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
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'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...
Supaplex
DOS1991freeware Think!Ware Development
ZZT
DOS1991freeware Epic MegaGames
Beauty and the Beast
DOS1992 Infogrames
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's Adventure
DOS1992freeware Moonlite Software
Contraption Zack
DOS1992 Presage Software
Dinosaur Balls
DOS1992 Amwa (HK) Computer Co.
Locomotion
DOS1992 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
Oxyd
DOS1992 Dongleware
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...
Super ZZT
DOS1992 Epic MegaGames
Thomas the Tank Engine
DOS1992 Peakstar Software
Tiny Skweeks
DOS1992 Kalisto Entertainment
Xmas Lemmings
DOS1992freeware DMA Design
Black Hole
DOS1993
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.
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.
Litil Divil
DOS1993protected Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Nanotank
Windows 3.x1993
Robbo
DOS1993freeware xLand Games
Sink or Swim
DOS1993 Zeppelin Games
The Humans
DOS1993protected Imagitec Design
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.
Thomas the Tank Engine 2
DOS1993 Peakstar Software
All New World of Lemmings
DOS1994 DMA Design
Diggers
DOS1994 Millennium Interactive
Lemmings 95
Windows XP/98/951994 DMA Design