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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Carto. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Carto.
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Platforms: PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Fidel Dungeon Rescue is a path-finding battle where you guide your puppy hero through a dungeon of monsters. You play by picking which direction to move and who to attack. Enemies only move when you do and you can rewind whenever you want. It stands out...
35 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Carto. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Carto.
Release Date: 06/02/2014
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Threes is a puzzle game where you slide numbered tiles on a grid. When they collide they combine their numbers, like Triple Town. You can match 1's and 2's with each other, the white tiles can match cards that are multiples of 3...
Release Date: 25/11/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser, version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block building game. To the world-crafting and survival it adds hundreds of items to collect, characters to defeat and...
Release Date: 26/02/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you must also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines. Its quirky labyrinthine attention to detail is inviting for young players to try...
Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Framed is a puzzle adventure where you rearrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Minit is retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks in within a 60 second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60 second...
Release Date: 21/11/1991
Platforms: GBA, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an adventure game in a long "Zelda" series. Like the other games, you play Link, who must defeat an evil force in the land of Hyrule. You do this by exploring the world, killing spawning enemies and finding a...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Although Minecraft – where players place blocks to build structures, sculpt the landscape and create adventures – is the best-selling game of all time, some of the best aspects of it are little known. Along with the exploration, building and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
The Garden Path is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening. You tend to a world and make it your own through fishing, growing, trading and making new friends. As you do an adventure emerges.
Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story. It’s a game with puzzles at the core, but the real mystery is solving what has happened in the world you find yourself in.
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Pieces: Dice
Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19th century. You join historical people to explore a world map to gain fame, science and treasures. You recruit explorers and equip them for what they may face, then set out on your next...
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters. You discover Kai's story by walking through the panels of a comic book. It's a tale about a boy who wakes in a strange land handcuffed to a mysterious chest....
Release Date: 14/12/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Gorogoa is a puzzle game where you rearrange and resize tiles to make a singular picture. It appears to be simple, but to solve the puzzles you need to play close attention to how they interrelate. This Matryoshka Russian-Doll puzzle combines with...
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Down in Bermuda is a puzzle game where you are stranded on a set of interconnected islands. You push, pull and manipulate objects to solve puzzles and explore the world. Each one you complete brings you closer to getting back home.
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art-style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 25/02/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Room to Grow is a puzzle game about movement and expansion. You play a plant that moves by growing and wrapping your way around a maze. You can shift your location by growing into walls which enables you to manoeuvre around obstacles and make room for...
Release Date: 29/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play a doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the panels...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Wii, Xbox One and iOS
Playerless: One Button Adventure is a puzzle adventure game you can play with a single button. You play a robot in a game who has become self-aware.
Release Date: 03/01/2022
Platforms: Web
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Tres Undo is a hard puzzle game where you move blocks around a maze to fill holes and progress. The twist is that you can rewind time. On top of this the game layers the rewind ability to affect different elements differently. Then there are locations...
Release Date: 23/03/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Homescreen is a puzzle game. You play as a duck trapped in a house. Escape the house by solving puzzles and unlocking rooms. Escape rooms are rarely played from this top down angle and it makes for the unique experience, as if you were a giant peering...
Release Date: 18/05/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Imbroglio is a puzzle game where you take a character into a dungeon and progress by collecting stars. The twist is that combat is focused not only your abilities but the tile you are standing on when you attack. Although each character has different...
Release Date: 15/03/2022
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Dungeons of Dreadrock is a retro adventure game with exploration and fighting but with a main focus on puzzles.
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Puddle Knights is a puzzle game where you use your cape to protect nobles from stepping in mud. While it may not challenge the ruling elites, it does create an intriguing challenge with steadily increasing difficulty.
Release Date: 21/01/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Twofold Inc is a puzzle game where you deliver requests for coloured tiles. You fulfil these orders by connecting the required coloured squares on the small grid. When you don't have the required coloured tiles to match next to each other you can also...
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Beast Breaker is a role play game where you fight monsters in turn-based ricochet style puzzles. You play tiny mouse hero Skipper and must defend your friends from giant mosaic-like beasts that threaten to destroy everything.
Release Date: 23/05/2018, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Dr. Meep is a matching puzzle game about feelings. You play telepathic psychiatrist Dr. Meep and are visited by different patients. You help them come to terms with their colour- and shape-coded feelings by getting them to match.
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Dungeon and Puzzle is a puzzle adventure game where you move through rooms, using your limited number of turns to defeat the monsters, unlock doors and (hopefully) escape. In a novel twist on the format, the monsters don't attack, they merely block your...
Release Date: 23/01/2014, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
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: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Lab Rat is a tile-based puzzle game with an emphasis on satire. You work in a machine-learning facility where you take on scenarios chosen for you by the metrics-obsessed AI that monitors, profiles, and taunts you as you progress.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Melodyssey is a music puzzle game in a calm stress free exploration adventure. You play a young child journeying through a musical landscape looking for musical inspiration. It stands out for the pastel presentation, simple block moving thinky puzzles...
Release Date: 12/02/2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Minesweeper Genius is the classic puzzle game with some twists and more character. You help Aristotle sweep the minefield to regain his memory. To do this you use the number clues on each column to how many bombs are in adjacent squares.
Release Date: 25/05/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Sonority is a fantasy adventure where you progress by solving musical puzzles. You help Esther explore a lost world to collect musical notes and playing arrangements next to blocks to unlock the way forward. What's clever is the connection between the...
Release Date: 14/01/2018
Platforms: Web
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Kiri's Garden is a pixel-puzzle about planting trees, growing grass, and moving flowers. You must plant trees to finish a level, but this is only possible once you've covered every other square in either grass or some other plant. It sounds simple but...
Release Date: 03/05/2022
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Loot River is a puzzle fighting game where you explore labyrinths armed with the power of a relic that can shift the ground. This combines the combat with a Tetris-like tile shifting that alters the layout of each room to your advantage.
Release Date: 10/06/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Please Fix The Road is a colourful puzzle game about fixing roads. Your aim is to adjust each minimalistic level to complete the route using a simple set of tools. It draws on classic games like Pipe Mania and Tetris to create a unique challenge,...
Release Date: 09/09/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Taiji is an adventure game where you solve grid puzzles by toggling tiles on or off. It sounds simple but soon evolves into a complex interwoven challenge. This, combined with the greater meaning of the symbols in the game world make it a challenge that...
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