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Games similar to Rats in a Cage

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

  • Mistified
    Windows
    MacOS
    Guide the lost souls of animals away from danger.
  • Panik
    Windows
    Calm down the panikers and guide them to safe tiles.
  • Pup Champs
    Windows
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Lead your soccer team of puppies to goal-scoring victory.
  • Spooky Express
    Windows
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Control the path of a ghost train and dispatch ghoulish creatures to their resting place.
  • Lab Rat
    Windows
    Xbox Series X|S
    Xbox One
    Push, zap, and clamber over obstacles in this satirical, genre-bending puzzler.
  • Mimic
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Web
    Imitate the movement patterns of various animals in order to take on their abilities.
  • Wilderplace
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Explore a maze-like, hand-drawn world of restless spirits.
  • Pâquerette Down the Bunburrows
    Windows
    MacOS
    Chase bunnies down the rabbit hole, deeper than you might expect.
  • Bee Magic
    Windows
    Web
    Cast spells with your movement and explore a world of bees.
  • Bloxorz
    Web
    Topple and tumble a square peg until it falls into a square hole.
  • Leaf's Odyssey
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Solve tricky turn-based enemy encounters on your journey to the Tower of Destiny.
  • Mycelium Heaven
    Windows
    Nintendo Switch
    PlayStation 4
    PlayStation 5
    Sustain the growth of a forest fungus using clueless zombies as fuel.
  • Desperatea
    Android
    Web
    Hypnotize a tea set to serve matcha to your guests.
  • Midwinter Springtime
    Web
    Push springs around like sokoban boxes and use them to launch yourself across the level.
  • Trails
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Plot careful, collision-free sandship routes across the wasteland.
  • Bean & Nothingness
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Turns beans into monsters in this whimsical yet challenging puzzle game.
  • Infinifactory
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    PlayStation 4
    Construct furniture and spaceships for your alien overlords in this 3D engineering game.
  • A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Build snowmen by rolling snowballs into place (and give them a hug!)
  • Growmi
    Web
    Start small and grow big, regaining Growmi's power through a non-linear world of puzzles.
  • The Temple of Blight
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Figure out the meaning of several drawings on the wall of a temple.
  • Push Blox
    Windows
    Lift and push colorful blocks that merge when they touch to complex puzzle contraptions.
  • Stuffo the Puzzle Bot
    Windows
    iPad
    Pick up, place, and climb over gadgets and gizmos in this robotic grid-based puzzler.
  • LOK
    Pen & Paper
    Uncover the hidden language of the LOK through letter-based logic puzzles.
  • Bobogram
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    A playful puzzle book with clipped instructions.
  • Altered
    Windows
    Linux
    Solve grid-based puzzles by changing the shape of your characters.
  • Push Blox 2
    Windows
    Push and lift blocks that merge together, solving puzzling contraptions.
  • LOK Digital
    Windows
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Discover a hidden language in this digital adaptation of the logic puzzle book, LOK.
  • 5 Step Steve
    Web
    With only 5 steps before he perishes, help Steve rescue his kitten crew.
  • Understand
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Discover the rules for these line-drawing puzzles — but the rules change every level.
  • Snakebird
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    iPad
    Android
    Eat fruit and reach the portal — a challenging, puzzly twist on classic snake mechanics.

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