6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Breath of Light. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Breath of Light.
Release Date: 11/10/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Eloh is a puzzle game with an unusual dual focus. You may start playing to solve the puzzles, but it soon draws you in to appreciate and take time over the rhythms you create in doing so. It creates a low pressure puzzle with a meditative feel.
Release Date: 15/11/2015
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Prune involves carefully cutting off tree branches to encourage a tree to grow in a particular direction. It starts simply but turns into a challenge that parents and young children to work on together.
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: 25/10/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lifelike: Chapter One is a light-touch simulation game where you interact with flocking particles to create a soothing and meditative experience. It's an exercise in attending to something playful and the pleasure and escape that comes from this.
Release Date: 09/09/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Cloud Gardens is a puzzle game where you grow vegetation over a dilapidated post-apocalyptic world. It's a low-pressure puzzle, from the team behind Kingdom. It has the same pixel-art style, but here you are left to take your time...
Release Date: 24/02/2009, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Zen Bound is a puzzle game about wrapping objects in rope. With a relaxing soundtrack and calm visuals you are present with different objects with an attached rope of a specific length. Using a mouse, touch or tilt controls you transfer paint from the...
24 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Breath of Light. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Breath of Light.
Release Date: 21/03/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Everything is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object. It sounds strange and not much fun, but the enjoyment is in discovering how small or how big a thing you can become. From tiny atoms to whole planets and everything in...
Release Date: 12/02/2009
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Open World and Weather
Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze blowing across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind. What starts as an awkward...
Release Date: 02/11/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Abzu is an adventure in a lush underwater world. You descend into the heart of the ocean to find ancient secrets and encounter majestic creatures. This combines the beautiful weightlessness of diving with an ancient story of finding meaning and your...
Release Date: 19/02/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Weather
The Alto Collection is a series of games including Alto's Odyssey and Alto's adventure. Both are action traversal games where you explore beautiful mountains, dunes and canyons on a snowboarding journey full of serenity and secrets. All you have to...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Naiad is a gentle adventure game where exploration is fuelled not by extreme distances, dangers or enemies, but by the simple joy of floating in rivers and pools. As a story about nature unfolds you control a nymph-like character who swims through...
Release Date: 14/02/2020
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness is a narrative experience designed to aid sleep. Children can select stories, sounds, meditation or music and calm colours to help them drift off to sleep quickly. Once started the original stories and sounds play with...
Release Date: 26/08/2016
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Grow Up is a running and jumping adventure. It is the sequel to 2015's Grow Home and extends the real physics exploration that lets you push, pull, climb and direct how plants grow in the world.
Release Date: 05/04/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Feather is an adventure traversal game that brings you, as a bird, to a beautiful island. You can explore freely, collecting items and soaring on the breeze. Often, other players will join you to create a flock of birds to fly together, making music on...
Release Date: 31/07/2018
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Evergarden is a puzzle game where you grow gardens by combining plants into strange new forms. You use the tile-based layout to populate each area in flora in connect-four style.
Release Date: 14/09/2017
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World and Pixels
Fugl is a game that simulates flying. You play a bird and launch yourself into the sky to explore a vast world. Rather than search for things, fight, or take on challenges, all you have to do is wend your way through the air currents and glide your way...
Release Date: 23/11/2015
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Little Fox Animal Doctor is a narrative puzzle game where you play an animal physician helping your friends get well.
Release Date: 21/12/2011, updated in 2016
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Fingle is a Twister-style physical puzzle game played on a smartphone or tablet screen with your fingers rather than limbs. Like the popular tangley board game, it plays to this physical interaction with other players. "Explore the intimate touch of...
Release Date: 25/02/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Room to Grow is a puzzle game about movement and expansion. You play a plant that moves by growing and wrapping your way around a maze. You can shift your location by growing into walls which enables you to manoeuvre around obstacles and make room for...
Release Date: 04/05/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Bam Fu is a competitive puzzle game where you must change coloured icons to match your colour by tapping them. The novelty is that you play with up to four other people on one device. Each person competes to turn the tiles to their colour. It's an...
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Weather
Sizeable is a puzzle game about manipulated objects in a series of beautiful tiny dioramas. You rotate to explore and pick up, move and resize objects. To complete a level you need to find all the hidden monoliths. It's a casual puzzle game that uses...
Release Date: 04/05/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Blocks
Snakebird is a puzzle game about movement, shapes and gravity. You control multiple snakes on a quest for fruit. You move around the world by directing each one to collect fruit. It looks simple, but the novelty is that you soon have to create specific...
Release Date: 21/01/2016
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Twofold Inc is a puzzle game where you deliver requests for coloured tiles. You fulfil these orders by connecting the required coloured squares on the small grid. When you don't have the required coloured tiles to match next to each other you can also...
Release Date: 21/09/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Worm Jazz is a puzzle game combining play from the classic Snake game and explosive Bomberman elements. You control a Jazz-loving earthworm and wiggle your way through intricate mazes with mind-bending puzzles.
Release Date: 17/03/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Onde is an ethereal movement and exploration game where you dive into a fluid world full of sounds. As you move through the abstract landscapes they respond with notes and music. It's an unusual experience because the interactions invite you not only to...
Release Date: 23/02/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Of Mice and Moggies is a puzzle game, where you play a cat trying to catch different animals. It looks simple, but each animal requires different tactics to catch so things soon heat up. The challenge is to combine the animals behaviour with the...
Release Date: 28/02/2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Rytmos is a rhythm-based puzzle game where you create music by solving mazes. You play by creating paths to connect different musical elements that create music. It stands out not only for the unusual musical interactions but how each puzzle combines...
Release Date: 12/10/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Skyward Journey is a gentle adventure where you guide flocks of birds to wake up island inhabitants and grow your flock. You play by drawing lines with your finger that the flock follows. It's simple and meditative both in its interactions and soundtrack.
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Lumen (lumen.) is a puzzle game about manipulating mirrors and lenses to get beams of light to reveal images telling the story of the inventor's life. It's a simple concept, but as the levels get more challenging and more obstacles appear, logic and...
Release Date: 25/01/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Solas 128 is a thinking puzzle game where you redirect rhythmic pulses of light to restart an ancient machine. You rotate and position mirrors to connect light sources and unlock further puzzles. The novelty, beyond the retro visuals and rhythm is that...