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Within the “PC” category, the closest game to Columns is Katamari Damacy Reroll — scoring 75/100 on our similarity scale. Angry Birds Star Wars and Tricky Towers follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Columns. Each one has been evaluated across 7 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.
✓ If you enjoyed Columns, expect puzzle design, vibe casual and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, cozy, relaxing feel and vibe relaxing, while skipping visual 2d
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: visuals.
Released 28 years after Columns.
✓ Like Columns, it's known for puzzle design, vibe casual and single-player focus
≠ Where it differs: brings horror tension, strong narrative focus and setting scifi, while skipping fantasy world
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: setting.
Released 3 years after Columns.
✓ Like Columns, it's known for puzzle design, vibe casual and fantasy world
≠ Where it differs: brings deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and visual isometric, while skipping offline
PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords delivers, for the first time ever, classic puzzle-game action backed with an epic story of good vs. evil. Challenge your match 3 skills as you battle against computer opponents to save the Kingdom of Etheria from the evil Lord Bane.
Released 17 years after Columns.
✓ If you enjoyed Columns, expect puzzle design, vibe casual and single-player focus
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and cozy, relaxing feel, while skipping fantasy world
Save lives with your spacebar! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game in a world where defibrillating patients' hearts in sync with their heartbeats has healing properties. Slam your spacebar in perfect time on the 7th beat, and they might just come out okay.
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: setting.
Released 35 years after Columns.
✓ Shared with Columns: puzzle design, vibe casual and offline
≠ Where it differs: brings competitive edge, cozy, relaxing feel and punishing difficulty, while skipping fantasy world
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: setting and tone.
Released 24 years after Columns.
✓ Nearly identical: puzzle design, vibe casual and single-player focus.
≠ Missing: fantasy world.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness. Conquer 55 fanciful levels with 10 mystical Magic Powers, racking up bonus points and shots you'll smile about for weeks.
Released 17 years after Columns.
✓ If you enjoyed Columns, expect puzzle design, offline and single-player focus
≠ Its own twist: co op, while skipping vibe casual
Released 18 years after Columns.
✓ If you enjoyed Columns, expect puzzle design, offline and single-player focus
≠ Where it differs: brings co op, while skipping vibe casual
Released 18 years after Columns.
✓ Like Columns, it's known for puzzle design, vibe casual and single-player focus
≠ Where it differs: brings vibe relaxing, procedural generation and co op, while skipping fantasy world
Audiosurf is a puzzle rhythm game developed by Invisible Handlebar. Players control a levitating vehicle and race it down a multi-colored highway. The players have to collect colored blocks known as "cars" and form clusters of three or more blocks of the same color.
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: visuals.
Released 18 years after Columns.
✓ If you enjoyed Columns, expect puzzle design, vibe casual and fantasy world
≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and exploration and discovery, while skipping offline
Designed, developed, and illustrated by Jason Roberts, Gorogoa is a beautiful hand-drawn story suspended inside a completely unique puzzle. Arrange and combine lavishly illustrated panels, each one a separate interactive window into a living game world. Navigate the scene inside each panel.
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: game mode.
Released 27 years after Columns.
✓ Shared with Columns: puzzle design, vibe casual and fantasy world
≠ Stands apart with horror tension, strong narrative focus and horror setting, while skipping offline
Mayday! The Peggle Institute has been invaded by a host of other-worldly creatures. It's up to you, Peggle Master, to report to duty and shoot and bounce the critters to oblivion. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from The Orange Box!
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: game mode.
Released 17 years after Columns.
✓ Like Columns, it's known for puzzle design, vibe casual and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and melee combat, while skipping offline
Where it drifts furthest from Columns: visuals and game mode.
Released 29 years after Columns.
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