6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Death Squared. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Death Squared.
Release Date: 17/11/2021, updated in 2023
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Grid
Rob Riches is a puzzle game about a treasure hunter in search of precious artefacts. You carefully navigate a safe path through the small stages, pushing blocks, avoiding pitfalls, and collecting the coins to advance to the next stage. Like [link to...
Release Date: 15/06/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Cubric is a puzzle game where you play a robot trapped inside a maze. Unusually, the maze is three dimensions and made up of six moveable cubes. To escape you turn and twist the cubes in three dimensions to match up paths, avoid hazards, and enable your...
Release Date: 10/03/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
The Last Cube is a puzzle platform game where you guide a cube through a series of 3D mazes to save the world from destruction. Because you have to get the right side of the cube on the right square to trigger abilities and progress, it creates a...
Release Date: 26/11/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
QV (QV: The Dimension Painter on iOS) is a puzzle game about using portals to push buttons with blocks. You are tasked with collecting the shattered crystals to save the realms from impending destruction by solving the series of puzzles. It stands out...
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Alephant is an abstract puzzle game where you combine Hebrew letters to create sounds. Like language, the game works on rules that appear arbitrary but are actually detailed and interwoven. It creates a unique cascading puzzle where one letter...
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Platforms: PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
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...
30 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Death Squared. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Death Squared.
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Wilmot's Warehouse is a game for people who like to organise things. You are in charge of a warehouse and must manage 100s of items of stock. These identical square boxes are labelled with rudimentary icons. On your own or with another player, you must...
Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Chariot is a co-op platform game where you haul around a wheeled Chariot, to the end of each level. Pushing, pulling or dragging with ropes, you need to use the real physics of the game to solve puzzles and time jumps to get the heavy object to the...
Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Moving Out is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company. With up to four players you work together to get items out of the house and into the van. Although this starts simply you soon find furniture that is an awkward shape or needs two...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
Release Date: 07/08/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Overcooked, Overcooked 2 and Overcooked! All You Can Eat are collaborative cooking games for up to 4 players. You must keep talking to other players to coordinate the various elements of the dishes. It starts simply enough but soon gets more complicated...
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Biped is an adventure game where two players closely collaboration to walk through levels, solve problems. It has unusual controls and friendly cute characters that make it great to share in the family.
Release Date: 01/06/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Phogs is a game where you control a stretchy dog that has a head at both ends of its body. It sounds a little strange but is actually an endearing adventure where, on your own or with another person, you control each end of the dog separately to explore...
Release Date: 05/08/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Sniks is a puzzle game about guiding colourful worms to matching coloured fruit and food. Each level is a self contained arena with a number of snakes. Each snake can only consume fruit of a matching colour and they can't pass each other. It poses some...
Release Date: 19/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Kine is a 3D puzzle game where you control three robot instruments: Roo, the accordion; Quat, the drum; and Euler, the trombone. To help them become a band, you solve puzzles that involve their different abilities in various ways.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Akurra is a block pushing puzzle and exploration game. Its look is inspired by classic games like Zelda, Star Tropics, and Chip’s Challenge. It looks simple, but offers a rich and complex puzzles backed by visuals and sounds that take you back to the...
Release Date: 12/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Dodo Peak is a platform game where you play as a dodo bird, rescuing your babies scattered across each level. The simple layout and clever design is reminiscent of the classic QBert game, and presents streamlined logic puzzles to solve. The hand crafted...
Release Date: 01/12/2012
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Players pilot a spaceship, each with their own control panel on their smartphone or tablet screen. The switches, dials, sliders and levers are labelled with randomly-generated peculiar names: ‘Astral Synth’, ‘Gripvent’, ‘Starmesh’,...
Release Date: 15/11/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: 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: 21/06/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 3D Third-Person
Pode is a co-operative puzzle game, where two players on the same system can use different abilities to help each other unlock new areas of a beautiful world and advance a cute little story. It's a good game if you like combining abilities in clever...
Release Date: 01/11/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Beasts of Balance comes with beautifully sculpted physical toys that interact with your iPad to create and nurture creatures in a magical land. You place a toy creature on the plinth provided and it appears in the game. Balance another creature on top...
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: 07/11/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Deru is a cooperative puzzle game about the flow and interaction of colour. Its stylised design hides within it complex conundrums you must work closely together to solve. Each of the two players can only touch streams of their colour, so must carefully...
Release Date: 31/01/2017
Platforms: Android, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Linelight is a puzzle game about complex circuits. Your task is to move a small line of light along the correct path to collect diamonds and unlock the next area. It's an ingenious puzzle game, with pared-down symbolic visuals that accentuate the...
Release Date: 21/01/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
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: 19/01/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Pipe Push Paradise is a puzzle game about connecting pipes. Your uncle has mysteriously fallen asleep while in the middle of providing water to a tropical island, and you have been sent to finish the job. It's a unique twist on Pipe Mania that combines...
Release Date: 26/07/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Press X to Puzzle is a one button puzzle game. You press or hold a single button in order to progress to the next screen. Sounds simple, but it's actually more cryptic as you have to decipher the instruction. For some screens the solution is obvious,...
Release Date: 13/03/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Qube 2 is a puzzle adventure game where you play as archaeologist, Amelia Cross, who has awoken in an alien building with no memory of why she is there (and what the strange gloves she is wearing are for). What emerges is a unique puzzle game with...
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut is a macabre puzzle game. You control Skullface, a serial killer hellbent on killing every camper in this homage to 80's horror movies. It combines a basic slide the block puzzle with a cute block world but with a dark sense...
Release Date: 28/01/2019
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
The Devil's Calculator is a mathematical puzzle full of logic brain teasers. An evil calculator has its normal arithmetic operators replaced with sadistically obscure functions. You must figure out (with logic and a bit of algebra) how to use these...
Release Date: 30/09/2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Trios is a puzzle game where you select numbers and operators to get the required total. It's unusual because of its relaxed visuals and music. The twist is that you have to use all your numbers to reach the target.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Collapsus is a puzzle game where you match tiles. You rotate the screen to adjust which way is down, then tapping a single tiles makes it disappear. And vertical or horizontal lines with matching colours you create also disappear. Tapping a single tile...
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Entropy Centre is a time-shifting puzzle adventure where you can move objects back through time. You explore the futuristic levels and solve puzzle by using you gun to move object in space but also in time. It's a game that gets you thinking in...
Release Date: 18/08/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Automatoys is a puzzle where you manipulate 3D mechanisms to direct a ball to the goal. You interact with contraptions on each level with a single press that flicks, whacks and nudges the ball past obstacles, gaps and timed jumps. It looks simple, but...
Release Date: 28/02/2023
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Rytmos is a rhythm-based puzzle game where you create music by solving mazes. You play by creating paths to connect different musical elements that create music. It stands out not only for the unusual musical interactions but how each puzzle combines...
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