6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Altered. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Altered.
Release Date: 31/01/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Bleep Bloop is a puzzle game where you manoeuvre two coloured blobs through increasingly complex stages. Each moves in a straight line until it hits a wall, and can interact with switches and obstacles that alter the layout of the level. It's a familiar...
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut is a macabre puzzle game. You control Skullface, a serial killer hellbent on killing every camper in this homage to 80's horror movies. It combines a basic slide the block puzzle with a cute block world but with a dark sense...
Release Date: 12/07/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Cramped Room of Death is a puzzle game where you traverse maze-like chambers with a cumbersome, oversized spear. You advance by defeating all the enemies in a given room, but to do this you must carefully choose your path so that your spear doesn't...
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Puddle Knights is a puzzle game where you use your cape to protect nobles from stepping in mud. While it may not challenge the ruling elites, it does create an intriguing challenge with steadily increasing difficulty.
Release Date: 21/05/2021
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
At the Hedges of Time is a puzzle game where you help Sir Montaclé escape the hedge maze and free himself from the witch's curse. It's a block pushing puzzle with a twist: you can rewind time. However, not all the blocks are affected by time.
Release Date: 18/12/2012, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
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...
28 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Altered. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Altered.
Release Date: 06/02/2014
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Threes is a puzzle game where you slide numbered tiles on a grid. When they collide they combine their numbers, like Triple Town. You can match 1's and 2's with each other, the white tiles can match cards that are multiples of 3...
Release Date: 30/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
868-HACK is a puzzle game where you hack a computer program to collect as much data as you can. It's a unique puzzle as collecting data triggers more enemies to appear so you walk a delicate balance between collecting as much as possible, but not so...
Release Date: 14/10/2010, updated in 2012
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
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: 01/12/2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is a puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen. On each level, you must roll your snowballs to be the right size and then position them on each other to make a snowman.
Release Date: 29/03/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Patrick's Parabox is a puzzle game where you move, and move through, boxes within boxes. Like a Russian doll, inside each box is another level that you can navigate to create a nested set of puzzles. It's an equally mind-bending and elegant experience...
Release Date: 05/08/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Sniks is a puzzle game about guiding colourful worms to matching coloured fruit and food. Each level is a self-contained arena with a number of snakes. Each snake can only consume fruit of a matching colour and they can't pass each other. It poses some...
Release Date: 19/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Kine is a 3D puzzle game where you control three robot instruments: Roo, the accordion; Quat, the drum; and Euler, the trombone. To help them become a band, you solve puzzles that involve their different abilities in various ways.
Release Date: 25/02/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Room to Grow is a puzzle game about movement and expansion. You play a plant that moves by growing and wrapping your way around a maze. You can shift your location by growing into walls which enables you to manoeuvre around obstacles and make room for...
Release Date: 30/09/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Bonfire Peaks is a puzzle game where you explore a Minecraft-looking world. Unlike the generalised blocks of that game, here the landscape is lovingly crafted and pulsing with life. It's a tightly designed puzzle game about closure, that invites you to...
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Alt254 is a minimalistic adventure game. Using just a few pixels, it boils down the elements of adventuring (exploration, chests, enemies and landscapes) to the absolute minimum visual representation.
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Jelly No Puzzle is a game where you move cubes of jelly around to combine cubes of matching colours together. While it's a very simple concept, each level presents a unique challenge: overcoming vertical objects or getting one cube past another. The...
Release Date: 04/05/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Blocks
Snakebird is a puzzle game about movement, shapes and gravity. You control multiple snakes on a quest for fruit. You move around the world by directing each one to collect fruit. It looks simple, but the novelty is that you soon have to create specific...
Release Date: 07/12/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Togges is an exploring and collecting game where you traverse brightly coloured worlds. You use coloured cubes, called Togges, to reach new areas and overcome obstacles. This isn't block pushing work like other platform games. Because you can spawn...
Release Date: 14/10/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
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: 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: 11/09/2012
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS3
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Critter Crunch is a matching brain game where you use Biggs' long tongue to feed small creatures to larger ones until they burst. Play is a spin on Puzzle Bobble, but here the sequence of matches is as important as matching the same coloured creatures...
Release Date: 14/11/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Twinfold is a puzzle fighting game played in a small maze. You move around the maze with your square character merging into golden baby cubes to gain energy and squashing angry enemy cubes.
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Dungeon and Puzzles is a puzzle adventure game where you move through rooms, using your limited number of turns to defeat the monsters, unlock doors and (hopefully) escape. In a novel twist on the format, the monsters don't attack, they merely block...
Release Date: 14/01/2018
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Kiri's Garden is a pixel-puzzle about planting trees, growing grass, and moving flowers. You must plant trees to finish a level, but this is only possible once you've covered every other square in either grass or some other plant. It sounds simple but...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Lab Rat is a tile-based puzzle game with an emphasis on satire. You work in a machine-learning facility where you take on scenarios chosen for you by the metrics-obsessed AI that monitors, profiles, and taunts you as you progress.
Release Date: 09/05/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Pan'orama is a simulation-building game where you place tiles to score points and lay out an interconnected tapestry world. Play involves deciding where to place each of your tiles to match adjacent land and score the most. It takes the elegant puzzle...
Release Date: 14/09/2017
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Swim Out is a puzzle game like the popular Traffic Jam board game, where you need to get your swimmer to the exit of a busy swimming pool. As well as the different setting, this game extends the challenge as the other swimmers also move when you do.
Release Date: 28/04/2014
Out Now: Web
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
You're Pulleying My Leg is a running around puzzle game where you move mirrors to reflect a beam of light down into a mine, destroying blocks and letting you reach the secret within. While it sounds simple, it requires a great deal of persistence,...
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Alephant is an abstract puzzle game where you combine Hebrew letters to create sounds. Like language, the game works on rules that appear arbitrary but are actually detailed and interwoven. It creates a unique cascading puzzle where one letter...
Release Date: 28/08/2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Grid and Pixels
Block Buster Billy is a puzzle game about positioning blocks that join together when they make valid maths formulas. Play involves pushing the blocks to not only satisfy the rules of maths but also form shapes that are useful to progress the level's...
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Lumen (lumen.) is a puzzle game about manipulating mirrors and lenses to get beams of light to reveal images telling the story of the inventor's life. It's a simple concept, but as the levels get more challenging and more obstacles appear, logic and...
Release Date: 02/03/2023
Out Now: PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Stuffo the Puzzle Bot is a puzzle game about a robot trying to escape the world by solving block-moving puzzles. The blocks have different properties and interact with the environment in different ways. It's a familiar challenge brought to life with...
Release Date: 03/08/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Sushi For Robots is a brain game about serving sushi-obsessed robots with the right-shaped food. You place sushi on the conveyor belt so it gets to the right-shaped robots. You can also put down stickers to change the behaviour of your dishes and please...
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