6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Baba is You. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Baba is You.
Release Date: 13/10/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Switch and Web
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Case of the Golden Idol is a point-and-click adventure set in the 18th century, where you attempt to solve 12 gruesome deaths. You play by investigating each scene to gather information in the form of words that you piece together to make statements...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Ruffy and the Riverside is an action-adventure game set in the hand-drawn world of Riverside. You run, jump and explore the world with one big twist: you can swap any material to help you get where you need to go. This copy-and-paste novelty is a big...
Release Date: 28/08/2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Grid and Pixels
Block Buster Billy is a puzzle game about positioning blocks that join together when they make valid maths formulas. Play involves pushing the blocks to not only satisfy the rules of maths but also form shapes that are useful to progress the level's...
Release Date: 02/08/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows is a puzzle game where a little girl tries to herd rabbits in order to catch them. Play is a simple case of moving around the maze to corner the bunnies. They only move when you do but each has their own intelligence you...
Release Date: 27/07/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
WarioWare: Get It Together is the latest in the mini-game series. Games don’t get any sillier than the WarioWare series. Each of its mini-games presents a basic yet peculiar challenge for the player. A simple scene appears on the screen with a...
Release Date: 14/10/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Yugo Puzzle is a simple puzzle game where you move jelly blocks left and right to combine them with the same colour. The novelty is the ingenious challenges this simple premise is used to create. It's the kind of game where a single level might take you...
56 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Baba is You. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Baba is You.
Release Date: 20/12/2021
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text
Wordle is a daily puzzle game where you (and anyone else playing that day) try and guess the secret word. You get six guesses that must be real words. Each letter is then coloured to provide clues: green for the right letter in the right place, yellow...
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Ibb and Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for cooperation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...
Release Date: 01/03/2020
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Sticky Terms is a puzzle game where you construct words from other languages with portions of letters. You rotate, drag and overlap the different elements to create words, once you do you are rewarded with a drum hit and a definition of the word.
Release Date: 04/08/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Toodee and Topdee is a platform puzzle game where you control two characters to complete single-screen levels. The twist is that each character exists in a different plane. Toodee is a top-down block-pushing 3D world, while Topdee is side-on 2D...
Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Portal is a puzzle game where you manipulate the world around you to move through increasingly complex chambers. By creating two connected portals- if you walk into one, you walk out the other- you must move yourself around the rooms to escape. It...
Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Framed is a puzzle adventure where you rearrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.
Release Date: 06/03/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Vignettes is a puzzle game where you explore shapes that change into different objects as you spin them around with your fingers. What starts as a novelty evolves into a collecting challenge where interacting with one item leads to another. Rescue a...
Release Date: 06/08/2008
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Braid is a platform game, not dissimilar to Mario World, that appears simple but has a twist. The movement of your character is connected to the progression of time in a mind-bending manner. The resulting puzzles are fascinating and connected to a story...
Release Date: 01/08/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
A Little To The Left is a puzzle game where you tidy a house into meticulous order. Each puzzle presents everyday objects and some evidence of how they should be organised. The challenge is you have to deal with a mischievous cat who likes to make a mess.
Release Date: 24/01/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Pikuniku is an adventure where you play a red creature, Piku, on a mission to harvest the colourful world's resources. You interact with different objects to trigger switches and open doors. You can also lasso your legs to swing from hooks or curl into...
Release Date: 15/08/2018, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Donut County offers a simple style of play. You drag a hole around the screen; the more things you can make fall in, the bigger the hole gets. You start with bricks, road cones and bushes, but eventually you’re swallowing whole houses.
Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
Release Date: 15/02/2017
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Hidden Folks tasks you with exploring hand-drawn worlds to find particular people. It’s simple enough for youngsters to control but complex enough to keep parents and carers involved too.
Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
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.
Release Date: 07/11/2008
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Professor Layton is a puzzle-game series. In different locations, you must solve brainteasers with maths, logic, maze-solving and lateral-thinking skills to move the story on.
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Out Now: Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
All of You is a platform game where you can pause time and control the levels rather than the character. By rearranging the timing, order and orientation of the world you play in you can help the mother hen get her chicks back.
Release Date: 28/11/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Marching Order puts you in charge of a disorderly animal marching band. Listen to each animal’s requests to get them in the right order in the game about sequence, rules and order.
Release Date: 15/09/2009
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Scribblenauts is a series of puzzle games which you solve by typing the names of everyday objects so they appear in the game and let you progress. What's surprising is the sheer number of items included in the game. This means you can solve problems in...
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Minit is a retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks within a 60-second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60-second...
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: 05/06/2006, updated in 2021
Out Now: DS, Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain is a puzzle game designed to test and improve your mental capacity and well-being. You are presented with an assortment of challenges designed to measure how smart your brain is. The focus is on fun rather than...
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Down in Bermuda is a puzzle game where you are stranded on a set of interconnected islands. You push, pull and manipulate objects to solve puzzles and explore the world. Each one you complete brings you closer to getting back home.
Release Date: 04/01/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Pony Island is an adventure game where you are trapped in a computer by the Devil. You need to crash the computer to escape and stumble upon the Pony Island game that appears unstable. As you hack away at the game you uncover its corrupted code and your...
Release Date: 29/10/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play as doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the...
Release Date: 10/09/2015
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dropsy is an adventure video game where you move around and interact with the world by simply clicking. You play a clown called Dropsy in a surreal world. As you explore and interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and talk to characters you learn...
Release Date: 04/05/2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Yellow is a spatial puzzle game where on each level you need to turn the screen yellow. How you do this varies from level to level. Dragging objects to match a silhouette, tapping and holding in time with a rhythm, spinning your finger, tapping in...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Dice
Dustborn is a road-trip adventure set in America 2030 where all information has been lost. You and your misfit friends must cross this divided world to deliver a package from California to Nova Scotia. It's unusual not only because of the setting but...
Release Date: 10/06/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Freshly Frosted is a donut topping puzzle. You must place topping machines and conveyor belts in the right order to create the right donuts. It takes the common conveyor puzzle challenge and adds not only a lovely theme but some intricate scenarios for...
Release Date: 04/06/2019
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Reventure is a running, jumping and flying game. Or, that's what it looks like. In fact, it's a game about discovering ways to die. The goal isn't the usual rescue the princess. Instead, you're on a scavenger hunt to discover the 100 different ways to die.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
RocketPuzzle is a tile-based puzzle set in space. You push and hold blocks so their attached rockets can fire them into the matching coloured space stations. It's a small but tricky game with a retro aesthetic.
Release Date: 15/05/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Splitter Critters is a puzzle game where you cut up the world to connect platforms and get to the exit. You split and rearrange each level so you can avoid deadly lasers and create floating swimming pools to guide alien critters back to their spaceship.
Release Date: 26/03/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Supertype is a puzzle game you play with letters, but isn't about making words. You use the peculiar shapes of these most familiar of symbols to cover one or more dots on the level. Each letter has different uses as you try and get them to land where...
Release Date: 16/11/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Thinkrolls: Kings and Queens is a puzzle game where you roll your character around castles to collect keys, food and gems for the dragon that lives there. Complete a level to be awarded with customising pieces to decorate your ball as a king or queen...
Release Date: 30/09/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Bonfire Peaks is a puzzle game where you explore a Minecraft-looking world. Unlike the generalised blocks of that game, here the landscape is lovingly crafted and pulsing with life. It's a tightly designed puzzle game about closure, that invites you to...
Release Date: 06/04/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
A Little Perspective is a puzzle game where you rotate the world to see things from a different angle and find new paths to the goal. Like an Escher picture (and like the PlayStation 3 game, Echochrome) the perspective affects which platforms you can...
Release Date: 25/12/2017, updated in 2021
Out Now: iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Cinco Paus is a puzzle game where you try and get through 5 rooms picking up treasure as you go. What makes it unusual are the magic wands that help you do this. What appears to be a maze game turns out to be a challenge to discover the effects of each...
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: 26/03/2019
Out Now: PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Magnibox is a puzzle game about a magnet that's also a box. Through 160 handmade levels, you have to use your magnetic and box-like abilities to collect all the keys and stars. The game starts simply but steadily adds in lots of clever twists and...
Release Date: 16/03/2020
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Seven Scrolls is a puzzle game where you explore a dungeon, kill enemies and get to the exit. What's unusual is that the rules of the game change as you pick up scrolls.
Release Date: 18/04/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Stephen's Sausage Roll is a puzzle game where you push sausages around to grill them perfectly on both sides. It sounds easy but is actually really tricky. You can only roll sausages in certain ways and each level is limited in size.
Release Date: 22/07/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ctrl Alt Ego is a puzzle game where you a disembodied character taking control of robots and electronics to move around, interact and solve the puzzles. Using a combination of stealth and problem solving to progress the story and get to the bottom of...
Release Date: 09/09/2014
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Pixels and Text
Hack 'n' Slash is a puzzle adventure game where you tinker with the properties of game objects to explore dungeons and fight enemies. Using your USB sword on enemies hacks them so you can change their game-code and behaviour. It combines a standard...
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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Cats Love Boxes is a box pushing challenge where two cats need to arrange items to solve puzzles. Alone or with another player, you control Fofiño and Lily to push the boxes around and solve each puzzle.
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: 03/07/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Ghost Grab is a puzzle game where you shoot a beam of light at ghosts to chain them together before popping them to score points. It's simple to start with but soon gives way to a frantic score-attack challenge with its unique way to score points.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Lab Rat is a tile-based puzzle game with an emphasis on satire. You work in a machine-learning facility where you take on scenarios chosen for you by the metrics-obsessed AI that monitors, profiles, and taunts you as you progress.
Release Date: 12/02/2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Minesweeper Genius is the classic puzzle game with some twists and more character. You help Aristotle sweep the minefield to regain his memory. To do this you use the number clues on each column to how many bombs are in adjacent squares.
Release Date: 20/04/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Not Not, A Brain-Buster is a puzzle game about following simple instructions in a limited time. All you have to do is read the instructions and then direct your character in one of four directions. It sounds simple but the instructions get increasingly...
Release Date: 26/07/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Press X to Puzzle is a one button puzzle game. You press or hold a single button in order to progress to the next screen. Sounds simple, but it's actually more cryptic as you have to decipher the instruction. For some screens the solution is obvious,...
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Entropy Centre is a time-shifting puzzle adventure where you can move objects back through time. You explore the futuristic levels and solve puzzle by using you gun to move object in space but also in time. It's a game that gets you thinking in...
Release Date: 21/04/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
World Splitter is a platform puzzle game with a dual dimension challenge. In each level, you need to collect a series of characters and get to the exit. Sounds familiar, but adds a unique dimensional line that gives you access to two different versions...
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Kana Quest is a puzzle game that teaches you how to read Japanese Katakana and Hiragana (a phonetic lettering system that's one component of the Japanese writing system). The puzzles are a grid of different Kana and Hiragana characters that you aim to...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 3D First-Person
Cryptmaster is a creepy adventure brain game where you use words to control everything. You play by filling in the blanks by typing or speaking to uncover lost abilities, solve quests, and battle enemies. The novelty, along with the unusual combination...
Release Date: 02/03/2023
Out Now: PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Stuffo the Puzzle Bot is a puzzle game about a robot trying to escape the world by solving block-moving puzzles. The blocks have different properties and interact with the environment in different ways. It's a familiar challenge brought to life with...
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