List of puzzle video games#Visual matching
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{{see also|List of maze video games}}
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This is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category.
Tile matching
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Tile-matching video games are a type of puzzle video game where the player manipulates tiles in order to make them disappear according to a matching criterion. There are a great number of variations on this theme.
=Falling block puzzles=
Puzzle pieces advance into the play area from one or more edges, typically falling into the play area from above. Player must match or arrange individual pieces to achieve the particular objectives defined by each game.
- Alien Hive
- Baku Baku Animal
- Blueprint 3D
- Clockwiser
- Columns
- Dialhex
- Dr. Mario
- Drop Mania
- Dream of Pixels
- Faces
- Klax
- Lumines
- Meteos
- Moujiya
- Oh My God!
- Pac-Attack
- Pnickies
- Puyo Puyo
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Rampage Puzzle Attack
- Suika Game
- Super Swap
- Tactic
- Tecmo Stackers
- Tetris
- Trioncube
- Uo Poko
- Wario's Woods
- Welltris
- Wordtris
- Yoshi
=Advancing blocks puzzles=
Block-shaped puzzle pieces advance onto the board from one or more edges (i.e. top, bottom, or sides). The player tries to prevent the blocks from reaching the opposite edge of the playing area.
- Ball Fighter
- Collapse
- Critter Crunch
- Frozen Bubble
- Luxor series
- Magical Drop
- Magnetica
- Money Puzzle Exchanger
- Puzzle League series
- Poker Smash
- Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-a-Move)
- Puzzle Link, Puzzle Link 2
- [https://www.unscrambleit.net/wordle-unlimited-unblocked/ Wordle Unlimited]
- Quarth
- Snood
- Starsweep
- TiQal, also a rising block game
- Zuma
=Other matching puzzles=
- 2048
- Alchemy
- Bejeweled
- GNUbik
- Godzilla: Smash3
- Gunpey
- Gyromancer
- Hexic
- HuniePop, HuniePop 2: Double Date
- Loopz
- Lumines, Lumines II
- MNUM2
- Perception
- Pixel Defenders Puzzle
- Piyo Blocks
- Plotting
- Prism
- Puchi Puchi Virus
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, Puzzle Quest 2
- Puzznic
- Rainbow Web
- SameGame
- Sega Swirl
- Swing
- Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles
- Yoshi's Cookie
- Yosumin DS
- Zoop
- Zoo Keeper
Logic puzzles
- [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3044540/Riddle_Tower Riddle Tower]
- Atsumari
- Colour Cross
- Mario's Picross
- POP4
- Strimko
- Sudoku Gridmaster
- Life Eater
Hidden object
- Black Box
- Criminal Case
- Drawn series
- Mystery Case Files series
- Minesweeper, MineSweeper3D
Single character control
- Adventures of Lolo and the Eggerland series
- Antichamber
- Banana
- Bobby Carrot
- BoxBoy! series
- Boxxle
- Braid
- Bombuzal
- Boulderdash
- Buster Bros. series
- Closure
- Deadly Rooms of Death
- Diabolical Digits
- Eets
- Enigma Prison
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- Faraway series
- I.Q.: Intelligent Qube
- Incredipede
- Interphase
- Islands of Insight
- Journey to the Planets
- Kickle Cubicle
- Krusty's Fun House
- Kula World
- Kwirk
- Limbo
- Lode Runner
- Magical Puzzle Popils
- Mind: Path to Thalamus
- Moai-kun
- Mole Mania
- Myst series
- Narbacular Drop
- Oddworld series
- Please, Don't Touch Anything
- Pneuma: Breath of Life
- Portal and Portal 2
- Pitman
- Pushmo series
- Pushover
- Q.U.B.E.
- Quantum Conundrum
- Repton
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Roniu's Tale
- Scratches
- Scribblenauts
- Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf
- Solomon's Key and Solomon's Key 2
- Stacking
- Superliminal
- Supraland
- Sutte Hakkun
- Taiji
- Teardown
- The Room series
- The Swapper
- The Talos Principle and The Talos Principle 2
- The Turing Test (video game)
- The White Door
- The Witness
- Toki Tori
- Unmechanical
- Void Stranger
- WitchWay
Multiple character control
=Lemmings series=
Construction
Algorithmic
- 7 Billion Humans
- Human Resource Machine
- KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People
- Manufactoria
- SpaceChem
- The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
Multiple puzzle types
- 3 in Three
- Azada
- Big Brain Academy
- Blue Toad Murder Files
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
- Castles (video game)
- Castle Breakout
- Dr. Brain series
- Faraway: Puzzle Escape
- Machinarium
- MILO
- Professor Layton series
- Puzzle Agent, Puzzle Agent 2
- Puzzle Panic
- Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
- Smart Games Challenge series
- The 7th Guest
- The 11th Hour
- The Daedalus Encounter
- The Dig
- The Fool's Errand
- WarioWare, Inc.
- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates