6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Hue. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Hue.
Release Date: 27/09/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Wandersong is an adventure where you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing with one of the direction sticks. It stands out not only for its start of love and loss, but...
Release Date: 23/10/2017
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Boo! is a Halloween-themed puzzle game where you decorate pumpkins using cauldrons of coloured paint. The twist is that to create each design, you need to cover up different parts of the pumpkin using an assortment of items. The challenge is to apply...
Release Date: 26/04/2012
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D First-Person and Pixels
Perspective is a running and jumping game where you control a 2D character in a 3D world. Like the Flatland novel, your 2D character can only experience a slice of the 3D world, so you must move your 3D character around to find a perspective that grants...
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Switch
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ibb and Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for cooperation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...
Release Date: 20/02/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Kuro: A Shadow's Dream is a running and jumping puzzle game. You play as a boy ninja called Kuro who is chasing a mysterious caped figure through a colourful painted landscape. It's unusual because although you collect special abilities (higher jumps or...
Release Date: 09/09/2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Ten People Ten Colors is a puzzle game where you help walking figures get to the exit. It's unusual because you can only control the level's background colour. Using the colour wheel you can match the background to foreground elements, which makes them...
21 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Hue. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Hue.
Release Date: 10/06/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Chicory: A Colourful Tale is an adventure where you play an everyday dog thrust into the role of wielding a magic brush. The world starts black and white and you paint to solve puzzles, help your animal friends and restore colour. It looks like a...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Paper Trail is a traversal puzzle game about a budding academic, Paige, leaving home. Play is set in a foldable paper world that you manipulate to join paths, move rocks and overlap the two sides of reality. It's a unique two sided puzzle that tells the...
Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps place you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. You run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do new powers are unlocked that allow you...
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...
Release Date: 27/04/2011, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Coming Soon: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an adventure game in miniature. You explore a myth-rich world and use your sword to do battle and evoke spells to solve musical puzzles. It's a world that changes with the moon as you guide your wandering warrior monk.
Release Date: 05/08/2015
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Ink is a running (sliding) and jumping game where you see the platforms you are jumping on by splashing them with ink. You control a little white square that, along with splashing colour everywhere, can jump on enemies and climb walls.
Release Date: 06/08/1986, updated in 2017
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, GameCube, Wii and Wii U
Coming Soon: Switch
Components: 3D First-Person
Metroid is a series of running, jumping and exploration games where you play bounty hunter Samus Aran who protects the galaxy from the Space Pirates. It includes the platforming of a Mario game, but the focus is more on fighting enemies, finding new...
Release Date: 29/10/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play a doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the panels...
Release Date: 19/11/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Typoman is a running, jumping puzzle game where you use letters and words to solve puzzles and progress. You play as a character made of letters in a hostile land with evil creatures. As this unusual character, you make your way through the world...
Release Date: 05/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ynglet is an exploration game where you jump between bubbles that float in the sky making sounds as you interact with the doodled environment. Part platform game, part dynamic soundtrack, it's a game designed to let you flow through the world to...
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead
She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage. As you do you eavesdrop on...
Release Date: 21/06/2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Unmaze is a mix of puzzle game and graphic novel. Inspired by the myth of the Minotaur, you help Asterion and Theseus to guide them out of the maze. However, you can only help one at a time. Using the phone's camera the game lets you help Asterion when...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Schim is a traversal game where you run and jump from shadow to shadow. The world around you (and its shadows) are in motion so you need to carefully plan and time your movement. It's challenging and head-stretching in how it combines the cast of light...
Release Date: 26/09/2008, updated in 2011
Out Now: DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
De Blob is a platform-puzzle game where you explore cartoon-style urban landscapes to recolour the city. You play a sponge-like creature that can collect coloured paint and take it to different locations to turn the buildings and landscape features to...
Release Date: 07/11/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Deru is a cooperative puzzle game about the flow and interaction of colour. Its stylised design hides within it complex conundrums you must work closely together to solve. Each of the two players can only touch streams of their colour, so must carefully...
Release Date: 08/07/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fossil Echo is a short running and jumping game about a young boy's mistake and subsequent climb of a giant tower in the middle of the sea. The story is told in short animations and with challenging platform-style gameplay to create a moving and...
Release Date: 15/12/2021
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Filemechanism is a running and jumping puzzle game where you can take snapshots of the game with a camera that enables you to go back to that moment when you need to. This time-travel mechanism makes this an unusual puzzle as the game uses time to...
Release Date: 25/08/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Haak is a running, jumping and fighting game where you explore an apocalyptic wasteland to find your lost brother. You investigate a dilapidated futuristic cities by making well timed jumps, fighting enemies and developing your skills. Although familiar...
Release Date: 24/08/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Planet of the Eyes is an atmospheric running and jumping game where you play a robot stranded on a mysterious planet. You progress by well timed jumps and puzzle solving to traverse a fantastical planet with a dark secret.
Release Date: 26/09/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Zip Zap is a puzzle game with a simple premise. You move Erector/Meccano-style metal plates to get a ball in a white circle for at least a couple of seconds. It sounds simple. It is simple, although actually, it soon becomes head scratching to get the...
Release Date: 05/04/2018
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Blocks and Pixels
Membrane is a traversal puzzle game where you fire blocks into the world to build, bend and break the platforms. Play involves running and jumping around the world, more unusually you can change the levels by firing objects that work with the game...
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