Abandoned Places Picture Tile Quest is a sliding tile puzzle built on photographs of empty, forgotten buildings. The image is cut into tiles, shuffled, and given one empty square, and your job is to slide pieces around until the picture is whole again.
The subject matter is what makes this one harder than the average sliding puzzle. Abandoned building photography tends towards muted greys and browns, with a lot of repeated texture in peeling walls and broken floors. Where a bright cartoon image gives you obvious colour landmarks, these do not, so you spend more time reading the picture.
How to Play Abandoned Places Picture Tile Quest
Click or tap a tile that borders the empty square and it slides in. Keep going until every piece sits where it belongs and the photograph reads as one continuous image.
The constraint that defines every sliding puzzle applies here: you cannot lift a tile out and place it. To get a piece home you have to walk the empty square around the board to meet it, which means the route the gap takes is the real puzzle.
Controls
- Mouse: click a tile adjacent to the gap.
- Touch: tap the tile you want to slide.
- Goal: rebuild the complete photograph.
Tips and Tricks
- Find the strong lines first. Door frames, window edges and horizon lines are the most identifiable features in this kind of photograph, and they anchor everything else.
- Corners before middles. The four corner tiles are usually the easiest to identify and they give you fixed reference points.
- Work top row down, and stop touching a row once it is right.
- When two tiles look identical, check which way the texture runs. Direction is often the only difference.
- Treat the last two rows as a single block. Trying to finish the third row before the fourth will trap you.
Who This Game Is For
This suits players who like their puzzles slightly harder than usual, and anyone who finds abandoned building photography interesting in its own right. The low-contrast images add genuine difficulty rather than just changing the wallpaper.
If you want a quick, easy solve, a puzzle with brighter artwork will be less work. This one asks you to actually study the picture.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is this harder than other sliding puzzles?
The photographs are low in contrast and full of repeating texture, so there are fewer obvious colour landmarks to guide you than in a cartoon image.
Is there a time limit?
No. Nothing is timed and there is no way to lose a board.
Does it work on mobile?
Yes. Tapping tiles is the primary control, though a larger screen helps with the darker images.
Game Credit and Source
Abandoned Places Picture Tile Quest was made by an independent third-party developer and reaches this page through the browser games platform GamePix. Nelof did not create or host this game, and all rights to its code, artwork and audio remain with the original developer. The description, controls, tips and answers on this page were written by the Nelof team. If you are the developer and want this listing corrected or taken down, contact us and we will action it.
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