The most popular abandonware puzzle games
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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Supaplex
DOS1991freeware action puzzle
Supaplex is a classic puzzle game released in 1991 by Think!Ware Development for MS-DOS and Amiga. It is heavily inspired by Boulder Dash but introduces more complex mechanics. In Supaplex, you control a red, Pac-Man-like cha...
Super Solvers: Treasure Cove
DOS1992 math puzzle
Lemmings 3D
DOS1995 action puzzle
Gruntz
Windows XP/98/951999
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...
Color Lines
DOS1992 tile-matching
Bolo Ball
DOS1992 sokoban
Bolo Ball is a DOS game from the mid-1990s. It features a physics-based gameplay where the objective is to knock opponent balls out of an arena. When you start the game, you find yourself in a 2D arena set against a starry, space-...
Boston Bomb Club
DOS1991 tile-matching
Boston Bomb Club (1991, DOS) is a Rube Goldberg fever dream disguised as a puzzle game. Your mission: guide bombs (yes, bombs) along increasingly elaborate tracks using contraptions like rotating tiles, steam pipes, and sheer chao...
Gertrude's Secrets
DOS1982
Hexxagon 2
DOS1993 tile-matching
Atomino
DOS1991 tile-matching
In Atomino (1991), you’re not blowing things up — you’re building atoms. That’s right: this puzzle game puts you in charge of creating molecular structures under pressure, which is exactly as stressful and ...
Airball
DOS1987 action puzzle, platform
In Airball (1987), you don’t play a knight, a space marine, or a plumber - you play a literal ball of air. Trapped in an isometric nightmare of spikes, fans, and poison gas, your squishy self must navigate hazards that clear...
Marble Cooking
DOS1994NSFW action puzzle
Welltris
DOS1989 falling blocks
Welltris is a puzzle video game designed by Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. Released in 1989, Welltris offers a fresh take on the block-dropping mechanics of Tetris, expanding the gameplay into a 3D environment. Simil...
Puzznic
DOS1990 tile-matching
Puzznic is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally developed and published by Taito in 1989 for arcade systems. The goal of Puzznic is to clear a series of levels by aligning matching tiles (blocks) to make them disappea...
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...
Lexi-Cross
DOS1991 word puzzle
Lexi-Cross is an abandoned science fiction tv show-styled puzzle game. Lexi-Cross was developed by Platinumware and released for DOS by Interplay Productions in 1991. The gameplay is a turn-based mix between Scrabble and Wheel of ...
Super Solvers: OutNumbered!
DOS1990 math puzzle
Sherlock: The Game of Logic
DOS1991protected tile-matching
Brix
DOS1992freeware falling blocks
If Tetris and a Rubik’s Cube had a weird love child, it’d be Brix. This 1992 brain-snapper is a tile-sliding puzzle game where every move counts and logic is your only weapon. You'll feel brilliant one moment, and hope...
Diggers
DOS1994 action puzzle
Penthouse Hot Numbers
DOS1993NSFW tile-matching
Jeopardy!
DOS1987 word puzzle
Dinosaur Balls
DOS1992 action puzzle, tile-matching
The all new Family Feud
DOS1989 word puzzle
Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy
DOS1992 platform
Imagine Marble Madness had a caffeine overdose and fell into a platformer. That’s Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy. You control a perpetually bouncing ball named Bumpy (creative, I know), who must navigate tricky levels full of ...
Penthouse electric jigsaw
DOS1990NSFW tile-matching, reveal the picture
The Fool's Errand
DOS1989freeware word puzzle
The Fool's Errand is a puzzle-adventure computer game created by Cliff Johnson and released in 1987 for Macintosh and later for MS-DOS. The game follows the journey of a nameless fool through a magical land inspired by Tarot ...
Weird Dreams
DOS1988 action puzzle
Weird Dreams is an abandoned action - puzzle game developed and released by Rainbird Software in 1988 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64. Weird Dreams is a surreal action game in which you have to take p...
The Humans
DOS1993protected action puzzle, platform