Games Like Blocks That Matter

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Puzzle 38.3%, Logic 16%, Difficult 14.1%, Indie 7.6%, 2D 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core appeal of manipulating the rules of the world through block-based logic and creative experimentation.

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Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.2%, Platformer 19.9%, Puzzle 13.7%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Robots 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features tight, clever platforming mechanics centered on electricity that feel very similar to the seed game's mechanical focus.

Tetrobot is the world's most popular and reliable robot, but he's not perfect. That's why I, Maya, have built him a microscopic little brother, Psychobot.Help me guide Psy through Tetrobot's cogs and circuits: by swallowing blocks of matter and spitting them out, we can repair anything.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.4%, Robots 17.7%, Casual 15%, Indie 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct thematic match, focusing on a small robot navigating levels through block-based puzzle mechanics.

Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.8%, Platformer 24.5%, 2D Platformer 21.5%, 2D 7.1%, Casual 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title combines simple platforming mechanics with a strong sense of personality and narrative charm.

A laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.5%, Puzzle 15.6%, Logic 13.9%, Robots 13.9%, 2D 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on block-pushing and robot-themed puzzles that mirror the core gameplay loop of the seed game.

Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.6%, Platformer 19.9%, Funny 17.4%, Puzzle 12.8%, 2D 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, interconnected puzzle-platforming experience that relies on understanding environmental mechanics rather than traditional combat.

Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.7%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Platformer 16%, Puzzle 10.5%, Robots 8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer where you use a robot to manipulate the environment, much like the mechanics in the seed game.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 32%, Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Platformer 22.8%, Indie 5.4%, 2D 4%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric game features clever cloning mechanics that require the same type of spatial reasoning as the seed game's block manipulation.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Platformer 40.9%, Puzzle 25%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Indie 7.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends 2D platforming with perspective-shifting puzzles that challenge how you view the game world.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.3%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 16.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that uses time manipulation to create complex, rewarding puzzles similar to the block-based challenges in the seed game.

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Why similar: Puzzle 44.9%, Funny 10.9%, Indie 10.7%, 2D 9%, Singleplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based puzzle game shares the seed game's focus on building and manipulating structures to reach a goal.

Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it...

Why similar: Platformer 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Puzzle 19.1%, Casual 9.1%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique camera mechanic to solve puzzles, emphasizing the same environmental interaction found in the seed game.

"Button Button Up!" is a platformer party game. Players need to use limited resources to help their partner passing different laser obstacles. The bros are going share their weal and woe to complete a fantastic adventure by the lead of Mr. Bunny.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, 2D Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 14.4%, Funny 12.5%, Puzzle 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer uses button-based movement mechanics that require careful planning and execution.

An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.1%, Platformer 14.6%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Robots 11.6%, Puzzle 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It uses magnetism to create unique platforming puzzles that feel fresh while remaining familiar to fans of the genre.

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Why similar: Puzzle 43%, Casual 11.9%, Funny 11.4%, Indie 11.2%, Logic 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more logic-focused, it captures the same satisfaction of building and executing a solution through small, modular components.

А fun and innovative puzzle game about a wired robot who delivers batteries to his wireless friends.

Why similar: Puzzle 17%, Robots 16.5%, Funny 14.6%, Logic 14.2%, 2D 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A robot-themed puzzle game that emphasizes logic and environmental navigation.

Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

Why similar: Platformer 46.2%, Puzzle 22.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.6%, Indie 8.1%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides fast-paced, puzzle-heavy platforming that rewards precision and clever movement.

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Puzzle 34.4%, Logic 24.6%, 2D 10.6%, Difficult 9.6%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features recursive, mind-bending puzzles that push the boundaries of spatial logic in a way that fans of the seed game will appreciate.

Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.2%, Difficult 22.7%, Cute 10.8%, Indie 8.6%, Colorful 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers highly challenging spatial puzzles that require the same level of planning as the seed game's block placement.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.6%, Platformer 28.6%, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 6.8%, 2D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features creative environmental manipulation tools that make for a very similar puzzle-platforming experience.

Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.

Why similar: Funny 22.8%, Indie 21.4%, 2D Platformer 21.1%, Adventure 19.6%, Puzzle 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous puzzle-platformer that features unique limb-swapping mechanics to solve environmental challenges.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Why similar: Puzzle 43%, Casual 15.7%, Indie 11.8%, 2D 8.7%, Hand-drawn 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for creative, physics-based problem solving that feels like a natural extension of the seed game's block-building mechanics.

BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, Funny 14.1%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Platformer 13.9%, Puzzle 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based puzzle-platformer requires precise movement and environmental understanding to progress.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45%, Platformer 30%, Puzzle 13.2%, Adventure 3.4%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines physics-based environmental puzzles with platforming, offering a similar sense of discovery and mechanical depth.

Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.4%, Platformer 28.5%, Puzzle 18.3%, 2D 9%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces gravity-shifting mechanics to traditional platforming, creating puzzles that require a shift in perspective.

2D Pixel platformer about a cute character named Gelu. He can create and destroy his copies made of ice, limited number of times. With the help of ice copies he can climb on platform, pass the obstacles and pass the levels. Help Gelu to pass hard levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26%, Platformer 19.5%, 2D Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 12%, Casual 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, block-based platformer that captures the simple, satisfying loop of the seed game.

Heart Star is an adorable puzzle platformer where you guide two little friends through two parallel worlds. Swap between the worlds to solve unique puzzles. Overcome all obstacles with the power of teamwork!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, Casual 18%, Platformer 15.7%, Indie 12.8%, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on dual-character puzzle-platforming that requires coordination and logical thinking.

Tales of the Tiny Planet tells the story of a separated group of planet friends who want to reunite. You have to assist them against the dangers of time and space.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Platformer 14.2%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game features physics-based environmental puzzles that feel like a polished take on the seed game's core loop.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 31%, Robots 19.2%, Puzzle 19%, 2D 8.5%, Cute 6.4%

Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful local co-op game!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.4%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, 2D 6.7%

It was all fun and games until the bad guy took your friends. It's not their fault he built his super-secret laboratory next to the park.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.4%, Puzzle 18.1%, Funny 15.3%, Robots 11%, Logic 9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a series of robot-themed puzzles that reward careful observation and logic.

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 25.7%, Funny 24.5%, Puzzle 14.9%, 2D 7.7%, Casual 6.9%

There’s a big secret at Dr. Hugo’s Factory for Making Robots. When the inventors aren’t looking, their tiny robots go on big adventures. They never expected to stumble onto a plot so diabolical it threatened their very existence. With lasers.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.3%, Adventure 23.8%, Indie 19.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming adventure game that uses robot abilities to solve puzzles, capturing the same indie spirit as the seed game.

Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'

Why similar: Puzzle 53%, Adventure 14.6%, Funny 10.4%, Indie 10%, Singleplayer 6.6%

A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.3%, 2D Platformer 22.8%, Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 9.4%, 2D 4.2%

Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.6%, Logic 17%, Strategy 14.1%, Casual 9.6%, Indie 8.8%

Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?

Why similar: Funny 24.3%, Puzzle 21.7%, Robots 21.6%, Logic 18.1%, Colorful 5.8%

Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Platformer 17.8%, 2D Platformer 16.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Funny 9.7%

A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!

Why similar: Puzzle 37.1%, 2D 16.7%, Logic 13.5%, Cute 13.1%, Adventure 8.4%

Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?

Why similar: Puzzle 27.1%, Logic 22%, Difficult 12.6%, Casual 10%, Cute 8%

A cube of sugar escapes the factories to avoid the fate of being a cookie!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Platformer 20.9%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, 2D 6.3%

You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!

Why similar: Platformer 41.6%, Puzzle 24.3%, Indie 14.7%, Funny 12%, Adventure 4.8%

Water is flooding the world. Build your own way to climb higher and higher. Maybe there is a chance of survival after all. Give yourself a try! Help those boars reach the highest level.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Platformer 19.7%, Funny 14%, Puzzle 12.9%, 2D 7.6%

“Tangled Up” is the story of two electric charges "Positive Charge" & "Negative Charge" who are paired by an electric string. One day the string that bonds them together gets tangled up! and they’re unable to unite!

Why similar: Funny 22.9%, Puzzle 21.3%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Casual 10.7%, Indie 6.9%

CO-OP is a 2.5D puzzle-platformer. You control two robots; R3D, who can absorb all the light sources around him, and BLU3, who converts that energy into an explosive power. They find themselves in what seems like a recycling facility, with drones analyzing their every move...

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.2%, Indie 20.8%, Adventure 13.1%, Casual 10.8%

Inspired by classics from long ago, help a toy named felix find his owner when a mysterious event takes over the planet

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Platformer 25.1%, Puzzle 15.7%, Funny 11.7%, Casual 7.2%

Chippy is good in low places and Noppo is good at jumping. It is an action puzzle where two guys work together to make a toy with a theme! What kind of toys are those two really good friends going to make,and what kind of future are they going to make?

Why similar: Puzzle 36.6%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Casual 14.5%, Cute 14.2%, Singleplayer 6.8%

Meet Buddy and Bag Boy – two tiny robots with big hearts and an even bigger mission: spreading joy! After a mysterious explosion rains golden cogs and trash from the sky, it’s their job to collect, clean, and help each village while uncovering the secret behind the blast.

Why similar: Platformer 36%, Robots 21.5%, Cute 9.5%, Casual 7.9%, Indie 7.5%

Quadrata is a minimalist logic puzzle where you control two different characters with the same keys on either side and collect diamonds with a limited number of moves to finish.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.6%, Logic 22.9%, 2D 10.1%, Difficult 9.6%, Casual 8.4%

Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.2%, Platformer 25.3%, Puzzle 17.1%, Indie 5.1%, 2D 3.3%

Dodge flamers breathing scorching fires and deactivate paralyzing Tesla machines as you guide wacky robots trapped in treacherous labyrinths to the exit! Plan each escape with precision as every single robot shares linked controls hindering a simple escape plan, even for the creators of the game!

Why similar: Puzzle 44.3%, Casual 29.6%, Indie 26.1%

Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!

Why similar: Funny 28%, Puzzle 23.7%, 2D 12%, Cute 9.6%, Casual 8.6%

Take control of a small rolling square and utilize long dormant mechanisms to ascend to the top. Watch your step!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26%, Platformer 19.5%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 12.2%, 2D 5.9%

Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Platformer 16%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Puzzle 12.1%

In Hatup you'll have the mission to go through different challenges with your hat that will allow you to progress through the game's stages. Using different mechanics you will face many challenges and with different levels of difficulty.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, Platformer 17.3%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle 10.8%, Funny 9.3%

Puzzling Action for One or Two Players.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.7%, Platformer 21.4%, Puzzle 13.9%, Difficult 8.9%, 2D 7.5%

Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28%, Platformer 15.7%, Puzzle 10.8%, Funny 9.2%, Logic 7.3%

Their faces are the playing pieces. The rules are their emotions!Ridiculously charming puzzles, wrapped around an epic tale of love and danger, topped off with an authentic old-time stringband soundtrack!The goal is to put every one next to their friends.But you can't please everybody all the time.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.7%, Funny 16.9%, Puzzle 13.5%, Robots 10.3%, Logic 9.1%

🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 30.4%, Platformer 27.9%, Difficult 9.8%, Cute 6.2%, 2D 6%

What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Why similar: Platformer 53.9%, Funny 18.3%, Indie 8.7%, 2D 7.3%, Singleplayer 4.1%