6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Skylanders. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Skylanders.
Release Date: 27/11/2015
Platforms: PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Open World
Lego Dimensions is like other Lego games but uses real Lego sets to unlock content like Skylanders. Although it’s not being updated any longer, its interactive cooperative brick format offers a novel way to play...
Release Date: 05/04/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the latest in a series of Star Wars themed Lego running, jumping and building games. You work your way through all 9 of the Star Wars films unlocking new locations and characters as you go.
Release Date: 21/08/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an adventure about a young girl who travels to an abandoned village in the hope of finding a sacred mountain shrine. To get there she must find and grow a team of charming spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their...
Release Date: 16/10/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Starlink is a space exploration and battle game. But unlike Elite, or No Man's Sky the focus is on arcade fun and quirky characters and Pixar-style storytelling for younger players.
Release Date: 03/12/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Immortals Fenyx Rising is a mythical adventure game where you play Fenyx, exploring the huge open world, solving puzzles and fighting evil fantasy creatures. Fenyx is a newly winged demigod, who was prophesied to be the one to save the Greek Gods' home...
Release Date: 28/01/2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the latest game in the longstanding Pokémon series of role-playing games where you collect and battle Pokémon. Like those previous games, you compete in turn-based battles and try and collect as many...
43 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Skylanders. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Skylanders.
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from a colourless darkness. Unusually, battles are won through listening and conversation rather than traditional attacks. It combines the excitement and...
Release Date: 08/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
New Super Lucky's Tale is a platform game where you play a fox on a quest to recover pages from a magical book that will save his world. It takes gameplay in a more action-oriented direction but the islands and characters are full of quirky character...
Release Date: 27/02/1996, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, Game Boy and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Pokémon Sword and Shield are role-playing games where you explore a fictional world and collect different creatures called Pokémon. You progress through the game by exploring the world, talking to characters and winning turn-based battles with the...
Release Date: 05/10/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
A Hat in Time is a running, jumping and exploring game inspired by retro platform games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts. As you explore each of the worlds, you discover characters to talk to, enemies to battle and an...
Release Date: 26/03/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Balan Wonderworld is a running, jumping and exploration game. It draws on classic 3D platform games, but with simpler controls and a more laid back challenge. Like Mario Odyssey, much of the gameplay revolves around getting temporary abilities (here it...
Release Date: 24/02/2017, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Legend of Skyfish is a puzzle exploration game where you head into a dangerous land, hopping from island to island, solving puzzles and battling enemies. Each arcade-style level is a chance to put your unusual weapon to use -- for fighting but also for...
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is running and jumping game. It's a spinoff of the LittleBigPlanet series and follows Sackboy and three friends as they explore, collect and battle their way through a fantasy world.
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
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,...
Release Date: 25/05/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Biomutant is an open world role-play adventure game where you play a Raccoon warrior in a large world filled with mutated animals. Exploring this living breathing ecosystem has the feel of Zelda Breath of the Wild, but in a broken down steampunk...
Release Date: 17/11/2020
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Blankos Block Party is an online game where you collect and create custom characters based on toy figurines. Along with the built-in modes of racing, platforming and shooting, you can also plug and play your own levels in a similar fashion how [link to...
Release Date: 01/01/2011, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Blocks
Skyblock is a game played on Minecraft servers where you start on a bare island floating in the sky and must gather resources to thrive and reach other players. It's the Minecraft equivalent to being washed up on a desert island and is hugely popular....
Release Date: 09/11/1996, updated in 2020
Platforms: DS, GBA, GameCube, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the latest game in the Crash Bandicoot series, where you play a genetically enhanced bandicoot called Crash and run, jump and bash your way through levels while avoiding hazards.
Release Date: 20/04/2006, updated in 2017
Platforms: DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Okami (Okamiden on Nintendo DS) is an unusual action-adventure. Combat is via interactions that are achieved with brush strokes rather than weapons. It has a unique visual style that invites you to inhabit its painted world with brushstrokes of your...
Release Date: 11/08/2000, updated in 2020
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GameCube, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Paper Mario is a role-play game featuring Mario and other Nintendo characters. Although cute and cartoon-like in appearance, these games are known for the quality of writing and the well balanced and enjoyable turn-based combat.
Release Date: 03/09/2018
Platforms: DS, GameCube, PC, PS2, PS4, Switch, Wii and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a running, jumping, bashing and exploring game. It’s a re-release of the classic platform games featuring the purple dragon, Spyro. The attraction is the well designed levels, collecting and exploration. It’s an amiable...
Release Date: 30/09/2010
Platforms: DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Toy Story 3 (Toy Story 3: The Video Game) is a running, jumping and exploration game from the developers who went on to make Disney Infinity. It is loosely based on the film and features the voice cast from the film.
Release Date: 18/03/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Pile Up is a running and jumping game where up to four of your play as boxes. You run (slide) and jump around the level and need to jump gaps, open doors and solve puzzles to progress. You need to coordinate with each other to progress through the...
Release Date: 18/08/2013
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Disney Infinity is an action game with themed adventures around iconic Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters. Players unlock content in the game with physical figurines and PlaySet pieces placed onto a Base peripheral plugged into the console...
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Hypercharge: Unboxed is a shooting game where you play a small toy from the 1990s in human-sized arenas like a toy shop, back garden and a garage. It combines base defence play with exploration and collection running and jumping in a wide range of...
Release Date: 01/08/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Lego Super Mario is a running and jumping game you play in the real world with an electronic Mario toy. A series of Lego sets provide special bricks that the Mario toy can detect. The timer starts as you move the toy through the level and trigger...
Release Date: 26/10/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
The Smurfs Mission Vileaf is an exploration running, jumping and shooting game. You battle the wizard Gargamel to free imprisoned Smurfs and return the sarsaparilla fields to health. to do this you must track down the ingredients for the antidote.
Release Date: 30/01/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Dog's Run and the sequel Dog's Run Generations are simple running, jump and digging games where you play a dog searching for their lost bones. It's novel because of the focus on simple exploration, jumping and collecting gems. This do get a little more...
Release Date: 10/06/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Riverbond is a frantic adventure in a blocky world. With four people on one system, you take on an adventure to defeat evil and free the charming citizens. It's a brawling game with an emphasis on fun and over-the-top cartoon combat.
Release Date: 11/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Way Of The Passive Fist is a fighting game where you parry, dodge, dash and counter-attack to outwit and outlast your enemies rather than kill them.
Release Date: 18/08/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Blocks
Lego Hidden side is an adventure game you play by building physical Lego kits and then interacting with them via an augmented reality app on your Smartphone. After building, when you put the kits on the camera they come to life on the screen, offering...
Release Date: 14/10/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Trifox is a shooting game where one stick controls your movement and the other controls the aiming. You traverse through the levels, defeating hordes of enemies with a variety of different skills and weapons. While the controls are simple, mastering...
Release Date: 28/05/2010
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Anki Overdrive is a physical slot-car racing game you control with your smartphone. The cars are intelligent and follow the track so you can focus on steering them round the best racing line and triggering virtual weapons. Although discontinued,...
Release Date: 18/11/2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet are the latest role-playing games in the longstanding Pokémon franchise, where you explore and catch creatures to battle against other trainers. Taking cues from both the previous [link to game/Pokmon mainline...
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...
Release Date: 30/11/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale is an action puzzle adventure. You play Scoria, a female orc, searching for a herb that will stop her Granny from snoring. However, the plant can only be found in a castle guarded by dragons. With your sword and shield and...
Release Date: 01/11/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Beasts of Balance comes with beautifully sculpted physical toys that interact with your iPad to create and nurture creatures in a magical land. You place a toy creature on the plinth provided and it appears in the game. Balance another creature on top...
Release Date: 05/08/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
GigaBash is a fighting game where you brawl against other players in matches of up to four people, each of whom controls a huge, city-destroying monster. With a wide array of moves to perfect for each character, there's not only silly fun but also deep...
Release Date: 18/11/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Happy Atoms is a puzzle game about the world of chemistry and molecules. You take on quests to discover molecules as you explore the world. It has teaching aims but ensures this doesn't eclipse the game.
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Diablo II is an action role-playing game, following events of the original game. Through 5 acts you must attempt to stop Diablo's return and related destruction. This takes you to different locations and settings to explore, battle and meet an extended...
Release Date: 16/06/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Final Vendetta is a brawling game like classic 1990s arcade games, Final Fight, Double Dragon, Body Blows and Streets Of Rage. You control a street-fighting character with an array of moves to learn so you can progress through the waves of different...
Release Date: 26/04/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Onirism is a whimsical narrative adventure where you fight monsters while traversing fantasy world to reclaim your stuffed animal, Bunbun. As you explore by foot, car, and boat, you discover a world full of creatures, some friendly, others not, and...
Release Date: 26/01/2023
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Shoulders of Giants is a shooting game where you control a sword-wielding robot and the gunslinging space frog that is piloting it. Although it mixes things up letting you switch between two characters, it keeps play approachable in its straightforward...
Release Date: 30/04/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Pixels
Streets of Rage 4 is a retro fighting game based on Sega's 1990's Streets of Rage trilogy. Up to four players brawl their way through waves of enemies with the help of disposable weapons. In recreating the sights and sounds of the classic game, it fills...
Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Great Job Human is a running, jumping and puzzle game. You play as a robot with his companion searching for twelve ancient relics in a world made of microchips. It's an unusual mix of platforming and world manipulation. You must try not fall off the...
Release Date: 04/03/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
MailMole is a running, jumping and tunnelling game where you play a mole delivering letters through a series of fantasy levels. It's like the Mario platform game, but with a greater focus on movement and flow than jumping on enemies.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is a friend-making adventure game where you help the Greek gods remember their past and unravel a mysterious curse. As you explore the tropical island, you encounter rare treasures and interact with the gods, helping to...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Akimbot is an action-adventure where you are a mechanical robot in a chaotic, futuristic universe. Play involves traversing the dense levels using your wall-running and jet-boost skills. You can take on enemies from a distance or get in close for combat...
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Platforms: PC, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
From Space is a shooting game where squads of four players liberate the earth from an alien infestation. Play is in B-Movie style with over-the-top weaponry and a cartoony post-apocalyptic world. It stands out for combing the classic dungeon action of...
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