Games Like ABI-DOS

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Education 12.5%, Hacking 10% ★, Automation 9.5%, Logic 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers an unparalleled journey from building simple logic gates to creating a fully functional computer architecture.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 53.3% ★, Automation 19.5%, Logic 6.5%, Education 5.8%, Puzzle 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact same DNA as ABI-DOS, focusing on building circuits and writing assembly code to solve engineering challenges.

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 63.8% ★, Hacking 12.7% ★, Puzzle 5.6%, Automation 5.1%, Logic 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, hardcore programming puzzle game that requires extreme optimization of assembly code to fix a corrupted computer system.

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 47.7% ★, Hacking 20.5% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Education 10.6%, Puzzle 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: You must design hardware components from scratch to build a computer, mirroring the circuit-building focus of ABI-DOS.

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.

Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Hacking 18.3% ★, Automation 14.2%, Education 10.5%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation of hardware design where you build complex circuits to solve logic puzzles.

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 29.8% ★, Hacking 14.2% ★, Automation 13.6%, Education 10.6%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-focused circuit designer that allows for immense freedom in building complex logical systems.

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 44.2% ★, Hacking 22.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Logic 5.3%, Puzzle 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the hacking and programming aesthetic perfectly, tasking you with writing viruses to infiltrate systems.

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 45.9% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 9.1%, Logic 6.8%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on alchemy, its core loop of building automated machines to solve intricate puzzles is highly similar to the feel of ABI-DOS.

Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!

Why similar: Hacking 26.1% ★, Automation 21.3%, Education 15.4%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a 3D environment to build massive, functioning digital logic circuits with high performance.

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 55.6% ★, Education 16.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Building 6%, Puzzle 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on visual programming and machine learning concepts in a puzzle-based, accessible format.

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 46.6% ★, Hacking 21.4% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 3.8%, Simulation 3%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based programming game that integrates real-world coding concepts into a cyberpunk hacking simulation.

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 46.3% ★, Automation 27.8%, Simulation 7%, Sandbox 6.3%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a visual programming language to automate robots, sharing the automation and optimization themes of the seed game.

Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.

Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Automation 21%, Sandbox 10.5%, Logic 9.6%, Puzzle 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-based puzzle game where you connect components to solve complex, physics-driven engineering problems.

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 33.7% ★, Automation 20.1%, Logic 8%, Sandbox 7.4%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An automation puzzle game where you build factories to manufacture letters, requiring strict optimization.

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 34.9% ★, Automation 19.6%, Education 13.4%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed programming puzzle game that emphasizes building machines to perform specific tasks.

Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.

Why similar: Programming 27.7% ★, Hacking 17.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Education 10.4%, Logic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on quantum computing logic and programming puzzles in a highly stylized environment.

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Education 13.4%, Abstract 11.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Logic 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logic and optimization within a simulation environment that feels very similar to low-level programming.

Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.

Why similar: Programming 56.2% ★, Education 14.1%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Requires players to write code to control robots through increasingly difficult puzzle environments.

A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Why similar: Programming 32.6% ★, Automation 28.6%, Hacking 15.1% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Logic 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game centered on automation and programming challenges within a digital lab setting.

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Automation 18%, Education 11.7%, Hacking 10.6% ★, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build and program your own retro-style electronics and gadgets from the ground up.

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 35% ★, Hacking 14.8% ★, Automation 11.6%, Education 9.7%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled programming puzzle game that forces you to work within the constraints of a fictional 8-bit computer.

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 50.2% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Education 9.6%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines robot building with logic circuit design to solve complex, goal-oriented puzzles.

Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!

Why similar: Programming 44.5% ★, Hacking 19.8% ★, Education 13.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Puzzle 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses regular expressions as a programming language to solve text-processing puzzles, appealing to the technical mind.

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 35% ★, Automation 21.6%, Education 11.9%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy automation game that focuses on building systems to manage pressure and flow.

A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!

Why similar: Programming 38.3% ★, Automation 30%, Building 12.1%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that uses assembly-like logic to manipulate data and physics in a retro computer environment.

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Why similar: Programming 36.2% ★, Automation 19.6%, Hacking 16.5% ★, Education 11.6%, Logic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation that focuses on the software engineering process, including coding and system architecture.

A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!

Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Hacking 17.2% ★, Education 13.8%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 6.2%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Hacking 74.6% ★, Programming 14.2% ★, Education 4.4%, Logic 2.8%, Simulation 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive terminal-based hacking simulator that captures the 'hacker' vibe of ABI-DOS.

A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.

Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Hacking 25.1% ★, Simulation 9.8%, Education 9.8%, Logic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game where you modify the game's own code to progress through levels.

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 37.2% ★, Automation 18.7%, Education 10.2%, Logic 7.4%, Building 6.3%

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 63.2% ★, Education 15.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 6.6%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardware design game that starts from basic gates and moves up to building a CPU.

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 65.8% ★, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 9.6%

Immerse yourself in the strange world of CipherCraft: CGI, where you'll perform repairs, network infiltration, programming, server management, active server administration, and meticulous assembly and cleaning of computer components. Win against an Anonymous hacker who keeps sabotaging the company.

Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Hacking 25.8% ★, Education 12.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Simulation 6.1%

Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top by discovering a simplified and enjoyable version of real-life hacking methods. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.

Why similar: Hacking 35.7% ★, Programming 27.3% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Casual 2.1%

A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.

Why similar: Programming 63.7% ★, Hacking 33.8% ★, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world game where you can reprogram every object in the world using a custom programming language.

⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.

Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Hacking 25.1% ★, Education 14.6%, Sandbox 9%, Simulation 6.2%

The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.

Why similar: Programming 35.7% ★, Hacking 32.3% ★, Education 15%, Logic 6.9%, Simulation 5.1%

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Automation 21%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.8%, Logic 8.4%

Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.

Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 12%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 9.1%

Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Why similar: Programming 37.5% ★, Automation 21.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.7%, Logic 8.4%

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 54.1% ★, Automation 15.4%, Puzzle 13.7%, Logic 8.9%, Education 2.2%

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 45% ★, Automation 20.5%, Education 11.8%, Logic 7%, Sandbox 5.1%

SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!

Why similar: Programming 38.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Building 8.9%, Logic 8.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 66.9% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Education 9.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 2.2%

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 36.7% ★, Automation 23.4%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Puzzle 8.5%

Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

Why similar: Programming 35.7% ★, Hacking 21.2% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 5.1%

Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!

Why similar: Education 29.6%, Automation 28.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Puzzle 11.4%, Logic 10.3%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Automation 25.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 5.9%

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 40.4% ★, Education 18.6%, Automation 16.5%, Logic 9.1%, Simulation 7.2%

CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.

Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Hacking 28.7% ★, Education 13.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Logic 5.6%

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Programming 29.4% ★, Automation 19.9%, Education 13.4%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Why similar: Programming 32.4% ★, Automation 20.1%, Hacking 12.9% ★, Logic 8.9%, Sandbox 7.7%

The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!

Why similar: Building 17.4%, Education 14.8%, Automation 12.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Sandbox 11%

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 39% ★, Automation 23.9%, Building 10.2%, Logic 6.9%, Puzzle 6.4%

A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Education 14.8%, Puzzle 7.7%, Hacking 7.7% ★

Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.

Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Hacking 21.1% ★, Automation 19%, Education 11.3%, Logic 5.7%

World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.

Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 18.4%, Education 11.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 59.6% ★, Education 11%, Automation 10.7%, Puzzle 7.1%, Simulation 4%

Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.

Why similar: Hacking 44.3% ★, Programming 36.3% ★, Simulation 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 36.5% ★, Automation 21.7%, Education 14.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Puzzle 5.2%