Games Like Scribblenauts Unlimited

In Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, Maxwell unites with Batman™, Superman™ and the rest of The Justice League™ to restore order to the DC Comics Universe. Challenge your imagination as you battle the mightiest villains in an exciting, action-filled adventure through GOTHAM CITY™, METROPOLIS™, ATLANTIS™ and other iconic...

Why similar: Sandbox 23.9%, Family Friendly 14.6%, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 9.8%, Funny 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This direct follow-up expands on the core vocabulary-based puzzle mechanics with a massive roster of DC characters and items.

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 69.1%, Cute 9.5%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 6.3%, Casual 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Scribblenauts, this game allows you to manipulate the rules of the world itself to solve puzzles in highly creative ways.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Puzzle 21.6%, Funny 14.1%, Open World 13.8%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based sandbox offers a similar sense of slapstick humor and open-ended problem solving in a 3D environment.

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Casual 15.9%, Funny 12.9%, Comedy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a quirky, experimental puzzle-solving nature where burning objects leads to unexpected and funny results.

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.

Why similar: Puzzle 18.9%, Funny 16.8%, Family Friendly 16.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Comedy 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same mischievous, funny spirit of causing chaos in a sandbox world to complete objectives.

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 38.5%, Family Friendly 23%, Casual 13.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Cute 5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on drawing objects that come to life with physics, directly mirroring the core mechanic of Scribblenauts.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.5%, Funny 17.8%, Family Friendly 15.9%, Casual 12.9%, Cute 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This whimsical physics puzzle game shares the lighthearted, cartoonish charm and experimental feel of Scribblenauts.

Draw a stickman, then guide him through a fantastic world of adventure! Using an assortment of pencils, draw elements, tools, and weapons to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles.

Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, Casual 26.4%, Puzzle 23.5%, Comedy 10.6%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the core concept of Scribblenauts by allowing players to draw their own tools and solutions to progress through the adventure.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Sandbox 39.4%, Moddable 26.8%, Puzzle 23.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that encourages creative engineering to solve destructive puzzles, much like the sandbox nature of Scribblenauts.

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.6%, Funny 15.6%, Family Friendly 12.2%, Comedy 8.3%, Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-driven sandbox focuses on funny, emergent outcomes and creative unit placement to win battles.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 53.3%, Casual 8.6%, Comedy 8.2%, 2D 6.6%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic physics-based puzzle game that emphasizes creative building and whimsical art design.

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.9%, Moddable 21.2%, Comedy 12%, Funny 11.7%, Casual 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate physics-based sandbox that provides the same freedom to spawn objects and manipulate the environment for creative play.

Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.5%, Funny 20.2%, Comedy 17.7%, Open World 17.2%, Casual 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the same physics-based chaos and sandbox absurdity that makes Scribblenauts so entertaining.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Puzzle 39%, Funny 22.9%, Comedy 16.9%, Platformer 11.1%, Singleplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines clever physics-based puzzle solving with a distinct, humorous narrative and memorable characters.

McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges to prevent stuff from blowing up. You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!

Why similar: Comedy 31.9%, Puzzle 29.3%, Funny 14.2%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, funny puzzle game that relies on absurd, creative solutions to prevent disasters.

Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.3%, Open World 17.4%, Family Friendly 17.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Funny 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world sandbox offers the same creative building freedom and lighthearted exploration found in Scribblenauts.

The beloved roll-em-up game returns with fully updated graphics, completely recreated cutscenes and in full HD!

Why similar: Family Friendly 22.7%, Funny 16.7%, Casual 16.1%, Puzzle 15.2%, Comedy 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a surreal, colorful, and highly creative gameplay loop that focuses on expanding your reach through interaction with the environment.

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Why similar: Puzzle 35.6%, Comedy 24.1%, Funny 23.2%, Casual 9%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes physics-based controls to create a hilarious and challenging experience that feels similar to the chaotic sandbox moments in Scribblenauts.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.4%, Funny 20.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Singleplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This perspective-based puzzle game rewards creative thinking and changing how you perceive objects to solve challenges.

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Adventure 28.7%, Puzzle 24.7%, Cute 12.3%, Funny 10.8%, Family Friendly 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A creative adventure game where you use a magic brush to paint the world and solve puzzles, echoing the artistic freedom of Scribblenauts.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.2%, Adventure 19.7%, Singleplayer 11.2%, Platformer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to bring 2D images into a 3D space, providing a similar 'make anything real' creative puzzle experience.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 44.6%, Adventure 18.3%, Comedy 16.7%, Family Friendly 7.1%, Funny 4%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-adventure game features a unique, whimsical art style and creative mechanics involving stacking dolls to solve problems.

A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.

Why similar: Family Friendly 28.2%, Comedy 20.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Casual 10.6%, Cute 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, family-friendly RPG that captures the same imaginative and lighthearted adventure spirit.

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: Comedy 32.1%, Platformer 21.2%, Funny 17.6%, 2D 9.9%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, funny satire of modern gaming tropes that shares the comedic tone found in the Scribblenauts series.

A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!

Why similar: Cute 17.4%, Funny 16.6%, Moddable 14%, Family Friendly 13.8%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D platformer captures the same cute, funny, and colorful aesthetic that defines the Scribblenauts franchise.

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Puzzle 25.9%, Sandbox 24.2%, Family Friendly 16.3%, Education 12.8%, Funny 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A bridge-building simulation that rewards creative engineering and experimentation within a physics-based engine.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: Sandbox 38%, Family Friendly 25.1%, Open World 13.9%, Casual 9.6%, Cute 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An instant town-building sandbox that focuses purely on the joy of creation without the pressure of traditional game objectives.

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.8%, Comedy 15.6%, Funny 10.1%, Singleplayer 6.2%, Adventure 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational physics puzzle game that rewards lateral thinking and creative use of tools to navigate environments.

Goat Simulator Remastered is the latest in goat simulation technology. Your favorite chaotic sandbox is back and more beautiful than ever, with updated graphics, every DLC, and more bugs that you can shake a goat at. WASD to rewrite history.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.2%, Adventure 12.7%, Comedy 12.3%, Family Friendly 12.3%, Casual 11.8%

Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Why similar: Open World 27.1%, Sandbox 21.7%, Adventure 14.6%, Casual 11.3%, Cute 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features physics-based movement and exploration in a whimsical world that feels very similar to the spirit of Scribblenauts.

Build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain, and fuel flying machines in the stunning followup to the multi-award winning World of Goo. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and evolving.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.9%, Family Friendly 22.9%, Comedy 12%, Casual 10.2%, Cute 8.9%

Enjoy Disney Infinity with a Full Toy Box! Disney Infinity 1.0: Gold Edition gives you the freedom to create stories and play experiences with all Disney Infinity 1.0 Characters and Playsets Unlocked and ready for you to mix, match and mash up to invent just about any adventure you can imagine.

Why similar: Sandbox 40.2%, Family Friendly 23%, Adventure 21.2%, Open World 11.9%, Action 3.8%

A beautiful puzzle game for the whole family!Eets Munchies is a reimagining of the award-winning puzzle game by Klei Entertainment. Featuring gorgeous animation and ridiculous creatures, players help an adorable hungry creature devour cake in increasingly devious puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 47.2%, Casual 18.2%, Family Friendly 13%, Platformer 6.5%, Strategy 5.5%

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Sandbox 30.4%, Puzzle 24.5%, Education 13.9%, Family Friendly 13.5%, Funny 6.9%

Same sick burns, same smoldering attitude, now all scaled up in stunning HD, Spyro is back in the Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy! Rekindle the fire with remastered versions of the original three games, Spyro™ the Dragon, Spyro™ 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro™: Year of the Dragon.

Why similar: Family Friendly 38.6%, Adventure 16%, Cute 8.2%, Funny 8.2%, Platformer 7.8%

Imagination is the key, as you enter a magical storybook full of mystery and wonder, unusual creatures, and enigmatic puzzles! Create your own original Stickman and then watch it come to life in DRAW A STICKMAN: EPIC 2! Jump in to this action-packed adventure that allows for endless creativity!

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Casual 31%, Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 3.7%

The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.5%, Moddable 14.3%, Family Friendly 11.9%, Funny 8.9%, Casual 7.8%

It's time to get MEDIEVAL! From the creators of the award winning puzzle games Doodle God & Doodle Devil, comes a new fantasy brain-teaser where you can create your own Kingdom with Castles, Knights, Warlocks and Dragons! Great for gamers of ALL ages.

Why similar: Casual 34.8%, Sandbox 16%, Puzzle 15.8%, Education 10.1%, Funny 6.9%

Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.

Why similar: Sandbox 70.3%, Strategy 21.2%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Multiplayer 3.9%

Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.6%, Family Friendly 15%, Open World 14.6%, Funny 11.9%, Comedy 8.4%

After years of absence, Miscrits is back and better than ever! Return to the world of Miscria and capture hundreds of iconic Miscrits. Train your Miscrits to their strongest forms and put a stop to the Magicites, who threaten to eliminate all Miscrit life from the world!

Why similar: Adventure 21.5%, Casual 20%, Cute 14.4%, 2D 14.3%, Strategy 12.6%

The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.5%, Puzzle 19.7%, Family Friendly 18.1%, Moddable 18.1%, 2D 6.3%

Your favorite marsupial, Crash Bandicoot™, is back! He’s enhanced, entranced and ready-to-dance with the N. Sane Trilogy. Relive all your favorite moments in Crash Bandicoot™, Crash Bandicoot™ 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot™ 3: Warped, now in fully-remastered graphical glory!

Why similar: Family Friendly 27.7%, Funny 17.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Platformer 15%, Comedy 11.6%

Step into rhythmic bliss with Runner2! Best Indie Game winner, Guinness World Record holder, and narrated by Charles Martinet. Unleash vibrant moves and beats in 120 levels!

Why similar: Funny 33.1%, Comedy 28.8%, Casual 17.9%, Platformer 15.1%, Action 3%

Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.

Why similar: Platformer 24.3%, Comedy 22.3%, Adventure 16.2%, 2D 14.2%, Funny 13.6%

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: Family Friendly 37.1%, Platformer 14.1%, 2D 13.9%, Casual 13.3%, Adventure 11.8%

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Moddable 18.7%, Casual 17.6%, Strategy 12.1%, 2D 7.8%

In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.9%, Puzzle 18.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Casual 8.1%, 2D 6.2%

The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!

Why similar: Sandbox 31.8%, Puzzle 31.5%, Education 18.7%, Strategy 9.7%, 2D 6.5%

As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.

Why similar: Open World 47%, Sandbox 32.6%, Adventure 11.1%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Action 3.6%

Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.

Why similar: Open World 35.9%, Adventure 28.3%, Puzzle 15.2%, Singleplayer 12.7%, Action 7.9%

Enjoy a thrilling and hilarious point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia

Why similar: Adventure 42%, Comedy 33.7%, Fantasy 18.3%, Singleplayer 3.6%, Indie 2.3%

Get Batman: Arkham City and all DLC for one low price with the release of the GOTY Edition!

Why similar: Open World 53.1%, Adventure 22.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Singleplayer 8.6%, Action 5.9%

Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.4%, Sandbox 25.3%, Casual 10.5%, Funny 9.1%, Open World 8.9%

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

Why similar: Family Friendly 23%, Puzzle 19.4%, Funny 14%, Comedy 11.4%, Casual 8.8%

Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.

Why similar: Sandbox 52.9%, Education 29.1%, Casual 9.1%, 2D 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.

Why similar: Adventure 34%, Singleplayer 27.9%, Fantasy 13.2%, Action 10.3%, Indie 8.3%

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: Puzzle 56.3%, Platformer 16.7%, Adventure 7.7%, Casual 6.1%, Singleplayer 4.7%