6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Patchwork. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Patchwork.
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards, Placeables and Tokens
My City is a world-building game where players compete to create the highest-scoring city by placing Tetris-shaped buildings on their map. However, it's a Legacy game which means the board and rules change as you play through 24 rounds over a number of...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Figures, Placeables and Score Board
Savannah Park is a puzzle game where you take charge of a wildlife park located in the Savannahs of Africa. You play by moving Animal tiles around your Wildlife Park board trying to organise them into herds. It is a game about bringing order to chaos...
Release Date: 01/01/2000
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: Placeables
Blokus is a strategy game where you compete to have the fewest unplayed tiles. You add Tetris-shaped tiles to a shared board that is split into 400 small squares. It is a game about choosing to play the right tile at the right moment, be too slow to get...
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...
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2003
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: Board and Figures
Gobblet is a competitive brain puzzle game like noughts and crosses or tic-tac-toe. Your aim is to create a straight row of four pieces to form a line. However, you can place your pieces over the top of your opponents to drastically change the board and...
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Pen and Pad
Cartographers is a sequencing game where you compete to draw the most effective map of a fantasy kingdom. You play by drawing Tetris-shaped terrain features onto your Map pad, making careful choices of what goes where to maximise points. It is a game of...
11 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Patchwork. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Patchwork.
Release Date: 01/01/2003, updated in 2020
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards and Placeables
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top. This creates a chess-like three-dimensional competitive puzzle that changes as each player adds pieces to the village. It's unusual...
Release Date: 01/01/2006
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: Placeables
Qwirkle is an abstract sequencing puzzle game where you compete to create rows of matching (or series of) colours and shapes. You score more points by matching multiple directions but need to be careful not to leave points for other players to...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards and Tokens
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...
Release Date: 01/01/2018
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Board, Pen and Pad, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Blue Lagoon is a strategy game where you aim to take control of a series of islands in an archipelago. You place Settler tiles to create the longest lines on the map and claim territory. With other players doing the same it soon turns into a...
Release Date: 20/09/2022
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Placeables
Zoomates is a woodblock puzzle game where you work to keep Tetris-shaped animals happy in particular scenarios. You play by picking a puzzle card then arranging the related animal shapes so they meet all their needs like touching water or not touching...
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...
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Bag, Board, Cards, Figures, Pen and Pad, Placeables and Tokens
The Isle of Cats is a collecting game where you rescue cats from a doomed island by squeezing them onto your rescue boat. You play by collecting Tetris-like Cat and Treasure tiles and arranging them carefully onto your Boat board. It is a spatial puzzle...
Release Date: 01/01/2014
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards and Figures
Onitama is a Chess-like traversal game where moves aren't locked to pieces but to the cards you trade. You play by moving Pawns around a small 5-by-5 grid, tactically choosing a move from your current pair Spirit cards. The double strategy of Pawn...
Release Date: 01/01/2018
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Dice and Pen and Pad
Railroad Ink is a roll-and-write game where you create a map of transport connections. You play by rolling dice to provide the road and track you need to draw efficient routes on your map. It is a game of making better use of shared resources than your...
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Pen and Pad and Score Board
Silver & Gold is a turn-and-write card game where you match shapes to find treasure. You flip over an Expedition card and then mark a matching shape of squares on your (wipeable) Island card. You race to score the most points by finding treasure,...
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...
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