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Azul is a tile-laying collection and sequencing game where you help the king decorate their palace with Portuguese tiles. You aim to gain tiles on your game card that form patterns to score the most points. What makes it unique is its balance between simplicity and complexity, every tile you take affects the game and so every decision is crucial.

Unfortunately, Azul 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:

Azul

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Players: 2-4

Genres: Sequencing, Strategy (Brain Game and Collecting)

Accessibility: 26 features

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

Diatoms

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...

Fantastic Factories

Release Date: 01/01/2019, updated in 2021

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Fantastic Factories is a strategy game where you race to build the most efficient set of factories. You collect blueprints, train workers and spend your dice to manufacture as many goods as possible. It's an unusual combination of resource collection,...

Honga

Release Date: 01/01/2018

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Figures, Placeables and Tokens

Honga is a strategy game where your tribe gathers supplies to pay homage to the nature gods, attract mammoths and trade with other clans. You trigger resources by placing action wheels on the board, but also need to keep the troublesome tiger busy if...

Qwirkle

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...

Hive

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

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Placeables

Hive is a traversal strategy game for two players. It's like chess in that the different Insect pieces move in different ways, but it's played without a board.

Potion Explosion

Release Date: 01/01/2015

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Gadget, Placeables and Tokens

Potion Explosion is a collecting game where you study potion-making and compete to be crowned the best student in the class. You collect Ingredient marbles to complete Potion cards that enable special abilities. It is like a board game version of...

13 Similar Games Long List

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

Village Pillage

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Village Pillage is a simple card-battling game about protecting your village. You choose which characters to send into battles which resolve depending on each card's abilities. Unlike similar card battle games, things are kept streamlined both by the...

Sagrada

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Board and Dice

Sagrada is a collecting and sequencing dice game where you construct intricate stained glass windows. You choose and place dice on your window to meet different rules, make patterns and score points. It stands out not only for the beautiful patterns you...

ShipShape

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

ShipShape is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to create the highest-scoring ship full of loot. You bid for hole-ridden Crate pieces, then carefully stack them in order to form your Hold. It is part auction, part puzzle where you have...

Bloom

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Dice and Pen and Pad

Bloom is a roll-and-write game where you compete to become the most successful flower seller. You roll dice and mark off colour combinations of flowers to score points. You need to balance allotting dice to individual bouquets or a larger volume of...

Blue Lagoon

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...

Chai

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Board, Cards and Tokens

Chai is a collecting and sequencing game about running a Tea House. You play by strategically collecting ingredients to serve customers beverages matching their tastes. It's clever because of its Candy Crush-style ingredient collecting and competition...

Miyabi

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Miyabi is a world-building brain game where you build elegant Japanese gardens. You place Tetris-shaped garden tiles in your garden matching different flowers, stones and trees with scoring columns. Because the garden tiles are awkward shapes and only...

Roll For It!

Release Date: 01/01/2011

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Dice

Roll For It! is a push-your-luck dice game where you compete to be the first to forty points. You roll dice to complete point sequences - the more complex, the bigger the score. It is a mix of chance and strategy, where even the savviest of players can...

Shifting Stones

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Shifting Stones is a competitive brain game where you manipulate a grid of Stone cards to match arrangements on your Pattern cards. The trick is that you have to spend your Pattern cards to swap or flip the Stone cards. It's a game where you have to...

Rush Hour

Release Date: 01/01/1996

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards and Placeables

Rush Hour is a brain puzzle game where you help a gridlocked car escape the traffic. You play by sliding Car pieces forwards and backwards inside a 6-by-6 grid to create a path out of traffic for your car. It is a game that anyone who parks in a city...

Silver & Gold

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,...

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...

The Duke

Release Date: 01/01/2013, updated in 2019

Components: Board and Figures

The Duke is an old-world strategy battle like chess but played with character tiles whose abilities both vary and change as they move. You play by choosing a tile to move ultimately aiming to capture your opponent's Duke character, but also whittling...

6 Easier Skill Rating than Azul

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8 Similar Video Games to Azul

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16 Board Games Like Azul Based on Genre

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

2 Board Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Azul

If you like the sound of Azul but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Azul Accessibility Report.

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39 Great Games Like Azul

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

13 Similar Games Long List

6 Easier Skill Rating than Azul

8 Similar Video Games to Azul

16 Board Games Like Azul Based on Genre

2 Board Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Azul

Azul is in These Lists

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