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The most popular tile-matching games

Tile-matching puzzle video games are a popular genre of games that involve manipulating and matching tiles or blocks to clear them from the game board. These games typically feature a grid-based layout where players must swap, slide, or rotate tiles to create matches of three or more identical tiles. Tile-matching puzzle games can be highly addictive and offer simple, yet challenging gameplay. 
They are often designed with colorful graphics, catchy soundtracks, and progressively difficult levels to keep players engaged and entertained.

The objective of tile-matching puzzle games is to clear the game board by making matches, which causes the matched tiles to disappear. As players progress, the difficulty usually increases, introducing obstacles such as limited moves, time constraints, or special tiles with unique properties. Tile-matching puzzle games can come in various forms and themes including match-3 games, collapse-style games, mahjong games.

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Atomix

DOS1990 Softtouch
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...
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Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye

Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision
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Puzznic

DOS1990 Taito
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...
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Boppin

DOS1994freeware Accursed Toys
Boppin (1994, DOS) is a puzzle game that starts out cute and then sucker-punches you with its sinister undertone—literally. You throw blocks to match symbols, release trapped creatures, and eventually realize the game has a ...
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Centerfold Squares

DOS1988NSFW Artworx Software
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Pipe Dream

DOSWindows 3.x1989 The Assembly Line
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...
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Sexy Droids

DOS1992NSFW Eleven Software
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Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS1987 Arcanum Computing
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Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International
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Boston Bomb Club

DOS1991 Silmarils
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...
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Thomas the Tank Engine

DOS1992 Peakstar Software
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Loopz

DOS1990 Audiogenic
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Columbus Discovery

DOS1992 Gamos
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Logo

DOS1990NSFW Starbyte Software
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Hexxagon

DOS1993 Argo Games
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Pick 'n Pile

DOS1990 UBI Soft
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Snood

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996freeware
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Moraff's Morejongg

Windows XP/98/951992 Moraffware
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Swap

DOS1992 Microids
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Dinosaur Balls

DOS1992 Amwa (HK) Computer Co.
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Squarez Deluxe!

DOS1993freeware Adept Software
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Penthouse Hot Numbers

DOS1993NSFW reLINE Software
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Mystery at the Museums

DOS1993 Artech Studios
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M Labyrinth

DOS1993 Gamos
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FlixMix

DOS1993 Celeris
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Blue Angel 69

DOS1989NSFW
Caution: subtlety not included. Blue Angel 69, released in 1989 for DOS, is basically what happens when a programmer tries to mix erotic art with a tile-based puzzle game and ends up somewhere between genius and “please don&...
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15x15 Picture Puzzle

DOS1996freeware
This game is either a delightful brain teaser or a slow descent into madness, depending on how patient you are. 15x15 Picture Puzzle gives you a scrambled mess of tiny square tiles and challenges you to rearrange them into a beaut...
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Sarakon

DOS1991 Starbyte Software
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Hexxagon 2

DOS1993 Argo Games
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Impossible Mission 2

DOS1988 Novotrade Software