Puppy Cross similar games & best alternatives

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Puppy Cross

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

Nonograms and cute dogs, welcome to Puppy Cross!

What works

  • Cute and charming dog theme
  • Progressive and accessible puzzle difficulty
  • Relaxing music and sound design
  • Garden customization and petting dogs
  • Random mode for extended replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Linear progression with forced puzzle order
  • Lack of deeper interaction with dogs and garden
  • Somewhat short base content
  • Slow and unskippable animations
  • Limited challenge for experienced picross players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • URBO

  • Ouros

  • Strata

  • hocus

  • Voxelgram

  • The Artisan of Glimmith

Less expressive

Games that feels like Puppy Cross but with less self-expression and customization

  • Mars Power Industries Deluxe

  • SiNKR 2

  • Delete

  • Pixel Puzzles 2: Birds

  • Hade

  • Pixel Puzzles 2: Space

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Puppy Cross. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Puppy Cross. These titles are not in What to play next.

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

Last update: 21/08/2026