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36 Great Games Like Love Letter

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Love Letter is a push-your-luck card game about winning the princess's affection. You use cards with different abilities to knock out the other suitors. With a small number of cards and characters, it's as much about gaining information about what other players have, as simply having the winning card.

Unfortunately, Love Letter 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:

Love Letter

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Players: 2-6

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

Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer)

Components: Cards and Tokens

Developer: Z Man Games (@ZManGames_)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

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

Sounds Fishy

Release Date: 01/07/2022

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Sounds Fishy is a push-your-luck communication game where you try to spot fake answers whilst avoiding the real ones. You play by reading out Question cards, making up answers and then spotting who's faking. It is a game of cunning, disguise and...

Codenames

Release Date: 01/01/2015

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Codenames is a team communication game where you play two competing spy networks. One player in each team gives clues to help them find the cards that are their agents without hitting the assassin. It's a novel combination of push-your-luck, clue-giving...

Cockroach Poker Royal

Release Date: 01/01/2012

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Cockroach Poker Royal is a bluffing, push-your-luck card game where you try and avoid ending up with a set of four matching animal cards. You pass cards to other players and tell them what it is, they guess if you are telling the truth and have to keep...

Coup

Release Date: 01/01/2012

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Coup is a communication game where you fight to become the only player left with political influence. You play by taking on the roles of five different powerful (uniquely skilled) government officials to become the last politician standing. It is a game...

That's Not Lemonade

Release Date: 04/12/2018

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Placeables

That's Not Lemonade is a push-your-luck card game where you aim to be the last person to "drink" something that isn't lemonade. You take cards hoping to accrue the most Ice or Lemonade, but if you push things too far you are out. This means you play the...

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...

10 Similar Games Long List

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

Ancestree

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Ancestree is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to build the strongest family tree. You select and link tiles, building your family person by person, scoring points for marriages, wealth and continuous generations. It is a strategic game...

Bang!

Release Date: 01/01/2002, updated in 2017

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Bang! is a card game set in the wild west where you take on different missions with a range of characters. You try and keep your target secret while building your weapon and defence cards. It's a game of bluffing where it's easier to shoot your...

Exploding Kittens

Release Date: 01/01/2015

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Exploding Kittens is a push-your-luck card game like Russian Roulette but with adorable kittens rather than bullets. You take turns drawing cards until you get the Exploding Kitten card and lose. The twist is the various comical and cunning ways you can...

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...

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,...

For Sale

Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2009

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

For Sale is a quick, collection and push-your-luck game about buying and selling houses. You bid for houses of different values using coins at auction, and then sell them in savvy ways to maximise the biggest cheques for your best properties. It stands...

Hanabi

Release Date: 01/01/2010

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Hanabi is a cooperative game where you create a firework show by placing the cards in the right order. Your goal is to organise all the suits of cards in ascending order like Solitaire. The twist is that only other players can see your cards and you...

Spyfall

Release Date: 01/01/2014

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Spyfall is a communication party game where you try and tell who is a spy by giving subtle clues to the innocent player's location. All of you know what the location is apart from the spy. It's clever because you have to share enough information to test...

Tacocat Spelled Backwards

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Score Board and Tokens

Tacocat Spelled Backwards is a silly battle game played with palindrome-themed numbered cards. Battles are won by placing a higher card from your hand than your opponent. But you win by having the lowest card at the end of a hand to score a point. It...

Trial by Trolley

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: Board and Cards

Trial by Trolley is a game about exaggerated moral choices, based on the trolley problem that forces you to choose between two bad scenarios. Each team places a series of innocent things on their...

8 Easier Skill Rating than Love Letter

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16 Board Games Like Love Letter Based on Genre

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

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36 Great Games Like Love Letter

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

Sounds Fishy

Codenames

Cockroach Poker Royal

Coup

That's Not Lemonade

Village Pillage

10 Similar Games Long List

Ancestree

Bang!

Exploding Kittens

Scout

Allegory

For Sale

Hanabi

Spyfall

Tacocat Spelled Backwards

Trial by Trolley

8 Easier Skill Rating than Love Letter

11 Similar Video Games to Love Letter

16 Board Games Like Love Letter Based on Genre

Love Letter is in This List

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8 Easier Skill Rating than Love Letter

11 Similar Video Games to Love Letter

16 Board Games Like Love Letter Based on Genre

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