6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bonkies. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bonkies.
Release Date: 22/06/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Mars First Logistics is a traversal game where you build robots to move awkwardly-shaped objects across the surface of Mars. It's a simple concept, but to contend with the cumbersome objects and rough terrain you need to use every tool at your disposal...
Release Date: 07/12/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and PS5
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Heavenly Bodies is a puzzle exploration game about cosmonauts working in space. You use one controller stick for each arm and a button for each leg. In this way, you navigate around the space station and complete tasks that would be relatively simple if...
Release Date: 25/04/2019
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Homo Machina is a point-and-click adventure game where you solve puzzles from the inside of someone's body. It's inspired by the surreal avant-garde scientist Fritz Kahn. Play involves exploring and interacting with each bodily location to trigger...
Release Date: 29/03/2023
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
A Long Climb Ago is a running and jumping game where you create the platforms you need with Tetris-style blocks. Play involves two modes; you place the blocks that fall from the sky to create a safe route, then you control your character to run and jump...
Release Date: 29/12/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Kaiju Super Datetech is a robot dating simulator where you create a machine from simple parts with the unusual aim of attracting a monster date. You run around the simple level to pick up components and place them on your robot. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 28/04/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Pico Park is a collaborative puzzle game for up to 10 players where you traverse levels using one another to solve puzzles. It's a game about communication and physics as players work to position themselves to bridge a gap, use ropes to hang off ledges...
27 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bonkies. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bonkies.
Release Date: 06/08/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Drink More Glurp is a wacky sports game where you take turns to play athletic challenges. The twist is that you have to control your over-long arms with a separate joystick and your body is a wheel you can roll along on if you lift your arms right up....
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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: 05/07/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tricky Towers is a battle puzzle that uses shapes but instead of creating lines, you must balance them in towers that mustn’t fall over. Real-world physics applies, along with wind and attacks from other players to make your stack topple. Up to four...
Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: Apple TV, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Chariot is a cooperative running and jumping game where you work with another player to haul a wheeled Chariot to the end of each level. Pushing, pulling or dragging with ropes, you need to use the real physics of the game to solve puzzles and time...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Baby Steps is a tongue-in-cheek traversal game where you play Nate, an unemployed failing son who sets out on a journey of putting one foot in front of the other. The twist is that you must control and place each foot individually while ensuring you...
Release Date: 02/05/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Pitfall Planet is a cooperative puzzle game that forces you to think outside the box as you collect gold, fight enemies and escape levels. It features challenging levels that mean that teamwork is central as you grapple, throw and create pathways...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
Release Date: 18/03/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Pile Up is a running and jumping game where up to four of your play as boxes. You run (slide) and jump around the level and need to jump gaps, open doors and solve puzzles to progress. You need to coordinate with each other to progress through the...
Release Date: 20/09/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tetris is a longstanding puzzle game where you make horizontal lines by placing different shaped tiles in a well. It's simple and fun, but as the pieces speed up it gets increasingly difficult.
Release Date: 28/09/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Find the Balance is a puzzle game where you stack awkwardly shaped objects - stones, boxes, bananas. You place these items to create stable towers by planning, selecting and rotating objects before cutting the line and dropping them gently.
Release Date: 22/12/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Koloro is a sliding and jumping game you play with a single button. You time jumps and dodge blades to move your square character through complex maze-levels and take on enemies.
Release Date: 26/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Part Time UFO is a puzzle game where you use your flying craft and claw to solve various problems. Sort out a farm, support cheerleaders, cook up the ultimate dessert at a restaurant or even build a castle. It's sort of like the coin-operated crane...
Release Date: 26/03/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Supertype is a puzzle game you play with letters, but isn't about making words. You use the peculiar shapes of these most familiar of symbols to cover one or more dots on the level. Each letter has different uses as you try and get them to land where...
Release Date: 03/11/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Time Loader is a rolling, climbing, jumping robot puzzle game where you have travelled back in time to prevent a tragic accident. With a Back To The Future 90s vibe, you control a rover-style robot and use various tools and features to navigate the...
Release Date: 01/11/2016
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Beasts of Balance comes with beautifully sculpted physical toys that interact with your iPad to create and nurture creatures in a magical land. You place a toy creature on the plinth provided and it appears in the game. Balance another creature on top...
Release Date: 16/09/2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
I Am Fish is a physics-based traversal game where you help four fish get back to the ocean from their tanks. You wrestle with the purposefully awkward controls, fighting against your own momentum and the multitude of hazards as you search for paths to...
Release Date: 27/02/2007, updated in 2014
Out Now: Android, DS, Mac, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Peggle is a puzzle sequencing game where you fire a small ball into an array of pins that are triggered and disappear when the ball touches them. It's like a bright, saccharine pachinko game. But being electronic you can earn all sorts of bonus balls...
Release Date: 21/02/2020
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Tower of Babel No Mercy is an action platform game where you work with friends to build a tower out of buildings. You control the game with a single button (and one more for special abilities) to drop your building on the stack. It swings left and right...
Release Date: 10/01/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Wibble Wobble is a running and balancing game. A bit like a super-hard egg-and-spoon race, you manoeuvre a bowl through a timed obstacle course while balancing a ball inside. The twist is that the bowl can pass through some obstacles that the ball...
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Regular Human Basketball is a very different sports game. You play basketball by jumping around inside the robot players to control their moves. It sounds both strange and hard work, but in reality it's a lot of fun.
Release Date: 26/10/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Robotry is an unusual platform game where you don't have a jump button. Instead you use two analog sticks to control each leg of your robot and in this way you take on a range of puzzles and challenges.
Release Date: 20/09/2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Sticky Bodies is a puzzle game about attaching Monty Python-style people to each other as they fall through the sky. The more of the rag-doll individuals you connect, the higher your score. You also need to avoid other objects that are flying around. At...
Release Date: 20/08/2021
Out Now: iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tetris Beat is a classic block-stacking puzzle game that adds exclusive music and innovative rhythm tactics. You play as you listen to a diverse range of musicians including Alison Wonderland, GARZA, Hannah Diamond, Octo Octa, Dauwd and CINTHIE.
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: 01/04/2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Ogglies Tower Stacking Game is a puzzle game where you try and create the largest stack of garbage. A little like Tetris, only here you have to balance your old household items. The game features the Ogglies characters from the film series.
Release Date: 01/06/2021
Out Now: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tip Top: Don't Fall is a climbing game where you tour the world to find kinetic climbing challenges. You play by controlling each of the climber's arms with separate sticks to give the game a unique tactile (and high-skill) feel. This, and the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Turnip Mountain is a traversal game about climbing up a mountain as a turnip with arms. You control each of the turnip's limbs with separate sticks, using momentum to complete big jumps between the mountain's edges. It's a simplistic, pixelated...