Sort 40 games:

40 Great Games Like Vignettes

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

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 stray cat, awaken an ancient snake-spirit, re-enact a moon landing or travel back in time. Each object has a story to tell as you push and pull it around. You don’t win or lose, but you do progress through the series of different objects.
Infant-school children will enjoy the simple object recognition and how one thing magically transforms into another with their careful interactions.

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

Vignettes

Game Details

Release Date: 06/03/2019

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Puzzle

Accessibility: 3 features

Components: 2D Side-On

Developer: Skeleton Biz (@SkeletonBiz)

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

Winding Worlds

Release Date: 14/05/2020

Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Winding Worlds is a colourful puzzle game played in a mythic world where you solve your way through the afterlife. The characters you meet don't always want to help, but you can help them deal with their problems and find peace. The puzzles are logic...

Spek

Release Date: 22/09/2019

Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On

A puzzle game where objects are seen only in outline and you must travel the world with your dot, by manipulating the perspective. You navigate through minimalist yet colourful environments full of challenging puzzles, dangerous inhabitants, and...

Inbento

Release Date: 12/03/2020

Platforms: Android, Switch and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Inbento is a food-themed puzzle game where you solve puzzles to prepare lunch boxes. As you complete each "bento" lunch box a story unfolds about the highs and lows of parenthood. There are over 100 fun puzzles, aesthetically served with traditional...

Yellow

Release Date: 04/05/2017

Platforms: 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...

Unworded

Release Date: 17/11/2000, updated in 2017

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Unworded is a narrative visual puzzle where you use letter shapes to create objects and solve puzzles. As you progress through the five chapters, you uncover the story of a writer who is in the hospital recovering from a serious accident.

Baba is You

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...

29 Similar Games Long List

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

Everything

Release Date: 21/03/2017, updated in 2019

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch

Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Everything is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object. It sounds strange and not much fun, but the enjoyment is in discovering how small or how big a thing you can become. From tiny atoms to whole planets and everything in...

Orchids to Dusk

Release Date: 03/12/2015

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering adventure. You are an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes of oxygen. You explore the world and discover fantastic gardens on the planet.

Untitled Goose Game

Release Date: 03/10/2019

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

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Untitled Goose game is a silly and funny game but with a dastardly vibe. You play a mean goose who is intent on ruining the day of the inhabitants of a sleepy English village. By stealing items, squawking and otherwise making a nuisance of yourself you...

Monument Valley

Monument Valley (Series)

Release Date: 11/05/2018

Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks

Monument Valley and Monument Valley 2 are puzzle mazes made from optical illusions. You interact with each level to change the pathway and get your character to the exit. Its striking, calm visual theme is used to build atmosphere and slowly reveal a...

Kids

Release Date: 31/05/2019

Platforms: iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

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.

Dragon Box

Release Date: 09/05/2012

Platforms: 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...

Assemble With Care

Release Date: 19/11/2019

Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

From the makers of Monument Valley, this puzzle game is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to...

I Am Dead

Release Date: 07/10/2020, updated in 2021

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

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made

I Am Dead is a puzzle game from the creators of Wilmot's Warehouse. You play a recently-deceased museum curator trying to avert a disaster from his home town of Shelmerston.

Sago Mini

Sago Mini (Series)

Release Date: 09/06/2017

Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Open World

Sago Mini games are designed for 3-5 year old pre-school children. Like Toca Boca games for younger kids, they offer interactive storybook characters with light narratives and open-ended play. Superheroes, space explorers, boat...

Empty

Release Date: 25/09/2020

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Web and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Empty is a minimalist puzzle game that teaches the value of simplicity in life. You rotate and interact with different vignettes to line up items with the same background colour. As you do this they disappear and the scene slowly empties.

Superliminal

Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person and Open World

Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...

Moncage

Release Date: 16/11/2021

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Moncage is an adventure puzzle game, where you find a mysterious cube. Each face displays a different scene and by rotating and interacting you can change your view and how they overlap with each other. You navigate through the island and the factory by...

Hidden Through Time

Release Date: 12/03/2020, updated in 2022

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

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Hidden Through Time is a spot the item game that also takes you on a journey through different time periods. You are tasked with finding specific items and must zoom, interact and uncover things to find each one.

Teach Your Monster To Read

Release Date: 10/03/2014, updated in 2020

Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Teach Your Monster to Read is a game about phonics, letters and reading. Children create a monster for a journey through three games. The combination of colourful well-animated characters and proper reading learning is both fun and powerful.

Patrick's Parabox

Release Date: 29/03/2022

Platforms: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Patrick's Parabox is a puzzle game where you move, and move through, boxes within boxes. Like a Russian doll, inside each box is another level that you can navigate to create a nested set of puzzles. It's an equally mind-bending and elegant experience...

Ploppy Pairs

Release Date: 06/03/2022

Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

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.

Car Quest

Release Date: 25/10/2018

Platforms: Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Car Quest is an exploration puzzle adventure you navigate by driving your car. With no time pressure and a relaxed vibe you can take your time to drive, collect, explore, solve, discover.

Marching Order

Release Date: 28/11/2018

Platforms: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Marching Order puts you in charge of a disorderly animal marching band. Listen to each animal’s requests to get them in the right order in the game about sequence, rules and order.

Bam Fu

Release Date: 04/05/2013, updated in 2015

Platforms: iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Bam Fu is a competitive puzzle game where you must change coloured icons to match your colour by tapping them. The novelty is that you play with up to four other people on one device. Each person competes to turn the tiles to their colour. It's an...

Pok Pok Playroom

Release Date: 20/05/2021

Platforms: iOS

Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Pok Pok Playroom is a storybook game, filled with interactive digital toys for children to discover and explore as they scroll through a series of settings. It's for children 2-6 years-old and offers open-ended play where the focus isn't on right and...

The Shape Of Things

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Weather

The Shape of Things is a relaxing puzzle game where you manipulate objects to match up their disjointed pieces. It's played a bit like the Rubik's cube, only here it's not colours and sides you are matching up but elements of these different everyday...

Here Kitty!

Release Date: 04/05/2020

Platforms: iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Here Kitty! is a real-world hide and seek game you play by hiding your phone. It's from the same team behind Heads Up. When the child calls out or gets near the phone makes cat noises to give them clues to find it. When it's...

Hyperbolica

Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022

Platforms: Mac, Oculus and PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Hyperbolica is a traversal game where the whole world bends the laws of physics. As you move around, everything seems to shift and fold in on itself as you discover space doesn't work like it does in the real world. It's a game created in non-Euclidean...

Sizeable

Release Date: 19/03/2021

Platforms: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Weather

Sizeable is a puzzle game about manipulated objects in a series of beautiful tiny dioramas. You rotate to explore and pick up, move and resize objects. To complete a level you need to find all the hidden monoliths. It's a casual puzzle game that uses...

A Little Perspective

A Little Perspective (Dreams)

Release Date: 06/04/2020, updated in 2020

Platforms: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

A Little Perspective is a puzzle game where you rotate the world to see things from a different angle and find new paths to the goal. Like an Escher picture (and like the PlayStation 3 game, Echochrome) the perspective affects which platforms you can...

Cocoon

Release Date: Coming soon

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

Components: 2D Overhead

Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world. The twist is that placing orbs in a portal grants access to the worlds within worlds and creates a complex nested puzzle.

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

Windosill is a collection of toy-like puzzles through ten mysterious rooms. You follow a small, toy truck navigating a mysterious world. It stands out not only for the unusual interactions but how exploring each scene is like playing with a new toy.

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...

Save Room

Release Date: 28/04/2022, updated in 2022

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

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

Save Room tasks you with fitting your special agent gear into a bag of limited size. Inspired by the inventory management system of games like Resident Evil 4, you need to place the odd-shaped guns, ammo and items neatly...

10 Easier Skill Rating than Vignettes

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

Teach Your Monster To Read

Everything

Here Kitty!

Windosill

6 Video Games Like Vignettes Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Vignettes. This includes games from the Puzzle genre. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

She Remembered Caterpillars

Hidden Folks

16 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Vignettes

If you like the sound of Vignettes 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 Vignettes Accessibility Report.

Vignettes is in These Lists

In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Vignettes in the following lists:

Games Picked For Taming Gaming Book

LIST

Nurture Child-Like Imagination

LIST

Independent Games Festival Awards

LIST

Curated lists:
Game genre:
Style of Play:
Components:

How long to play:
User-generated content:	No
Accessibility features:	Yes

Controls
Gamepad:
Mouse And Keyboard:
Touchscreen:
Motion:	Motion Aiming Motion Pointing Motion Tilting Motion Gesture Motion Camera
Remap Controls:
Button Combinations:	Holding Down Buttons Optional Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional No Simultaneous Buttons
Controller Vibration:
Sensitivity:

Getting Started
Onboarding Before Play:
Assistance Getting Starting:	Tutorials Practice Area View Control Mapping Assistance With Controls Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Adjust Speed No Jump Scares
Assistance For Progressing:	Guaranteed Progress With God Mode Bank Progress With Frequent Checkpoints Assisted Progress With Boosts Assisted Progress With Hints Assisted Recall for Characters Assisted Recall for Narrative and Dialogue Save Progress Anytime

Reading
Reading Level:
Text Visibility:	Large Clear Text High Contrast Text
Subtitles:
Captions:
Voice Acted:

Navigation
Clarity:
Head-Up Display:
Menu Navigation:

Visual
Contrast:
Interactive Elements:
Visual Distractions:
Audio Cues for Visual Events:
Narration for Visual Elements:
	Motion Sickness Friendly
Colour Options:
Play Without Sight:
Violence:

Audio
	Balance Audio Levels
Audio Events:
	Play Without Hearing

Communication
Player-to-Player Online Communication:
Online Communication Assistance:

Difficulty
Difficulty Options:	Simple and Full Version No Memorisation Advantage No Hidden Information No Deceit Advantage No Colour Advantage No Mathematics Advantage No Weighing Decisions

Getting Started
Assistance Getting Started:	Clear Manual Electronic Version of Manual Electronic Version of Manual for Screen Readers Getting Started Video Digital Version Reference Aid
Assistance Progressing:	Play Order Tokens (Or play order doesn’t change) Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Low Impact Catch Up Rule

Reading
Reading Level:
Necessary Text Visibility:	Large Clear Text on Board (Or no text required) Large Clear Text on Cards (Or no text required) High Contrast Text (Or no text required) QR Code For Text (Or no text required) Primary and Secondary Text Distinguishable (Or no text required) Information Orientation Clear Icons

Physical
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

Visual
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

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

Search:
Type:

Minimum age rating:
Age of player:

In-game purchases:
Cost:
Released:

Difficulty
Difficulty Options:
Adjust After Setting:

Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality Choices:
Gender Representation:
Sexual Orientation Representation:

Search by game

Search by interaction

Refine for your family

Video Game Accessibility Filters

Controls

Difficulty

Getting Started

Reading

Navigation

Visual

Audio

Communication

Board Game Accessibility Filters

Difficulty

Getting Started

Reading

Physical

Visual

Audio

Diversity and Inclusion Filters

Gender and Sexuality

40 Great Games Like Vignettes

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

29 Similar Games Long List

10 Easier Skill Rating than Vignettes

6 Video Games Like Vignettes Based on Genre

16 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Vignettes

Vignettes is in These Lists

Subscribe to our free newsletter