Games Like Where’s My Water? Dig, Draw and Pour Puzzles to Play Next

If you want more Where’s My Water?, the obvious next step is Where’s My Water? 2, still free on both stores, though Kongregate runs it now rather than Disney. For the same get-the-liquid-there feeling with a different verb, Sugar, Sugar (Bart Bonte) has you draw lines to steer falling sugar into cups, Happy Glass (Lion Studios) does the same with water and a glass, Sand Balls (SayGames) brings back the digging, and Pull the Pin (Popcore) swaps the dirt for pins. Cut the Rope is the cousin from the same era. If you would rather not install anything, Bath Time, our free browser game, is a dig-and-water puzzle with a corgi in the tub. And the original? As of 6 November 2026 it is still on the App Store and Google Play at $1.99, but its last update was in July 2023. Every pick below comes with its catch.

Where’s My Water? is still on sale, but has not been updated since 2023

If you assumed this one had gone, it has not. Disney’s App Store listing and Google Play listing were both live when we checked on 6 November 2026. It costs $1.99 on both, sells extra stories and level unlocks inside the game, and both listings say it carries ads. Both also date the last update to 6 July 2023, and the iOS version history before that is a row of “Minor bug fixes”. It still installs; it is just not getting anything new.

The sequel took a different road. Where’s My Water? 2 still carries a Disney copyright line, but both store listings now name Kongregate as the developer. Kongregate announced in November 2020 that it was taking over operation of the game from Disney, and it is the one shipping updates: the Google Play listing was updated on 10 August 2026.

What makes Where’s My Water? Where’s My Water?

Disney’s listing puts the job in one line: cut through dirt to guide water to Swampy’s broken shower. Under that are three things worth separating. You shape the ground with your finger. The liquid then finds its own way, so you are setting things up rather than steering. And there is a bonus route: three rubber ducks per level that only fill if the water takes the long way round. Later chapters add liquids that ruin each other, which turns routing into keeping things apart.

Most games that claim to be like it keep one of those halves. Some keep the digging and drop the liquid. Some keep the liquid and replace digging with drawing. A few keep the physics and drop both. The picks below say which half they kept.

How we chose

• Something has to flow or fall to a target. Water, sugar, sand or a candy on a rope, moved by gravity and not by you directly. That rules out Water Sort-style games: you pour, but it is a sorting puzzle with no routing.
• You change the level, the physics does the rest. Dig, draw, pull or cut, then watch. Lion Studios’ own Love Balls (draw lines so two balls meet) is the nearest miss; it has the drawing, but nothing pours.
• Still listed by its developer. ZeptoLab’s Pudding Monsters would have been here, but it is not on ZeptoLab’s games page and we found no App Store listing for it. The old fluidity HD on iOS has not been updated since 2017.
• A developer you can name. The pin-puzzle corner of the genre is crowded with lookalikes, so every pick names a studio you can check on the listing.
• One limitation each. Ours too.

Side by side

Where’s My Water? 2 is the most Where’s My Water you can still get

Kongregate (originally Disney). The listing promises what you would hope: “Cut through dirt, and guide fresh water, purple water, and steam to help Swampy and his friends”, with Swampy, Allie, Cranky and Mystery Duck all back. It claims “100+ levels and challenges” across three new locations, the Sewer, the Soap Factory and the Beach, plus Challenge Modes that replay levels with a twist and Duck Rush levels where you dig fast to grab as many ducks as you can. If you want the same game with more of it, stop reading here.

The limitation: this is the free-to-play version of the idea. The App Store lists in-app purchases including power-up bundles, a hint bundle, keychains and an “Energy Refill”, the listing says the boosts may need “small fees”, and Google Play marks it as containing ads. The original asked for $1.99 up front; the sequel asks for your patience instead.

Sugar, Sugar swaps the shovel for a pencil

Bart Bonte. Sugar trickles down the screen and you “draw with your finger on the screen to direct enough sugar in all the cups in each level”. There is no ground to change, so the whole puzzle is in what you draw. Later levels bring colour filters that tint the sugar for a matching cup, gravity switches and teleports, and the Google Play listing counts “120 levels and counting”. Thousands of grains trickle at once, which is the nearest thing on this list to watching water find its way in Where’s My Water?.

It is also the only third-party pick with a browser version that its developer points to: Bart Bonte’s own sugar, sugar page links an HTML5 conversion of the original on Poki.

The limitation: there is no digging, and the ground never changes. If the joy for you was carving tunnels, this is a different hobby. The app costs $2.49 (no ads or in-app purchases shown on either listing), the free spin-off sugar game has ads, and the Poki version is listed for desktop only, with ads on the page.

Happy Glass is the water half, drawn instead of dug

Lion Studios. The glass is empty and sad, and your job, in the listing’s words, is to “draw a line to make the glass filled up with liquid”. The listing encourages you to find your own solution rather than the intended one, and each level has three stars for doing it well. Where’s My Water? asks you to read a whole cross-section of ground; this one asks for a single well-placed line.

The limitation: ads and in-app purchases on both stores, and the App Store listing sells a subscription whose perks include removing non-rewarded ads and two free hints a day. A shop that sells hints by the day is worth knowing about before you get stuck.

Sand Balls brings back the digging

SayGames. The App Store calls it “Sand Balls - Digger Puzzle”, and that is the bit that matters here. You clear a path through sand so coloured balls can roll down into a truck, and the listing describes it as a tricky puzzle where you “put colorful balls into the truck”. Swap water for balls and the finger-through-dirt gesture is the same one Swampy taught you. Around the puzzles, the listing promises an island to rebuild.

The limitation: balls are not water. They roll, bounce and stop; they do not pool, spread or mix, and the listing mentions nothing like poison or ooze to keep apart. It has ads and in-app purchases, and the store updates are less frequent than the others here: the Google Play listing was last updated in October 2025.

Pull the Pin turns the dirt into a row of pins

Popcore. Pins stand between a pile of balls and a pipe, and “all balls have to go into the pipe”. Remove the pins in the right order and gravity does the rest. The twist from the listing: some balls start colourless and have to touch a coloured ball before they reach the pipe, so you are mixing as well as routing. It keeps the set-it-up-and-watch rhythm of Where’s My Water? with far less freedom: a pin is in or out.

The limitation: ads and in-app purchases, and a genre name nobody owns. More on that below, because the pin-puzzle shelf is where the copycats live.

Cut the Rope is the same era’s other physics hit

ZeptoLab. No water at all, but the same habit of mind: change one thing, let physics carry the payload, collect three stars on the way. You cut ropes so a sweet swings, floats or bounces into Om Nom’s mouth. The App Store listing counts 425 levels across 17 themed boxes, one of which is a Steam Box with valves, and says it plays offline. On Android, ZeptoLab says the ads can be switched off with a subscription, a special offer or Play Pass.

If you want the rope idea in a browser tab, Loot Drop is ours: swipe to cut the ropes holding a stolen diamond so it lands on a getaway van, through up to three coins, across 30 levels.

The limitation: it is a different verb. You time cuts rather than shape ground, so it scratches the physics itch more than the water one. It is free with ads and in-app purchases, and ZeptoLab sells several Cut the Rope games, so check which one you are installing.

Bath Time is our dig-and-water puzzle in the browser

Ours. Bath Time is the closest thing here to the original, and that is deliberate. Water sits in pockets underground and a bathtub waits at the bottom with Sir Wagsworth, our corgi, in it. Drag through the brown dirt to dig; grey rock does not dig, so the job is usually finding a way round it. A meter at the top fills as water reaches the tub. Three rubber ducks are buried in every level, water that flows over a duck fills it, and each full duck is a star.

The water is a particle simulation, up to 700 particles at once, so it splits, pools flat and spills over ledges by itself. The later levels bring the complications the genre is known for: purple poison that turns clean water into more poison, green ooze that eats dirt and cancels water out, heaters that turn water into steam, levers that open iron grates, pipes and bombs. Every one of the 30 levels is replayed by a script through the same simulation before release to check the tub and all three ducks can be filled. It runs on phones, tablets and computers, saves your stars in the browser, and has no ads and nothing to buy.

The limitation: 30 levels against the hundreds in Disney’s games, and no hint button or undo, just a one-line tip at the start of each level and a quick restart. Water that settles below the lever it needed will never climb back up, so you learn to restart early. And if you were hoping the Match Heist app is more of the same: it is a car-matching puzzle, not a physics game.

A warning about the names

Search “Save the Fish” or “Pull the Pin” and you get a car park of near-identical icons. The App Store alone has Save The Fish! Rescue Puzzle from H.A Mesiba Games, Save The Fish: Rescue Pull Pin from BULU APPS, Pull Pin - Home Escape from PIXON, Rescue Hero: Pull the Pin from Gamee and Pull The Pin 2026 from a solo developer, alongside Popcore’s game above. Some are pin puzzles with water or lava; some are something else wearing the name. Pin-puzzle naming has the originality of a pin number: four digits, mostly 1234.

So check the studio named under the title before you install: Popcore for the Pull the Pin in this post. The same check works for Where’s My Water? 2, which now says Kongregate rather than Disney; that one is genuine.

Picking one

• If you want more of the same game: Where’s My Water? 2, if you can live with the ads and the shop.
• If you want liquid physics without a free-to-play shop: Sugar, Sugar, the $2.49 app.
• If you want one-line puzzles for a bus stop: Happy Glass.
• If what you miss is the digging: Sand Balls, or Bath Time if you want the water back too.
• If you liked choosing the order of things: Pull the Pin.
• If you want the physics puzzle without the water: Cut the Rope, or Loot Drop in a browser tab.
• If you want dig-and-water free in a browser, no ads: Bath Time.

Work out which half you miss. Shaping the ground points to Sand Balls; watching a liquid find its own way points to Sugar, Sugar or Happy Glass; both at once leaves the sequel and Bath Time, the only two here that keep both. Bath Time is free in your browser, so finding out costs you one tab.