6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Lost Words: Beyond the Page. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Lost Words: Beyond the Page.
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters. You discover Kai's story by walking through the panels of a comic book. It's a tale about a boy who wakes in a strange land handcuffed to a mysterious chest....
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
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: 21/09/2017
Platforms: Android, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Another Lost Phone places a stranger’s smartphone in your hands. As you use the phone interface to explore the social life of its young woman owner, Laura, you piece together messages, pictures and profiles to solve her disappearance. Although it...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
"Have you ever made a mistake, or hurt people you care about?" Asks the Photographs trailer. It's a puzzle game that aims much higher than to distract you while on the way to work.
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.
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...
19 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Lost Words: Beyond the Page. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Lost Words: Beyond the Page.
Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: 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: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC and PS4
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play. Through their eyes, you see a web of fear,...
Release Date: 01/03/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Sticky Terms is a puzzle game where you construct words from other languages with portions of letters. You rotate, drag and overlap the different elements to create words, once you do you are rewarded with a drum hit and a definition of the word.
Release Date: 06/10/2019
Platforms: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world. Through beautiful metaphoric landscapes and soaring music, the game touches on emotions of loss and longing but doesn’t resolve to a firm narrative. Although not hugely...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother. You explore the house and area to find letters and puzzles that bring back memories of the past.
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
In Heaven’s Vault you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices can open or close vast swathes...
Release Date: 19/05/2020
Platforms: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
If Found is an interactive narrative game about searching for connection. You touch the screen to rub out and erase text and drawings. Set on December 31st 1993 in the crumbling ruins of a mansion on Achill Island, you play Kasio as she destroys her diary.
Release Date: 15/09/2009
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Scribblenauts is a series of puzzle games where you solve by typing the names of everyday objects so they appear in the game and let you progress. What's surprising is the sheer number of items included in the game. This means you can solve problems in...
Release Date: 07/02/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Open World
Wide Ocean Big Jacket is a game about camping. Or rather, it's a game about the conversations you have while you are camping. You follow 13-year-old teenage friends Mord and Ben who recently started dating. The camping trip is with Mord’s Uncle Brad...
Release Date: 25/09/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Little Bug is a running and jumping game where you move through a surreal, abstract world by swinging on ropes. Unlike similar games, you control both character movement and the position of a helper spirit that can shoot and levitate you. This unusual...
Release Date: 30/08/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
One Night, Hot Springs is a narrative game where you play Haru, a 19-year-old transgender woman in Japan. She's invited by an old friend on an overnight trip to a hot springs resort. You make dialogue and interactive choices as you discover that Haru is...
Release Date: 19/09/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Dear Reader is a word puzzle game. It takes classical literature and (by removing words, rearranging passages and introducing spelling errors) it tasks you with the puzzle of proofreading. Progression through the game unlocks numerous works that are...
Release Date: 19/11/2015, updated in 2017
Platforms: 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: 26/05/2021
Platforms: iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Letter Rooms is a simple anagram puzzle game. You get a hint and a set of letters and rearrange them to create the answer. This starts simply but adds more complexity like turning letters on and off or flipping letters.
Release Date: 23/09/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Stadia
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Nanotale is an adventure game where you type to progress through a magical planet on the brink of extinction. You play as Rosalind, a novice Archivist, in a journey to study and catalogue the mysteries of the dying planet. Your goal is to gather rock &...
Release Date: 28/08/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Writer’s Block is a word puzzle game where you create words to fight. You take on quests and spell words to beat or evade the strange opponents. It's an unusual combination of combat and vocabulary where you battle mental monsters standing in the way...
Release Date: 08/07/2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Wurdweb is a word puzzle game modelled on the feeling you get from completing a crossword. Only, unlike a crossword, you are given the words. You select words from your list and connect them to existing words on the board.
Release Date: 14/10/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Bonza Word Puzzle combines crosswords and scrabble. You create words by placing crossword fragments on a grid. There's a clue for each challenge to get you started, but the real puzzle is slotting the fragments together so all the words make sense and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D First-Person
Cryptmaster is a creepy adventure brain game where you use words to control everything. You play by filling in the blanks by typing or speaking to uncover lost abilities, solve quests, and battle enemies. The novelty, along with the unusual combination...
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