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24 Great Games Like Kids

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Kids and have found the following:

Kids is an unusual game where you tap to interact with groups of monochrome cartoon children. Seeing the little kids run around and respond to each other creates a playful and intriguing game that only lasts half an hour but will be played many times.

Unfortunately, Kids is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Kids

Game Details

Release Date: 31/05/2019

Platforms: iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Simulation and Puzzle

Accessibility: 1 feature

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Developer: Michaelfrei 10 (@Michaelfrei10)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Kids. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Kids.

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Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon

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Frost

Release Date: 25/03/2017

Platforms: iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Frost is a puzzle game where you control living particles with gestures to guide them home. Using flocking mechanics the game lets you direct thousands of elements with super simple controls. Each level presents a different scene in which to direct the...

Human Fall Flat

Release Date: 07/12/2017, updated in 2017

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Human: Fall Flat takes the idea of rag-doll characters and movement in the direction of a platform game. You run, jump and solve puzzles with your elastic character, either on your own or with another player. Get it wrong and you fall flat on your face,...

Petting Zoo

Release Date: 19/02/2013

Platforms: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Petting Zoo is a narrative game where you interact with hand-drawn animals to get them to do amazing and amusing things. It's ideal for very young players, but doesn't pander to simplicity. Each scene stretches reality in imaginative ways as you poke...

Mountain

Release Date: 01/07/2014, updated in 2018

Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night

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Universal Paperclips

Release Date: 09/10/2017

Platforms: Android, Web and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Text

Universal Paperclips is an adventure game about making paperclips. It sounds simple, but behind the incremental process of clicking a button to create these paperclips is a story about how the desire to make paperclips (or anything) if fully realised...

18 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Kids. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Kids.

A Short Hike

Release Date: 05/04/2019, updated in 2021

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World, Pixels and Weather

In A Short Hike you play penguin-like character Claire, who needs to climb a mountain in a beautiful national park to receive an important phone call. Presented in cute pixel graphics, the game invites you to explore the park, help other animals, find...

Vignettes

Release Date: 06/03/2019

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Vignettes is a puzzle game where you explore shapes that change into different objects as you spin them around with your fingers. What starts as a novelty evolves into a collecting challenge where interacting with one item leads to another. Rescue a...

Lumino City

Release Date: 02/11/2014

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Lumino City is a puzzle adventure game in a hand made world. This is not unusual for a video game, but this world was literally made by hand in a physical studio and then filmed. It creates a unique experience that feels like you are poking around a...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Release Date: 01/04/2019, updated in 2022

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (known as TABS) is a fighting game where you choose different armies and troops to battle each other in an automatic simulation that models their offensive and defensive abilities. Once set up, the fight is largely...

Chuchel

Release Date: 07/03/2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Hidden Folks

Release Date: 15/02/2017

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

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Hidden Through Time

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Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

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Metamorphabet

Release Date: 12/02/2015

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Traffix

Release Date: 08/07/2019

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Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

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Components: 2D Side-On

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Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

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Gnog

Release Date: 02/05/2017

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Lifelike

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Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Windosill

Release Date: 15/12/2011, updated in 2022

Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Day and Night

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Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

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14 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Kids

If you like the sound of Kids 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 Kids Accessibility Report.

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Assistance Getting Starting:	Tutorials Practice Area View Control Mapping Assistance With Controls Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Adjust Speed No Jump Scares
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Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
Cards:	Large Card Size Standard Card Shape Limited Hand Management No Excessive Card Shuffling No Right-Handed Advantage
Placement:	No Unbound Placement Player Components Not Shared No Fiddly Placement Easily Verbalised Actions

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Printed Visibility:	Colour Blind Friendly Design Double-Coding Colour High Contrast Colours
Component Identifiability:	Outline Key Elements No Busy Backgrounds Easily Verbalised Game State No Close Inspection Disadvantage Playable Without Sight

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Communication:	Audio Cues Mirrored Visually (Or no critical audio signals) No Pressured Reveals No Pressured Communication Playable Without Hearing

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