The best 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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Mario Teaches Typing
DOSMac OS1992 word puzzle
Oxyd
DOS1992 action puzzle
Penthouse Hot Numbers
DOS1993NSFW tile-matching
Robbo
DOS1993freeware action puzzle, sokoban
Sexy Droids
DOS1992NSFW tile-matching, reveal the picture
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Trivia
DOS1990 trivia / quiz
Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!
DOS1990 word puzzle
The Game of Harmony
DOS1990 action puzzle, physics 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...
Wheel of Fortune
DOS1987 word puzzle
Xixit
DOS1995 falling blocks
Xmas Lemmings
DOS1992freeware action puzzle
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...
Late Night Sexy TV Show
DOS1994NSFW trivia / quiz
Rodent's Revenge
Windows 3.x1991 action puzzle
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 cha...
Interactive Girls Club Games
DOS1993NSFW
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...
Oh no! More Lemmings
DOS1991 action puzzle
Super Solvers: Treasure Cove
DOS1992 math puzzle
Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet
DOS1992 action puzzle
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.&nbs...
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 ...
M Labyrinth
DOS1993 tile-matching
Centerfold Squares
DOS1988NSFW tile-matching
Pushover
DOS1992 action puzzle
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 ...
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science
DOS1992 trivia / quiz
Snood
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996freeware tile-matching
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...
Gruntz
Windows XP/98/951999
Logo
DOS1990NSFW tile-matching
Loopz
DOS1990 tile-matching