Free & Open Source Puzzle Games

580 free, open-source puzzle games — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify. Not just free to play: the code itself is open.

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The Daedalus Encounter (original game, not this project)

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OpenDaed

Clone of The Daedalus Encounter

An early, not-yet-playable open-source reimplementation of the 1995 FMV puzzle adventure The Daedalus Encounter.

Platforms:Linux

Stars9

Updated9 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2014

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Wanderer

Clone of Boulder Dash

A text-mode, curses-based clone of Boulder Dash for the terminal, with a built-in level editor.

Platforms:DOSAtari

Stars9

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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VVVVVV (original game, not this project)

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XVVVVX

Clone of VVVVVV

An original Xbox port of the puzzle-platformer VVVVVV, built on a Nintendo Switch homebrew fork of the source.

Platforms:Xbox

Stars9

Updated6 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2020

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Zuma Portable

Clone of Zuma

A decompilation-based, assembly-accurate reimplementation of Zuma Deluxe for Windows, macOS, and Android.

Platforms:WindowsOSXAndroid

Stars9

Updated1 month ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2026

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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c64-nuclearreaction

Clone of Nuclear Reaction

A Commodore 64 remake of Nuclear Reaction; currently unplayable, with no README documentation.

Platforms:C64

Stars9

Updated11 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2012

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Minesweeper (original game, not this project)

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minecurses

Clone of Minesweeper

An unfinished ncurses Minesweeper for the terminal, played with vi-style or WASD keys.

Platforms:None

Stars9

Updated11 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2014

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Coloris

Clone of Coloris

A 2D JavaFX recreation of an Amiga puzzle game, with gameplay the author compares to Tetris and Columns.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars8

Updated3 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2019

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Marblez

Clone of Toobz

A Unity WebGL recreation of the Amiga game Toobz, released as a browser game on Kongregate.

Platforms:Web

Stars8

Updated9 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Super Lemonade Factory (original game, not this project)

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SLF_AIR_SOURCE

Clone of Super Lemonade Factory

Official open-source release of the code for Super Lemonade Factory, a puzzle-platformer built with the Flixel engine.

Platforms:None

Stars8

Updated14 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2012

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Tetris (original game, not this project)

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Tetris-CSharp

Clone of Tetris

A quickly-built WinForms Tetris clone in C# that supports custom blocksets defining new piece shapes.

Platforms:Windows

Stars8

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

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Cut the Rope (original game, not this project)

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Cut the Rope Decompilation

Clone of Cut the Rope

A fan-made enhancement of the PC version of Cut the Rope, with extra boxes, a Christmas theme and a browser build.

Stars7

Updated2 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Diabolika

Clone of Diabolika 2

A clone of Diabolika 2 built on the DGEngine 2D engine, needing the original game's audio and graphics files, with optional xbrz upscaling.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars7

Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2021

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Fantasy

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Gift Grabber

Clone of Flag Catcher

A desktop and mobile browser remake of the Amiga game Flag Catcher, built as a learning project with Bootstrap and Backbone.js.

Platforms:Web

Stars7

Updated5 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2015

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Isometric-Minesweeper

Clone of Minesweeper

A Pygame-based Minesweeper variant presented on an isometric board for Windows, with adjustable bomb counts and a debug mode.

Platforms:Windows

Stars7

Updated6 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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QNetWalk

Clone of NetWalk

An open-source network-puzzle game with a built-in level generator, four difficulty tiers, and translations into a dozen-plus languages.

Platforms:Linux

Stars7

Updated3 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2018

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Supaplex (original game, not this project)

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Supaxl

Clone of Supaplex

Platforms:Web

Stars7

Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2018

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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xit

Clone of X-It

A JavaScript/CSS browser port of the Amiga game X-it, built and tested in Chrome.

Platforms:Web

Stars7

Updated15 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Alpha Waves

Clone of Alpha Waves

The original Atari ST source code of Alpha Waves by Christophe de Dinechin, mirrored here after the Atari-Forum community got it compiling.

Platforms:Atari

Stars6

Updated3 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Platform

Theme: —

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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (original game, not this project)

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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Decompilation

Clone of Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

A work-in-progress decompilation of Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree.

Stars6

Updated1 year ago

LicenseCC0-1.0

Release2023

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Block Shooter

Clone of BrickShooter

A small browser-based remake the author simply describes as a 'remake of an old game,' playable via GitHub Pages.

Platforms:Web

Stars6

Updated6 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2019

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Blupimania Legacy

Clone of Blupimania

Preserves the last known MS-DOS source code of Blupimania for historical and study purposes, rather than as a working build.

Platforms:DOS

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2024

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

Sporadic

Domino-Chain

Clone of Pushover

A free, open-source C++/SDL2 puzzle game its developers call a faithful reincarnation of Pushover, toppling dominoes in one chain reaction.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated4 months ago

Licensegpl-3.0+

Release2019

Genre: Platform

Theme: —

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Fish Fillets Reborn

Clone of Fish Fillets

A mobile-first, from-scratch port of Fish Fillets for Android, decoupling display from game logic for native frame rate, not a 10 FPS cap.

Platforms:Android

Stars6

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2018

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Aquatic

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Gem Drop Deluxe

Clone of Magical Drop III

A single-player Atari 8-bit puzzle game by Bill Kendrick, written in Action! in 1997 and later ported to C, matching gems across 20 levels.

Platforms:Atari

Stars6

Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Haiku 2048

Clone of 2048

A 2048 clone built for Haiku OS, played on a 4-by-4 grid with keyboard-only controls.

Platforms:BeOS

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2015

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Numpty Physics

Clone of Crayon Physics Deluxe

A GPL drawing puzzle game in the spirit of Crayon Physics, built on Box2D and with a built-in level editor.

Platforms:Linux

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

Licensegpl-3.0

Release2023

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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QML Sokoban

Clone of Sokoban

A Sokoban clone built in Qt's QML UI language, reusing the graphics and levels from the earlier KSokoban project.

Platforms:None

Stars6

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Lemmings (original game, not this project)

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RetroLemmini

Clone of Lemmings

RetroLemmini continues the Java-based Lemmini engine family (Lemmini, SuperLemmini, SuperLemminiToo) for playing Lemmings.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated2 months ago

LicenseApache-2.0

Release2025

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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SuperLemonadeFactoryOUYA

Clone of Super Lemonade Factory

An official OUYA port of the co-op puzzle-platformer Super Lemonade Factory, spanning 72 levels across three worlds.

Platforms:LinuxOSXiOS

Stars6

Updated5 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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The New Tetris Decompilation

Clone of The New Tetris

A work-in-progress matching decompilation of The New Tetris (US, version 1.0) that aims to recreate a source code base from scratch using…

Stars6

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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TsumuLightRecomp

Clone of Tsumu Light

A native PC recompilation of the Japan-only PS1 puzzle game Tsumu Light, with a built-in English fan translation.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated2 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2026

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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WarioWare: Twisted! (original game, not this project)

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WarioWare: Twisted! Recompilation

Clone of WarioWare: Twisted!

An experimental static recompilation of WarioWare: Twisted! for Windows and Android with gyro controls; needs your own ROM.

Stars6

Updated1 month ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2026

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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XP Minesweeper Classic

Clone of Minesweeper

A faithful Lua/LÖVE2D recreation of Windows XP's Minesweeper, with chording and custom boards up to 99x99.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated3 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2025

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Yoshi Recompilation

Clone of Yoshi

A static recompilation of the NES game Yoshi for native PC, believed fully playable; you supply your own USA ROM.

Stars6

Updated1 month ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2026

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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chainreaction

Clone of Nuclear Reaction

An experimental Java game based on Nuclear Reaction by Robert Akerberg.

Platforms:None

Stars6

Updated9 years ago

LicenseLGPL-3.0

Release2012

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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l-echo

Clone of Echochrome

A free, open-source clone of Echochrome (Mugen Kairou in Japan), ported from Linux to Windows, Mac OS X, and Nintendo DS.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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smines

Clone of Minesweeper

A Minesweeper clone for Linux, distributed through the Arch User Repository as smines-git.

Platforms:Linux

Stars6

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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2048.tcl

Clone of 2048

A terminal implementation of 2048 written in Tcl, playable on Linux, Windows, and macOS from the command line.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars5

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT

Release2014

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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A Mouse's Vengeance

Clone of Rodent's Revenge

A Java remake of the 1991 Microsoft puzzle game Rodent's Revenge.

Platforms:None

Stars5

Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2013

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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