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293 games like Columns

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01 Tetris Cover

1989 · Game Boy, 3DS

Tetris

70%

Tetris is a puzzle video game for the Game Boy released in 1989. It is a portable version of Alexey Pajitnov's original Tetris and it was bundled in the North American and European releases of the Game Boy itself. It was the first game compatible with the Game...

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Puzzle Genre Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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02 Injection Cover

2016 · PC

Injection

64%

A programming puzzle game where the player must hack the game's code to progress.

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64% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Puzzles Game feel
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03 Pikuniku Cover

2019 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Pikuniku

60%

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a fun little revolut...

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60% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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04 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

52%

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is an action-adventure game set in Rome, where Master Assassin Ezio Auditore takes on the Templar Order. Players recruit and command a Brotherhood of Assassins to dismantle the corrupt powers entrenched in the city. The game combin...

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52% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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05 Duke Nukem 3D Cover

1996 · DOS, Mac, PC

Duke Nukem 3D

52%

Aliens have landed in futuristic Los Angeles and it's up to the Duke to bring the pain and show them the door. After the initial entries of side-scrolling platform games, Duke Nukem 3D introduces a first-person perspective to the series and turns the game into...

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52% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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06 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

51%

Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. To save her estranged daughter, a guilt-ridden mother must uncover the frightening truth behind the urban tale of a vengeful, demonic witch. One knock to wake h...

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51% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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07 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Cover

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is the first Zelda game for the Nintendo DS and a direct sequel to The Wind Waker. The art direction is the same cel-shaded style as the Wind Waker but is displayed from a classic top-down perspective. The gameplay is str...

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50% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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08 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

48%

Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot friend, Wheatley, against more puzzles conceived by GLaDOS, an A.I. with the sole purpose of testing the Portal Gun's mechanics and taking reven...

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48% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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09 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

48%

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretica...

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48% Mutiger Treffer
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10 Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Cover
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From the critically acclaimed developer, Naughty Dog, comes the first standalone adventure in the Uncharted series. Fan-favorite character, Chloe Frazer, must enlist the aid of renowned mercenary Nadine Ross from Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End in order to recover...

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48% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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11 Dead Space 3 Cover

2013 · PC, PS3, X360

Dead Space 3

48%

Dead Space 3 is a 2013 survival horror action video game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360. It is the third and final main entry in the Dead Space series. The game supports online cooperative...

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48% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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12 Half-Life: Opposing Force Cover

1999 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life: Opposing Force

48%

Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Res...

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48% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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13 Dr. Mario Cover

1990 · Arcade, famicom, NES

Dr. Mario

47%

Dr. Mario is a falling block tile-matching video game, in which Mario assumes the role of a doctor, dropping two-colored medical capsules into a medicine bottle representing the playing field. This area is populated by viruses of three colors: red, yellow, and...

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47% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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14 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Cover

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated re-release of Link's Awakening with several new additions, the most notable of which being the entire game is now in color.

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47% Mutiger Treffer
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15 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

47%

Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime. To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the wildlife behaviour changes depending on the time of d...

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16 Toby: The Secret Mine Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Toby: The Secret Mine

47%

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

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47% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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17 Semblance Cover

2018 · Mac, Switch, PC

Semblance

47%

Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

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47% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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18 Tetris Cover

1989 · NES

Tetris

46%

Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the mid-1980s. Players arrange falling pieces made of four connected blocks, called tetrominoes, into complete horizontal lines within a rectangular playfield. Completed lines...

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19 Forgotton Anne Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Forgotton Anne

46%

Forgotton Anne is a 2d cinematic adventure game combining puzzle platforming with adventure game elements. You play as Anne, the enforcer keeping order in the Forgotton Realm, as she sets out to squash a rebellion that might prevent her master, Bonku, and hers...

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46% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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20 Unbound: Worlds Apart Cover

2021 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unbound: Worlds Apart

46%

Unbound is an atmospheric 2D Puzzle-Platformer where the main character, Soli, can conjure magic portals to travel between different realities in order to learn more about the catastrophe that ravaged his world. Inside certain portals, the physical properties...

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46% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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