Category: Arcade/Puzzle

Title: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Publisher: Red Wagon Games
Platform: Wii
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/11/2011
Overview: Santa Claus is comin’ to Wii! Play as Kris Kringle in this heartwarming yuletide adventure based on the classic Christmas TV special. Carry out your mission of delivering toys to the kids in Sombertown, overcoming challenges in platform-based levels. While Christmas has 12 days, the game more than doubles that, giving you 25 levels of Christmas cheer to explore. You can share the adventure with a friend (playing as Topper the penguin) in two-player Story Mode. Surprises (more presents!) await throughout the game in stockings you can discover to unlock bonus content.

Title: Gem Smashers
Publisher: Red Wagon Games
Platform: Wii
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/8/2011
Overview: Three heroes with action-packed names lead the charge in this smash-and-crash puzzle challenge. A long time ago, cute little creatures lived on Earth. One day an evil scientist came to steal energy from the planet. He made the creatures prisoners, trapping them in crystal cells. Three heroes were able to escape. BAM, BOM, and BAU now travel the world, colliding into cells to knock their friends free. Each character features their own blend of speed, style, and bounce power. Use their skills to break blocks in eight worlds with over 100 levels just waiting to be smashed apart.

Title: Brain Age: Concentration Training
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 2/12/2013
Overview: Cut through the noise of the constantly connected digital world with this game designed to help your brain refocus. Designed by renowned brain expert Ryuta Kawashima, MD, Brain Age: Concentration Training helps combat information overload by reminding you how to stay focused on a single task. Practicing these training exercises can help improve concentration and short-term memory in as little as five minutes a day. Special Devilish Training exercises adjust in real time based on how you play, changing the difficulty level to suit your skills and provide maximum benefit. You can also switch things up with other types of challenges that focus on different skills and give your brain some time to relax before the next session.

Title: Classic Games Overload: Card and Puzzle Edition
Publisher: Telegames
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 12/4/2012
Overview: The classics never go out of style and the challenges never end with this massive collection of puzzles and card games! Overload on the classics with over 1,200 favorite card games and brain-teasing puzzles. Play enduring card games Hearts, Spades, Go Fish, Crazy 8’s, Romme, Canasta, Cribbage, Euchre, Bridge, and Skat. Try your luck at casino favorites like Blackjack, Texas Hold ‘Em, and Video Poker. Choose from 202 unique versions of Solitaire, 101 different picture puzzles, 404 different Mahjong puzzles, and 505 different Tangram puzzles. Play AI opponents or challenge friends in local multiplayer. The game tracks your stats and achievements and provides on-screen instructions to help with any of the games.

Title: 50 Classic Games
Publisher: Maximum Family Games
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 12/1/2012
Overview: Whether you’re looking for a quick competitive fix or you’re in for the long haul, you’ll find the challenge you’re looking for here! Fifty different games offer 3D fun for everyone on your Nintendo 3DS! Solo challenges like Mahjongg, Sudoku, and Peg Solitaire will keep your game sharp and your wits keen. Or, challenge a computer-controlled opponent in all kinds of contests, including Chess, Battle Ships, Tic Tac Toe, and more! Play with easy-to-use Touch Screen controls as you try and conquer over 1,300 levels, all playable at multiple difficulty levels.

Title: Adventure Time: Hey Ice King? Why’d you Steal our Garbage?
Publisher: D3P
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/20/2012
Overview: Finn and Jake’s trash is the Ice King’s treasure in this game based on the hit Cartoon Network series. Enter the madcap world of Adventure Time and go on an oddball quest for garbage-driven revenge. Jake and Finn have been tossing their burrito wrappers, unfinished bananas, and chicken diapers as usual. They don’t care what happens to their trash after that, until the Ice King steals it to build a Garbage Princess! Play as Jake and Finn in side-scrolling and overhead action in a storyline from Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward. Journey across the Land of Ooo, finding treasures, exploring dungeons and generally kicking butt.

Title: Scribblenauts Unlimited
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/12/2012
Overview: Explore a 3D playground for your imagination in Scribblenauts Unlimited! Experience a new side-scrolling, puzzle-filled Scribblenauts world where you’ll solve challenges by drawing objects on the screen. Create any object you can imagine and store them in your magic backpack to use later. Progress through open-world levels or pick your favorite and stay as long as you like, using it as a playground for your imagination. Hints help you find nearby Starites to keep your quest moving. See how other players have solved the puzzles you’re facing with help from StreetPass.

Title: Freaky Forms Deluxe: Your Creations Alive!
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/6/2012
Overview: Create crazy creature combos with this FreakyForms game that lets your creations come to life! FreakyForms Deluxe: Your Creations, Alive! frees your imagination to roam in any direction. Pick shapes from over 600 forms to build a colorful creation called a formee. Make fun swaps, like switching out your formee’s shoes for wheels or even wings! Once you’ve made your formee, you can explore exciting areas where you’ll encounter other formees. Up to four players can team up to make a formee together, and you can share your creations with Street Pass or by using a QR code made just for your formee.

Title: Puzzler World 3D 2012
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 9/24/2012
Overview: The Puzzler World is bigger than ever with a third dimension added on top of 1,200 puzzles! The first game in the series to feature 3D presentation lets you pick your puzzle from 16 brain-teasing styles. Challenge yourself with returning favorites like Wordsearch, Crosswords, and Spot the Difference, tackle one of eight new types, including Pathfinder and Drop Zone, and gear up for an extended test with bonus games! Collect hint tokens and cash them in to get clues when you need them most. You can use the 3DS Stylus to write your solutions directly on-screen. As you play, the game will learn your handwriting so you can focus all that brain power on the puzzle in front of you.

Title: Angry Birds Trilogy
Publisher: Activision
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 9/24/2012
Overview: Experience Angry Birds in 3D as the worldwide hit mobile game comes to Nintendo 3DS! The Angry Birds Trilogy combines Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, and the original that started it all, and gives them new cinematics, visuals, and bonus content made for the stereoscopic presentation of the 3DS. The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake! Launch your birds and smash the pigs who stole your eggs. Take the battle to the colorful surroundings of Rio, and celebrate festive occasions around the world in Seasons. In all, the games include more than 290 levels of pig-pummeling action!

Title: Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome 2
Publisher: Rising Star Games
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 6/28/2012
Overview: Rome isn’t built in a day – it’s built three tiles at a time in this tile-matching puzzle challenge! History’s greatest civilization is yours to shape in Cradle of Rome 2. You are Rome’s greatest Emperor and your people are counting on you to make their city a legend. Match three or more tiles to build houses and palaces and expand a bustling settlement into a thriving metropolis. Swap out tiles to open up combinations and continue to build. As your civilization expands, your wealth and your legend will grow along with it. Succeed in the challenge and you can marvel at the empire that you have created.

Title: Shifting World
Publisher: Aksys
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 4/26/2012
Overview: The difference between black and white is not so simple in this 3D puzzler where you’ll shift the environment to overcome challenges. Based on a popular browser-based game, each side-scrolling level in Shifting World is a black-and-white blend of shapes and objects. Shift between the black version and the white version, altering how you can interact with objects, changing what’s on the floor and what’s in the background, and even reorienting gravity. Explore over 60 levels in Adventure, Time Attack, or Bonus Mode. Use a level editor to shape your own challenges, take pictures of bar codes and use them to generate new levels, and more.

Title: Gem Smashers
Publisher: Red Wagon Games
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/8/2011
Overview: Three heroes with action-packed names lead the charge in this smash-and-crash puzzle challenge. A long time ago, cute little creatures lived on Earth. One day an evil scientist came to steal energy from the planet. He made the creatures prisoners, trapping them in crystal cells. Three heroes were able to escape. BAM, BOM, and BAU now travel the world, colliding into cells to knock their friends free. Each character features their own blend of speed, style, and bounce power. Use their skills to break blocks in eight worlds with over 100 levels just waiting to be smashed apart.

Title: Nikoli’s Pencil Puzzle
Publisher: Konami
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 10/28/2011
Overview: This engaging brain-teasing challenge serves up 600 individual puzzles and dares you to solve them. It’s the only way you can unlock a never-before-seen puzzle! Choose from five puzzle types. Warm up with the essential Soduku. Jump into Bridges, where you’ll build bridges between islands. Light up a hallway in Museum, where you’ll have to eliminate darkness without any lights overlapping. Carve the board into rectangles in Boxes, where you have to match the size of the box to the number inside it. If you want to tackle that fifth puzzle type – an exclusive created just for 3DS – you’ll need to unlock it. How’s that for a challenge?

Title: Centipede: Infestation
Publisher: Atari
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 10/25/2011
Overview: The battlefield has shifted in this re-imagination of an arcade classic. Centipede: Infestation trades the top-down play that made the original an all-time favorite for squirmy third-person action. This time, the bugs aren’t slowly winding their way down toward you, they’re coming right at you! Play as Max the bug slayer in story-backed action play set in a post-apocalyptic world. Use futuristic weapons like the Lightning Orb Gun, Freezethrower, Nuke Gun, or Mine Launcher as you battle gigantic bug enemies including centipedes, spiders, grubs, moths and more. Rack up power-ups, pile up bug bodies to build a wall, or team up with a friend for double-bug-blastin’ co-op play.

Title: Mahjong Cub3d
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overview: Regular mahjong tiles stack up. Mahjong Cub3d tiles stack in all directions! Play the longtime favorite tile game in an all-new way in this matchmaking puzzler that offers a different type of challenge. Set a variety of game options, including difficulty, time limit, mode, and more. Scan six sides of symbol tiles in Cube Mode, where you’ll need to match them up to clear the floating cube. The more maps you complete, the more maps you’ll unlock. Challenge a friend in Vs. Mode or show off your skills in original Mahjong play, which lets you tweak your settings to fit your style.

Title: Tetris Axis
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 10/1/2011
Overview: The action in Tetris is practically never-ending, so it should come as no surprise that the puzzle franchise lives on! One of the most popular games of all-time adds to its mighty legacy with Tetris Axis. Over 20 modes combine classic Tetris play with new twists on the game’s line-clearing mayhem. Start with the familiar Marathon Mode, then dive into the frantic new Fever Mode. There are nine modes geared for party play, eight modes that can connect up to eight competitors in multiplayer, and two modes specially designed to take advantage of the 3DS Augmented Reality function. And, thanks to stereoscopic 3D, the presentation has never looked better.

Title: Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
Publisher: Crave
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 9/24/2011
Overview: The pinball machine is once again at the pinnacle of “gaming cool” as the classic arcade icon comes to life in 3D! Once upon a time, each pinball machine offered a new blizzard of sights, sounds, and a theme no quarter in your pocket could resist. And no one scored more hits with their designs than the Williams brand. Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection rolls out the most popular tables the company made and gets the most out of their vibrant playing surfaces by re-creating them in 3D. Experience the lights, sounds, and designs that filled arcades in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s all in one awesome pinball package.

Title: Frogger 3D
Publisher: Konami
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 9/19/2011
Overview: An arcade legend celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new edition that that sends Frogger way beyond the bog. The play that made Frogger an all-time favorite has been revitalized with all-new 3D environments filled with new challenges. Try to make it to the end of over 60 stages without getting smashed in locations that range from the bog to New York City to alternate dimensions. Get help from Frogger’s friends as you dodge traffic, climb buildings, evade predators, and destroy obstacles. Complete classic traffic-dodging levels in Street Pass play, see how long you can last without safety zones in Forever Mode, and see who’s the dodgiest in four-player showdowns.

Title: Bit.Trip Saga
Publisher: Aksys
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 9/15/2011
Overview: Retro classic meets modern cool in this collection of games built on a creative combination of 8-bit graphics and addictive arcade play that dares you to escape its gravitational pull. The Bit.Trip Saga brings together six Bit.Trip games: Bit.Trip Beat, Core, Void, Runner, Fate, and Flux. Together, they tell the story of CommanderVideo. Beat, Core, and Void are all rhythm-based challenges. Runner moves to 2600-style platforming, Fate turns on shooter explosiveness, while Flux returns to Bit.Trip’s rhythm roots. Each game features a classic chiptune soundtrack and one-of-a-kind visuals that look like they leaked out of an Atari that spent the last 30 years cooking in the microwave.