Hue similar games & best alternatives

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Hue

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

What works

  • Unique and creative color-based puzzle mechanics
  • Beautiful art style and vivid colors
  • Calming and well-composed soundtrack
  • Well-balanced puzzle difficulty progression
  • Accessible controls with colorblind mode

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some backtracking required for collectibles
  • Lack of mid-level saves can be frustrating
  • Story is minimal and sometimes weak
  • Platforming sections can be challenging and cause frustration

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Soulless: Ray Of Hope

  • ANIMAL WELL

  • Semblance

  • Knytt Underground

  • Chronoquartz

  • Ittle Dew

More intense

Games that feels like Hue but with a more intense feel

  • Ministry of Broadcast

  • Recursed

  • Ugly

  • VVVVVV

  • Teslagrad Remastered

  • Gateways

More expressive

Games that feels like Hue but with more self-expression and customization

  • Treasure Adventure World

  • Blocks That Matter

  • Moonleap

  • ElecHead

  • FEZ

  • Chicken Journey

More violent

Games that feels like Hue but with more combat and destruction

  • Squishy the Suicidal Pig

  • Environmental Station Alpha

  • Hellevator

  • Adventures of Pip

  • Minit

  • Alwa's Awakening

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Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Hue: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026