Abandonware DOS title

Action oriented puzzle games sorted by release date

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.
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Oh no! More Lemmings

DOS1991 DMA Design
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Paganitzu

DOS1991protected Apogee Software
Paganitzu is a classic puzzle-adventure game released in 1991 by Apogee Software. Set in an ancient pyramid, the game follows the exploits of its protagonist, Alabama Smith, who must navigate through a series of increasingly complex rooms filled with traps, puzzles, and enemies. The game is divided into three episodes, each one unraveling more of t...
rodent-revenge-01

Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x1991 Microsoft
Rodent's Revenge is a puzzle video game originally released in 1991 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows. Developed by Christopher Lee Fraley, the game is simple, with gameplay revolving around a small mouse character attempting to outwit cats by trapping them using movable blocks. The primary goal is to trap the cats by pus...
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Supaplex

DOS1991freeware Think!Ware Development
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ZZT

DOS1991freeware Epic MegaGames
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Beauty and the Beast

DOS1992 Infogrames
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Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet

DOS1992 Riedel Software Productions
Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet is a video game based on the popular Beetlejuice franchise, which includes a 1988 film directed by Tim Burton and an animated television series that aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The game involves controlling Beetlejuice as he attempts to clear skeletons from various closets in a haunted house. T...
clyde-adventure-03

Clyde's Adventure

DOS1992freeware Moonlite Software
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Contraption Zack

DOS1992 Presage Software
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Dinosaur Balls

DOS1992 Amwa (HK) Computer Co.
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Locomotion

DOS1992 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
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Oxyd

DOS1992 Dongleware
pushover-1

Pushover

DOS1992 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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Super ZZT

DOS1992 Epic MegaGames
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Thomas the Tank Engine

DOS1992 Peakstar Software
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Tiny Skweeks

DOS1992 Kalisto Entertainment
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Xmas Lemmings

DOS1992freeware DMA Design
black-hole-02

Black Hole

DOS1993
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Holiday Lemmings

DOS1993 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.
lemmings2-2

Lemmings 2: The Tribes

DOS1993 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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Litil Divil

DOS1993protected Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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Nanotank

Windows 3.x1993
robbo-02

Robbo

DOS1993freeware xLand Games
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Sink or Swim

DOS1993 Zeppelin Games
thehumans-2

The Humans

DOS1993protected Imagitec Design
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The Lost Vikings

DOS1993 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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Thomas the Tank Engine 2

DOS1993 Peakstar Software
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All New World of Lemmings

DOS1994 DMA Design
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Diggers

DOS1994 Millennium Interactive
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Lemmings 95

Windows XP/98/951994 DMA Design