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Games similar to Showy Homes

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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, puzzle, and rule-discovery games and other grid-based games.

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

  • We Surrender!
    Web
    Type words to cast spells and navigate a demon's lair, hoping to break the curse on your party.
  • 0Player
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules from only an image of a puzzle game environment.
  • 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.
  • The Temple of Blight
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Figure out the meaning of several drawings on the wall of a temple.
  • 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.
  • Undertoe
    Web
    You've been invited to games of tic-tac-toe on the beach, but there's a twist or two.
  • Squish OS
    Web
    Manipulate and overlap windows to solve these seemingly impossible mazes.
  • The Stupefying Sweater
    Web
    Decipher partial instructions for this single image, color-based word search puzzle.
  • Decipher The Deck
    Windows
    Find the rules behind each suit and face card to solve the underlying logic puzzles.
  • Overwords
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Combine short words with previously positioned letters.
  • The Domino Lockpicking Company
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Identify the underlying line-drawing rules in a collection of domino arrangements.
  • This Bubble Tea Troubles Me
    Web
    Poke around with a straw and manipulate ice cubes to access the boba at the bottom of a cup.
  • Normal Maths
    Web
    Combine numbers using cryptic mathematical operators.
  • Vext Edit
    Web
    A tricky block-pushing game that puts you in the puzzle designer's seat.
  • Understand
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    Discover the rules for these line-drawing puzzles — but the rules change every level.
  • Pool Letter
    Web
    String words together in this word-search grid, finding clever paths to reach the ending.
  • 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?
  • A Man Walks into a Scrollbar
    Web
    Shift parts of the level in and out of the screen.
  • Loopmaker
    Web
    Use the clues to find the rules in this single-image set of paper puzzles that contains layers of discovery.
  • A Short Bike
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Web
    Ride your bike to the top of the cliff, making use of some boxes and a tricky movement scheme.
  • Hexcon
    Pen & Paper
    Determine the color rules that nullify every part of this pixel-based instructionless puzzle set.
  • Hatsune Miku Bomb Squad!
    Web
    Decode a jumbled manual to defuse bombs with the virtual pop idol.
  • Gridmount
    Web
    A tiny, free sokoban game that deconstructs the grid.
  • Snekcross
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Web
    Reach the other side of the ravine with an unusually twisty snake.
  • Type Word
    Web
    Find the one-word answers to various quick riddles.
  • Micro6an
    Web
    Solve six mini-sokoban levels where the path you take in one becomes a wall in the next.

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