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.
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Lemmings 2: The Tribes
DOS19934.3/5 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.
Bomb Jack remake
DOS2002remake4.3/5
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.
ZZT
DOS1991freeware4.2/5 Epic MegaGames
Locomotion
DOS19924.2/5 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
Night Shift
DOS19904.2/5 LucasArts
The Lost Vikings
DOS19934.2/5 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.
Diggers
DOS19944.2/5 Millennium Interactive
Litil Divil
DOS1993protected4.2/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
The Humans
DOS1993protected4.2/5 Imagitec Design
Holiday Lemmings
DOS19934.2/5 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.
Zoom!
DOS19884.2/5
Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in Time
DOS1995protected4.1/5 Imagitec Design
Arkanoid 2: The Revenge of Doh
DOS19894.1/5 Taito
Chagunitzu
DOS19904.1/5 Softdisk Publishing
Rodent's Revenge
Windows 3.x19914.1/5 Microsoft
Guldkorn Expressen
DOS19914.1/5 SilverRock productions
Supaplex
DOS1991freeware4.1/5 Think!Ware Development
Rockford: The Arcade Game
DOS1987protected4.1/5 Arcadia Systems
Arkanoid
DOS19884.1/5 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. ...
DX-Ball 2
Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 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. ...
Bust-A-Move
DOS1997freeware4/5 Taito
Lemmings
DOS19914/5 DMA Design
Lemmings 95
Windows XP/98/9519944/5 DMA Design
3D Ultra Lionel Traintown
Windows XP/98/9520004/5 Dynamix
All Dogs Go to Heaven
DOS19894/5 Polarware
Archipelagos
DOS19894/5 Astral Software
Gapper
DOS19864/5
The Game of Harmony
DOS19904/5 The Assembly Line
Xmas Lemmings
DOS1992freeware4/5 DMA Design
Pushover
DOS19924/5 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...