5 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Peglin. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Peglin.
Release Date: 21/10/2015
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Day and Night
Kingdome is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day-by-day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves...
Release Date: 06/09/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Creature in the Well is a pinball-inspired fighting game that reimagines the ball bouncing fun of Arkanoid. You play the last remaining robot who ventures deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility and save the village that...
Release Date: 08/09/2022
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Placeables
Isle of Arrows is a strategy game where you defend a magical crystal from waves of enemies. Using randomly assigned pieces and cards that grant you bonus abilities, you construct the invader's path and then fortify it to travel on with weapons, traps,...
Release Date: 15/02/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Tower Escape is a strategy survival game that turns the tower defence format on its head: rather than placing defences for the onrushing enemies, you pick the enemies and guide them to safety. You recruit a team of minions with different abilities and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Settlings is a strategy management game where you give your tiny workforce tasks to create an ecosystem of production. Taking elements from the classic Lemmings and Settlers game, your challenge is to set up automated networks of workers to gather,...
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Peglin. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Peglin.
Release Date: 18/12/2012, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
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: 14/10/2010, updated in 2012
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
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: 16/03/2007, updated in 2019
Platforms: DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch, Wii, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Puzzle Quest 3 is the latest in a series of games that combine role-playing with tile-matching puzzles. Set in a fantasy world, you move around the map, encountering monsters and other enemies. When you go the battle are played out as tile puzzles where...
Release Date: 15/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Slay the Spire is an adventure battle card game. You play one of four characters attempting to ascend a spire of multiple floors. You fight enemies and bosses by playing cards you have collected. You gain new cards as rewards from combat. With 100's to...
Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...
Release Date: 27/08/2013, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Sokobond is a puzzle game where you create chemical molecules by manoeuvring atoms around the screen, avoiding obstacles. The game is streamlined to not need instructions and its minimalistic design enables ease of use. As you move through the levels...
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
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: 14/10/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Yugo Puzzle is a simple puzzle game where you move jelly blocks left and right to combine them with the same colour. The novelty is the ingenious challenges this simple premise is used to create. It's the kind of game where a single level might take you...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Dig Dig Boom is a puzzle game about traversing a mine with explosives to recover buried treasure. The turn-based play means you can take your time with each move, placement of dynamite and gem collecting. It stands out for the kinetic strategy where...
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
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: 25/07/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Holedown is a puzzle game where you bounce balls around a well filled with Tetris-style shapes. Each shape requires a certain number of hits and you have a large number of projectiles to direct through the maze created by the shapes. Your goal is to...
Release Date: 14/02/1991, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS2, PS3, PSP and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Lemmings is a series of puzzle games where you guide small (suicidal) creatures to the end of the levels. Unusually, you don't control when or how a character jumps and navigates the areas, but instead, you assign them actions that change the level to...
Release Date: 12/02/2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
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: 01/11/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 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: 13/03/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Roundguard is a dungeon adventure where your character is a pinball rather than a normal person. You work your way through different castle levels by flinging yourself around, bouncing off enemies to defeat them and into pots of gold to gain currency....
Release Date: 27/10/2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
The Pinball Wizard is an action adventure game where you hit an adventurer around a dungeon to score points, kill enemies and collect treasure. Play involves classic pinball action, flinging your character at enemies, along with a dash to give them a...