41 Great Games Like Canvas

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Canvas is a creative collecting game where you layer transparent cards and backgrounds to make unique pictures. The aim is to match your art to the target style each round, indicated by icons on the cards. This layering of cards creates a fascinating challenge that both creates interesting pictures and an intricate scoring system.

Unfortunately, Canvas is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Canvas

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Players: 1-5

Genres: Collecting, Sequencing (Creative and Push-Your-Luck)

Accessibility: 0 features documented

Components: Board, Cards and Tokens

Costs: Purchase cost

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Diatoms

Release Date: 08/01/2024

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Diatoms is a tile-placement puzzle game where you create a microscopic mosaic from single-cell algae. Your goal is to create a pattern that scores the most at the end of the game based on colours, shapes, and symmetry. It stands out not only for the...

Chai

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Board, Cards and Tokens

Chai is a collecting and sequencing game about running a Tea House. You play by strategically collecting ingredients to serve customers beverages matching their tastes. It's clever because of its Candy Crush-style ingredient collecting and competition...

ShipShape

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

ShipShape is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to create the highest-scoring ship full of loot. You bid for hole-ridden Crate pieces, then carefully stack them in order to form your Hold. It is part auction, part puzzle where you have...

Allegory

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Allegory is a collecting game where you use cards to create three stories with strong moral themes. You play by bidding for Theme cards and adding them to one of your three stories, matching themes and threading together morals. It is a game of bidding,...

Village Pillage

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Village Pillage is a simple card-battling game about protecting your village. You choose which characters to send into battles which resolve depending on each card's abilities. Unlike similar card battle games, things are kept streamlined both by the...

Shifting Stones

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Shifting Stones is a competitive brain game where you manipulate a grid of Stone cards to match arrangements on your Pattern cards. The trick is that you have to spend your Pattern cards to swap or flip the Stone cards. It's a game where you have to...

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Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Canvas. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Canvas.

Scout

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Scout is a sequencing card game where you must play sets of increasing value from a hand you can't reorder. This ordering restriction is cleverly offset by being able to insert cards from the table to prepare runs and sets for your next go. This, and...

Pictures

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Cards, Placeables and Score Board

Pictures is a puzzle game about recreating pictures with everyday objects. You are assigned a picture from a grid of cards on the table and given a set of materials (cubes, sticks and stones, cards) to make it with. How well you do is determined by how...

Junk Art

Release Date: 01/01/2016

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

Junk Art is a dexterity game where you create art from little pieces of junk. Each round has different rules for how to build the best tower, but they all combine to become an aesthetic and dexterity challenge. It's a game that takes Jenga-style...

Patchwork

Release Date: 01/01/2014

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Board, Placeables and Tokens

Patchwork is a two-player sequencing game where players aim to piece together the most beautiful quilt. You play by adding Tetris-like Patchwork pieces to a 9 x 9 Quilt board. It is a game about carefully threading the needle between earning buttons to...

Telestrations

Release Date: 01/01/2009

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Dice and Pen and Pad

Telestrations is a drawing, guessing party game that combines Catchphrase and Chinese Whispers. Using a wipeable game book, players work in series to sketch a secret word, guess the word, turn the page and sketch again. If the final player's guess...

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16 Board Games Like Canvas Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Canvas. This includes games from the Collecting, Sequencing, Creative and Push-Your-Luck genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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41 Great Games Like Canvas

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

Diatoms

Chai

ShipShape

Allegory

Village Pillage

Shifting Stones

5 Similar Games Long List

Scout

Pictures

Junk Art

Patchwork

Telestrations

4 Easier Skill Rating than Canvas

18 Similar Video Games to Canvas

16 Board Games Like Canvas Based on Genre

Canvas is in This List

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41 Great Games Like Canvas

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6 Similar Games Short List

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4 Easier Skill Rating than Canvas

18 Similar Video Games to Canvas

16 Board Games Like Canvas Based on Genre

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