7 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Illustrated. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Illustrated.
Release Date: 25/03/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Dorfromantik is a peaceful village-building strategy puzzle game for one player inspired by tile-based board-games like Carcassonne. You have a stack of hexagonal tiles and work to match their edges while creating areas of towns, forests and fields to...
Release Date: 26/10/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Daylife in Japan is a jigsaw puzzle game. You choose the difficulty and the animated puzzle picture which is then divided in jigsaw pieces scattered around the play area. As with a real puzzle, you then need to piece it back together the picture.
Release Date: 15/09/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Patterned is a puzzle game where you piece together beautiful patterns. It's a bit like a jigsaw but without the stress of forever finding more blue sky pieces. Each pattern begins as a sketch and you use visual clues to reassemble its scrambled pieces.
Release Date: 13/09/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Tint is a puzzle game you solve by painting. You mix watercolours to match the colour of the origami. The aesthetic and the low-pressure puzzles make for a soothing experience. There are no timers, no countdowns, no points and certainly no rush,...
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Hand-Made
Day and Night is a puzzle game where you match blocks to score points. Unusually the game switches between different time periods that affect what you can match and how the rules work.
Release Date: 02/12/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams is a classic puzzle simulation game where you solve beautiful puzzles in fully 3D environments. Play is, as you would expect, finding, categorising and placing puzzle pieces. It stands out not only for the visuals but how each...
Release Date: 28/10/2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Stitch is an embroidery puzzle game where you fill in numbered areas of the right size to create pictures. While it sounds simple, the limited ways you can add yarn to the hoop creates a head-scratching challenge. This slow, thoughtful, and relaxing...
7 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Illustrated. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Illustrated.
Release Date: 24/02/2009, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Zen Bound is a puzzle game about wrapping objects in rope. With a relaxing soundtrack and calm visuals you are present with different objects with an attached rope of a specific length. Using a mouse, touch or tilt controls you transfer paint from the...
Release Date: 21/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building. As you do you learn about the lives of the people that live there. You can manipulate the building to move floors between...
Release Date: 28/01/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Web
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Otteretto is a puzzle game where you match blocks to make palindromes. Rather than the usual match-three format, instead you have to find patterns that mirror in the middle, like a palindrome but with colours/shapes rather than letters.
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Murder by Numbers is a detective game where you find clues by solving math-square nonogram-style logic puzzles. A little like Phoenix Wright games where you have a murder to solve, but here you have to use...
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Weather
Sizeable is a puzzle game about manipulated objects in a series of beautiful tiny dioramas. You rotate to explore and pick up, move and resize objects. To complete a level you need to find all the hidden monoliths. It's a casual puzzle game that uses...
Release Date: 23/01/2014, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Kami, and Kami 2 are origami-themed puzzle games where you aim to fill the screen with the same coloured paper. You play by a location to unfold paper of that colour that then spreads until it hits another colour.
Release Date: 14/10/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Bonza Word Puzzle combines crosswords and scrabble. You create words by placing crossword fragments on a grid. There's a clue for each challenge to get you started, but the real puzzle is slotting the fragments together so all the words make sense and...
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