GamesRadar - DS Puzzle Games

Ball Fighter

Despite the silly name for this DSiWare game, we'll give the interesting mix of puzzles and fighting the benefit of the doubt, for now.

Puzzler World

2/10/2009

This game is quite straightforward, just a collection of 14 different types of puzzles to play through, including Sudoku, Crossword and Wordsearch.

Art Style: Precipice

3/08/2009

The DSiWare library is still in its infancy, but Nintendo's downloadable title seeks to provide some good old-fashioned puzzle action. Climb the tower of falling blocks without getting crushed - seems simple enough, right?

Reflection

One of the first downloadable titles for the DSi we think we might care about, this little indie game was developed at the University of Southern California.

Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles

24/04/2009

Improve your mind and learn something new with Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles. Pick up and play or take on the challenge and beat your previous scores. Play 1000’s of Sudoku and picture logic puzzles.

Art Style: Boxlife

10/07/2009

Art Style: Boxlife is a DSiWare puzzler available for download on the DSi.

Puzzle Chronicles

Battle with puzzle combat that's based on real-time action and collect armor and weapons with every opponent you best.

Picross 3D

Taking the esteemed puzzle series in a new direction, the once 2D puzzles get a third dimension for you to discover hidden pictures in.

Professor Layton and the Pandora's Box

The Professor is back with more brain busters. This entry has the same shell as the first, but with a superior story and even better presented puzzles.

Sushi Go Round

Based on a popular and addictively simple Flash game, this title puts you in the seat of the chef at a conveyor belt-sushi restaurant. Make sushi to order and give the customers sake to calm them down.

Squishy Tank

Squishy Tank challenges players to quickly match and destroy tiles before they run out of time, and includes wacky items and powerups.

Dream Chronicles

Part mystery game, part hide and seek, this casual favorite comes to the DS. The story is based around searching for your missing husband and finding the reason for the whole town falling asleep.

Puzzle Bobble Galaxy

While Space Bust-A-Move is okay, it doesn’t do anything particularly new. And when a series has been running for a few thousand years, it needs a shot in the arm now and then.

Sudoku Ball - Detective

Pick locks, investigate clues, and complete sudoku puzzles on a 3D ball to solve murders just like Sherlock Holmes did.

Art Style: Aquite

3/04/2009

This underwater puzzle game for DSiWare looks simple enough for anybody.

Dr. Mario Express

20/04/2009

Dr. Mario comes to DSiWare, as the already simplistic puzzler gets stripped down to be an affordable download.

WireWay

WireWay is an action-puzzle game about a troublesome alien who has been dropped off by his ship and travels the planet jumping through wacky adventures. The player must use the stylus to flick, rub and draw as he helps the alien navigate through 60 levels.

Zoo Quest

Learn animal facts in this DS puzzler. But don't expect to be playing for too long.

Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming

Puzzle De Harvest Moon tried to combine crop cultivation with ‘minigame madness,’ but came up short. Sadly, despite Frantic Farming revising the gameplay, it’s still convoluted.

Junior Brain Trainer

5/12/2008

Sure it's another brain training rip-off, but kids could do much worse than this game to help improve their minds.