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24 alternatives to Serendipity
A minimalist puzzle game
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Serendipity launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi, I wanted to share a simple game I wrote. It's a sliding pieces puzzle like many others. I have focused a lot on making the experience smooth and minimalistic and the levels being challenging in a way a sudoku or chess puzzles could be. I had no prior knowledge of game development and while it feels like someone competent could build this game in a week I spent over two years and hundreds of hours to bring this game to life. My journey went through: - thinking it will be a PC game - being overwhelmed by the amount of different game frameworks - hiring an indie dev to bootstrap the game in…
2023 · kuboble.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal arcade puzzle game with touch to move controls.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalistic puzzle game inspired by Picross and Sudoku.
2021 · ordinarypuzzles.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal Maze▲85Minimalist puzzle game which is played by rotating the mazes
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sudoku Round▲79A clean take on a classic game. No distractions - just fun!
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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LOOP▲74A tranquil puzzle game, with a simple, meditative feel
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Not Evil Sudoku▲125Clean, minimalist & joyful Sudoku app for iPhone and iPad
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Recursive!▲96A puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A new kind of addictive block slide puzzle game.
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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SEED▲74A pixelated puzzle game with minimalistic controls
2016 · sputnikgames.itch.io · its alternatives →
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Super simple game where you have to find unusual things
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · loop.lekevicius.com · its alternatives →
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Puzzle Swap▲62A calming game where you switch tiles to reveal an image
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Built and open-sourced in the era before AI. I’m sure you know where to find the code.
Apr 2026 · mehuleo.github.io · its alternatives →
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