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.
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
Clockwiser
Columns
Dialhex
Dr. Mario
Drop Mania
Faces
Klax
Lumines
Magic Jewelry (Columns-clone for NES)
Meteos
Navigator
Pnickies
Puyo Puyo
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Quadrapop
Rampage Puzzle Attack
Super Swap
Tactic
Tetris
Twinflix
Trioncube
Tube-It
Uncle Henry's Nuclear Waste Dump (1986)
Uo Poko
Wario's Woods
Welltris
Wordtris
Yoshi
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
Constricting Cubes
Critter Crunch
Frozen Bubble
Luxor
Luxor 2
Luxor 3
Magical Drop
Magnetica (a.k.a. PuzzLoop)
Money Puzzle Exchanger (a.k.a. Money Idol Exchanger)
Panel de Pon, Tetris Attack, Pokémon Puzzle League, and Planet Puzzle League
Poker Smash; technically a rising block game in which the blocks are rising to the top, with a poker theme
Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-a-Move)
Puzzle Link
Puzzle Link 2
Quarth
Snood
Starsweep
TiQal, also a rising block game
Zuma
2048
Alchemy
Bejeweled
Color Lines
Devet
GNUbik
Godzilla: Smash3
Gunpey
Gyromancer
Hexic
Lines (a.k.a. ColorLines)
Loopz
Lumines
Lumines II
Perception
Plotting
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
Atsumari
Colour Cross
Libra
Mario's Picross
Professor Layton
Puzzle Agent 1 & 2
Sudoku Gridmaster
POP4
World of IQ
Drawn The Painted Tower
Black Box
Criminal Case
Mystery Case Files Return to Ravenheart
Minesweeper
MineSweeper3D
Archer Maclean's Mercury
Atomix
Ballance
Bomberman
Castlequest
ChuChu Rocket!
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
Enigma
Flamin' Finger
Kumoon
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Kururin Paradise
Kye
Lasertank
Marble Drop
Marble Madness
Navigator
Oxyd
Polarium
Puzzle Dimension
Rush Hour
Sokoban
SokoSolve
Switchball
Theseus and the Minotaur
Adventures of Lolo and the Eggerland series
Antichamber
Banana
Bobby Carrot
Boxxle
Braid
Bombuzal
Boulderdash
Buster Bros. series
Closure
Deadly Rooms of Death
Eets
Enigma Prison
Incredipede
Intelligent Qube
Interphase
Kickle Cubicle
Krusty's Fun House
Kula World
Kwirk
Limbo
Lode Runner
Magical Puzzle Popils
Mind: Path to Thalamus
Mole Mania
Myst series
Narbacular Drop
Oddworld series
Pneuma: Breath of Life
Portal
Portal 2
Pitman
Pushover
Q.U.B.E.
Quantum Conundrum
Repton
Scribblenauts
Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf
Solomon's Key and its sequel, Fire 'n Ice
Stacking
The Swapper
Symbolica
The Talos Principle
The Witness
Toki Tori
Unmechanical
Echochrome
Echochrome 2
Gobliiins!
Pingus
Pitman (a.k.a. Catrap)
The Brainies
The Lost Vikings
Scarab Tales
3D Lemmings
All New World of Lemmings
Christmas Lemmings
Lemmings
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
Lemmings Revolution
Oh No! More Lemmings
Armadillo Run
Amazing Alex
Bridge Builder
Bridge Builder 2
Bridge Constructor
Crazy Machines
Crazy Machines 2
Elefunk
Fantastic Contraption (2008 video game)
Fantastic Contraption (2016 video game)
Pipe Mania
The Incredible Machine
World of Goo
Bridge Craft Story
SpaceChem
KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
Manufactoria
Human Resource Machine
Castle of Dr. Brain
3 in Three
Big Brain Academy
Blue Toad Murder Files
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Dr. Brain series
MILO
Professor Layton series
Puzzle Agent 1 & 2
Puzzle Panic
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
Smart Games Challenge series
The 7th Guest
The 11th Hour
The Daedalus Encounter
The Dig
The Island of Dr. Brain
The Fool's Errand
WarioWare, Inc.
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Microsoft Entertainment Pack
Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection
Zillions of Games
Check Man
Chocolate Castle
CrossworDS (NDS)
Cuyo
Devil Dice
enDice
Every Extend Extra
Gemsweeper
Kula World
Logos Panic
Mr Driller
Onee-san to Issho! Janken Paradise
Shanghai solitaire
Sitespot
UFO: A Day in the Life
Wheel of Fortune (video game)
