History Main / SetPiecePuzzle

The Set Piece Puzzle usually features PuzzleReset. See also TogglingSetpiecePuzzle, a special case which revolves around toggling or swapping the corresponding states of setpieces and mechanisms.

* Any ''Frachise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game ever contains ''loads'' of these, mostly involving pushing blocks around. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' takes it further by having several "alternate interface" puzzles. Most of them involve the Boss Keys, which need to be rotated a certain way before they can open the door to the boss. One of them combines this with the usual DungeonCrawling by having you rearrange the whole dungeon like a sliding puzzle.

To the player, a mix of both puzzle types adds variety, though overuse of the Set Piece Puzzle makes the puzzles feel disconnected from the narrative, and can lead him to feel that he's dealing with a SolveTheSoupCans puzzle.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' is fond of these in addition to LockAndKeyPuzzles. One notable example occurs in ''Outbreak'', where you have to turn on power to an elevator by solving one of these puzzles while zombies smacked in the door in real-time. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' has a few of these as well, including a sliding tile puzzle used to unlock a mechanism

The Set Piece Puzzle usually features PuzzleReset.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' was fond of these in addition to LockAndKeyPuzzles. One notable example occurred in "Outbreak," when you would have to turn on power to an elevator by solving one of these puzzles while zombies smacked in the door in real-time.
** Resident Evil 4 has a few of these, including a sliding tile puzzle used to unlock a mechanism
* Any ''Zelda'' game ever contains ''loads'' of these, mostly involving pushing blocks around.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' takes it further by having several "alternate interface" puzzles. Most of them involve the Boss Keys, which need to be rotated a certain way before they can open the door to the boss. One of them combines this with the usual DungeonCrawling by having you rearrange the whole dungeon like a sliding puzzle.

** They also did that three-unit container + five-unit container with a need to get four units. You know, the one from ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''. EasyWhenYouKnowHow.

* Like previous games in the series, ''Return to Ravenhearst'' is mostly a Set Piec Puzzle, but oftentimes an item must be discovered and introduced into the puzzle to allow it to be used and/or completed.

%% SpyroTheDragon enjoyed this.

* Every ''{{Pokemon}}'' game had several of these, involving the Strength HM and Boulders in a cavern, all of which could be reset by leaving the cavern or room and reentering.

** If block puzzles count, VagrantStory is the king.

* LucasArts' ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' contains several of them, often involving inventory, so it's a mix of the two puzzle types.

* BioWare's very fond of the Tower of Hanoi. They also frequently use the "press the lit button and the buttons surrounding it light up" puzzle.

* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', as noted, popularized the format, and many other games of the era followed suit: ''Shivers'', ''[[VideoGame/AmberJourneysBeyond Amber]]'', ''[[LighthouseTheDarkBeing The Lighthouse]]'', etc.

* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', as noted, popularized the format, and many other games of the era followed suit: ''Shivers'', ''Amber'', ''The Lighthouse'', etc.

* ''HotelDusk'' is full of these; they tend to be pretty simple though.

* ''LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'' features some puzzles involving putting a stone block on the right slot on the wall to complete the illustration. The fact that the blocks can be turned over adds some smooth difficulty to its solving.

Adventure games have long used a combination of the two types of puzzle, though the Set Piece Puzzle became overwhelmingly popular to the point of excluding all others during the dominance of ''Myst''-clones. These puzzles were popular with designers because, isolated as they were from the rest of the model world, they were technically easier to design and avoided the problem of CombinatorialExplosion. A game consisting of only this sort of puzzle need not, for example, provide a player inventory at all.

Puzzles in [[AdventureGame Adventure Games]] and Adventure-hybrids tend to fall into one of two categories: the LockAndKeyPuzzle, wherein the player must collect and use objects from around the model world to effect changes to the state of the game, and the SetPiecePuzzle, which consists of a single object to be manipulated.

The SetPiecePuzzle usually features PuzzleReset.

* Like previous games in the series, ''Return to Ravenhearst'' is mostly a SetPiecePuzzle, but oftentimes an item must be discovered and introduced into the puzzle to allow it to be used and/or completed.

* ''FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' often makes you move pillars, blow holes or jump gaps in sequence to progress. This makes it unique as far as ''FinalFantasy'' goes.

* SpyroTheDragon enjoyed this.

* LucasArts' ''Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'' contains several of them, often involving inventory, so it's a mix of the two puzzle types.
* {{Castlevania}}: Dawn of Sorrow contains the 15-tile puzzle in the middle of the Demon Guest House.
* VideoGame/ChronoCross contains a bunch of these, mainly in Fort Dragonia.
* HotelDusk is full of these; they tend to be pretty simple though.

* The illustrated InteractiveFiction adventures of Legend Entertainment typically threw in a handful of these each.

* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia: Sands of Time'' included a puzzle sequence to activate the castle's security systems, consisting of a platform that could rotate and move up and down, which you had to use to pick up rods in the correct order and then slot them into the right holes. It's much harder to describe than it is to solve.
** And ''Warrior Within'' has two: One where you have to open a sluice gate to fill a couple of garden fountains with water, and one where you had to trick a boss into helping you get an old clockwork started.