Open Source Puzzle Games for Linux

Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world.

KMahjongg is a fun board game created after the famous oriental game of Mahjong (from Chinese ??).

KSudoku is a free version of the popular logic game Sudoku developed by the KDE community. The game is to fill a nine by nine grid with the numbers from one to nine filling the rows, columns and three by three squares without repeating a value on them.

A collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets.

Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. Simple? Yes. Easy? Certainly not!

gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained.

Skladnik is an implementation of the Japanese warehouse keeper game “sokoban”.

A cute physics platformer that plays in a fictional world of the future the infamous super villain Dr. Lacroix schemes to seize world supremacy with his army of robots. You take the role of Nikki and try to cross those evil plans on behalf of a secret organization.

KMines is a classic Minesweeper game. The idea is to uncover all the squares without blowing up any mines. When a mine is blown up, the game is over.

Pingus has started at the end of 1998 with the simple goal to create a Free (as in freedom, not as in free beer) Lemmings clone. The Free means you get the sources and are allowed and encouraged to change and distribute them.

OGS Mahjong is a simple mahjong solitaire and shisen-sho game with nice 3D graphics and relaxing soundtrack.

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.Also found here is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game, built on the physics and graphics engine of...

A free open source game with teleportation.

A word game where you place letters to create intersecting words as quickly as possible.

Mines (previously gnomine) is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck.

A customizable, cross platform, open-source falling block game, packed with a bunch of features.

A game of rescuing rabbits, inspired by Lemmings and Pingus.

Terminal-based version of the popular 2048 game.

The Butterfly Effect is a free and open source game that uses realistic physics simulations to combine lots of simple mechanical elements to achieve a simple goal in the most complex way possible. The Butterfly Effect has been over five years in the making.

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Monsterz is a little arcade puzzle game, similar to the famous or Zookeeper. The goal of the game is to create rows of similar monsters, either horizontally or vertically. The onl.

See high res text graphics. Master physics bending puzzles. Escape the test chambers. Play ASCIIpOrtal! The text-based game with a geometry breaking physics gun.

KDiamond is a single player puzzle game. The object of the game is to build lines of three similar diamonds.

Libre puzzle platformer for gravity-oblivious aliens.

Lix is a puzzle game inspired by Lemmings (DMA Design, 1991). Lix is free and open source.

Zaz is a game where the player has to get rid of incoming balls by arranging them in triplets. The idea of the game is loosely based on games like Luxor, Zuma and Puzzle Bobble. The twists that make Zaz stand out from other games of this type are that the balls have to be picked...