Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Peggle (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Peggle on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Zuma, which both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult.
- Peggle is tagged Casual, Puzzle, Arcade, Singleplayer, Addictive, 2D, Physics, Family Friendly by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Zuma
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 11 player tags including Puzzle, Arcade and 2D; released around the same time (2003).
Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.
Zuma at a glance Released 2003 Studio Oberon Media Player sentiment 96% positive of 6,806 Price $4.99 PuzzleArcade2DStrategyFunnyCasualFamily FriendlyClassic
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World of Goo
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Puzzle, Physics and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2008).
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
World of Goo at a glance Released 2008 Studio 2D Boy Player sentiment 94% positive of 6,589 Price $14.99 PuzzlePhysicsGreat SoundtrackCasual2DFunnyClassicDifficult
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Bejeweled 3
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Puzzle, Casual and Strategy; released around the same time (2010).
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bejeweled 3 at a glance Released 2010 Studio PopCap Games, Inc. Player sentiment 96% positive of 8,122 Price $4.99 PuzzleCasualStrategyAddictiveRelaxingClassicGreat SoundtrackFamily Friendly
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Mini Metro
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Puzzle and Casual.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Mini Metro at a glance Released 2015 Studio Dinosaur Polo Club Player sentiment 96% positive of 16,729 Price $9.99 StrategyPuzzleCasualRelaxing2DMouse onlyDifficultGreat Soundtrack
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and relaxing; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Casual and Classic; released around the same time (2009).
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at a glance Released 2009 Studio PopCap Games, Inc. Player sentiment 98% positive of 155,468 Price $4.99 StrategyCasualClassicGreat Soundtrack2DFamily FriendlyFunnyPuzzle
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Braid
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Puzzle, 2D and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2008).
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Braid at a glance Released 2008 Studio Jonathan Blow Player sentiment 93% positive of 9,957 Price $14.99 Puzzle2DGreat SoundtrackDifficultCasualClassicStrategy
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Local Multiplayer, Puzzle and Local Co-Op.
Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes at a glance Released 2015 Studio Steel Crate Games Player sentiment 97% positive of 17,112 Price $14.99 Local MultiplayerPuzzleLocal Co-OpCasualDifficultFamily FriendlyFunnyStrategy
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SpaceChem
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Puzzle, Difficult and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2011).
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
SpaceChem at a glance Released 2011 Studio Zachtronics Player sentiment 92% positive of 5,085 Price $9.99 PuzzleDifficultGreat Soundtrack2DCasualAddictiveStrategy
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Tricky Towers
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and relaxing; shares 9 player tags including Puzzle, Physics and Casual.
With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.
Tricky Towers at a glance Released 2016 Studio WeirdBeard Player sentiment 90% positive of 16,486 Price $14.99 PuzzlePhysicsCasualFunnyFamily FriendlyArcadeLocal MultiplayerLocal Co-Op
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ibb & obb
Why it matched: both puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Puzzle, Local Co-Op and 2D.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
ibb & obb at a glance Released 2014 Studio Sparpweed Player sentiment 89% positive of 6,830 Price $11.99 PuzzleLocal Co-Op2DFamily FriendlyDifficultGreat SoundtrackCasualLocal Multiplayer
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Puyo PuyoTetris
Why it matched: both puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Puzzle, Casual and Local Multiplayer.
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris® and SEGA’s famous Puyo Puyo™ combine in a super mash-up of ferocious competition, adorable looks, and addictive puzzle fun!
Puyo PuyoTetris at a glance Released 2018 Studio Sonic Team Player sentiment 85% positive of 5,571 Price $19.99 PuzzleCasualLocal MultiplayerArcadeGreat Soundtrack2DClassicDifficult
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Reus
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and relaxing; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Casual and Puzzle.
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
Reus at a glance Released 2013 Studio Abbey Games Player sentiment 78% positive of 5,991 Price $9.99 StrategyCasualPuzzle2DRelaxingAddictiveFamily FriendlyGreat Soundtrack
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Neighbours from Hell
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and relaxing; shares 8 player tags including Casual, Classic and Funny; released around the same time (2003).
INTRODUCING THE GAME OF NEIGHBOURHOOD NASTINESS AND COMMUNITY COMMOTION! Living next door to you is a real Neighbour From Hell and it's now time to have your revenge! This compilation includes the original Neighbours From Hell and it's sequel Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation.
Neighbours from Hell at a glance Released 2003 Studio JoWooD Entertainment Player sentiment 98% positive of 3,150 Price Not listed CasualClassicFunnyPuzzleStrategyGreat Soundtrack2DArcade
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Baba Is You
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Puzzle, Difficult and 2D.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Baba Is You at a glance Released 2019 Studio Hempuli Oy Player sentiment 98% positive of 24,536 Price $14.99 PuzzleDifficult2DGreat SoundtrackCasualStrategyFunny
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Papers, Please
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Puzzle, 2D and Addictive.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Papers, Please at a glance Released 2013 Studio Lucas Pope Player sentiment 97% positive of 80,337 Price $9.99 Puzzle2DAddictiveGreat SoundtrackStrategyCasualDifficult
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Bloons TD 6
Why it matched: both strategy, relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Family Friendly and Casual.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Bloons TD 6 at a glance Released 2018 Studio Ninja Kiwi Player sentiment 97% positive of 394,354 Price $13.99 StrategyFamily FriendlyCasual2DGreat SoundtrackDifficultFunnyAddictive
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Geometry Dash
Why it matched: both strategy, relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Difficult, Great Soundtrack and 2D.
Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
Geometry Dash at a glance Released 2013 Studio RobTop Games Player sentiment 93% positive of 637,714 Price $4.99 DifficultGreat Soundtrack2DArcadeFamily FriendlyFunnyCasualStrategy
- 18
Golf With Your Friends
Why it matched: both strategy, relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Casual, Funny and Family Friendly.
Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!
Golf With Your Friends at a glance Released 2020 Studio Blacklight Interactive Player sentiment 87% positive of 75,430 Price $1.49 CasualFunnyFamily FriendlyPhysicsStrategyGreat SoundtrackLocal MultiplayerDifficult
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Defy Gravity Extended
Why it matched: both puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Puzzle, 2D and Difficult.
Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.
Defy Gravity Extended at a glance Released 2016 Studio Paul Fisch Player sentiment 86% positive of 8,531 Price $0.55 Puzzle2DDifficultCasualGreat SoundtrackPhysicsArcadeFunny
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Ikaruga
Why it matched: both puzzle and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Arcade, Classic and Great Soundtrack.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
Ikaruga at a glance Released 2001 Studio Treasure Player sentiment 95% positive of 2,364 Price $9.99 ArcadeClassicGreat SoundtrackDifficultLocal Co-OpAddictive2DLocal Multiplayer
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Why it matched: both puzzle and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Physics, Funny and Family Friendly.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
Octodad: Dadliest Catch at a glance Released 2014 Studio Young Horses Player sentiment 94% positive of 10,706 Price $5.09 PhysicsFunnyFamily FriendlyLocal Co-OpPuzzleDifficultAddictiveGreat Soundtrack
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The Legend of Bum-Bo
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Puzzle and Great Soundtrack.
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
The Legend of Bum-Bo at a glance Released 2019 Studio Edmund McMillen Player sentiment 81% positive of 5,934 Price $14.99 StrategyPuzzleGreat SoundtrackFunnyDifficultCasual
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Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Why it matched: both puzzle and relaxing; shares 8 player tags including Local Co-Op, Family Friendly and Funny; released around the same time (2007).
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga at a glance Released 2007 Studio Feral Interactive Player sentiment 97% positive of 25,467 Price $19.99 Local Co-OpFamily FriendlyFunnyClassicLocal MultiplayerGreat SoundtrackCasualPuzzle
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LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga
Why it matched: both puzzle and relaxing; shares 8 player tags including Local Co-Op, Family Friendly and Funny; released around the same time (2009).
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga at a glance Released 2009 Studio Traveller's Tales Player sentiment 97% positive of 25,469 Price $19.99 Local Co-OpFamily FriendlyFunnyClassicLocal MultiplayerGreat SoundtrackCasualPuzzle
Common questions
What game is most like Peggle?
Zuma, on the evidence we have. It both strategy, puzzle, relaxing and difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Peggle" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Peggle. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.