6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Pikuniku. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Pikuniku.
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is a running and jumping game in the world of Trollhunters. You play Jim Lake Jr. and work to stop Porgon the Trickster Troll and his sneaky plans. With the help of other characters and their abilities you solve...
Release Date: 23/06/2006
Platforms: PS Vita, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
This creates 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.
Release Date: 28/07/2017
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS
Components: 2D Side-On
Hey! Pikmin is a spinoff game from the Pikmin series. In this game Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet and needs to find fuel to escape, leading a group of Pikmin through 2D side scrolling levels collecting the Sparklium. Players enter a level and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bionic Bay is a running and jumping game with a difference. Set in a burning future you rush through the world with parkour skills and a unique swap ability. This makes play more physics-based than other platform games as you can move objects around the...
Release Date: 27/04/2011, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an adventure game in miniature. You explore a myth-rich world and use your sword to do battle and evoke spells to solve musical puzzles. It's a world that changes with the moon as you guide your wandering warrior monk.
Release Date: 15/11/2020
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Qomp is a bat and ball game with a difference. You control the ball rather than the bat and only use a single button to switch the direction of your ball character. With this single ability, you take on bosses, solve puzzles and overcome platforming...
28 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Pikuniku. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Pikuniku.
Release Date: 12/11/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Day and Night
Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you do, you literally become what you eat. It's silly puzzling fun from the creators of [link to game/Octodad+Dadliest+Catch...
Release Date: 13/03/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Baba is You requires some lateral thinking. Each level is controlled by rules written on the screen, such as ‘Lava is Hot’, ‘Wall is Stop’ and ‘Flag is Move’. By moving the words around with your pixelated character, you subvert the...
Release Date: 12/02/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Explore the alphabet by pushing and pulling the letters around to create different things beginning with that letter. It’s simply presented with sound effects and voiced words for each object. It excels at making each letter and object feel tactile...
Release Date: 13/04/2012
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Fez is a dimension based puzzle game where you, as a small character called Gomez, can rotate between four 2D views of the 3D world (as four sides around a cube-like space). This sounds confusing but actually develops into a mind-stretching and...
Release Date: 11/06/2019
Platforms: PS4
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Wattam is an absurd adventure where characters are everyday objects with problems to solve and fun interactions to enjoy. You play as The Mayor and start on your own. As you complete simple tasks you populate the world with other strange characters.
Release Date: 06/11/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a strange game about movement and momentum. You are tasked with climbing a mountain. However, your only means of locomotion is a hammer that can stick to objects and drag you forwards.
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: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Katamari Damacy Reroll is a puzzle game where you control a sticky ball. The aim is to roll up as much stuff as possible, making yourself as big as possible. The game starts small by simply having you pick up thumbtacks, game pieces, and caramels....
Release Date: 28/02/2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Crossy Road Castle, is the follow up to the simple frogger Cross Road game. You play pixilated animals racing to the top of various towers that change every time you play.
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: 24/02/2009, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Zen Bound is a puzzle game about wrapping objects in rope. With a relaxing soundtrack and calm visuals you are present with different objects with an attached rope of a specific length. Using a mouse, touch or tilt controls you transfer paint from the...
Release Date: 15/09/2009
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Scribblenauts is a series of puzzle games where you solve by typing the names of everyday objects so they appear in the game and let you progress. What's surprising is the sheer number of items included in the game. This means you can solve problems in...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Rolando is a puzzle-adventure game where you control the ball-like Rolandos. You direct the collection of creatures through levels by tilting the device and interacting with elements like conveyor belts and elevators via the touch screen. It's a lovely...
Release Date: 22/12/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Koloro is a sliding and jumping game you play with a single button. You time jumps and dodge blades to move your square character through complex maze-levels and take on enemies.
Release Date: 07/05/2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fledgeling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a part 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.
Release Date: 14/02/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Degrees of Separation is a running and jumping game where you control two characters from different seasons, Ember and Rime. Each has different abilities to change the environment and help you to progress: freezing water, melting ice and the like.
Release Date: 29/03/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Snake Pass is a puzzle game where you move around objects and through the world like a snake. Rather than running around the levels as you do in games like Mario games, you have to slither along the ground and coil around...
Release Date: 21/07/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Goop Loop is a traversal game where you control a sticky lump of goo stuck inside a concrete loop. You can use the momentum of your goo and the world's gravity to get the loop to roll through the level. In this way you face all sorts of physics...
Release Date: 22/02/2008
Platforms: PS Vita and PSP
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Patapon and its sequels take rhythmic button-pressing in a real-time battle direction. You assemble a stylised army and then take your troops to battle by tapping buttons in time with the rhythm. How well you press the buttons in time with the music...
Release Date: 16/05/2014, updated in 2021
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Dinosaur Mix is a creative dinosaur making game. You mix and match body parts to create your own colourful creature and then see it come to life and explore the world.
Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Harlow is a rolling and jumping game about two clumsy robots planning a surprise party for the frozen colonists. You play by directing your round droid through the levels, jumping swinging and bashing into things. It stands out for the gentle feel,...
Release Date: 26/10/2022
Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Robotry is an unusual platform game where you don't have a jump button. Instead you use two analog sticks to control each leg of your robot and in this way you take on a range of puzzles and challenges.
Release Date: 22/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Figment is a narrative adventure game set inside a traumatised mind. You explore a whimsical, musical world, complete puzzles, and defeat monsters to uncover a story of optimism and overcoming fear. The unusual, hand-painted art style, a musical score...
Release Date: 23/04/2015
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Open World
Monster Mingle is a creative monster maker game where you choose bodies, eyes and mouths to make friendly creatures. Once they are made you can help them explore the world and find each unique island. It stands out for the simplicity of the fun on...
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: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon
Super Adventure Hand is an adventure game where you are an anthropomorphic hand traversing levels that challenge your finger-based movement. It plays a little like other action platform games, but here your movement and interactions must contend with...
Release Date: 28/03/2018
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
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. Like Getting Over It (Bennett Foddy has played this game...
Release Date: 22/04/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Hoplegs is a bouncing and hopping traversal game where you struggle to get a box with four legs to the finish line. You play by pushing yourself off the ground with each leg, using walls and ceiling to propel yourself forwards. It sounds simple, but...
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