60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Education, Singleplayer, Puzzle.
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.
Human Resource Machine
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.
Finite State Automaton Challenges
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
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 63.6% ★, Education 13.9%, Automation 8.4%, Puzzle 7.2%, Indie 3.4%
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 55.9% ★, Automation 22.4%, Education 10.4%, Puzzle 7%, Casual 3.8%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Education 18.2%, Automation 13.5%, Text-Based 7.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 44.5% ★, Automation 17.5%, Typing 13.2% ★, Education 10.6%, Text-Based 6.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Automation 17.8%, Education 8.5%, Puzzle 5.3%, Indie 1.8%
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 70.4% ★, Education 11.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Automation 6%, Indie 3.5%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 62.7% ★, Education 20.9%, Automation 9.9%, Puzzle 6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 56.9% ★, Education 20.9%, Indie 9%, Puzzle 8.6%, Casual 3.5%
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 60.9% ★, Education 17.2%, Typing 10.2% ★, Puzzle 6%, Indie 5.8%
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 52.9% ★, Automation 17.6%, Education 16.4%, Text-Based 7.2%, Puzzle 4.7%
Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)
Why similar: Programming 54.4% ★, Education 27.1%, Text-Based 14.2%, Casual 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 59.7% ★, Automation 24.6%, Puzzle 11.2%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Send your Panda on an adventure and at the same time you'll learn how to code cool algorithms! Guide your Panda through colorful areas by using simple commands. Learn programming / STEM concepts like recursion and loops while having fun. But beware! Don't get caught while eating bamboo!
Why similar: Programming 62.2% ★, Education 22.2%, Puzzle 6.5%, Casual 6.3%, Indie 2.1%
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 52.3% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 15.4%, Puzzle 8.5%, Indie 2%
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Programming 48.1% ★, Education 26.1%, Automation 14.5%, Puzzle 7.3%, Indie 1.8%
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
Why similar: Programming 67.1% ★, Education 23.9%, Puzzle 6.7%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.1%
An interactive text-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Education 25.1%, Text-Based 9.9%, Casual 6.7%, Indie 2%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 61.4% ★, Education 21.7%, Text-Based 9.9%, Casual 4.2%, Indie 1.9%
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 80.1% ★, Puzzle 6.6%, Education 5.6%, Automation 4.7%, Indie 2.3%
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 49.9% ★, Automation 19.5%, Education 17.8%, Puzzle 6.8%, Indie 3.3%
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 53.3% ★, Automation 19.7%, Education 17.2%, Puzzle 6.4%, Indie 2.4%
Coding Learn is a game that will help you master real programming! Traveling with the robot to the mysterious castle, you will gradually learn the basics of writing code and solve problems, helping the main character to move towards the goal!
Why similar: Programming 70.9% ★, Education 26%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 46.9% ★, Education 22.1%, Automation 20.5%, Puzzle 6.3%, Indie 2.1%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 60.3% ★, Automation 18.1%, Education 10.3%, Puzzle 6.5%, Casual 4.3%
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 47.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 17.5%, Text-Based 8.7%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 63.6% ★, Automation 18.3%, Text-Based 8.1%, Education 6.1%, Puzzle 2.8%
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 49.3% ★, Education 16.2%, Automation 12%, Typing 8.8% ★, Puzzle 6.3%
Robot Unlock is an open-ended puzzle game with 75+ levels. Design your own solutions and optimize them for speed, instructions or space and compare with other players. Create your own levels, challenge other players and solve community made ones.
Why similar: Programming 50.9% ★, Automation 21.6%, Education 16.6%, Puzzle 7.9%, Indie 2.5%
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 51.4% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 17.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Indie 1.9%
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 71.4% ★, Education 12.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.
Why similar: Programming 52.6% ★, Automation 21.1%, Education 17.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Learn programming by implementing an elevator through a guided tour
Why similar: Programming 56.1% ★, Education 20.7%, Typing 14.9% ★, Puzzle 4.6%, Indie 3.3%
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 49.1% ★, Education 22.4%, Automation 20.3%, Puzzle 6.3%, Indie 1.4%
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 76.9% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Indie 11.2%
Engineer a production line to build pixel art images one at a time. Get your timing and placement right to match the solution image and finish the level!
Why similar: Programming 56.5% ★, Automation 22.9%, Casual 11.9%, Puzzle 8.7%
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 49.1% ★, Education 16.6%, Automation 14.1%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 58.8% ★, Education 29.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 64.4% ★, Automation 22.3%, Education 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Defend your computer's firewall in this fast-paced typing game, battling waves of word-based viruses in Endless or Survival mode, where speed and accuracy are your only weapons against defeat.
Why similar: Programming 31.1% ★, Education 26.8%, Typing 26% ★, Text-Based 10%, Casual 3%
Wake up to silence. One terminal, one survivor, one dying ship. Can you bring the Delta-4 back online? Delta 4 is a sci-fi survival terminal sim—type commands, decode logs, and fight to keep a dying ship alive.
Why similar: Programming 51.5% ★, Education 20.5%, Typing 11.6% ★, Text-Based 5.3%, Puzzle 4.9%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 52.9% ★, Automation 20.8%, Education 12.4%, Puzzle 5.3%, Text-Based 5.1%
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 67% ★, Education 22.2%, Puzzle 7.6%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Why similar: Programming 63.3% ★, Puzzle 15.1%, Automation 13.2%, Indie 3.7%, Education 3%
Cal & Bomba is a programmatic puzzle game. Program short sequences to navigate the playfield, aim your cannon using potions, and take down your enemies with various explosives. Turn your enemies against each other, and create explosive chain reactions. 150+ puzzles sure to melt your brain!
Why similar: Programming 64.6% ★, Education 18.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Casual 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A command-line puzzle game where you solve Git word problems by typing real Git commands. From beginner basics to advanced rebasing, master 100 levels of version control challenges and become a Git legend—one commit at a time.
Why similar: Programming 46.8% ★, Education 19.3%, Typing 16.6% ★, Text-Based 7.7%, Puzzle 6.4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 62.1% ★, Automation 21.3%, Puzzle 11%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Join SirKwitz on another coding adventure in this edutainment puzzle game. Manage instructions, execute functions and loops, and navigate Booleans as you code this silly robot through each challenge.
Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Education 22.7%, Automation 20.8%, Puzzle 6.9%, Casual 2.9%
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
Why similar: Programming 44.9% ★, Automation 18.6%, Typing 16.7% ★, Text-Based 10.6%, Puzzle 3.8%
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 70.1% ★, Automation 18.8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Trapped inside a living database, use real SQL to unlock regions and challenge the system that watches every query. Use SELECT to investigate, UPDATE to repair and remember: DROP NOT ALLOWED. It doesn’t matter if you’re a SQL noob or a veteran; the game teaches you everything you need as you play.
Why similar: Programming 51.5% ★, Education 22.1%, Automation 11.1%, Puzzle 7.1%, Indie 4.1%
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 54.4% ★, Automation 22.9%, Puzzle 9%, Education 6.3%, Casual 3.8%
In the second episode of Finite State Automation Challenges, you will use finite-state automata to overcome 80 challenges from character string manipulation, computer science, and mathematics.
Why similar: Programming 63.5% ★, Automation 13.2%, Education 9%, Puzzle 8%, Casual 3.5%
[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 56.4% ★, Automation 27.7%, Puzzle 8.3%, Casual 3.9%, Indie 3%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 56.1% ★, Automation 28.6%, Puzzle 8.6%, Indie 3.4%, Casual 2.8%
Direct your secret guild of tiny gnomes, hidden somewhere out in the forest, to manufacture products as efficiently as possible in this optimization-based puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 51.2% ★, Automation 22.6%, Indie 18.3%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 69.2% ★, Education 20.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 58.9% ★, Automation 24.9%, Puzzle 9.1%, Casual 3.6%, Indie 3%
May’s Journey is a 2.5D puzzle game where players use pseudo code to solve environmental mazes and learn programming basics, guiding protagonist May to restore balance in a fractured, fictional world.
Why similar: Programming 70.2% ★, Typing 14.5% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Casual 2.9%, Indie 2.3%
