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Games similar to Overwords

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Our thinky games database has lots of hand-curated, detailed information about every game, so we're able to make great recommendations for other games you might enjoy. This includes other word, rule-discovery, and strategy games, more titles from Rainbow Train, and other grid-based games.

Take a look at some of the most similar games below.

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    Web
    Type words to cast spells and navigate a demon's lair, hoping to break the curse on your party.
  • LOK
    Pen & Paper
    Uncover the hidden language of the LOK through letter-based logic puzzles.
  • Showy Homes
    Web
    Enter words to play a Wordle-style game, with something more going on...
  • 0Player
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules from only an image of a puzzle game environment.
  • The Temple of Blight
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Figure out the meaning of several drawings on the wall of a temple.
  • Bobogram
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    A playful puzzle book with clipped instructions.
  • Decipher The Deck
    Windows
    Find the rules behind each suit and face card to solve the underlying logic puzzles.
  • The Domino Lockpicking Company
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Identify the underlying line-drawing rules in a collection of domino arrangements.
  • Letter Coins
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Find words within arrangements of old letter-stamped coins.
  • Counterfill
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Follow the rules to solve some paper puzzles — except the rules are covered with paint.
  • 12 Word Searches
    Pen & Paper
    It's just 12 word searches. I swear.
  • Understand
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    Discover the rules for these line-drawing puzzles — but the rules change every level.
  • Push
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Figure out the behavior of each button type in order to push them all.
  • Draw a Loop!
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Try uncovering the rules that will constrain these paper puzzles to a unique solution.
  • Lyth
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Dots, numbers, letters... Can you guess the unwritten instructions that tie them all together?
  • Gridspech
    Web
    Figure out how to validate each symbol in increasingly complex logic puzzles.
  • Loopmaker
    Web
    Use the clues to find the rules in this single-image set of paper puzzles that contains layers of discovery.
  • The Stupefying Sweater
    Web
    Decipher partial instructions for this single image, color-based word search puzzle.
  • Cipher Zero
    Windows
    MacOS
    Experiment with grid-shading logic puzzles and discover the rules of the cryptic glyphs.
  • Abdec
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the writing system of the Abb through shape-packing puzzles.
  • Vext Edit
    Web
    A tricky block-pushing game that puts you in the puzzle designer's seat.
  • Fractleaf
    Web
    Explore an infinitely-zooming pattern of leaves, looking for hearts hidden within.
  • Trifoil
    Windows
    Learn about cryptic symbols and fulfill their conditions by drawing the right lines.
  • Altered
    Windows
    Linux
    Solve grid-based puzzles by changing the shape of your characters.
  • Bloxorz
    Web
    Topple and tumble a blocky peg until it falls into a square hole.
  • Spell Slide
    Windows
    Push letters to make and break words in this abstract sokoban game.
  • Push Blox
    Windows
    Lift and push colorful blocks that merge when they touch to complex puzzle contraptions.
  • Humanity
    Windows
    PlayStation 4
    PlayStation 5
    Xbox One
    Xbox Series X|S
    An offbeat puzzle game about a dog commanding massive crowds of people to their goal.
  • Tunnels
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules of each glyph in this instructionless puzzle challenge with serpentine tunnels.
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    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Create islands and connect rivers to solve relaxing Nurikabe logic puzzles.

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