Games Like Lemmings
Quick Answer
The closest games to Lemmings are Lemmings (2006), Pikmin 4, The Incredible Machine, ChuChu Rocket and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Below are 10 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Lemmings, and what does not.
What Made Lemmings Work
Lemmings gives you a stream of creatures walking off a cliff and a fixed set of jobs to hand out — digger, blocker, builder, climber — with no way to steer any of them directly. The puzzle is entirely about where you spend a limited number of roles, and the pressure comes from the fact that the walking never stops. It is a real-time puzzle game that predates the genre having a name.
10 Games Like Lemmings
1.Lemmings (2006)
The PSP remake, and the cleanest way to play the original levels today.
Games like this →2.Pikmin 4
The idea grown up: a crowd you direct rather than assign, with jobs by colour.
Games like this →3.The Incredible Machine
The other great indirect-control puzzler — build the contraption, then watch it fail.
More about this game →4.ChuChu Rocket
Arrows on a grid, mice that never stop moving. The same panic in miniature.
Games like this →5.Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Hand out orders to a line of wind-up toys and hope the line survives.
More about this game →6.Bridge Constructor
Physics puzzles where you design the solution and then watch it hold or not.
More about this game →7.Humanity
A modern crowd-routing puzzler, and the closest thing to Lemmings anyone has made in years.
More about this game →8.Tetris
If the appeal was the pressure of something arriving whether you are ready or not.
Games like this →10.Populous
The other Bullfrog classic where you shape the world instead of the people in it.
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How These Picks Match Lemmings
Lemmings is catalogued here as a puzzle game among PC and multi-platform games. All ten picks share at least one of its genre tags — seven puzzle games and six strategy games among them.
Two of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the Sega Dreamcast and the Nintendo Game Boy. Bridge Constructor and Humanity are from small or self-published studios. Pikmin 4, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Tetris and Worms are the ones a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Lemmings |
|---|---|---|
| Lemmings (2006) | Puzzle, Strategy, Casual | Puzzle, Strategy |
| Pikmin 4 | Strategy, Adventure, Family | Strategy |
| The Incredible Machine | Puzzle, Simulation, Casual | Puzzle |
| ChuChu Rocket | Puzzle, Strategy, Casual, Arcade | Puzzle, Strategy |
| Mario vs. Donkey Kong | Puzzle, Platformer, Family | Puzzle |
| Bridge Constructor | Puzzle, Simulation, Casual, Indie | Puzzle |
| Humanity | Puzzle, Strategy, Indie | Puzzle, Strategy |
| Tetris | Puzzle, Arcade, Casual, Family | Puzzle |
| Worms | Strategy, Arcade, Family | Strategy |
| Populous | Strategy, Simulation | Strategy |
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