8 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
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Kingdom 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 of...
Release Date: 01/12/2009, updated in 2011
Out Now: DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is a strategic battle puzzle where you position units to form patterns that determine how they behave. The play combines the simple matching of Candy Crush with the complex strategy of Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. It...
Release Date: 05/05/2016, updated in 2023
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Grid
Pocket Card Jockey is a horse racing game you participate in by playing a series of Solitaire card games. You race, breed and nurture a stable of horses for a range of owners, trainers and other interesting individuals. It stands out as both a brilliant...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rootown is a traversal strategy game where you guide tree roots down through the soil. You play by planting a tree and then steering its roots to find good soil and avoid stones. The better you do the bigger the tree and the more resources you have to...
Release Date: 08/09/2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
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: 06/09/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
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: 15/02/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
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
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The 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,...
24 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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
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: 15/11/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
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: 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...
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: 16/03/2007, updated in 2019
Out Now: DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch, Wii, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
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: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
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: 04/05/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Inks is a messy pinball game that combines puzzle with platforming. It's like a traditional game of pinball, however you are aiming to splash the ball through each coloured area rather than rack up high scores.
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
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: 25/08/2014
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Gridland (also Super Gridland on mobile) is a puzzle strategy game where you build a town by day and defend zombie attackers at night. Unusually, resources are gathered by completing match-three puzzles. This puzzle switches from building to defending...
Release Date: 14/02/1991, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS2, PS3, PSP and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
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: 27/08/2013, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
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: 08/10/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Hand-Made
Day and Night is a puzzle game where you match blocks to score points. Unusually the game switches between different time periods that affect what you can match and how the rules work.
Release Date: 25/07/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
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: 01/11/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and 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: 27/10/2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
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...
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: 03/09/2020
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
Piffle is a puzzle shooting game where you fire cat-balls at anthropomorphic shapes to clear them out of the way and finish the level. Each animal-block requires a large number of hits to remove, and the fun is rebounding your stream of cat-balls to...
Release Date: 21/01/2016
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Twofold Inc is a puzzle game where you deliver requests for coloured tiles. You fulfil these orders by connecting the required coloured squares on the small grid. When you don't have the required coloured tiles to match next to each other you can also...
Release Date: 23/05/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Dr Meep is a matching puzzle game about feelings. You play telepathic psychiatrist Dr Meep and are visited by different patients. You help them come to terms with their colour- and shape-coded feelings by getting them to match.
Release Date: 28/09/2017
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Golf Story is an adventure game where you play golf over eight different courses as a story unfolds. You play a golfer forced to give up all that he holds dear for one last shot at accomplishing his dreams.
Release Date: 12/02/2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
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: 13/03/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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: 20/10/2023
Out Now: Switch and Web
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Suika Game, also called Watermelon Game, is a spatial puzzle challenge about matching fruits. You select where to drop each new fruit into the cup, aiming to get matching varieties touching so they merge, create bigger fruit and score points. It stands...
Release Date: 27/06/2005
Out Now: DS and Xbox 360
Components: 2D Side-On
Meteos is a tile-matching game inspired by Missile Command and Tetris. You stack coloured blocks which fall from the top of the screen. The aim is to launch three or more blocks of the same colour onto the top of the screen to make them disappear.
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