35 Great Games Like Paperback

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

Paperback is a brain-game where you make words using the Letter cards in your hand. You aim to build words that score highest, so you can buy new Letter cards to add to your deck. It is a cumulative decision-making game, where you must build both words and the deck that scores the most points in the long run.

Unfortunately, Paperback 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:

Paperback

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2014

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Players: 2-5

Genres: Brain Game, Sequencing (Collecting and Puzzle)

Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer)

Components: Cards

Developer: T Fowers (@TFowers)

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 Paperback. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Paperback.

Scrabble

Release Date: 01/01/1948

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: Bag and Placeables

Scrabble is a brain game where you strategically place letters on a grid to maximise your score. You play by arranging your seven Letter tiles into words, which are then fitted onto words already on the board. It is part vocabulary test, part visual...

Bananagrams

Release Date: 01/01/2006

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Bag and Tokens

Bananagrams is a brain game where you arrange and rearrange letters to make words. You play by taking Letter tiles from a shared pile and organising them into a crossword grid. It is a game of speed, quick adaptation and that glorious feeling of joy...

Wordoku

Release Date: 01/01/2016

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Pen and Pad and Tokens

Wordoku is a brain game where you race to create words that also solve a puzzle. You play by moving Letter tiles around in a 4-by-4 grid, aiming to balance creating words with organising the four symbols. It is like playing sudoku at the same time as...

Letter Jam

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

Letter Jam is a co-operative brain game where you use Hangman clues to find letters and complete a Wordle-style puzzle. You play by guessing letters to uncover your secret word. Both the word clues and secret word are unusually helpful because they're...

Dominion

Release Date: 01/01/2008, updated in 2022

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Dominion is a medieval theme strategic card game where you collect and refine a hand of cards to build the most powerful kingdom. The goal is to gain the most victory points and to avoid curses. It stands out for the wide variety of strategies and play...

Hive

Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2013

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Placeables

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3 Similar Games Long List

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

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,...

Tranquility

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Tranquility is a silent cooperative card game where you fill in the sea with a grid of Island cards. The challenge comes from having to play cards into the grid in sequence and not being able to talk to each other to coordinate. It's a beautiful game...

Stripes

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Stripes is a sequencing and collecting card game where you create stripes of a single colour from a tangled mess of colours. You flip, draw and trade your cards in an order that creates a complete line of colour. It is about using limited actions to...

1 Easier Skill Rating than Paperback

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

Bananagrams

14 Similar Video Games to Paperback

These are our hand-picked similar video games to the Paperback board game. 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.

Bonza Word Puzzle

16 Board Games Like Paperback Based on Genre

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

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1 Easier Skill Rating than Paperback

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