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Inks is a messy pinball game that combines puzzle with platforming. It's like a traditional game of pinball, however you are aiming to splash the ball through each coloured area rather than rack up high scores.
Unfortunately, Inks is not available on Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One or Xbox X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: 04/05/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Action, Traversal (Brain Game, Platform and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 21 features
Components: 2D Side-On
Developer: State Of Play (@State_Of_Play)
Costs: Purchase cost
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Inks. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Inks.
PinOut is an action pinball game played against the clock in a Tron-like world.
PinOut is an action pinball game played against the clock in a Tron-like world. You use your flippers to work up through an endless series of tables, collecting time to stay alive.
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Below the Ocean is a diving adventure where you search for legendary treasures using your oxygen lifeline to swing passed obstacles.
Below the Ocean is a diving adventure where you search for legendary treasures using your oxygen lifeline to swing passed obstacles. Play is a combination of running, jumping, swinging and even sling-shotting to traverse the ocean.
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Yoku's Island Express combines pinball and running and jumping games.
Yoku's Island Express combines pinball and running and jumping games. You run, bounce and collect special items, engage in battles with fantasy enemies and explore a large open-world.
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Beast Breaker is a role play game where you fight monsters in turn-based ricochet style puzzles.
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.
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Summer Trip Cruise is a traversal game where you guide a cruise ship on sightseeing missions.
Summer Trip Cruise is a traversal game where you guide a cruise ship on sightseeing missions. Play is like a fairground boat game where you steer left or right with the wheel/rudder and throttle.
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The Pinball Wizard is an action adventure game where you hit an adventurer around a dungeon to score points, kill enemies and collect treasure.
The Pinball Wizard is an action adventure game where you hit an adventurer around a dungeon to score points, kill enemies and collect treasure. Play involves classic pinball action, flinging your character at enemies, along with a dash to give them a boost in a particular direction.
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Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Inks. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Inks.
LocoRoco is a traversal puzzle game in a world of plants and creatures to investigate.
LocoRoco is a traversal puzzle game in a world of plants and creatures to investigate. The novelty, besides the character’s singing and cute aesthetic, is that you control the game with just two buttons, tilting and bumping your characters through each level.
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The Unfinished Swan invites you to explore a world by splashing paint on it.
The Unfinished Swan invites you to explore a world by splashing paint on it. The tactile experience leads you into a fairy tale about an unfinished painting that leads a child back to his parent.
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Ete (été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint.
Ete (été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.
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Creature in the Well is a pinball-inspired fighting game that reimagines the ball-bouncing fun of Arkanoid.
Creature in the Well is a pinball-inspired fighting game that reimagines the ball-bouncing fun of Arkanoid. You play the last remaining robot who ventures deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility and save the village that relies on this resource.
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Super Monkey Ball is a rolling and balancing game where you tilt platforms to control the path of a hamster ball containing a monkey.
Super Monkey Ball is a rolling and balancing game where you tilt platforms to control the path of a hamster ball containing a monkey. The peculiar premise is matched with accurate challenging gameplay and some great multiplayer modes (like Monkey Target) that could be games in their own right.
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Colour with Crayons is a running and jumping game. You are a crayon in a world made from art supplies.
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Suika Game, also called Watermelon Game, is a spatial puzzle challenge about matching fruits.
Suika Game, also called Watermelon Game, is a spatial puzzle challenge about matching fruits. You select where to drop each new fruit into the cup, aiming to get matching varieties touching so they merge, create bigger fruit and score points.
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Ink is a running (sliding) and jumping game where you see the platforms you are jumping on by splashing them with ink.
Ink is a running (sliding) and jumping game where you see the platforms you are jumping on by splashing them with ink. You control a little white square that, along with splashing colour everywhere, can jump on enemies and climb walls.
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Spec Ops: The Line is shooting game played in third-person where you with an emphasis on squad-based tactics, and calling in support technology and firepower.
Spec Ops: The Line is shooting game played in third-person where you with an emphasis on squad-based tactics, and calling in support technology and firepower. Unusually, the player needs to make moral decisions at certain points during the game that determine the fate of soldiers and civilians.
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Tint is a puzzle game you solve by painting.
Tint is a puzzle game you solve by painting. You mix watercolours to match the colour of the origami.
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Fling Smash is an action-throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller.
Fling Smash is an action-throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller. You use the ball character to smash your way across eight worlds, collecting medals and taking on boss fights.
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Ynglet is an exploration game where you jump between bubbles that float in the sky making sounds as you interact with the doodled environment.
Ynglet is an exploration game where you jump between bubbles that float in the sky making sounds as you interact with the doodled environment. Part platform game, part dynamic soundtrack, it's a game designed to let you flow through the world to discover intriguing new spaces and interactions.
Gnog is a puzzle game where you explore whimsical monster heads to interact and uncover the secret worlds inside them.
Gnog is a puzzle game where you explore whimsical monster heads to interact and uncover the secret worlds inside them. To play you use the mouse or controller to grab, poke, spin, pull, and push each charming contraption.
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Holedown is a puzzle game where you bounce balls around a well filled with Tetris-style shapes.
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Roundguard is a dungeon adventure where your character is a pinball rather than a normal person.
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De Blob 2 is a platform-puzzle game where you explore cartoon-style urban landscapes to recolour the city.
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Inner Tao is a puzzle game where you move two circles, manoeuvring objects to their destinations, marked by small squares.
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Magic Twins is a cooperative puzzle game where Abra and Cadabra use their colour powers to defeat hordes of colour coded enemies.
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Peglin is an adventure game where you fight monsters and other enemies by scoring points in a Pachinko machine below the world.
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Deru - The Art of Cooperation is a traversal puzzle game about the flow and interaction of colour.
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PixelJunk Eden is an organic puzzle game.
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Stuffo the Puzzle Bot is a puzzle game about a robot trying to escape the world by solving block-moving puzzles.
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If you like the sound of Inks but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
Here are a selection of games with a similar theme to Inks:
These are our hand-picked alternatives to Inks. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
Speedy Roll (also known as Hedgehog Roll) is an action dexterity game where you roll the hedgehog (a fuzzy tennis ball with eyes) to collect woodland items that stick to it.
Speedy Roll (also known as Hedgehog Roll) is an action dexterity game where you roll the hedgehog (a fuzzy tennis ball with eyes) to collect woodland items that stick to it. This determines which path you can take through the forest to get back home before the fox.
Bugs in the Kitchen is a fast-paced puzzle game where you have to trap a constantly moving robot bug.
Bugs in the Kitchen is a fast-paced puzzle game where you have to trap a constantly moving robot bug. You play by rolling dice and turning Maze pieces to create paths for the digital bug to scuttle down.
Canvas is a creative collecting game where you layer transparent cards and backgrounds to make unique pictures.
Canvas is a creative collecting game where you layer transparent cards and backgrounds to make unique pictures. The aim is to match your art to the target style each round, indicated by icons on the cards.
These are games of a similar genre mix to Inks. This includes games from the Puzzle, Action, Platform, Traversal and Brain Game genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
The Alto Collection is a series of games including Alto's Odyssey and Alto's Adventure.
The Alto Collection is a series of games including Alto's Odyssey and Alto's Adventure. Both are action traversal games where you explore beautiful mountains, dunes and canyons on a snowboarding journey full of serenity and secrets.
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
OCO is a sliding and jumping game set with simple colourful levels each set in a rotating planetoid.
OCO is a sliding and jumping game set with simple colourful levels each set in a rotating planetoid. Unlike other platform games, you control everything with a single button.
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Perspective is a running and jumping game where you control a 2D character in a 3D world.
Perspective is a running and jumping game where you control a 2D character in a 3D world. Like the Flatland novel, your 2D character can only experience a slice of the 3D world, so you must move your 3D character around to find a perspective that grants access to the climbable surfaces to progress.
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle-solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil.
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle-solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil. You can defy gravity to jump from wall to wall and ceiling to ceiling.
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Color Jumper is a running and jumping game where you control a square.
Color Jumper is a running and jumping game where you control a square. Each side of the square has a different colour and rotates each time you jump.
The Jump Yard is a platform puzzle game.
The Jump Yard is a platform puzzle game. You control a stickman that you can fire into the air at different angles.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a strange game about movement and momentum.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a strange game about movement and momentum. You are tasked with climbing a mountain.
9 Years of Shadows is a retro-looking running and jumping game about exploring dungeons and using elemental powers to take on monsters.
9 Years of Shadows is a retro-looking running and jumping game about exploring dungeons and using elemental powers to take on monsters. Using different suits of armour, you swim, tunnel and float through the labyrinthine stages pausing only to fight enemies in fast-paced rhythm-based combat.
Zoe Begone is a fast-action shooting game set in a cartoon world where you battle the animator for a bit of peace and quiet.
Zoe Begone is a fast-action shooting game set in a cartoon world where you battle the animator for a bit of peace and quiet. To play you run around the level, shooting enemies and dodging the hundreds of bullets they shoot back.
Fledgling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a path through landscapes and collect coins.
Fledgling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a path through landscapes and collect coins. You can swim, sprint and soar, defeat dastardly dragons, unlock wondrous new worlds, and explore limitless levels in the Lab.
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Golfing Over It with Alva Majo is a traversal game where you try to hit a golf ball to the top of a mountain.
Golfing Over It with Alva Majo is a traversal game where you try to hit a golf ball to the top of a mountain. It's an intentionally tough, discouraging game that you will fail at over and over.
HyperDot is a dodging game, where you control a small circle and must move to avoid collisions with other shapes.
HyperDot is a dodging game, where you control a small circle and must move to avoid collisions with other shapes. It sounds too simple to be fun, but the cover design and variation in challenge make it a really enjoyable game.
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
TumbleSeed is an action puzzle game where you guide a seed to the top of a mountain.
TumbleSeed is an action puzzle game where you guide a seed to the top of a mountain. However, you can't control your seed direction, but have to roll it from side to side to avoid pitfalls, destroy enemies and collect crystals.
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Pyro Jump Rescue is a one-button jumping and rolling game where you are a lump of fire leaping from one platform to the next to try to catch Princess Paper.
Pyro Jump Rescue is a one-button jumping and rolling game where you are a lump of fire leaping from one platform to the next to try to catch Princess Paper. You work through levels by jumping and attaching to wheels and surfaces, being careful to not be extinguished.
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RunMan Turbo is a traversal game where you race through a brightly coloured world.
RunMan Turbo is a traversal game where you race through a brightly coloured world. You play by bouncing, sliding, jumping, tumbling and running as fast as you can over obstacles and towards a finishing line.
If you like the sound of Inks but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Inks Accessibility Report.
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Inks in the following lists: