World of Goo 2 is an absolute blast and the only game we can offer that exactly delivers the same experience as its predecessor, but if you don’t mind accepting some changes here and there, then you are in for a treat.
While there are hundreds of puzzle games to play, here you will find the ones that are pretty close to World of Goo 2, be it a similarity based on visuals, gameplay, puzzle style, or even storytelling.
Little Inferno
Same Universe And Visuals But A Different Approach
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Wii U, PC, and Mobile
While it is set in the same universe as World of Goo, Little Inferno might not be as puzzle-heavy. This is a rather relaxing game with a deeper story to tell, but there are still hidden things to discover with your curiosity.
Little Inferno is all about buying stuff and burning it at your home’s fireplace to generate heat while making progress in a story that is arguably the best among all the games published by Tomorrow Corporation.
So if you would rather give a break to your brain then Little Inferno is the way to go.
Viewfinder
Fill In The Gap With Pictures
- Platforms: PS4, PS5, and PC
The only 3D game on the list and one of the best puzzle games of recent years is Viewfinder. The game simply tasks players with fitting 2D photographs in a 3D space and creating a path for themselves to continue their journey.
This is a simple game about perspective and common optical illusions that will challenge the player to find the best angle for the pictures and then expand them into a real, three-dimensional world.
While players try to fit the images in the 3D world, they can also move back and forth between the original realm and the picture’s realm, which gives more depth to the gameplay mechanics.
Botanicula
Help The Crew To Reach Their Destination
- Platforms: PC and Mobile
Botanicula is a journey about friendship with cute, little protagonists and minimal platformer puzzles. The game might not be as difficult as World of Goo 2, but it has a deeper story to tell.
Each hero in Botanicula comes with a special ability and players will have to use those abilities where they see fit to solve the puzzles, beat the enemies, collect the items, and also find some easter eggs in case they want to complete all the achievements.
The variety of puzzles in Botanicula is acceptable but the game is a brief journey overall and can be completed within a few hours.
Splitter Critters
Split The World To Save The Critters
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mobile
Splitter Critters offers a pretty simple but unique mechanic to players to let them solve the puzzles. All you get in this game is the ability to split the game’s world with different angles in multiple attempts to help the little creatures find their way forward and avoid traps and hostile creatures.
That might not seem too puzzle-heavy, but you may sink in hours in some missions to finally find the way out of a fully trapped room. So, everyone looking for a challenging puzzle game should give this hidden gem a try.
Bad Piggies
Build The Best Machine For Piggy Transfer
- Platforms: PC and Mobile
Gamers often remember Rovio with their dozens of Angry Birds iterations, but Bad Piggies was arguably one of the best games ever developed by the Finnish studio.
Bad Piggies is like a compact version of the Kerbal Space Program, but with objective-based missions that encourage players to think and build the necessary mission. Every level in Bad Piggies gives you a number of equipment to build a machine and transfer a piggy (or multiple piggies) from one point to another.
As players make progress, they unlock access to new machine parts, and then the sky is the limit for creativity. You may create a machine that gets the job done, but can you also build one that completes all the side objectives too?
Bridge Constructor Portal
Make Bridges And Test Them
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Mobile
If you like World of Goo 2 because of its bridge-building mechanics, then Valve already has one of the most challenging bridge-builder games to offer.
Bridge Constructor Portal is a game from the Portal universe with the same portals to transfer humans from one point to another, but the difference is that lift trucks should pass through them this time around.
Mind the resources you have, take the weight of the vehicles into account, and build sturdy bridges to connect the entry point to the exit without risking the lives of drivers!
Contre Jour
Puzzling With World Of Goo Physics
- Platform: Mobile
Contre Jour is the closest game to World of Goo 2 when it comes to physics. However, instead of making bridges with tens of moist balls, players follow the story of a single Goo-like creature.
In Contre Jour, players should help the protagonist find its way forward by connecting itself to the hanging ropes and other mechanisms available in the environment.
Contre Jour is more about platformer puzzles with aesthetics and physics heavily inspired by the World of Goo series.
Braid
Fix The Timeline
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Netflix Mobile
For those looking for a real mind-boggling challenge, Braid delivers overly complicated time puzzles, where players need to match their moves with the time’s flow to solve each puzzle.
Braid, by far, features the most difficult puzzles in the games on this list. Prepare yourself for spending hours and hours on a single mission to finally find the right time flow and movement order.
Players must think outside the box to find the solution to difficult puzzles, but that’s not all. For completionists, Braid could be a game that could take weeks or even months to complete.
Human Resource Machine
Automating The Office Workers
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mobile
Coming from Tomorrow Corporation and set in the same universe as World of Goo, Human Resource Machine is a game about programming and coding, but it doesn’t require any prior knowledge.
The player’s main duty in Human Resource Machine is to automate workers of an office to speed up the workflow, but it all depends on solving some programming-based math puzzles that could be quite challenging at some points.
Human Resource Machine comes with the same visuals and aesthetics as World of Goo, though the gameplay could be quite different.
7 Billion Humans
Program And Optimize An Entire Office
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mobile
As a sequel to Human Resource Machine, 7 Billion Humans takes the same idea and cranks it up to eleven! Expect even harder puzzles to solve as you are now tasked with automating a massive amount of workers instead of a handful.
7 Billion Humans comes with a new programming language that is suitable for the new, harder challenges, but it also features a skip button for lazy players who get tired of trying pretty soon.
The game has many more levels than Human Resource Machine, which will entertain you for a longer period.
