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208 games like 2048

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01 Crazy Machines Cover

2005 · Mac, NDS, PC

Crazy Machines

97%

Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination wi...

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2048

97% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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02 Pipe Mania Cover

2008 · NDS, PC, PS2

Pipe Mania

97%

Pipe Mania is a puzzle game where players must place random tiles in order to help water flow to its destiny.

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2048

97% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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03 Cosmic Bugs Cover

2004 · PC

Cosmic Bugs

97%

Cosmic Bugs (previously titled Cosmo Bots) is an action-puzzle PC game developed by Retro64. The game was initially released on November 11, 2004, and later republished through PopCap Games in 2007, rebranded as Cosmic Bugs. It was available for download until...

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2048

97% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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04 Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue Cover
97%

Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue is the second installment to the popular game series Diner Dash preceded by Diner Dash. It is published by PlayFirst, like all other Diner Dash series.

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2048

97% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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05 Mad Libs Cover

2009 · iOS

Mad Libs

97%

Fill in the blankspots in sentences and share them with your friends!

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2048

97% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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06 One Night at Flumpty's 2 Cover
97%

Another FNAF parody with an egg in it. One Night at Flumpty's 2 is an indie parody point-and-click survival horror video game and the second installment of the One Night at Flumpty's series developed by Jonochrome.

Your match for

2048

97% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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07 Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

81%

Stack, chain, and combo your way to victory in the ultimate matching of two puzzle game legends! Pre-order now and get ready to traverse dimensions and experience brand new worlds in time for the holidays, with the PC release fast-dropping onto Steam in early...

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2048

81% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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08 Raft Wars Cover

2007 · browser

Raft Wars

81%

Raft Wars is a popular flash game from the late 2000s. It is a strategic shooter game similar to the popular mobile game Angry Birds. As the end of support for flash happened at the end of 2020, the developer and his team ported the game to the most advanced w...

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2048

81% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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09 Power Vacuum Cover

2023 · PC

Power Vacuum

81%

Power Vacuum is a fast-paced, competitive strategy game. It aims for minimalism, stripping away all the unnecessary detail to let you play as fast as you can. Power Vacuum features a “play against your past self” system that automatically records the games you...

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2048

81% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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10 Super DX-Ball Cover

2004 · PC

Super DX-Ball

71%

Super DX-Ball delivers a vibrant and colorful brick-breaking game that the whole family can enjoy. Created by Michael P. Welch, the original author of DX-Ball, this game brings together the amazing world of tessellation and repeating patterns with the classic...

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2048

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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11 Vortex Cover

2026 · PC

Vortex

66%

You just wanted to play a relaxing game of Sudoku, right? Too bad your PC just got infected. VORTEX is a chaotic deck-building roguelike where malware rewrites the rules of the classic puzzle. Build your deck, adapt to the mutating viruses, and survive the dig...

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2048

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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12 Ultradimensional Cover

2026 · PC

Ultradimensional

60%

Explore over 40 interconnected levels, evade over 20 unique entities, solve puzzles, manage scarce resources, and survive a nonlinear backrooms horror experience with multiple routes, and extreme replayability.

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2048

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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13 First-Person Jigsaw Cover

2026 · PC

First-Person Jigsaw

58%

Play jigsaw puzzles from a first-person perspective! Sort, organize, and assemble huge piles of pieces at your own pace. Chill out solo or play online with up to 16 players. Import your own images to create custom puzzles, then play them yourself or share them...

Your match for

2048

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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14 Baba Is You Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Baba Is You

57%

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where you can change the rules by which you play. In every level, the rules themselves are present as blocks you can interact with; by manipulating them, you can change how the level works and cause surprising, unexpected interacti...

Your match for

2048

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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15 Kick the Piñata! Cover

Year unknown · Linux, PC

Kick the Piñata!

56%

Grab your trusty bat and smash piñatas in this colorful incremental game. Buy weapons, unlock upgrades, rebirth, and build your strangely arranged home. Everything is cute, everything is fine, and the piñatas are definitely not alive.

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2048

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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16 Delta 4: Terminal Protocol Cover

Year unknown · PC

Delta 4: Terminal Protocol

56%

Wake up to silence. One terminal, one survivor, one dying ship. Can you bring the Delta-4 back online? Delta 4 is a sci-fi survival terminal simtype commands, decode logs, and fight to keep a dying ship alive.

Your match for

2048

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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17 Argot's Laboratory Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

Argot's Laboratory

55%

Argot's Laboratory is a 1-bit science simulator that puts you in control of a high tech lab. Modify, inspect, and evolve strange creatures, all while trying to not to lose your job! Can you complete the genetic tree before time runs out or will your boss final...

Your match for

2048

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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18 Dogpile Cover

2025 · Android, Mac, Switch

Dogpile

54%

Dogpile is a roguelike deck builder about merging cute dogs into bigger dogs. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special Traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! DOGS!

Your match for

2048

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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19 Numerical Alchemist Cover

2026 · PC

Numerical Alchemist

51%

A 9x9 Sudoku-based logic puzzle with eight original constraints. Every stage is solved through pure logic alone, with no assumptions or brute force. The thrill comes when one breakthrough makes the board suddenly unravel. Even seasoned Sudoku players will find...

Your match for

2048

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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20 Plants vs. Zombies Cover

2009 · Android, Mac, PC

Plants vs. Zombies

50%

Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game in which players protect their suburban home from waves of approaching zombies by placing various plants on a grid-based lawn. Each plant has a unique defensive function, from shooting projectiles to blocking or explo...

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2048

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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