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Sliding puzzle

Game genre theme

A type of puzzle where player usually slides square tiles across a grid where only one square is free.

182
games
49
platforms

Alternate names: Sliding block puzzle, Sliding tile puzzle

Sliding Tiles (Commodore 64)
Sliding Tiles
C64 198?
Puzzle Shuffle (Commodore 64)
Puzzle Shuffle
C64 1990
Card & Puzzle Collection Ginga (MSX 2)
Card & Puzzle Collection Ginga
MSX2 1989
Puzzle Thingy (MS-DOS)
Puzzle Thingy
DOS 1990
Can of Worms (MSX)
Can of Worms
MSX 1986
Puzzle Shuffle (Commodore 16/Plus 4)
Puzzle Shuffle
C16 1990
Confuzion (Commodore 64)
Confuzion
C64 1985
Loyd (MS-DOS)
Loyd
DOS 1990
Discovery (Commodore 64)
Discovery
C64 1987
PopGames (MS-DOS)
PopGames
DOS 1990
Shuffle Pix (Amiga OCS)
Shuffle Pix
OCS 1990
Wilde 15 (Atari 400/800)
Wilde 15
A800 1985
Common goal is to re-arrange image blocks so a larger image is shown correctly.

Popular tags

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Parent group

Transport puzzle

Child group

N-puzzle

Games by year

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The first Sliding puzzle video game was released in 1979.

Incentive, Firebird and Lazy 8 Studios published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 44
C64 16
Linux 13
Amiga 10
ZX Spectrum 9
Win3.1 8
Apple II E 6
Atari 400/800 6
Amstrad CPC 6
Windows 5
MSX 5
BBC 3
NeXT 3
C16/Plus4 3
Oric 2
PS2 2
VIC-20 2
Electron 2
GB 2
MICRO 7 - FM7 2
Newton 2
Commodore PET 2
Mac OS X 2
NEC PC8801 2
C128 1
COSMAC VIP 1
Thomson 1
Atari 2600 1
Amstrad PCW 1
ZX 81 1

Most common companies

Incentive5
Firebird4
Lazy 8 Studios4
Softdisk4
Domark4
CP Verlag4
Mastertronic3
Apollo Technica3
Thorn EMI3
Nihon Falcom2
New Breed Software2
Radian Games2
Oxygen Interactive2
Atlantis Software2
Wicked Software2