Games Like Quordle
Quick Answer
The closest games to Quordle are Wordle, Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered, Hexcells Infinite, Baba Is You and Mini Metro. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Quordle, and what does not.
What Made Quordle Work
Quordle takes Wordle's rules and adds a juggling act: four hidden words share every guess, so the skill is choosing one word that does useful work on all four boards at once. Fans of it like planning several moves ahead and keeping many constraints in their head together — the picks below reward exactly that, with words, numbers or whole puzzle systems.
Quordle was made by Freddie Meyer and launched in the browser in January 2022, a few months after Wordle went viral. You get nine guesses to find four five-letter words; it is free and needs no account.
9 Games Like Quordle
1.Wordle(2021)
One board instead of four: a quick warm-up, and the place to practise strong opening words.
Why it fits: Josh Wardle, 2021 on the web: the game Quordle was built on, now published daily by The New York Times.
Where to play it: Web browser, NYT Games app
Games like this →2.Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered(2015)
Spending a strong letter now or saving it for the next fight is a Quordle-style trade-off.
Why it fits: Bacon Bandit Games, 2015 on PC: a word-spelling RPG where tiles and power-ups carry over between turns.
Where to play it: PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
More about this game →3.Hexcells Infinite(2014)
Every cell you reveal changes what you know about all its neighbours.
Why it fits: Matthew Brown, 2014 on PC: the third Hexcells game, with generated puzzles so the boards never run out.
Where to play it: PC
More about this game →4.Baba Is You(2019)
Changing one rule changes the whole level, so you think about everything at once.
Why it fits: Arvi Teikari (Hempuli), 2019 on PC and Switch: push word blocks to rewrite the level's rules.
Where to play it: PC, Switch, iOS, Android
More about this game →5.Mini Metro(2015)
Several lines, a few trains and one decision that has to help the whole map.
Why it fits: Dinosaur Polo Club, 2015 on PC: draw a subway system for a growing city with limited resources.
Where to play it: PC, Switch, PS4, iOS, Android
More about this game →6.Nonogram - Master's Legacy(2018)
Row and column clues only work together, the closest feel to four boards sharing a guess.
Why it fits: Released on Steam in 2018 as a free nonogram collection: numbered grids that draw a picture.
Where to play it: PC
More about this game →7.Tetris Effect: Connected(2020)
The multitasking without the words: plan the next pieces while the board fills.
Why it fits: Monstars and Resonair, 2020 on Xbox and PC: Tetris Effect with co-op and versus modes added.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch
More about this game →8.Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure(2013)
Word play with a story: type the right object or hero to get out of trouble.
Why it fits: 5th Cell, 2013 on Wii U, 3DS and PC: Scribblenauts' noun-and-adjective puzzles set in the DC universe.
Where to play it: PC
More about this game →9.Puzzle Agent(2010)
A short mystery made of logic puzzles, finished in one evening.
Why it fits: Telltale Games, 2010 on PC and iPad: logic and word puzzles told as a small-town detective story.
Where to play it: PC, iOS
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Where to Start
Start with Wordle itself if you have never played it, then Hexcells Infinite for the closest feel to working four boards at once. Mini Metro is the pick if you want the same planning without letters.
How We Picked These Games
Each pick asks you to satisfy several constraints with one decision — four boards, many rows and columns, several metro lines — or to plan word choices for later turns. Single-solution trivia and pure reflex games were left out.
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Games Like Quordle Compared
Year is each game's first release anywhere, on the platform in the next column. "Play it now" is where it can be bought or played today.
| Game | Year | First released on | Play it now | Closest to Quordle in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wordle | 2021 | Web | Web browser, NYT Games app | The single-board original |
| Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered | 2015 | PC | PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One | Planning letters across turns |
| Hexcells Infinite | 2014 | PC | PC | Every clue affects its neighbours |
| Baba Is You | 2019 | PC, Switch | PC, Switch, iOS, Android | One change ripples through the level |
| Mini Metro | 2015 | PC | PC, Switch, PS4, iOS, Android | One decision serving several lines |
| Nonogram - Master's Legacy | 2018 | PC | PC | Rows and columns that only work together |
| Tetris Effect: Connected | 2020 | Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch | Thinking several pieces ahead |
| Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure | 2013 | Wii U, 3DS, PC | PC | The right word solves it |
| Puzzle Agent | 2010 | PC, iPad | PC, iOS | Logic puzzles in an evening |
Which One to Play, by What You Liked
If you liked Quordle for the word guessing, try Wordle, Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered and Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure. Three ways to keep words at the centre: the daily original, a spelling RPG, and a sandbox where nouns become objects.
If you liked Quordle for juggling four boards at once, try Hexcells Infinite and Nonogram - Master's Legacy. Both are about clues that only make sense together, the same habit that solves a Quordle in seven.
If you liked Quordle for planning one move that helps everything, try Mini Metro, Tetris Effect: Connected and Baba Is You. No letters, but the same thinking: each move has to serve the whole board, not just the next turn.
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