I found some great puzzle games on the internet, well worth playing. Puzzle games are probably the most popular games on the internet. Click on the links to play the game.

Waterfalls 2
In this game, it is the objective to lead floating colored stuff to the correct symbol. You use forces to push the direction of the floating stuff. Certainly a good puzzler to keep you busy all night!

Those orange things go to the circle, the purple to the star

First discover what goes where…

Vessel
Tangram is hard, Tangram with physics is even harder. Even if you see the solution to place the figures in the vessel, then still it is hard to place them because you move them with a handicap: physics. You click a rope on the segment, and then you carry it to the vessel, but influenced by gravity and free rotation, it is very hard to get the figure into position. A game for those with lots of patience!

Sorry, no patience here I’m afraid

Twist Bang
Another Jewel Case game, but the controls are limited, making the game harder than most Jewel Case clones. It has nice graphics in the Pirate theme.

Cute graphics, but the game is still hard though

Keywords: nice try, okay and brilliant. What makes a good game? Well, a good game is one which people like to play twice. How do you get there? Well, you need to give the player that special feeling.

Nuclei
Nuclei is a nice try for a game. Quite simple, however takes too long to load. The object of the game is to protect your own ball in the middle of the screen, from incoming balls. You do this by rotating some forcefield around, on which the enemy balls will bounce. Well, that’s about it. After playing a few minutes, you have been there and done that.

That blue thing in the middle needs to be protected from the green things

Spaceball
Spaceball is an okay arkanoid clone. I have never seen anything like this. The object of the game is to play away all the colored bricks in the level. However, you do not control a platform to bounce the ball, no, you control the ball itself. An okay game to kill some time.

Green bricks when the ball-color is green

Coma
Coma is one of those diamonds you find on the internet. Absolutely brilliant. You play some black blob character and you start in some sort of haunted-house scene. When you leave the house, you enter into a cartoonist world, where the flowers wave as you pass them. I’m still not sure what the objective of the game is. But that’s also a positive point, you need to play it to discover the objective.

You walk past that haunty window, and birds fly-by

Particle systems are used in games for different reasons, explosions for example. The idea is to have some controlled randomness in the game, to get a better visual effect. However, particle systems may also be used as part of the gameplay, and that gets very, very interesting.

Music Catch
Absolutely my favorite in this article. A particle system is coupled with a sound equalizer. So particles are created on the rhythm of the music. While listening to calm piano music, the player needs to catch geometric shapes, which give points. If you catch yellow shapes, your score multiplier goes up, red shapes are bad which decreases you score multiplier. Many people love this game from 2008.

Sit back and relax, while you catch some random shapes

EON
In this game, large planets have some kind of energy, which you need to transport to smaller planets, using magnets. The planets generating the energy are coupled to an infinite particle system, while the magnets influence how the particles flow. Very nice game, with quite some tough puzzles.

Grumpy, those black holes in the middle mess up everything

Vector Effect
This arcade type of game is very nice visual appeal. You need to shoot the particles which seem to appear random in the game, and avoid touching them. The particle system seems to be random enemy creator in this game. Still, the game is very addicting.

Get away and shoot those shapes!

How does a game get you hooked? Well, it needs virtues.

Blastwave
Blastwave is a crazy but well done idea. It has very nice graphics. But what’s really good about the game is that it’s very original. You are God, and with your hand of God, you need to create whirlpools in the water, to attract floating people. You navigate these people through a hurdle of obstacles, while collecting bonuses. The nice thing is, each level introduces a new challenge for you to take.

The guy on the top-left, needs to go to that green thing at the bottom-right

Pixel Shuffle
Pixel games are for the older players, who think with nostalgia back to the eighties and early nineties, when graphics were simple and your imagination was part of making the game. In Pixel Shuffle, the player needs to shuffle the pixels in the playing field, so that they represent the target graphic. As you only shuffle vertical bars of pixels, the ordering is not very hard. Only you need to remember what the graphic was, which you try to recreate, which makes the game a bit harder.

How can such a nice game point the finger at you?

Up-Beat
Up-Beat is one of those music games where you need to play along with the computer. This time it’s piano practice. This game absolutely makes a good first impression. First level in category “easy” is “The Weekend” by Michael Gray. Now you get your first impression. Good graphics, fun gameplay and very cool music. I love that song.

I can’t wait for the weekend, to play this game all weekend