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24 alternatives to Cardinal Land

A geometric puzzle game with origami inspired puzzles

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cardinal Land launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IM

    This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…

    2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →

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    An Esher-inspired medieval strategy game — now in AR!

    2017 · kunabi-brother.com · its alternatives →

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    Study geometry while playing on squared paper

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A dynamic landscape magnetized art puzzle

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Puzzle adventure where you fold your way out of levels

    2015 · ludumdare.com · its alternatives →

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    A chaotic and cooperative card game.

    2015 · playspaceteam.com · its alternatives →

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    A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space

    2021 · peterlavigne.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Circle▲70

    An elegant Flappy Bird like game

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Pid▲57

    A beautiful and imaginative puzzle-platformer.

    2015 · mightanddelight.com · its alternatives →

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    The Way▲74

    A 2D puzzle platformer with a retro feel

    2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

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    FRAMED▲65

    An award winning narrative puzzle game

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Niaki▲69

    A New Kind of Puzzle made by a bioinformatician

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A challenging puzzle platformer.

    2016 · indiedb.com · its alternatives →

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    A clever strategy game crossed with a Rubik’s Cube

    2017 · kunabi-brother.com · its alternatives →

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    A test of skill and puzzle solving..

    2016 · perchang.com · its alternatives →

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    4 Play!▲54

    Innovative math puzzle game.Good concept,challenging levels.

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been playing with this for quite some time and I think it's finally ready for public consumption. All feedback welcome.

    2025 · madmonk13.github.io · its alternatives →

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    SEED▲74

    A pixelated puzzle game with minimalistic controls

    2016 · sputnikgames.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Unusual 2-player logic game testing your spatial thinking

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Mathler▲79

    A daily math puzzle inspired by wordle

    2022 · mathler.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimalist, physics puzzle game

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimalist game of lollipops and logic

    2016 · laytonhawkes.com · its alternatives →

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    Splice▲60

    An experimental and artistic puzzler

    2015 · cipherprime.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · wherecardsfall.com · its alternatives →

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