Abandonware puzzle games sorted by release date
Puzzle games are about solving logical or strategic puzzles, jigsaws, mathematical brain teasers, and quizzes. The player can control one or more characters (as in Lemmings) or interact with static or moving objects (as in Tetris).
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Late Night Sexy TV Show
DOS1994NSFW trivia / quiz
Lemmings 95
Windows XP/98/951994 action puzzle
Marble Cooking
DOS1994NSFW action puzzle
The Incredible Machine 2
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951994 physics puzzle
The Incredible Toon Machine
Windows 3.x1994 physics puzzle
The Incredible Toon Machine is a puzzle video game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. It serves as the successor to the game Sid & Al's Incredible Toons and is part of the The Incred...
Diggers 2: Extractors
DOS1995 action puzzle
Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in Time
DOS1995protected action puzzle
Lemmings 3D
DOS1995 action puzzle
Mirror Magic
Windows XP/98/95Linux1995freeware physics puzzle
Xixit
DOS1995 falling blocks
Zoop
DOS1995 action puzzle
Imagine if Tetris, Columns, and a pack of highlighters had a baby. That’s Zoop. You’re in the center of the screen, and colorful shapes are marching toward you from all sides like angry abstract art. Your job? Blast th...
15x15 Picture Puzzle
DOS1996freeware tile-matching, reveal the picture
This game is either a delightful brain teaser or a slow descent into madness, depending on how patient you are. 15x15 Picture Puzzle gives you a scrambled mess of tiny square tiles and challenges you to rearrange them into a beaut...
Chain Reaction
DOS1996 falling blocks
Color Balls
DOS1996 falling blocks
Snood
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996freeware tile-matching
Tetris (Academysoft)
DOS1996 falling blocks
X-Tetris
Windows XP/98/951996NSFW falling blocks
Bust-A-Move
DOS1997freeware tile-matching, action puzzle
Also known as Puzzle Bobble, this bubble-popping classic stars those cute dragons from Bubble Bobble, now in competitive puzzle mode. Match three colors, clear the screen, panic as the ceiling drops—repeat until addicted. Bu...
Acid Tetris
DOS1998freewareremake falling blocks
If you ever looked at regular Tetris and thought, “What this really needs is eye-melting colors and a possible migraine,” then Acid Tetris (1998, DOS) is your jam. It’s the classic block-dropper, now with a palet...
Sentinel Returns
Windows XP/98/951998
BitStorm
DOS1999 action puzzle
1999’s BitStorm is what happens when someone decides to make a strategy game and forgets to put the brakes on the caffeine. It’s fast, it’s furious, and you’ll probably lose your first five games before rea...
Gruntz
Windows XP/98/951999
3D Ultra Lionel Traintown
Windows XP/98/952000 action puzzle
If your childhood involved model trains and elaborate setups that your cat kept destroying, 3D Ultra Lionel Traintown is digital therapy. Released in 2000 for Windows XP, it mixes puzzles, deliveries, and train management in a wor...
BlockOut 2
Windows XP/98/95Linux2000freeware
If you’ve ever looked at Tetris and thought, “This needs to be in 3D and way harder,” then BlockOut 2 (2000) is your kind of punishment. This brain-melter takes falling blocks to the next dimension—literall...