Open Source C Puzzle Games

Egoboo is a working cool 3D dungeon crawling game in the spirit of nethack. Currently it is supported by Windows, Linux and Mac.

Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.

A scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore+4. The game is intended to show young people (I'm writing it for my son's birthday) all the cool games they missed.

Falling Block Game is a free, open source block stacking game available for Windows and Linux. The object of the game is to move and rotate pieces in order to fill in complete rows. The more rows you clear at once, the more points you score!

Simple Sokoban is a (simple) Sokoban game aimed at playability and portability across systems. It is written in ANSI C89, using SDL for user interactions. I developed it natively under x86_64 Linux, but it should compile just fine on virtually anything that has a C compiler and the SDL library.

Wizznic is an implementation of Puzznic for Gp2X Wiz, Linux and Windows. It is made very easy for non-programmers to contribute Levels/Graphics and sounds.

Candy Crisis: an exciting puzzle game written with C, SDL, SDL_image, and Fmod. Originally on Mac OS, also ported to Winddows.

A very special TETRIS clone, the Queen of Tetrises, the TETRIS Queen, with 50 levels, 30 musics, total support for 2 player, and two modes: classic & destructor (with bombs and mega-bombs), this and much more in one free game developed with Allegro lib.

Stardork is a console-based game where you move and shoot up/down/left/right and diagonally to hit a goal. when you hit a goal more stars randomly appear and if you run into a star you lose power and eventually die.

Sudokuki is a free graphical SUDOKU game: Sudokuki solves even the most difficult sudoku grids for you - Generate a sudoku - Play sudoku - Print a sudoku... Available in 17 languages. Just download and play! You can also play with arabic or chinese numbers. Sudokuki is Free Software developed in Java. Have fun!

SdlScavenger A fun 2-D game like Lode Runner. With 196 very good puzzle screens to solve. Works in linux or Windows using (SDL) libraries. Has many many improvements over the original XScavenger game available at http://www.xdr.com/dash/scavenger.html

Mures is a cross-platform clone of Sega's "Chu Chu Rocket," a multi-player puzzle game. It is written in C using SDL. Multi-player is handled through a client-server design that supports multiple players per client.

Yet another Tetris clone. It features up to 4 simultaneous players, 5 customizable play modes, a piece editor and player profiles (high scores and statistics). Customizable skin, music and background

A tool to help you design crosswords by hand, though there are automated functions to suggest words, or even fill in grids. You create a grid, add clues by hand, then use the cut and paste tools to transfer to a wordprocessing or other desktop publishing package. So a nice tool for education, if you're running a club magazine or parish newsletter, or similar use. You can transfer files in the semi-standard xpf format, supported by some other crossword-editing software. There's also a completely portable random crossword generator. It's an independent program, but shares a lot of code with Crossword Designer.

It is a sandbox game, based on physics. The game aim is to make contact red object with green object. You can use various objects, solid, wire (rope), and bendable objects. Gravitation will help you.

Twin Distress is a simple puzzle game where you must remove all of the blocks of the same color from the screen before the time runs out. Features include different skill levels, high scores, sound & music.

4digits is a guess-the-number puzzle game. It's also called Bulls and Cows, and in China people simply call it Guess-the-Number. The game's objective is to guess a four-digit number in 8 times.

Just a simple colorful clone of the famous game "Snake" but with an extraordinary feature. Do you know the Soviet Russia meme by Smirnoff? Try to imagine if you don't eat the food but the food eats you.

Escape Towards The Unknown is a graphic adventure (like Monkey's Island) written in C with SDL support. Main feature are: brand new user command language interface; support for digitalized dialogues in many languages.

An implementation of the famous sokoban puzzle game.

This is no Sudoku solver, but "explainer". It can guide you with logic through the solving process. Not only 9x9 grids: MxN, samurai or any layout you can describe with the board editor! Now with a great GUI! Manual, tutorial, examples...

X-pired is an action-puzzle game written in C using SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image and SDL_gfx libraries distributed under the terms of GNU GPL. The goal of the game in each level is to reach the exit square, avoiding exploding barrels and other deadly stuff.

Arc Consistency Crossword Compiler (arccc) uses constraint satisfaction algorithms to fill crossword grids given a wordlist. The current implementation can fill simple grids in less than a minute. A word list gleaned from a variety of sources is includ

An open source implementation of the classic game where you control a steel ball by tilting a wooden labyrinth.

Vorton is a remake of the classic game Highway Encounter. It is built with SDL libs, portable on Windows, Linux, Dreamcast, GP32..