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289 games like Columns

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01 Dr. Mario Cover

1990 · Arcade, famicom, NES

Dr. Mario

78%

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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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Fantasy Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Split screen Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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02 Crazy Machines 2 Cover

2008 · PC

Crazy Machines 2

60%

Crazy Machines 2 is packed with all new features to help you create your wackiest "Rube Goldberg-style" contraptions yet! All new elements, plus an amazing 3D physics engine lets you craft even more complex gadgets and effects.

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60% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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03 Rocket Mania Deluxe Cover

2006 · PC

Rocket Mania Deluxe

60%

In this puzzle game from PopCap Games players must connect pieces of multicolored fuses to form a chain reaction that will launch as many rockets as possible.

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60% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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04 Flow Free Cover

2012 · Android, Win Phone, iOS

Flow Free

57%

Flow Free is a simple yet addictive puzzle game. Connect matching colors with pipe to create a Flow. Pair all colors, and cover the entire board to solve each puzzle. But watch out, pipes will break if they cross or overlap! Free play through hundreds of lev...

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57% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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05 Bonanza Bros. Cover

1990 · Amiga, ACPC, Arcade

Bonanza Bros.

53%

Just who are these guys? Mobo and Robo are the coolest villains you'll ever meet- they rob banks, museums (and innocent computer gamers of their sanity). One evening whilst watching TV a mysterious stranger appeared on screen. "Good Evening Boys I've got a jo...

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53% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Split screen Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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06 Crazy Machines Elements Cover

2011 · PC, PS3, X360

Crazy Machines Elements

51%

GET YOUR BRAIN BUZZING with each new challenge in the latest installment of the multi award-winning wacky contraption series - CRAZY MACHINES ELEMENTS. Play with Fire, harness the power of water and control the wind to set off the most insanely creative chain...

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51% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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07 Gardenscapes Cover

2016 · Android, iOS

Gardenscapes

46%

Gardenscapes is a casual puzzle game developed by Playrix where players embark on a journey to restore and beautify a neglected garden. The protagonist, Austin the butler, inherits a sprawling but dilapidated garden and mansion and enlists the player's help to...

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46% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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08 Light Crusader Cover

1995 · Linux, Mac, PC

Light Crusader

40%

Fight your way through a dungeon of evil! Innocent people are vanishing victims of horrifying magic. You a master swordsman are challenged to save them! Only your sword and razor sharp mind will help you survive the lethal labyrinth rescue the people and save...

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40% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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09 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

39%

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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39% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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10 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

37%

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a...

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37% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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11 Kid Chameleon Cover

1992 · Android, Linux, Mac

Kid Chameleon

37%

Kid Chameleon is a 1992 platform game released for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. The premise of the game is that the main character, Casey, can use masks to change into different characters in order to use different abilities. It was later released in Japan as...

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37% Mutiger Treffer
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Fantasy Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective Multiplayer Game feel
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12 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

34%

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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34% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Split screen Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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13 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, New 3DS

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

34%

A top-down roguelike action-adventure game and remake of the 2011 original, rebuilt from its Flash engine to enable expanded content and features. Players control Isaac through procedurally generated dungeon floors, using tears as projectiles to defeat monster...

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34% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Multiplayer Game feel
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14 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Cover

2019 · Switch, Switch 2

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

34%

As Link, you awaken in a strange land away from Hyrule, where animals talk and monsters roam. To uncover the truth behind your whereabouts and rouse the legendary Wind Fish, explore Koholint Island and all its trap-ridden dungeons, reimagined in stunning detai...

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34% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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15 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

33%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

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33% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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16 Valiant Hearts: The Great War Cover

2014 · Android, Switch, PC

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

33%

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these characters are inextricab...

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33% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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17 World of Goo Cover

2008 · Android, Linux, Mac

World of Goo

33%

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. The millions of Goo Bal...

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33% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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18 Abzu Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Abzu

32%

Abzu is an exploration game where you are a lone diver in a lush ocean world. The diver descends deeper and deeper into the depths, where she will encounter majestic creatures, discover ancient secrets, and search for her true purpose. Abzu roughly translates...

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32% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Educational Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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19 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Cover

1992 · Amiga, DOS, Linux

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

32%

A point-and-click adventure game by LucasArts originally released in 1992. Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced "talkie" edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects. In 2009, this version was also released as an unlockab...

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32% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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20 The Curse of Monkey Island Cover

1997 · Mac, PC

The Curse of Monkey Island

32%

The Curse of Monkey Island is the third installment in the Monkey Island adventure game series. Players control Guybrush Threepwood, a aspiring pirate, as he navigates the Caribbean to save his love Elaine from a curse that turned her into a golden statue. The...

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32% Mutiger Treffer
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Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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