60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.
The whole game fits on one floppy disk. Write Python-style code to program repair patchers, reclaim a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector, and watch your programs bring 1,474,560 bytes back to life. Automation, unlocks, chiptunes — every byte hand-counted.
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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!
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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.
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 39.8% ★, Automation 23.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Education 8.6%, Simulation 5.8%
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 47.2% ★, Automation 25%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Education 5.6%
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Why similar: Programming 53.5% ★, Automation 32.9%, Education 6%, Strategy 3.4%, Relaxing 2.4%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 45.3% ★, Automation 23.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Education 7.2%, Sandbox 6.3%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 29.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Relaxing 5.1%, Simulation 4.3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.8% ★, Automation 25.5%, Education 4.8%, Simulation 4.1%, Sandbox 2.7%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Automation 24.9%, Education 6.4%, Minimalist 5.6%, Text-Based 5.6%
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Education 8.4%, Retro 7.7%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Automation 26%, Sandbox 12.6%, Education 11%, Simulation 4.1%
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 49.7% ★, Automation 32.3%, Simulation 7.3%, Minimalist 7.3%, 2D 2.1%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 25.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Education 8.2%, Simulation 6.6%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Programming 35% ★, Automation 21.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Education 9.4%, Minimalist 6.6%
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 54.6% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Automation 5%
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 54% ★, Automation 34.2%, Simulation 6.1%, Sandbox 3.3%, Indie 1%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Automation 23.3%, Education 8.2%, Sandbox 6%, Text-Based 5.1%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 25.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Education 7.7%, Simulation 7.2%
Program robots in Python to collect resources scattered across each planet, dodging hazards along the way. Sharpen your problem-solving and coding skills. No experience needed — just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 41.7% ★, Automation 26.7%, Education 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 4.8%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Programming 42.9% ★, Automation 22.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Education 8.4%, Simulation 5.7%
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Automation 29.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 4.2%, Management 3.3%
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Automation 20.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Minimalist 10.4%, Text-Based 8.8%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.
Why similar: Programming 54.8% ★, Automation 25%, Education 13%, Text-Based 4.8%, Indie 1.4%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 39.1% ★, Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Education 8.9%, Simulation 7.4%
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 64.7% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Retro 5.6%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 48.6% ★, Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Minimalist 8.1%, Simulation 6.6%
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Why similar: Programming 43.7% ★, Automation 24.6%, Education 8.4%, Retro 6.4%, Simulation 6%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 45.6% ★, Automation 34.3%, Simulation 14.9%, 2D 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 68.9% ★, Automation 13.6%, Education 8.8%, Simulation 4.7%, Sandbox 2.1%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Automation 31.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Management 2.5%
DumbBots: Hello World is the FREE introduction to the world of coding a DumbBot. Learn a new skill in 2020, and pickup the basics of coding with drag-and-drop ease in a fun setting. Or show your coding mettle by competing with other DumbBots.
Why similar: Programming 42.4% ★, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Education 11.9%, Simulation 8.7%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Automation 30%, Simulation 6.2%, Sandbox 3.9%, Management 3.8%
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 44.5% ★, Automation 32.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Singleplayer 1%
The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Automation 26.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Retro 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 27%, Education 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 5.1%
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 43.7% ★, Automation 19.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Education 8.9%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 46.9% ★, Automation 36.7%, Minimalist 8.3%, Simulation 4.7%, 2D 2%
Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation. Connect nodes to build custom algorithms and route endless passenger waves. Clear strict wait time and power targets to upgrade your system. If floors overflow, your hack is detected—game over!
Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Automation 31.4%, Minimalist 7.5%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 3.5%
A programming puzzle game where you never steer. Wire blocks into a graph, give your snake sensors, memory, and a processor — then press play and watch it run exactly what you wrote. 100 levels, from two blocks to blind counting in the dark.
Why similar: Programming 35.1% ★, Automation 18.1%, Minimalist 10.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Retro 7.3%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 46.5% ★, Automation 27.2%, Education 10.2%, Text-Based 7.5%, Simulation 5.5%
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Why similar: Programming 57.5% ★, Automation 23.6%, Text-Based 6.2%, Sandbox 3.9%, Simulation 3.6%
Tapeheads is an atmospheric retro-futuristic simulation. Use a one-of-a-kind computer and its unusual programming language to solve puzzles about manipulating data.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 22.5%, Retro 7.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Education 7.2%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 40.1% ★, Automation 27%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 5.8%, Management 4.5%
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
Why similar: Programming 44.3% ★, Automation 30.6%, Simulation 7.2%, Retro 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Automation 32%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 3.2%, 2D 2.4%
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 70.3% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Education 4.4%, Indie 1.3%
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Automation 31.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Education 5.3%, Simulation 4.2%
Edd-E is a pixel-art game maker with custom visual scripting and publishing platform. Create games and Publish them with just one click. Play games from other creators or edit them. Learn programming and game development!
Why similar: Programming 26.5% ★, Automation 24%, Sandbox 17.3%, Education 11.5%, Simulation 9.4%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Programming 32.7% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 5.9%, Minimalist 3.9%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 37.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, Strategy 4.7%, 2D 1.6%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Automation 30.1%, Simulation 8%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Mnemonimov is a fantasy console where you program in ASSEMBLY like in the 80s. Build anything from games to operating systems and understand how computers work at a low level.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 23.2%, Education 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Retro 5.7%
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!
Why similar: Programming 49.1% ★, Automation 31%, Simulation 10.1%, Education 8.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Automation 29.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Management 5.5%
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Why similar: Programming 47.8% ★, Automation 28.8%, Education 6.9%, Text-Based 6.6%, Minimalist 4.6%
[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!
Why similar: Programming 49.3% ★, Automation 37.2%, Minimalist 9.6%, 2D 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 69.2% ★, Simulation 14%, Minimalist 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Programming 28.1% ★, Education 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 6.2%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 48.2% ★, Automation 23.8%, Sandbox 7.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Education 5.1%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Education 8%, Simulation 7.3%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, Automation 26.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Education 9.2%, Management 4%
