29 Great Games Like Nintendo Labo

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

Nintendo Labo is a game themed around physical folding, colouring and cutting. You get a cardboard pack with the game that folds up to make objects into which you slot the screen and controllers. Whether it’s cardboard steering wheels, fishing rods, robot suits or pianos, each item is then put to good use in specific interactive games.

If you enjoyed Nintendo Labo, there are other games in the Nintendo Motion Games franchise you should try. Unfortunately, Nintendo Labo is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Nintendo Labo

Game Details

Release Date: 27/04/2018

Platforms: Switch

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Creative, Physically Active (Action and Puzzle)

Components: 3D First-Person

Developer: Nintendo (@Nintendo)

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 Nintendo Labo. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Nintendo Labo.

Wii Sports

Wii Sports (Series)

Release Date: 08/02/2006, updated in 2014

Platforms: Wii and Wii U

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Sports Club offer motion-controlled sports. Although these games are well known, the depth each of them offer is a best-kept secret. Games like bowling, tennis and boxing are easy to pick up but require considerable...

Tori

Release Date: 08/11/2019

Platforms: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Tori combines physical and virtual play. The game comes with toys that you place on a play surface to control the game’s spaceships and catapults. Children can also create and colour their own cardboard versions of the toys and use them to control the...

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit

Release Date: 16/10/2020

Platforms: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Mario Kart Live, MarioKart Home Circuit) is a kart racing game with a difference. You play on the Switch but use it to control a real life Mario kart that races around...

Scrap Mechanic

Release Date: 20/01/2016

Platforms: PC

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Open World

Scrap Mechanic is an open world-building game. You collect materials that are used to design machines, vehicles and buildings. You start at the site of a crashed spaceship, with just a few items and must hunt for supplies, fuel and food in order to...

Trailmakers

Release Date: 28/02/2020

Platforms: PC and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World

In Trailmakers, you explore an open world in vehicles you have made from Lego-like blocks. Build a car, a plane, a boat or a combination of these, a carplaneboat. The game's physics encourage players to imaginatively combine propulsion, floatation,...

Lego Mindstorms

Release Date: 01/01/1998, updated in 2020

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Blocks and Gadget

Lego Mindstorms is a creative robotic toolkit made of Lego augmented with motors, sensors and other electronics. The Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit enables you to build a five different robotic models with interactive and challenge elements. It’s...

8 Similar Games Long List

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

Tearaway

Release Date: 22/11/2013, updated in 2015

Platforms: PS Vita and PS4

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made

Tearaway on PlayStation Vita and Tearaway Unfolded on PlayStation 4 create a game world entirely from paper as the setting for this fantastical adventure. It’s beautiful and funny, and offers a running, jumping exploration challenge. Drawing on...

Skylanders

Skylanders (Series)

Release Date: 14/10/2016

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Skylanders uses toy figures to unlock characters and save progress. It is no longer manufactured but can be found second-hand quite cheaply and is a lot of fun for young players, particularly when played in cooperative two-player mode.

Game Builder Garage

Release Date: 11/06/2021

Platforms: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Game Builder Garage enables anyone to make video games. Unlike other game makers, this offers in-depth lessons to take you from the basics to advanced techniques. The cute Nodon characters that power the visual drag-and-drop construction, enable players...

Moonglow Bay

Release Date: 07/10/2021

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

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Day and Night

Moonglow Bay is a role play game where you play a rookie angler. Unlike other slice-of-life games, fishing isn't tucked away as a side quest here, it's front and centre. Set along the Canadian coastline in the 1980's, you live in a fishing town that has...

Pokemon Go!

Release Date: 06/07/2016

Platforms: Android and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Open World

Pokémon Go is a game you play by walking outside. You play on a smartphone so it can use the GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location.

Gogogo!

Release Date: 12/06/2020

Platforms: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Text

Gogogo! is a puzzle party game where friends and family compete in clever skill and knowledge challenges revolving around their smartphones. There are memory games, reaction games, word puzzles, challenges where you spin on the spot or tap a dot on your...

RoboCo

Release Date: 03/11/2022

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks

RoboCo is a creative physics-based robot-building game where you design and code robots to perform challenging tasks. With the multitude of parts and templates to build from, there are countless ways to approach each situation, be it by creating an...

Hack 'n' Slash

Release Date: 09/09/2014

Platforms: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Pixels and Text

Hack 'n' Slash is a puzzle adventure game where you tinker with the properties of game objects to explore dungeons and fight enemies. Using your USB sword on enemies hacks them so you can change their game-code and behaviour. It combines a standard...

5 Younger Content Rating than Nintendo Labo

If Nintendo Labo is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.

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2 Easier Skill Rating than Nintendo Labo

If you like the sound of Nintendo Labo but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.

Tori

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2 Board Game Alternatives to Nintendo Labo

These are our hand-picked alternatives to Nintendo Labo. 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.

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16 Video Games Like Nintendo Labo Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Nintendo Labo. This includes games from the Puzzle, Action, Physically Active and Creative genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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29 Great Games Like Nintendo Labo

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

Wii Sports (Series)

Tori

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit

Scrap Mechanic

Trailmakers

Lego Mindstorms

8 Similar Games Long List

Tearaway

Skylanders (Series)

Game Builder Garage

Moonglow Bay

Pokemon Go!

Gogogo!

RoboCo

Hack 'n' Slash

5 Younger Content Rating than Nintendo Labo

2 Easier Skill Rating than Nintendo Labo

2 Board Game Alternatives to Nintendo Labo

16 Video Games Like Nintendo Labo Based on Genre

Nintendo Labo is in These Lists

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29 Great Games Like Nintendo Labo

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

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5 Younger Content Rating than Nintendo Labo

2 Easier Skill Rating than Nintendo Labo

2 Board Game Alternatives to Nintendo Labo

16 Video Games Like Nintendo Labo Based on Genre

Nintendo Labo is in These Lists

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