6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
Release Date: 14/09/2001, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and GameCube
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Luigi's Mansion is an adventure game where you investigate a haunted mansion to capture the ghosts. As long-standing Nintendo character Luigi, you play a ghostbuster to capture various mischievous ghouls and rescue Mario. It stands out for the unusual...
Release Date: 31/10/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Luigi's Mansion 3 is an adventure game where you explore the intricate rooms of a haunted hotel to find and capture ghosts. As in the first two games, you move through the rooms, finding secrets and treasures, and vacuuming up ghosts. It has the same...
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
The Last Campfire, from the same developer as Lost Winds, is an adventure about Ember who is searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting torches, bringing life to...
Release Date: 17/11/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Grid
Rob Riches is a puzzle game about a treasure hunter in search of precious artefacts. You carefully navigate a safe path through the small stages, pushing blocks, avoiding pitfalls, and collecting the coins to advance to the next stage. Like [link to...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Dice and Pixels
Everdeep Aurora is a retro-looking running, jumping and digging game where you search underground for your mother. As you dig down, you encounter a world full of people to talk to and puzzles to solve. It stands out for the way you create your own path...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Project Timi: Sasha's curse is a rhythmic platform game where you lay traps and defeat enemies in time to the beat. Set inside a small child's dream, you need to save Lucity Town from the nightmares and restore peace in a unique combination of puzzles,...
21 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
Release Date: 08/11/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
New Super Lucky's Tale is a running and jumping game where you play a fox on a quest to recover pages from a magical book that will save his world. Play is action-oriented but the islands and characters are full of quirky characters and treasures. It...
Release Date: 21/11/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
The Touryst is a puzzle-based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time away by...
Release Date: 20/12/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Lego Builder's Journey is a narrative puzzle game but isn't what you expect it to be. Rather than a brick-based puzzle for kids, it's more like a thoughtful and nostalgic work of art for adults. You work through abstract levels by following instructions...
Release Date: 20/03/2013, updated in 2024
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Luigi's Mansion 2, or Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon in the US, is an adventure game about investigating five haunted houses in a community overrun by ghosts. As Luigi, you use your flashlight and ghost trap in the mansions, capturing ghosts and collecting...
Release Date: 23/05/2010
Out Now: Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a running, jumping and exploring sequel to the critically acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy. It takes Mario to hundreds of different planet-shaped levels with their own gravitational fields and wacky...
Release Date: 12/11/2007, updated in 2020
Out Now: Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Super Mario Galaxy is a different style of running, jumping and exploration game. It takes Mario to hundreds of different planet-shaped levels as you race to save Princess Peach from Bowser's claws. It stands out for the way the mind-bending physics and...
Release Date: 18/11/2012, updated in 2019
Out Now: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
New Super Mario Bros. U is a platform game where you play with 4 main players (and an optional assistant player) to traverse from one side of the level to the other. Along with the usual running, jumping, stomping and collecting you are racing other...
Release Date: 21/11/2013, updated in 2013
Out Now: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Super Mario 3D World (known as Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury on the Switch) is a platform game you can play with up to 4-players in the same place. While all Mario games are good for families, this cooperative and competitive play makes it great...
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Wonderbox is an action-adventure game where you tap to build beautiful miniature diorama scenes in which to explore. Like Toad Treasure Tracker Each of these worlds has its own micro-adventure with enemies,...
Release Date: 10/05/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Locomotion is a puzzle game where you are a train chasing an alien who stole your gold. You control the direction of the train and the points. Each level is a puzzle where you need to find all the gold and hidden items. It's like a simplified Western...
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: 20/02/2015
Out Now: Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse is a rolling, dashing and jumping game where you draw rainbow ropes for Kirby to follow. You journey through the clay world on a mission to restore the colour that has been drained by a mysterious force. You are guided along...
Release Date: 12/09/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Dodo Peak is a platform game where you play as a dodo bird, rescuing your babies scattered across each level. The simple layout and clever design is reminiscent of the classic QBert game and presents streamlined logic puzzles to solve. The hand-crafted...
Release Date: 10/03/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
The Last Cube is a puzzle platform game where you guide a cube through a series of 3D mazes to save the world from destruction. Because you have to get the right side of the cube on the right square to trigger abilities and progress, it creates a...
Release Date: 19/10/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Harmony's Odyssey is a puzzle game where you solve mixed up mythical dioramas full of riddles, creatures and magic. Play is simply a matter of selecting and moving the sliding pieces, but there are clever clues in the fantasy world to see how they fit...
Release Date: 21/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Super Sami Roll is a rolling and jumping game where you explore a 3D world made of platforms. You play Sami, a green dinosaur on a mission to save his friend. Like Super Monkey Ball you steer and roll around, but you can also use your tongue as a...
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: 26/01/2012, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mutant Mudds is a retro platform video game. It's unusual because it is unforgiving and hard to play so presents a substantial challenge. Also, playing to the 3D feature of the Nintendo 3DS console, the game allows you to jump into the background of the...
Release Date: 06/11/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Pip Gemwalker is a running and jumping puzzle game where you control a small mole character who needs to escape a maze to find diamonds. It's similar to Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker, where each level is small enough to fit on the screen and be...
Release Date: 18/04/2011, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Switch and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Portal 2 is an action adventure where you traverse through increasingly complex (and dangerous) test chamber obstacle courses. By creating two connected portals (if you walk into one, you walk out the other) you must move yourself around the rooms to...
Release Date: 18/08/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Automatoys is a puzzle where you manipulate 3D mechanisms to direct a ball to the goal. You interact with contraptions on each level with a single press that flicks, whacks and nudges the ball past obstacles, gaps and timed jumps. It looks simple, but...
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