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The best action puzzle games

Action puzzle games require the player to manipulate game pieces in a real-time environment. Action puzzle games show features of both action games and puzzle games; it's a broad definition that can be applied to a lot of puzzle games.

Most popular action puzzle games

DX-Ball 2
actionWindows XP/98/95
Lemmings 95
puzzleWindows XP/98/95
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Bomb Jack remake

DOS2002remake
Bomb Jack is a classic arcade platform game developed and published by Tecmo in 1984. The goal of the game is to collect bombs while avoiding enemies; the entire game takes place on a fixed screen. This version of Bomb Jack for DOS is a faithful remake of the original arcade version.
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Lemmings 2: The Tribes

DOS1993 DMA Design
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, Atari ST, Game Boy, Genesis, SNES. 
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ZZT

DOS1991freeware Epic MegaGames
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Locomotion

DOS1992 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
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Night Shift

DOS1990 LucasArts
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The Lost Vikings

DOS1993 Silicon & Synapse
The Lost Vikings is an old DOS platform-puzzle game, developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions in 1993. In The Lost Vikings you have to solve puzzles by controlling three characters (glorious vikings!), each with a single skill of its own.
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Diggers

DOS1994 Millennium Interactive
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Litil Divil

DOS1993protected Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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The Humans

DOS1993protected Imagitec Design
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Holiday Lemmings

DOS1993 DMA Design
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 the first game a lot of sequels followed. Holiday Lemmings is just one of them.
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Zoom!

DOS1988
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Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x1991 Microsoft
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Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in Time

DOS1995protected Imagitec Design
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Rockford: The Arcade Game

DOS1987protected Arcadia Systems
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Chagunitzu

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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DX-Ball 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected Longbow Digital Arts
DX-Ball 2 is a popular brick-breaking game that was first released in 1998 by Longbow Digital Arts. It serves as a sequel to the original DX-Ball, which was inspired by the classic arcade game Breakout and its successor Arkanoid. The core mechanics of DX-Ball 2 involve controlling a paddle at the bottom of the screen to bounce a ball upwards. ...
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Guldkorn Expressen

DOS1991 SilverRock productions
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Supaplex

DOS1991freeware Think!Ware Development
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Arkanoid

DOS1988 Taito
Arkanoid is a classic arcade video game that was first released in 1986 by Taito. It is a breakout-style game, which means that the primary objective is to break a wall of bricks or blocks by bouncing a ball off a paddle at the bottom of the screen. The game takes its name and inspiration from Atari's Breakout, which was released in the 1970s. ...
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Lemmings 95

Windows XP/98/951994 DMA Design
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Bust-A-Move

DOS1997freeware Taito
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Lemmings

DOS1991 DMA Design
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3D Ultra Lionel Traintown

Windows XP/98/952000 Dynamix
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All Dogs Go to Heaven

DOS1989 Polarware
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Archipelagos

DOS1989 Astral Software
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Gapper

DOS1986
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The Game of Harmony

DOS1990 The Assembly Line
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Xmas Lemmings

DOS1992freeware DMA Design
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Pushover

DOS1992 Red Rat software
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...