6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed A Little To The Left. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed A Little To The Left.
Release Date: 02/11/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Hand-Made and Pixels
Unpacking is a meditative puzzle game where you unpack belongings into a series of spaces, each representing a stage in life. You get to know the owner of the objects by their possessions and circumstances. To finish a level you need to work out where...
Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Florence is a little puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship, following the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person. At first, the puzzle interactions seem trivial and the game doesn’t...
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Out Now: 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...
Release Date: 07/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
No Longer Home is a point-and-click narrative about moving on to a new stage of life, and our reluctance of relinquishing the familiar. You play by exploring each of the scenes, interacting with objects and making conversational choices. It stands out...
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board, Grid, Hand-Made and Weather
Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions is a puzzle game where you guide pirate ships to do pirate-ship-type things. You play by placing instructions and interactive items in the path of the ships so that when you press play, they sail to their destination and...
Release Date: 25/09/2020
Out Now: 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.
23 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed A Little To The Left. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed A Little To The Left.
Release Date: 06/01/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Mini Metro is a sequencing strategy game where you create an ordered, efficient underground train system. It sounds like hard work, but the simple Tube-map visuals, calm music, and streamlined interactions make this relaxing, like sudoku. Dip your toe...
Release Date: 04/03/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Mini Motorways is a sequencing strategy game by the same developer as Mini Metro but tasks you with planning a road network rather than a subway. You lay down roads, traffic lights and motorways to ensure enough cars can get to the buildings that pop up...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Wilmot's Warehouse is a game for people who like to organise things. You are in charge of a warehouse and must manage 100s of items of stock. These identical square boxes are labelled with rudimentary icons. On your own or with another player, you must...
Release Date: 15/08/2018, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Donut County offers a simple style of play. You drag a hole around the screen; the more things you can make fall in, the bigger the hole gets. You start with bricks, road cones and bushes, but eventually you’re swallowing whole houses.
Release Date: 14/10/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Slime Rancher is a farming simulation with a difference. Rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes. You explore the open world from a first-person perspective to find and collect slimes. As you develop your farm in numerous ways you generate...
Release Date: 14/02/2020
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness is a narrative experience designed to aid sleep. Children can select stories, sounds, meditation or music and calm colours to help them drift off to sleep quickly. Once started the original stories and sounds play with...
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Island Saver is action-adventure about cleaning up litter and goop to make money. It's created by Natwest with the aim of teaching children how to manage money. Unusually for a game with ideological ambitions, it's also a lot of fun.
Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: 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...
Release Date: 19/05/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
PowerWash Simulator is a puzzle game where you clean different objects and locations using a pressure washer. It's designed to be soothing with sounds of high-pressure water and satisfyingly clean results as you blast away every speck of dirt and grime.
Release Date: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: 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: 13/03/2019
Out Now: 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: 24/02/2009, updated in 2018
Out Now: 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: 28/11/2018
Out Now: 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.
Release Date: 12/04/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Hypnospace Outlaw is a puzzle game where you explore a simulation of the internet in the 1990s. Your role is to enforce good behaviour by finding misconduct on the pixelated pages. It's not only a unique piece of historical fiction but because its web...
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Out Now: 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...
Release Date: 29/07/2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
#SelfCare is a companion game that aims to create space for your feelings. Unlike other apps that remind or incentivise you to take a break, breath or even just to stand up, #SelfCare offers interactions and narrative that create a context for you to...
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: 17/11/2000, updated in 2017
Out Now: 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.
Release Date: 15/11/2015
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Prune involves carefully cutting off tree branches to encourage a tree to grow in a particular direction. It starts simply but turns into a challenge that parents and young children to work on together.
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Out Now: 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...
Release Date: 02/05/2017
Out Now: Oculus, PC, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Gnog is a puzzle game where you explore whimsical monster heads to interact and uncover the secret worlds inside them. To play you use the mouse or controller to grab, poke, spin, pull, and push each charming contraption.
Release Date: 07/12/2019
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Song of Bloom is a narrative puzzle game where you explore chalk drawn animations to discover a melancholy story. Working through these moving pictures you discover clues that tell you what things to highlight in red and unlock the next chapter of the...
Release Date: 06/07/2019
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Combo Postage is a jumping and stacking game. You play as Sue at her summer job as she dodges, tapes, and stomps boxes with a high-tech tape gun. Run into a box to tape it up then stomp to seal. It’s simple, hectic fun and as you realise you can line...
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