History Main / BlockPuzzle

* ''VideoGame/MidnightPuppeteer'': The courtyard features a puzzle involving red stones in a garden maze. You have to maneuver through them and push the last stone into a pit in order to get access to a key at the end of the maze.

* ''VideoGame/MidnightPuppeteer'': The courtyard features a puzzle involving red balls in a garden maze. You have to maneuver through them and push the last ball into a pit in order to get access to a key and a shovel on the other side of the courtyard.

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', the ''Sokoban'' {{minigame}} {{sidequest}} consists of pushing boulders around to plug up holes in the floor which are otherwise impassable.

* The ''VideoGame/PuzzleBoy'' series of games by Creator/{{Atlus}} (localized for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy as ''Kwirk'' and ''Amazing Tater'') featured blocks of varying shapes and sizes. Some blocks just had to be pushed out of the way; others were needed to fill holes.

* ''Clogger'' for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro has you assembling a picture in each level by pushing its 21 pieces around so that they fit together properly.

SuperTrope of FifteenPuzzle, sliding numbered tiles in a 4×4 grid so they are arranged in ascending order, and {{Klotski}}, a sliding 4×5 puzzle of which the goal is getting a 2×2 block to the bottom. Not to be confused with FallingBlocks. Contrast {{Grid Puzzle}}s, which are solved by freely re-arranging the elements of a grid.

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This occasionally crosses over with SolveTheSoupCans, when the block puzzles really don't make any sense, and coupled with a particular variety of UnexpectedGameplayChange. With the push towards realism in environments, the Block Puzzle does seem to be on the {{d|iscreditedTrope}}ecline, but is far from {{dead|HorseTrope}} -- you never know when you'll find yourself near a ledge you can't quite reach, in a room filled with CrateExpectations. The advent of [[WreakingHavok physics engines]] have also given block puzzles a new lease on life, as they allow for more flexible manipulation of blocks.

SuperTrope of FifteenPuzzle and {{Klotski}}, a sliding 4×5 puzzle of which the goal is getting a 2×2 block to the bottom. Not to be confused with FallingBlocks. Contrast {{Grid Puzzle}}s, which are solved by re-arranging the elements of a grid.

SuperTrope of FifteenPuzzle and {{Klotski}}. Not to be confused with FallingBlocks. Contrast {{Grid Puzzle}}s, which are solved by re-arranging the elements of a grid.

Also see {{Klotski}}. Not to be confused with FallingBlocks. Contrast {{Grid Puzzle}}s, which are solved by re-arranging the elements of a grid.

* ''TabletopGame/PerplexCity'' manages to have a block puzzle card.

* Blocks with different properties, such as Destroyable blocks, FrictionlessIce Blocks, [[LightAndMirrorsPuzzle Mirror or Prism]] blocks, or blocks that interact or react with each other
* Enemies that pursue the player and must be trapped or crushed by the blocks
* The ability to ''pull'' blocks as well as push them.

Also see {{Klotski}}. Not to be confused with FallingBlocks.

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has one as a GameWithinAGame. As per company tradition, [[NintendoHard it's not particularly easy]].

* Surprisingly, the VideoGame/{{LEGO Adaptation Game}}s only have a few of these puzzles apiece, if any.

* This is the real point behind ''Dawn's Light''. ''A Christmas Tale'', one of the games in this series consists almost entirely of these.

* The ''Eggerland'' series (which includes the ''VideoGame/{{Adventures of Lolo}}'' trilogy) is a series of Sokoban-style block-puzzle-and-collection games.

** ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyNexus'': Block puzzles involving the ice blocks from ''The Fafnir Knight'' are added in the ''Nexus'' version of Golden Lair, being introduced during the dungeon's second half (the original Golden Lair from ''Legends of the Titan'' lacks them); ''Nexus'' also has them in the penultimate MiniDungeon (Frigid Lake, accessible during the PlayableEpilogue), and the ensuing puzzles require masterful thinking to be solved. Lastly, the Western and [[BonusDungeon Abyssal]] Shrines feature F.O.E. which can be safely pushed up to twice (a third time will prompt them to chase you, so beware), and have to be pushed onto certain positions so you can either walk over them once you climb onto the lower walls or simply make your way into previously-obstructed passageways.

* ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on how absurd it is that this [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/sliding-scale sort of simple puzzle]] somehow is effective at keeping Ganondorf away from anything. Link can't believe that the temple is keeping Ganondorf by just using a slide puzzle. Ganondorf can't believe that everything has to aways be ''so difficult''.

* [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0164.html Block puzzles]] [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20021023.html are common]] in the world of ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}!''

* ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on how absurd it is this [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/sliding-scale sort of puzzle]] some how is effective at keeping Ganon away from anything.
* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'', where the giant stone blocks are far too heavy for a 13-year-old girl to budge, and she has to use the KeyUnderTheDoormat to get past it.

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* Block puzzles are very rare in the ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' series, as many of the puzzles revolve around either working around other gimmicks or dodging the always-deadly F.O.E. (each species of which has to be evaded depending on how it moves and behaves), but they exist. The Frozen Grounds adds ice blocks in ''The Fafnir Knight'', and they have to be pushed across their icy ponds in order to reach key places (the FrictionlessIce would make navigation impossible otherwise); they're also present in the ''Nexus'' version of Golden Lair, being introduced during the second half. Neither the original Frozen Grounds from ''Heroes of Lagaard'' nor the original Golden Lair from ''Legends of the Titan'' have them. ''Nexus'' also has them in the penultimate MiniDungeon (Frigid Lake, accessible during the PlayableEpilogue). Lastly, the Western and [[BonusDungeon Abyssal]] Shrines from ''Nexus'' feature F.O.E. which can be safely pushed up to twice (a third time will prompt them to chase you, so beware), and have to be pushed onto certain positions so you can then walk over them once you climb onto the walls.

* ''VideoGame/{{Nitemare 3D}}'' required you to push blocks and tombstones around occasionally to clear a path... or block one.

* ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' featured an enormous amount of block puzzles, ranging from "push the same-colored blocks together" to "push every block into a particular position, then bomb them in a very specific order while pressing certain switches". Surprisingly, these were almost never cases of GuideDangIt, and perfectly workable on your own (if a bit frustrating at times). There's even one that is actually (correctly) called the Hardest Puzzle in the World by an NPC, but it's optional

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' is chock-full of puzzles with the traditional non-descript metal blocks. ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' gives the block puzzles a more modern look, with a gravity gun and physics objects replacing the old-school blocks. In other words, first game: block puzzle, second game: block puzzle [[RecycledInSpace WITH PHYSICS]].