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293 games like Columns

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01 Meteos Cover

2005 · NDS

Meteos

98%

An evil planet named Meteo is sending storms of world-ending meteors across the galaxy, and only your puzzle skills can stop them. As blocks drop down on the lower screen, you must use the DS's stylus to match up blocks of the same color. Once you have enough...

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Columns

98% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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02 Tower Bloxx Cover

2005 · Android, blackberry, Mobile

Tower Bloxx

82%

Build a skyscraper by stacking floors on top of each other. You do this by dropping them from a crane.

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Columns

82% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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03 Tetris Plus Cover

1995 · Arcade, PS1, Saturn

Tetris Plus

82%

This is yet another updated version of Tetris which was released for PlayStation, Saturn, and Game Boy. This version features Classic mode, Puzzle mode, Versus mode, and Edit mode. In Puzzle mode, you must save the professor who climbs his way to the top. In o...

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Columns

82% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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04 Everyone's a Wally Cover

1985 · ACPC, C64, ZXS

Everyone's a Wally

82%

Everyone's a Wally was the first arcade adventure game to feature multiple playable characters - a revolutionary feature at the time. Players began in control of Wally (a builder and handyman), but could switch to Wilma (his wife), and their friends Tom (a pun...

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Columns

82% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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05 Tetris 2 Cover

1993 · famicom, NES

Tetris 2

81%

Unlike the original Tetris, Tetris 2 has you clearing the field of blocks in a different way. Each play field starts with different colored dots (in this case black, gray and white), with one of each color flashing. The blocks are made up of the same three col...

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Columns

81% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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06 Arkanoid DS Cover

2008 · NDS

Arkanoid DS

74%

The player controls the "Vaus", a space vessel that acts as the game's "paddle" which prevents a ball from falling from the playing field, attempting to bounce it against a number of bricks. The ball striking a brick causes the brick to disappear. When all the...

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Columns

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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07 Qix Cover

1981 · Arcade

Qix

73%

Draw boxes to claim as much screen as possible without getting in the path of the "Qix" and "Sparx". Draw slower for more points and hope that you have enough coins. Simple but very addicting!

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Columns

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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08 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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Columns

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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09 Picross 2 Cover

1996 · Game Boy, 3DS

Picross 2

65%

Picross 2 is a Japan-only game for the Game Boy and the sequel to Mario's Picross and Mario's Super Picross. It keeps most of the same elements of its predecessor, as it deals with a grid and solving puzzles to form images. But unlike the first Mario's Picross...

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Columns

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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10 Tails Adventure Cover

1995 · 3DS, Game Gear

Tails Adventure

59%

Tails must stop the Battle Fortress bird army from taking control of Tails Island to rule over the animals. On land, in the air, and at sea, Tails battles some pretty tough birds! Depending on the Japanese and international version of the game, Tails Adventur...

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Columns

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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11 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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Columns

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
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12 The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Cover
53%

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the second Zelda game for the Nintendo DS. The art direction is still cel-shading, but the game have notable changes from Phantom Hourglass with more puzzles and a new mode of transportation by train. You have to draw your...

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Columns

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
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13 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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14 Duke Nukem 3D Cover

1996 · DOS, Mac, PC

Duke Nukem 3D

52%

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter in which players move through levels from the protagonist's viewpoint, fighting aliens and mutated foes with a varied arsenal. Its environments are highly interactive and destructible, and levels are designed in a non-li...

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Columns

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
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15 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
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
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16 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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Columns

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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17 Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Cover
48%

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is a single-player action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective, and a standalone expansion in the Uncharted series. Players guide treasure hunter Chloe Frazer through towns, ruins, and temples across the Western Ghat...

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Columns

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
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18 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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Columns

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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19 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
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
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20 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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Columns

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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