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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Tetris Classic
DOSWindows 3.x1992 falling blocks
Pipe Dream
DOSWindows 3.x1989 tile-matching
Pipe Mania (also known as Pipe Dream is a tile-matching (sort of) puzzle game about flowing liquids developed by The Assembly Line in 1989. You must build a path made of pipe pieces to let a green liquid (sewer goo?) flow. It's si...
Chip's Challenge
DOSWindows 3.x1991 sokoban
Don’t let the pixelated graphics and cheerful music fool you—Chip’s Challenge is a gauntlet of logical torment. You play as Chip, a nerdy teen who agrees to navigate deadly mazes filled with monsters, traps, and ...
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
DOS1993 action puzzle
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...
Super Solvers: Spellbound!
DOS1991 word puzzle
Tetris 2.0
Windows XP/98/951990 falling blocks
Chagunitzu
DOS1990 action puzzle, sokoban
Before Indiana Jones had a whip, Chagunitzu had block puzzles. Released in 1990 by Softdisk (and developed by a young John Romero), this game is a precursor to God of Thunder and part of the Kroz lineage. You navigate tombs, avoid...
The Incredible Machine
DOS1993 physics puzzle
The Incredible Machine (part of The Incredible Machine series) is a single-player peculiar DOS physics-puzzle game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. The goal of the game is to buil...
Night Shift
DOS1990 action puzzle, platform
The Incredible Machine 2
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951994 physics puzzle
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...
BlockOut 2
Windows XP/98/95Linux2000freeware
If you’ve ever looked at Tetris and thought, “This needs to be in 3D and way harder,” then BlockOut 2 (2000) is your kind of punishment. This brain-melter takes falling blocks to the next dimension—literall...
Hexxagon
DOS1993 tile-matching
Locomotion
DOS1992 action puzzle
Diggers
DOS1994 action puzzle
The Humans
DOS1993protected action puzzle, platform
Classic Concentration
DOS1988 board game
Classic Concentration brings the Alex Trebek game show to DOS, complete with low-res puzzles and that addictive memory card-flipping mechanic. Match two elephants, and boom—you get a piece of a rebus puzzle that looks like i...
Holiday Lemmings
DOS1993 action puzzle
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 th...
Zoom!
DOS1988 action puzzle
Zoom! is a puzzle game that desperately wants to be cool. You're a sunglasses-wearing smiley face cruising down psychedelic gridlines while dodging blobs and filling in tiles like Tron on a budget. It’s fast, weird, and occa...
Sherlock: The Game of Logic
DOS1991protected tile-matching
Porntris
DOS1993remakeNSFW falling blocks
Sid & Al's Incredible Toons
DOS1993 physics puzzle
Mah Jongg Solitaire
DOS1987 board game, tile-matching
Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in Time
DOS1995protected action puzzle
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...
Rockford: The Arcade Game
DOS1987protected action puzzle
The Sentinel
DOS1989
Block O Mania
DOS1989 sokoban
Block O Mania is what happens when a Rubik’s Cube and a sliding puzzle fall in love during a rave. Released in 1989 for DOS, this game will twist your brain into shapes it wasn’t designed for. The goal? Push blocks. Lo...
Soko-Ban
DOS1984 sokoban
Sokoban is a classic puzzle game first released in 1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi for the NEC PC-8801 in Japan and later ported to a number of platforms, including DOS, as Soko-Ban. The name "Sokoban" translates to "warehouse keeper"...
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...