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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Super Solvers: Spellbound!

DOS1991 word puzzle

Super Tetris

DOS1991 falling blocks

Troika

DOS1991

Wordtris

DOSMac OS1991 word puzzle

Beauty and the Beast

DOS1992 action puzzle

This isn’t Disney’s musical fairytale—it’s a DOS game, which means Beauty and the Beast is way more "puzzle platformer" than "tale as old as time." You play as the Beast, leaping around levels, solving very...

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...

Bible Builder

DOS1992 trivia / quiz

Ever wanted to combine your love for trivia with Old Testament knowledge and 256-color DOS graphics? Bible Builder is here to test your biblical memory one verse at a time. It's like Jeopardy but with fewer cash prizes and more di...

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-...

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...

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 ...

Color Buster

DOS1992 sokoban

Color Lines

DOS1992 tile-matching

Columbus Discovery

DOS1992 tile-matching, reveal the picture

Contraption Zack

DOS1992 action puzzle

Dinosaur Balls

DOS1992 action puzzle, tile-matching

Facts in Action

DOS1992 reveal the picture

Locomotion

DOS1992 action puzzle

Mario Teaches Typing

DOSMac OS1992 word puzzle

Minesweeper

Windows 3.x1992 math puzzle

Microsoft Minesweeper is an iconic puzzle game that has been included with Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows 3.1. The game's objective is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden mines without detonating any ...

Moraff's Morejongg

Windows XP/98/951992 tile-matching, board game

Oxyd

DOS1992 action puzzle

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 ...