6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Balance - Power Grid. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Balance - Power Grid.
Release Date: 06/01/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Mini Metro is a sequencing strategy game where you create an ordered, efficient underground train system. It sounds like hard work, but the simple Tube-map visuals, calm music, and streamlined interactions make this relaxing, like sudoku. Dip your toe...
Release Date: 24/02/2020
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
Dish Life: The Game is a puzzle narrative game where you play a stem cell researcher, managing a laboratory and growing stem cells.
Release Date: 22/04/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Open World
Buildings Have Feelings Too is set in a city where buildings can walk and talk. Not only that, but each has aspirations, hopes and fears. Your job is to create a city that works for all the buildings, a task that will see your city planning pulled in...
Release Date: 24/03/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Rip Them Off is puzzle game where you build businesses to attract customers. It's an economic management version of tower defence. Rather than stopping soldiers by shooting them, you are stopping citizens by selling them things. You choose locations,...
Release Date: 13/10/2008, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
World of Goo is a puzzle game where you use balls of goo to create bridges that span increasingly large chasms and obstacles. The game simulates real-world physics to determine if structures are strong enough and when they collapse. This means that...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Impossible Bottles is a rhythm game where you control mechanical robots. You create musical loops with each robot and solve puzzle to get them in harmony. It's a game about the global energy crisis and a scientist’s effort to provide an...
19 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Balance - Power Grid. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Balance - Power Grid.
Release Date: 30/06/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Web, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Townscaper is a creative town-building game where you pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea. As you continue to add houses of different colours the game automatically orientates the architecture for you.
Release Date: 04/03/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Mini Motorways is a sequencing strategy game by the same developer as Mini Metro but tasks you with planning a road network rather than a subway. You lay down roads, traffic lights and motorways to ensure enough cars can get to the buildings that pop up...
Release Date: 13/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a brain-communication game where you’re confronted with a bomb on the screen that has to be defused, requiring a series of modules to be disarmed. The bomb defuser player can see and operate the bomb but the other...
Release Date: 14/08/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).
Release Date: 08/12/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Opus Magnum is a puzzle game about assembling machines to convert spherical chemicals into different compounds. Each challenge can be tackled by creating different machine configurations, and each is awarded points on how compact, quick and efficient...
Release Date: 02/02/1989, updated in 2014
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Grid
SimCity is a series of city-building games, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the openness of play, where you can let your...
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Unrailed! is a co-op strategy game where you work with friends to build a train line across endless landscapes. Along with finding the resources to build track, bridges and tunnels you need to deal with local inhabitants, upgrade your train and watch...
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Coming Soon: PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Learning Factory is a strategy game where you automate an old factory. Unusually, this isn't to make money and conquer the world but a round about approach to understand cats. Peculiar backstory aside, the game tasks you with renovating the factory,...
Release Date: 08/07/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Traffix is a puzzle game that puts you in charge of traffic lights on different road systems. By changing the lights to red, orange and green you work to get traffic to flow on increasingly complex and busy roads. It sounds complex, but with simple...
Release Date: 23/08/2013, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Death Crown is a minimalist strategy game where you play Death commanding her legions and punishing humanity. You play in a world of hexagons to place buildings and send troops to attack or defend as you try and defeat the opposing castle.
Release Date: 12/08/2018
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Khan Academy Kids is a free series of game activities staring bright animal characters. Matching animals and photos, solving maths, social scenarios or enjoying some art time, Khan Academy Kids provides a playful framework.
Release Date: 21/02/2022
Out Now: Android and PC
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Max Traffic is a minimalistic puzzle game where you manage traffic flow by controlling traffic lights. You take on different traffic systems that form the flag of different countries. It's similar in style to Traffix but offers a score challenge where...
Release Date: 15/11/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
Kolumno is a puzzle game where you drop a ball down the side of a sphere aiming to reach the bottom without being blocked. Your task is to manipulate the ball so it fits the rotating elements with gaps in them.
Release Date: 16/09/2015, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Coming Soon: PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Train Valley 2 is a toy train puzzle game where you build a railroad company from the days of the Industrial Revolution into the future. It looks like a kids train-set but simulates real economics of the valley's cities and industries. The result is a...
Release Date: 01/07/2021
Out Now: PC
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Factori is a puzzle game where you use factories to create letters and words by a series of interrelated processes. You start with the letter i and chain together a system of satisfying factories to form words.
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Luck Be a Landlord is a simulation game where you collect symbols to build the ultimate slot machine, win lots of money, and defeat capitalism. You choose the tokens like deck building games, then have repeated attempts to win money like a rogue-like...
Release Date: 31/01/2018
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Weather
Dr Umgebung's School of Life is a strategy simulation game. The life it simulates is a sealed terrarium that you must maintain by completing certain tasks. It's an unusual combination of science, gardening and pet simulation that educates as well as...
Release Date: 23/09/2015
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Concrete Jungle is a city-building puzzle game. It's the follow up for MegaCity. Rather than manage resources like a traditional city management strategy game, here you place cards to create buildings, parks, amenities and services on each square. The...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Gubbins is a puzzle game where you place tiles to construct words with the help (and hindrance) from weird creatures called Gubbins. Play is a combination of Solitaire and Scrabble as you are both battling to score word points, but also make matches to...
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