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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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. The game involves controlling Beetlejuice as he attempts to clear skeletons from various closets in a haunted house. T...
Bible Builder
DOS1992 trivia / quiz
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-like background. You control a colorful ball, which, despite being a 2D sprite, appears somewhat three-dimensional due t...
Brix
DOS1992freeware falling blocks
Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy
DOS1992 platform
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 of them. The player clicks on a square to reveal what's underneath, and numbers are displayed to indicate how many mines...
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 SNES.In Pushover, players control a character named G.I. Ant, a marching ant with the goal of arranging a set of dominoe...
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science
DOS1992 trivia / quiz
Sextris
DOS1992NSFW falling blocks, reveal the picture
Sexy Droids
DOS1992NSFW tile-matching, reveal the picture
Stone Age
DOS1992 sokoban
Super Solvers: Treasure Cove
DOS1992 math puzzle
Swap
DOS1992 tile-matching
Tetris Classic
DOSWindows 3.x1992 falling blocks
Tiny Skweeks
DOS1992 action puzzle
Xmas Lemmings
DOS1992freeware action puzzle
Zyconix
DOS1992protected falling blocks
Arcade Trivia Quiz
DOS1993 trivia / quiz
Black Hole
DOS1993 action puzzle
FlixMix
DOS1993 tile-matching, reveal the picture