Games Like 1-DC

Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Why similar: Programming 63.3% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 8%, Level Editor 7.9%

Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.

Why similar: Programming 69.8% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Minimalist 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%

OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.

Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Level Editor 8.3%

A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.

Why similar: Programming 62.2% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 7.1%, 2D 2.2%

Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.

Why similar: Programming 77.1% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Simulation 9.4%

TurtleCAD 3D is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to pilot a sea turtle to create 3D polygonal graphics. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Why similar: Programming 61.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Puzzle 8.8%, Level Editor 4.3%

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Why similar: Programming 86.1% ★, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 4.4%, Psychological Horror 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.

Why similar: Programming 54.4% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Level Editor 10.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Minimalist 9.8%

Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.

Why similar: Programming 76% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.

Why similar: Programming 66% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Puzzle 5.4%, 2D 1.2%

Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Why similar: Programming 83.6% ★, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Why similar: Programming 82.3% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%

A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.

Why similar: Programming 58.7% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Puzzle 10.6%, Minimalist 7.7%, Simulation 7%

Step into a time portal to 1993. While your friends are battling it out in the latest FPS adventures, you got the opportunity to learn the newest trend, programming. Turn on your CRT monitor and learn to write code, compete with others in challenges or write minigames.

Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 9.8%, 2D 2%

An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.

Why similar: Programming 61.5% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Puzzle 8.7%, Dark 4.6%

A single-player business simulation about running a technology company. You act as its CEO, CTO, and CFO at the same time: building products, managing staff and finances, going public, and competing with rival firms.

Why similar: Programming 59.9% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Minimalist 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.

Why similar: Programming 76.5% ★, Puzzle 11.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.

Why similar: Programming 74.8% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.

Why similar: Programming 62.9% ★, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 13.5%, Puzzle 8.6%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 84% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?

Why similar: Programming 85.2% ★, Puzzle 14.8%

The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?

Why similar: Programming 83.6% ★, Puzzle 13.6%, Simulation 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.

Why similar: Programming 76.7% ★, Simulation 14.5%, Puzzle 8.8%

A playing-card-themed logic puzzle game where you assemble code to generate patterns using loops and conditionals. From simple rows to complex nested-loop challenges, master the logic and try to complete this visually satisfying puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.

Why similar: Programming 80.2% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Minimalist 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%

ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.

Why similar: Programming 55.9% ★, Level Editor 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 8.3%

If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.

Why similar: Programming 75.4% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Puzzle 9.1%, 2D 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!

Why similar: Programming 61.8% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Minimalist 6.3%

Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.

Why similar: Programming 88.2% ★, Puzzle 11.8%

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Programming 72.9% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Sandbox 3.7%, 2D 0.6%

An open-ended programming game in which you optimise 4-core assembly code to maintain a 1990s alt-history dystopian megacity's infrastructure. Take jobs from middlemen with hidden agendas and uncover the chilling consequences of your "routine" fixes in this assembly language puzzle thriller.

Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Puzzle 12.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Minimalist 6.6%, Psychological Horror 2.9%

Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.

Why similar: Programming 84% ★, Puzzle 13.4%, 2D 2.6%

Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.

Why similar: Programming 76.5% ★, Puzzle 13%, Simulation 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Ket's Quantum Oracle is a programming puzzle game built around quantum computation. Help engineer Ket, stranded in the ruins of a distant future, repair the quantum gateway, solve its challenges, and uncover the secrets of a broken future.

Why similar: Programming 57.5% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Simulation 14.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%

VELONE is a creative automation game in which you assemble and program mechanisms to solve logic puzzles. Both relaxing and highly replayable, you save the planet VELONE by creating automated constructs that move and assemble according to your masterplan.

Why similar: Programming 62.7% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%, Simulation 5.5%

A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.

Why similar: Programming 68.9% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Minimalist 7.9%, 2D 2%

A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.

Why similar: Programming 71.5% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 13.1%, 2D 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.

Why similar: Programming 62.3% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Puzzle 11.1%, Level Editor 8.8%, 2D 1.5%

An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.

Why similar: Programming 65.3% ★, Simulation 14%, Sandbox 11.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Program potato workers to process numbers with simple punch-in instructions at a factory that mimics a processor. Optimize solutions to solve challenging open-ended puzzles. Punch, observe, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Programming 73% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 7.4%, Level Editor 7%, 2D 1%

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Programming 69.4% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Puzzle 14.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Drag nodes, code logic, build voxels! A node-programming puzzle game. Receive task emails, write programs with visual nodes, build 3D voxel worlds, and even make a complete game with nodes.

Why similar: Programming 76.9% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Puzzle 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Write Python-style code to program repair patchers and rescue a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector. Start with four commands; every file you restore unlocks loops, variables, functions and lists, until your programs bring all 1,474,560 bytes back to life. The whole game fits on one floppy.

Why similar: Programming 62% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 9.3%, Minimalist 6.3%, Atmospheric 3.3%

U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.

Why similar: Programming 76.9% ★, Puzzle 10.7%, Minimalist 5.8%, Simulation 3.7%, 2D 1.7%

Solve spreadsheet-based puzzles and handle crazy coworkers in a normal day's work at VeriData Inc.

Why similar: Programming 66.4% ★, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Minimalist 6.3%, Atmospheric 3.1%

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Why similar: Programming 72.4% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Puzzle 10.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%

A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.

Why similar: Programming 73.3% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Simulation 4%, Minimalist 3.6%

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Programming 60.5% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Puzzle 14.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Develop magical programming abilities while building spells. Lambda Spellcrafting Academy is a card-based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. If you've ever wanted to dabble in spellcraft (programming) here is a fun way to get started.

Why similar: Programming 63.5% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Minimalist 5.2%, Simulation 3.7%

CHAQS 44 is a system simulation game that encourages players to explore, learn, and experiment. It offers a wide range of realistic tools and environments designed to test understanding and curiosity.

Why similar: Programming 66.3% ★, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 15.6%, 2D 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Why similar: Programming 79.4% ★, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 5.7%, Sandbox 4.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Bad Data is a puzzle game set in a simulated OS environment and gamified spreadsheet program. Figure out the rules of each cell and mark the bad ones as Bad Data. Create your own levels in the level editor as well as create your own Custom Rules in the rule designer.

Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Level Editor 24.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Simulation 13.9%, 2D 2.7%

DA-VI-NC1 is a Turing-machine-based coding puzzle game. You must complete the puzzles, pass the Turing test, and discover the philosophical world of DA-VI-NC1 with the Mona Lisa.

Why similar: Programming 77.6% ★, Simulation 10.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

A pulse crosses one cell per tick — the longer way arrives later. From that one rule you build machines out of light: lay conduits, split colours, hit the beat. Quiet, untimed, free.

Why similar: Programming 32% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Minimalist 8%

From collecting buttons to solving tangled mazes, automate KnotBot on a quest of handcrafted puzzles. Solve the problems your own way, it's simple to understand but still deep and challenging.

Why similar: Programming 61.3% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Puzzle 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.

Why similar: Programming 78.2% ★, Puzzle 17.2%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Genesis Factory is a factory-building automation sim where you program your workers. Mine, cut, pump, and forge raw materials, then code workers with a visual flowchart to gather, carry, produce, and stockpile. Research blueprints, logistics, and drones to grow a self-running empire.

Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Sandbox 22.2%, Simulation 19.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, 2D 2.1%

Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.

Why similar: Programming 60.6% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Level Editor 10.3%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 6.1%

A creative marble physics sandbox. Place blocks on an infinite grid to build anything you can imagine: marble runs, functional calculators, precision platformer courses, playable minigames, pinball machines, automated music tracks, and more.

Why similar: Programming 37.3% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Level Editor 19.3%, Minimalist 8.7%, Simulation 7%

RAX is a puzzle sandbox about light paths, logic, and modular construction. Place and rotate optical components to control the direction, color, and timing of light, activate targets, and package complex circuits into reusable blueprint chips.

Why similar: Programming 63.4% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Minimalist 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes. If you think you're smart enough, give this puzzle a try.

Why similar: Programming 60.9% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 7%, Minimalist 5.6%