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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bad North. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bad North.
Release Date: 30/08/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Tinykin is a puzzle game where you play Milo. You have landed on Earth in 1991 but are tiny. To survive you catch hundreds of mysterious Tinykin who can use their powers to create ladders, bridges and explosions to help you find a way home.
36 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bad North. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bad North.
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: 01/01/1999
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
King of Dragon Pass is a fantasy strategy game where you control barbarian clans settling in the dangerous frontier region of Dragon Pass.
Release Date: 13/08/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Dice
Dicey Dungeons is a video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.
Release Date: 27/02/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Into the Breach is a fantasy turn-based battle. It's set in a future where humanity fights an army of giant monsters. You control mechs equipped with a variety of weapons and armour in carefully coordinated actions played out on super-small tile-based...
Release Date: 01/04/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (known as TABS) is a fighting game where you choose different armies and troops to battle each other in an automatic simulation that models their offensive and defensive abilities. Once set up, the fight is largely...
Release Date: 04/04/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Islanders is city-building game where you carefully place structures to earn points from their geographic location and relation to other features and buildings on your islands. Earn enough points and you unlock new buildings and eventually the chance to...
Release Date: 26/10/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: Day and Night
Pikmin 3 Deluxe is the latest in a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to...
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Open World
Cosy Grove is a life-simulation where you camp on a hand-drawn island. You play a scout and explore the ever changing island's forest to find secrets and help the local ghosts. Like Animal Crossing, it has a children's story-book look, but is a...
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities. It offers a robot-themed XCOM style game for younger players.
Release Date: 17/09/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Open World
Outlanders is a building simulation where you are the leader of a group of regular people building a town together. Some want to survive, while others want to build amazing things. It’s up to you to guide them towards their goal
Release Date: 10/06/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Open World
A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. The world is depicted with just text but leads you into a dense narrative with intriguing visitors and a steadily expanding world. It has a simple start – a single option to stoke a...
Release Date: 11/08/2016
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Take charge of a kingdom, one decision at a time. Each choice is presented to you as a playing card with some advice or a question from one of the 38 different characters. Swipe left or right to make a decision that will impact the church, people,...
Release Date: 14/08/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Open World
Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).
Release Date: 26/10/2001, updated in 2009
Platforms: GameCube and Wii
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Pikmin is a real time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin. You are able to control and use these creatures to knock down walls, build bridges and attack...
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: Android, Switch and iOS
Barbearian is a hectic action game where you fight through three-level missions by hacking and slashing hundreds of tiny enemies, collecting cash and rescuing minions to add to your army. It's a role play game you can take on in bite sized portions each...
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Dice and Open World
Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19th century. You join historical people to explore a world map to gain fame, science and treasures. You recruit explorers and equip them for what they may face, then set out on your next...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Day and Night and Weather
Sons of Valhalla is a strategy base building game. You play the son of a Viking Jarl aiming to conquer England and save the love of your life. Like Kingdom, you incrementally upgrade your fortifications, farming and armies to defend...
Release Date: 08/07/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Traffix is a puzzle game that puts you in charge of traffic lights on different road systems. By changing the lights to red, orange and green you work to get traffic to flow on increasingly complex and busy roads. It sounds complex, but with simple...
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: 05/09/2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Home Quest is a strategy game where you incrementally build a town, recruit an army and manage your economy. Like other idle games, it's a familiar set-up where you tap buttons to assign resources and then wait for the results. However, the unusual...
Release Date: 23/08/2013, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Death Crown is a minimalist strategy game where you play Death commanding her legions and punishing humanity. You play in a world of hexagons to place buildings and send troops to attack or defend as you try and defeat the opposing castle.
Release Date: 20/07/2020
Platforms: iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Good Soduku is the classic puzzle game but made more accessible by removing the leg work of counting and tracking which numbers have been used where.
Release Date: 20/10/2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a strategy game where you control Ubisoft's Rabbids (cartoon rabbits) and Nintendo's Mario team in turn-based battles. It expands upon the previous game by adding a wider...
Release Date: 05/08/2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4 and iOS
Road Not Taken is a puzzle adventure game where you help a village from losing its children in the storms. It's a low pressure, but complex, puzzle where you head into the forest to find and free the children by moving items and enemies around. You fail...
Release Date: 21/08/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: Open World
Tenderfoot Tactics is a role play adventure game where you play a young adventurer in a vast open world. The visuals and the Final Fantasy Tactics-style battles look simple but offer depth that requires you to learn the deterministic combat system and...
Release Date: 09/06/2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Botworld is a role-play battling game where you play a small creature in a huge explorable world. It's a bit like Pokemon. You discover new bots, collect scrap to craft items and work through a series of environments. It's an auto-battle game which...
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Platforms: Switch
Gemini is a fighting game where you defend a Crystal from waves of enemies. It's super simple in both visuals and gameplay. As you defend each wave you can collect coins to upgrade your character and purchase weapons. It's a great introduction to tower...
Release Date: 24/09/2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Pawnbarian is a puzzle game where you attack enemies in a dungeon based on chess moves. You build a deck of different pieces and use them in battles
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: Day and Night
Pikmin 4 is the latest in a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to destroy...
Release Date: 24/01/2008, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Pixel Junk Monsters is strategy game where you build defensive towers to defeat a linear march of enemies before they reach your base and kill your creatures.
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
This is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.
Release Date: 13/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Really Bad Chess is like chess, but with random pieces selected for each player. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns. Starting positions are also non-standard. It sounds like a bad idea (hence the name) but actually opens the imposing chess challenge...
Release Date: 21/04/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Rymdkapsel is a strategy game where you command a stylised space station filled with minions. You make decisions about to spend your manpower and expand your space station. It's minimalist and intentionally opaque to understand, but through multiple...
Release Date: 26/08/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Weather
A Winding Path is a hand-drawn adventure you play at a walking pace so you can take in the beauty of little things in the world. Your journey is to find the rainmaker to bring back the rain. You play by moving around and interacting with the people,...
Release Date: 02/06/2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: Cards
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Release Date: 18/12/2009, updated in 2011
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS and DS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Starship Patrol (Starship Defense) is a shooting game where you defend your ship from waves of enemy attackers. You have a combination of static guns and defence ships to form an efficient strategy. It's well executed, but most unusual for its hand...
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