swap_horiz Genius Square Alternatives

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Tak

Tak is an abstract strategy board game designed by James Ernest and Patrick Rothfuss, published in 2016 following a succ...

Tabletop Two Player Abstract Strategy Tile Stacking

8.8 Great

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Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King

Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King is a tile-laying board game designed by Andreas Pelikan and Alexander Pfister, publ...

Board Game Tabletop Tile Laying Economic

8.4 Great

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Onitama

Onitama is a two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Shimpei Sato and released in 2014. The game is played o...

Tabletop Two Player Abstract Strategy Tile Movement

8.2 Great

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Zendo

Zendo is an abstract tabletop game of inductive logic created by Kory Heath and released in 2001 using Looney Pyramids....

Abstract Tabletop Pyramids Inductive Logic

8.2 Great

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Shisen-Sho

Shisen-Sho is a Japanese solitaire tile-matching game played with a standard set of 144 Mahjong tiles. Players remove pa...

Classic Japanese Puzzle Connect Tiles

8.2 Great

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I Love Hue Too

I Love Hue Too is a minimalist puzzle game developed by Zut Games and released in 2020 as the sequel to the original I L...

Mobile Game Minimalist Puzzle Color Matching

8.1 Great

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ChuChu Rocket! Universe

ChuChu Rocket! Universe is a 3D puzzle game developed by Sega's Hardlight studio and released in September 2019 as a lau...

Mobile Puzzle Routing Sega

7.9 Good

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Ingenious

Ingenious is an abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2004. Players take turns placing...

Tabletop Reiner Knizia Tile Placement Abstract Strategy

7.8 Good

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Pyramid Arcade

Pyramid Arcade is a tabletop game compilation published by Looney Labs in 2016. The set includes 22 games that use the c...

Party Game Abstract Tabletop Tile Stacking

7.8 Good

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I Love Hue

I Love Hue is a minimalist mobile puzzle game developed by Zut Games and released in 2017. Players are presented with a...

Mobile Game Minimalist Puzzle Color Matching

7.8 Good

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Quadropolis

Quadropolis is a tile-laying city-building board game designed by Frank Garcia and published by Days of Wonder in 2016....

Board Game Tabletop City Building Tile Placement

7.8 Good

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Calico

Calico is a tile-placement board game designed by Kevin Russ and released in 2020. In the game, players assume the role...

Board Game Tabletop Tile Placement Pattern Building

7.7 Good

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Barenpark

Bärenpark is a tile-laying board game designed by Phil Walker-Harding and published by Lookout Games in 2017. Players us...

Board Game Tabletop Tile Placement Polyomino

7.6 Good

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Nova Luna

Nova Luna is a strategy board game released in 2019, designed by Uwe Rosenberg (known for Agricola and Patchwork) with a...

Board Game Tabletop Tile Placement Pattern Building

7.5 Good

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SameGame

SameGame is a highly influential tile-matching puzzle game originally developed by Kuniaki Moribe under the name Chain S...

Classic Legacy Japan Puzzle

7.4 Good

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Dots

Dots is a minimalist puzzle game released in 2013 by Betaworks' studio Playdots for iOS and Android devices. The gamepla...

Mobile Game Minimalist Puzzle Connect Matching

7.4 Good

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Cacao

Cacao is a tile-placement board game designed by Phil Walker-Harding and released in 2014. Players take on the roles of...

Board Game Tabletop Worker Placement Tile Placement

7.4 Good

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Genius Star

The Genius Star is a tabletop spatial puzzle game released in 2021 as a sequel to the popular game The Genius Square. De...

Puzzle Tabletop Dice Rolling Polyomino

7.4 Good

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Spring Meadow

Spring Meadow is a tile-laying board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 2018 by Lookout Games. In the game,...

Board Game Tabletop Tile Placement Polyomino

7.2 Good

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Cottage Garden

Cottage Garden is a tabletop board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg and published in 2016. It is a competitive tile-laying...

Board Game Tabletop Tile Placement Polyomino

7.1 Good