6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Puzzle Quest. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Puzzle Quest.
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Grindstone is a colour-matching puzzle game, where you plot the right path through each grid level to attack enemies and gain treasure. The aim is to join together as many similar coloured monsters as possible in one go.
Release Date: 06/02/2014
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Threes is a puzzle game where you slide numbered tiles on a grid. When they collide they combine their numbers, like Triple Town. You can match 1's and 2's with each other, the white tiles can match cards that are multiples of 3...
Release Date: 07/05/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Puyo Puyo Champions (Puyo Puyo eSports in Japan) is the latest in a puzzle game series where you line up slime-like Puyo creatures who fall from the top of the screen. The trick is to rotate the groups of two, three, and four colours to line up with...
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Out Now: 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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: 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: 26/10/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Daylife in Japan is a jigsaw puzzle game. You choose the difficulty and the animated puzzle picture which is then divided in jigsaw pieces scattered around the play area. As with a real puzzle, you then need to piece it back together the picture.
30 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Puzzle Quest. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Puzzle Quest.
Release Date: 01/12/2009, updated in 2011
Out Now: DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is a strategic battle puzzle where you position units to form patterns that determine how they behave. The play combines the simple matching of Candy Crush with the complex strategy of Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. It...
Release Date: 30/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
868-HACK is a puzzle game where you hack a computer program to collect as much data as you can. It's a unique puzzle as collecting data triggers more enemies to appear so you walk a delicate balance between collecting as much as possible, but not so...
Release Date: 09/05/2012
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
DragonBox is an educational series of games that teaches young children maths, such as algebra using pattern matching with symbols. Unlike other educational games, the fun is in the doing in DragonBox, rather than incentivising learning with separate...
Release Date: 18/05/2016, updated in 2020
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Imbroglio is a puzzle game where you take a character into a dungeon and progress by collecting stars. The twist is that combat is focused not only your abilities but the tile you are standing on when you attack. Although each character has different...
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead
She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage. As you do you eavesdrop on...
Release Date: 14/10/2010, updated in 2012
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Triple Town is a puzzle game where you expand an empire by building cities in a limited space. You combine lower value pieces into better ones to improve your city and make best use of available space. It's simple and quick to pick up but requires...
Release Date: 06/03/2022
Out Now: Apple TV and iOS
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Ploppy Pairs is a card matching puzzle game. Along with the sanitary humour, it's a simple and approachable game for very young players. The SharePlay via FaceTime means you can play and connect with family members online or in the same room.
Release Date: 05/08/2020
Out Now: 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: 21/12/2011, updated in 2016
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Fingle is a Twister-style physical puzzle game played on a smartphone or tablet screen with your fingers rather than limbs. Like the popular tangley board game, it plays to this physical interaction with other players. "Explore the intimate touch of...
Release Date: 04/05/2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Yellow is a spatial puzzle game. Each level you need to turn the screen yellow. How you do this varies from level to level. Dragging objects to match a silhouette, tapping and holding in time with a rhythm, spinning your finger, tapping in order. The...
Release Date: 02/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Bomb Club is a puzzle game where you use an arsenal of whacky bombs to clear the board with a chain reaction. You place and trigger the bombs to ensure a single chain and complete the level. It's a novel combination of fun explosions and puzzle solving...
Release Date: 18/12/2012, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Corrypt is a role-playing puzzle game where you collect items and interact with characters in a maze filled with moveable boxes. In a novel twist, you can push and pull the boxes, but they stick to you, making it a challenge to move them out of the way...
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Murder by Numbers is a detective game where you find clues by solving math-square nonogram-style logic puzzles. A little like Phoenix Wright games where you have a murder to solve, but here you have to use...
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Not Chess is a puzzle game similar to Chess, but you only have one piece, which morphs into whatever piece you take. It's a simple way of getting to grips with some of the basic rules of chess in a low-pressure, single-player environment, while also...
Release Date: 01/11/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Weather
Ruya is a narrative puzzle game about a mother on a journey of healing after love leaves her. You play as Ruya, meditating and remembering important parts of her life, shown through simple matching puzzles, with each colour tied to one of her children....
Release Date: 25/08/2014
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Gridland (also Super Gridland on mobile) is a puzzle strategy game where you build a town by day and defend zombie attackers at night. Unusually, resources are gathered by completing match-three puzzles. This puzzle switches from building to defending...
Release Date: 19/10/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Coming Soon: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Harmony's Odyssey is a puzzle game where you solve mixed up mythical dioramas full of riddles, creatures and magic. Play is simply a matter of selecting and moving the sliding pieces, but there are clever clues in the fantasy world to see how they fit...
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Jelly No Puzzle is a game where you move cubes of jelly around to combine cubes of matching colours together. While it's a very simple concept, each level presents a unique challenge: overcoming vertical objects or getting one cube past another. The...
Release Date: 25/04/2022
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Peglin is an adventure game where you fight monsters and other enemies by scoring points in a Pachinko machine below the world. Like Peggle, you collect special orbs that deal damage to enemies by bouncing the ball into pegs. In this way you go on an...
Release Date: 21/01/2016
Out Now: 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: 28/08/2022
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Writer’s Block is a word puzzle game where you create words to fight. You take on quests and spell words to beat or evade the strange opponents. It's an unusual combination of combat and vocabulary where you battle mental monsters standing in the way...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Chezzle is similar to chess, but here you only have one piece that changes to whatever you take. It features a relaxing soundscape and encouraging messages, and allows you to get the grips of the rules of chess at your own pace while also creating a...
Release Date: 23/05/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Dr. Meep is a matching puzzle game about feelings. You play telepathic psychiatrist Dr. Meep and are visited by different patients. You help them come to terms with their colour- and shape-coded feelings by getting them to match.
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Dungeon and Puzzle is a puzzle adventure game where you move through rooms, using your limited number of turns to defeat the monsters, unlock doors and (hopefully) escape. In a novel twist on the format, the monsters don't attack, they merely block your...
Release Date: 18/03/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Magic Twins is a cooperative puzzle game where Abra and Cadabra use their colour powers to defeat hordes of colour coded enemies. You play by moving up and down and picking the coloured spell to match the enemies. It stands out for the lovely story and...
Release Date: 12/02/2019
Out Now: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Minesweeper Genius is the classic puzzle game with some twists and more character. You help Aristotle sweep the minefield to regain his memory. To do this you use the number clues on each column to how many bombs are in adjacent squares.
Release Date: 28/04/2014
Out Now: Web
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
You're Pulleying My Leg is a running around puzzle game where you move mirrors to reflect a beam of light down into a mine, destroying blocks and letting you reach the secret within. While it sounds simple, it requires a great deal of persistence,...
Release Date: 07/10/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Beglitched is a puzzle game that combines Candy Crush's matching with Minesweeper's mapping challenges in missions where you foil computer hackers. Play is first traversing the computer network grid and then taking on hackers in match-three puzzles when...
Release Date: 11/09/2012
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS3
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Critter Crunch is a matching brain game where you use Biggs' long tongue to feed small creatures to larger ones until they burst. Play is a spin on Puzzle Bobble, but here the sequence of matches is as important as matching the same coloured creatures...
Release Date: 05/05/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Pushy and Pully is a puzzle game where you push blocks into enemies to kill them, or into each other to gain special attacks. The action takes place on a single screen with up to two players. After 10 levels there is a large enemy to defeat before...
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