DOS19873.5/5 MicroDeal
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ZZT

DOS1991freeware4.2/5 Epic MegaGames
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Bombuzal

DOS19893.5/5 Image Works
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Diggers

DOS19944.2/5 Millennium Interactive
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Cloud Kingdoms

DOS19903.6/5 Logotron
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Beauty and the Beast

DOS19924.1/5 Infogrames
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Bomb Jack

DOS19844.3/5 Tecmo
Bomb Jack is a classic arcade platform game developed and published by Tecmo in 1984. The goal of the game is to collect bombs while avoiding enemies; the whole game takes place in a fixed screen. Bomb Jack for DOS is a conversion from the arcade original version. The arcade and the conversions were a huge commercial success.
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All New World of Lemmings

DOS19943.4/5 DMA Design
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Guldkorn Expressen

DOS19914.1/5 SilverRock productions
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Tiny Skweeks

DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment
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Holiday Lemmings

DOS19934.2/5 DMA Design
Lemmings was one of the most iconic puzzle games ever made. It was also one of the most inventive. The idea behind those tiny furred punk suicidal rodents is truly a stroke of genius. Not surprisingly, after the huge success of the first game a lot of sequels followed. Holiday Lemmings is just one of them.