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Pips

Web browser, Android, iOS • 2025

Should you play it?

What works

  • Accessible yet challenging logic puzzles
  • Clean, minimalist design and controls
  • Daily puzzles with multiple difficulty levels
  • Relaxing and mentally stimulating gameplay
  • Community sharing and unlimited puzzle modes

Things to keep in mind

  • Frustration with tile rotation and interface quirks
  • Lack of competitive or cooperative multiplayer
  • No narrative or expressive customization
  • Hard puzzles can be overly challenging or tedious
  • Limited social interaction and status features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Delete

  • OXXO

  • Everyday Genius: SquareLogic

  • Hexologic

  • Akin

  • klocki

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Pips but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • Zen of Sudoku

  • Wayout 2: Hex

  • Hexcells Plus

  • Wayout

  • Up Left Out

  • Logic Bombs

Less thrilling

Games that feels like Pips but with less suspense and thrill

  • Linelith

  • Hook 2

  • Taiji

  • LIT: Bend the Light

  • 20 Small Mazes

  • PUSH

More expressive

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

  • Nonogram - The Greatest Painter

  • Bento Blocks

  • Unium

  • Ouros

  • Yugo Puzzle

  • PEG

More fantastical

Games that feels like Pips but with more imaginative fiction

  • Snakebird

  • Cosmic Express

  • Tricky Doors

  • Disoriented

  • English Country Tune

  • Sensorium

Choose your own criteria ->

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).

Pips: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Story, Violence, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Fantasy, Expression.

Last update: 05/08/2026