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Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Leila and have found the following:

Leila is a narrative puzzle game where you explore the phases of a young woman's life. Play involves interacting and manipulating (often literally) the scenes you encounter to solve puzzles and unlock the next phase. It stands out for its layered visual puzzles (like Gorogoa) that offer not only a challenge but a metaphor for the narrative.

Unfortunately, Leila is not released yet. We have some similar game suggestion for you to play while you wait for it to arrive. It’s not planned to be released for Android, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS but we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

DetailsGame Details

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle (Brain Game and Simulation)

Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )

Components: 2D Side-On

Developer: Ubik Studios (@Ubik_Studios)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games While You Wait For Leila

Here are our hand-picked games to fill the void until Leila is released:
 

Gorogoa
BAFTA Award

Gorogoa is a puzzle game where you rearrange and resize tiles to make a singular picture.

Gorogoa is a puzzle game where you rearrange and resize tiles to make a singular picture. It appears to be simple, but to solve the puzzles you need to play close attention to how they interrelate.

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Photographs - Puzzle
Stories

Photographs - Puzzle Stories is a narrative puzzle game where you witness the lives and memories of five different characters.

Photographs - Puzzle Stories is a narrative puzzle game where you witness the lives and memories of five different characters. You investigate old photos for memories that advance the story and solve simple puzzles that reflect their lives.

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Love - A Puzzle Box
Filled with Stories

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret.

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building.

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Birth

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Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness. The twist is that you do this in a grotesque exploration to find spare bones and organs to bring your creation to life.

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Fate
of Kai

Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters.

Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters. You discover Kai's story by walking through the panels of a comic book.

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Assemble
With Care

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories.

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to complex VCRs.

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC and iOS

 

9 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; more games to play while you are waiting for Leila.
 

Unpacking
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Lost In Play
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Her Story
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What Remains of Edith
Finch
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Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory.

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The Witness
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Fire
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Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway.

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The Red Strings Club
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The Red Strings Club is a futuristic narrative game where you prescribe implants and drinks to people who visit your bar.

The Red Strings Club is a futuristic narrative game where you prescribe implants and drinks to people who visit your bar. You talk to patrons, prepare them drinks and coax information out of them to advance the espionage story.

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12 Younger Content Rating than Leila

If Leila is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.
 

Lost In Play
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Lost In Play is a feel-good adventure about a brother and sister exploring their dreams.

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Gorogoa
BAFTA Award

Gorogoa is a puzzle game where you rearrange and resize tiles to make a singular picture.

Gorogoa is a puzzle game where you rearrange and resize tiles to make a singular picture. It appears to be simple, but to solve the puzzles you need to play close attention to how they interrelate.

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Unpacking
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Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Assemble
With Care

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories.

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to complex VCRs.

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC and iOS

The Witness
BAFTA Award

The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story.

The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story. It’s a game with puzzles at the core, but the real mystery is solving what has happened in the world you find yourself in.

Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS

Birth

Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness.

Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness. The twist is that you do this in a grotesque exploration to find spare bones and organs to bring your creation to life.

Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Fate
of Kai

Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters.

Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters. You discover Kai's story by walking through the panels of a comic book.

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Agent A:
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Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan.

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Before
I Forget
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Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia.

Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory.

Out Now: Mac and PC

Fire
Escape

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Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway.

Out Now: Android and PC

What Remains of Edith
Finch
BAFTA Award

What Remains of Edith Finch is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse. From a first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.

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Her Story
BAFTA Award

Her Story is a narrative puzzle game where you attempt to solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife.

Her Story is a narrative puzzle game where you attempt to solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves are short films with real actors.

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7 Easier Skill Rating than Leila

If you like the sound of Leila but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
 

Assemble
With Care
6+ year-olds

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories.

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to complex VCRs.

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC and iOS

Lost In Play
7+ year-olds

Lost In Play is a feel-good adventure about a brother and sister exploring their dreams.

Lost In Play is a feel-good adventure about a brother and sister exploring their dreams. Lost in their imagination, Toto and Gal must solve puzzles to journey back home.

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Agent A:
A Puzzle In Disguise
8+ year-olds

Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan.

Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan. Each location is full of retro futuristic contraptions, hidden gizmos, gadgets and clever logic-based puzzles.

Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

The Witness
9+ year-olds

The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story.

The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story. It’s a game with puzzles at the core, but the real mystery is solving what has happened in the world you find yourself in.

Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS

Unpacking
9+ year-olds

Unpacking is a meditative puzzle game where you unpack belongings into a series of spaces, each representing a stage in life.

Unpacking is a meditative puzzle game where you unpack belongings into a series of spaces, each representing a stage in life. You get to know the owner of the objects by their possessions and circumstances.

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Before
I Forget
10+ year-olds

Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia.

Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory.

Out Now: Mac and PC

Birth
10+ year-olds

Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness.

Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness. The twist is that you do this in a grotesque exploration to find spare bones and organs to bring your creation to life.

Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One

3 Board Game Alternatives to Leila

These are our hand-picked alternatives to Leila. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

16 Video Games Like Leila Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Leila. This includes games from the Puzzle, Simulation, Brain Game and Narrative genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
 

Lil’
Guardsman
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Lil’ Guardsman is a puzzle adventure where you play a 12-year-old covering her dad's shift at the guardhouse. Play involves questioning each person who wants to pass to determine who to admit or deny.

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Papers,
Please
G4C Award

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Papers, Please is a narrative puzzle game where you play the role of a border-crossing immigration officer in the fictional dystopian Eastern Bloc-like country of Arstotzka. You review each immigrant’s and returning citizen’s passports and paperwork according to an increasing list of changing rules stemming from a volatile political landscape.

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Telling
Lies

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VA-11
Hall-A

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VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, to use its full name, is a narrative game about a futuristic bar "VA-11's Hall-A", known locally as Valhalla. You serve drinks and talk to customers, to learn their stories and piece together the daily struggle of life in the city where the powerless are kept in check by Nano machines.

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Her Story
BAFTA Award

Her Story is a narrative puzzle game where you attempt to solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife.

Her Story is a narrative puzzle game where you attempt to solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves are short films with real actors.

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Doki Doki Literature
Club

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Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) is a psychological horror game in the form of a high school dating simulator. You attend your school's literature club and try to win over the girls there.

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Not For Broadcast
Indie Award

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Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power. By deciding the angles, adverts, images and censoring in the show you control what the people see and determine what’s Not For Broadcast.

Out Now: Mac and PC

Golf Club:
Wasteland

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Golf Club: Wasteland is a golf game in an unusual setting. You play on an earth decimated by an environmental catastrophe.

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Limbo
Indie Award

Limbo is a narrative traversal game where you control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding.

Limbo is a narrative traversal game where you control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways.

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Immortality
Edge 10/10

Immortality is a mystery horror game where you investigate the lost movies of Marissa Marcel to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Immortality is a mystery horror game where you investigate the lost movies of Marissa Marcel to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. As you paw through the footage, you uncover a story that spans three decades in unnerving and horrific ways.

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Harmony:
The Fall
of Reverie

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is a narrative game where you return home to look into your mother's disappearance, only to discover an unexpected clairvoyant ability to see the future.

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is a narrative game where you return home to look into your mother's disappearance, only to discover an unexpected clairvoyant ability to see the future. Like other narrative games, play involves exploring, talking and making choices.

Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox X|S

Where
the Heart Leads

Where the Heart Leads is an adventure game where you make life-choices and then see their impact.

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Observation
Indie Award

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The Signifier

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Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

The Vanishing of Ethan
Carter

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Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Who Pressed Mute on
Uncle Marcus?

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Leila is in These Lists

In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Leila in the following lists:

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