6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed 868-Hack. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed 868-Hack.
Release Date: 12/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Altered is a demanding-yet-meditative puzzle game where must get your character to the end of the level. It's unique because to get there, you change your physical characteristics (extending, elongating, splitting into two, or attaching yourself to...
Release Date: 13/10/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text
Really Bad Chess is like chess, but with random pieces selected for each player. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns. Starting positions are also non-standard. It sounds like a bad idea (hence the name) but actually opens the imposing chess challenge...
Release Date: 18/12/2012, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Corrypt is a role-playing puzzle game where you collect items and interact with characters in a maze filled with moveable boxes. In a novel twist, you can push and pull the boxes, but they stick to you, making it a challenge to move them out of the way...
Release Date: 23/10/2011
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Web and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
These Robotic Hearts of Mine is a narrative puzzle game where you uncover a metaphorical story by completing levels. Unusually, the levels don't tell the story directly. They are difficult rotation-based Rubik's cube-inspired puzzles. But they are also...
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Jelly No Puzzle is a game where you move cubes of jelly around to combine cubes of matching colours together. While it's a very simple concept, each level presents a unique challenge: overcoming vertical objects or getting one cube past another. The...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Chezzle is similar to chess, but here you only have one piece that changes to whatever you take. It features a relaxing soundscape and encouraging messages, and allows you to get the grips of the rules of chess at your own pace while also creating a...
37 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed 868-Hack. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed 868-Hack.
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies...
Release Date: 03/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid, Hand-Made and Pixels
Loop Hero is a dungeon-exploring adventure game where you use cards to create a world for your character to survive. Rather than control the hero yourself, you are tasked with playing cards to create a level that is hard enough to be rewarding without...
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessplosion is an action, puzzle game where you drop chess pieces on a board to trigger bombs in the shape of their related chess moves. Your aim is to use the different pieces (and bomb attacks) to trap opponents like Bomberman. No prior chess...
Release Date: 25/07/2021
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice, Hand-Made and Pixels
Slice and Dice is a small retro adventure game you play by rolling dice to progress with your five heroes. More than this, the faces on the dice represent your party and determine not only who can attack or defend but how likely you are to roll them...
Release Date: 29/08/2017
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is a chess-like strategy game where you control cartoon rabbits (the Rabbids) and Nintendo characters in turn-based battles with fantastical weapons through four different worlds.
Release Date: 14/10/2010, updated in 2012
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Triple Town is a puzzle game where you expand an empire by building cities in a limited space. You combine lower value pieces into better ones to improve your city and make best use of available space. It's simple and quick to pick up but requires...
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities. It offers a robot-themed XCOM-style game for younger players.
Release Date: 16/03/2007, updated in 2019
Out Now: DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch, Wii, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Puzzle Quest 3 is the latest in a series of games that combine role-playing with tile-matching puzzles. Set in a fantasy world, you move around the map, encountering monsters and other enemies. When you go the battle are played out as tile puzzles where...
Release Date: 23/02/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a fighting game where you battle Titans and explore the dungeons of an expansive over-world. It's unusual because it combines the homemaking of Stardew Valley with classic Zelda style adventures and lets you play with up...
Release Date: 20/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Death's Door is a noir adventure game where you play a crow whose job it is to reap the souls of the dead. When one goes missing you must fight, run and jump through a fantasy world to get it back. It's a simple combat game at heart, but the unusual...
Release Date: 14/12/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Hand-Made
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. This Matryoshka Russian-Doll puzzle combines with...
Release Date: 29/03/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Patrick's Parabox is a puzzle game where you move, and move through, boxes within boxes. Like a Russian doll, inside each box is another level that you can navigate to create a nested set of puzzles. It's an equally mind-bending and elegant experience...
Release Date: 27/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Hand-Made and Pixels
Into the Breach is a fantasy turn-based battle. It's set in a future where humanity fights an army of giant monsters. You control mechs equipped with a variety of weapons and armour in carefully coordinated actions played out on super-small tile-based...
Release Date: 20/10/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a strategy game where you control Ubisoft's Rabbids (cartoon rabbits) and Nintendo's Mario team in turn-based battles. It expands upon the previous game by adding a wider...
Release Date: 28/09/2011, updated in 2021
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
The Binding of Isaac is a series of adventure games where you progress through randomly generated rooms, collecting items and fighting off monsters. It's a twist on the simple Zelda dungeon, with hundreds of enemies, room variations and upgrades. The...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Isles of Sea and Sky is a block-pushing puzzle and exploration game with a look that is inspired by classic games like Zelda, Star Tropics, and Chip’s Challenge. It looks simple but offers rich and complex puzzles backed by visuals and sounds that...
Release Date: 25/07/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Quadrilateral Cowboy is an adventure in a 1990 retro-cyberpunk world where you take on covert mission to infiltrate buildings and security systems. You carefully explore each level hacking security by typing commands into your grey-market equipment.
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Not Chess is a puzzle game similar to Chess, but you only have one piece, which morphs into whatever piece you take. It's a simple way of getting to grips with some of the basic rules of chess in a low-pressure, single-player environment, while also...
Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2015
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Hacknet is a simulation where you play a hacker completing missions and hacking into systems just by typing. Designed to be as close to real hacking as possible, you use actual commands and hacking tools to explore servers, chat rooms, and gain access...
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,...
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4 and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Auto Chess is a strategy game where you set up automated actions to gain a competitive advantage. As you play you purchase units that will battle for you, each unit has different attributes that can collaborate with other units. The goal ultimately is...
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Alt254 is a minimalistic adventure game. Using just a few pixels, it boils down the elements of adventuring (exploration, chests, enemies and landscapes) to the absolute minimum visual representation.
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Hand-Made
Day and Night is a puzzle game where you match blocks to score points. Unusually the game switches between different time periods that affect what you can match and how the rules work.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Star Stuff is a puzzle adventure where you help a young alien on their first day at a star factory by solving logic and coding puzzles. You explore each level, code your own bots (without needing to know any actual coding), and save the ever-expanding...
Release Date: 31/01/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Bleep Bloop is a puzzle game where you manoeuvre two coloured blobs through increasingly complex stages. Each moves in a straight line until it hits a wall, and can interact with switches and obstacles that alter the layout of the level. It's a familiar...
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.
Release Date: 19/11/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox X|S and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
The Legend of Bum-bo is a puzzle game where you match tiles to attack enemies. A prequel to The Binding of Isaac, it tells a standalone story with similar play till you die and then try again mechanics. Here though,...
Release Date: 14/11/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Twinfold is a puzzle fighting game played in a small maze. You move around the maze with your square character merging into golden baby cubes to gain energy and squashing angry enemy cubes.
Release Date: 09/12/2022
Out Now: Android
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
1 Bit Survivor is an adventure survival game about driving your car across a country in the aftermath of an unstoppable virus. It stands out for its limited colours and simple-to-play hard-to-master playstyle. But really this is a game that's great...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Collapsus is a puzzle game where you match tiles. You rotate the screen to adjust which way is down, then tapping a single tiles makes it disappear. And vertical or horizontal lines with matching colours you create also disappear. Tapping a single tile...
Release Date: 12/07/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Cramped Room of Death is a puzzle game where you traverse maze-like chambers with a cumbersome, oversized spear. You advance by defeating all the enemies in a given room, but to do this you must carefully choose your path so that your spear doesn't...
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Dungeon and Puzzles is a puzzle adventure game where you move through rooms, using your limited number of turns to defeat the monsters, unlock doors and (hopefully) escape. In a novel twist on the format, the monsters don't attack, they merely block...
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Inkulinati is a strategy game where you fight an opponent using medieval drawings. Using a range of weapons, attacks, defences and abilities, you move your characters, based on real medieval drawings, around the page to defeat enemies as a story about...
Release Date: 14/01/2018
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Kiri's Garden is a pixel-puzzle about planting trees, growing grass, and moving flowers. You must plant trees to finish a level, but this is only possible once you've covered every other square in either grass or some other plant. It sounds simple but...
Release Date: 28/04/2014
Out Now: Web
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
You're Pulleying My Leg is a running around puzzle game where you move mirrors to reflect a beam of light down into a mine, destroying blocks and letting you reach the secret within. While it sounds simple, it requires a great deal of persistence,...
Release Date: 02/01/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Web
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessformer is a running and jumping game where you are trying to capture the king. The twist is that it's turn based and you move around obstacles using chess pieces that can only behave as they do in the game of chess.
Release Date: 13/10/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum is a puzzle adventure where you are a cybernetic corporate agent working off a debt to get your life back. You play by breaking into corporations in different ways; go in guns blazing, manipulate time or use supernatural...
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