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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X-Tetris
Windows XP/98/951996NSFW falling blocks
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 ...
Atomix
DOS1990 tile-matching
Atomix is a tile-based puzzle game released in 1990 by Thalion Software for platforms like Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Commodore 64. The objective of Atomix is to assemble molecular structures by moving individual atoms arou...
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"...
Tetris 2.0
Windows XP/98/951990 falling blocks
Lemmings 95
Windows XP/98/951994 action puzzle
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...
Super Solvers: Operation Neptune
DOS1991 math puzzle
Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets
DOS1993
Centerfold Squares
DOS1988NSFW tile-matching
Let’s be honest—Centerfold Squares (1988) is what happened when someone asked, “What if Qix but hornier?” You draw squares to reveal pixelated images of... let’s say, confident women. It’s surpr...
The Incredible Machine 2
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951994 physics puzzle
Interactive Girls Club Games
DOS1993NSFW
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...
Lemmings
DOS1991 action puzzle
Lemmings is a classic puzzle-platformer video game developed by DMA Design (now known as Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis. It was originally released in 1991 for the Amiga and later ported to numerous platforms including...
Mario Teaches Typing
DOSMac OS1992 word 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 ...
The $100,000 pyramid
DOS1988 trivia / quiz
Ever wanted to be on a game show without leaving your CRT-lit basement? The $100,000 Pyramid brings you that chance. You guess words. Your partner gives clues. Sometimes you wonder if your partner is helping or having a keyboard-r...
Sextris
DOS1992NSFW falling blocks, reveal the picture
Night Shift
DOS1990 action puzzle, platform
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...
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...
Gruntz
Windows XP/98/951999
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...
Boulder Dash
DOS1984 action puzzle
Boulder Dash is a classic action-puzzle video game that was first released in 1984 by First Star Software. In Boulder Dash, players control a character named Rockford as he digs through caves to collect diamonds while avoidin...
Logical
DOS1991 falling blocks
Tetris
DOS1987 falling blocks
Lemmings 3D
DOS1995 action puzzle
Wheel of Fortune
DOS1987 word 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...