60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Strategy, Programming, Robots.
You don't pilot the mech — you design its pilot. Wire sensors, logic and actions into a battle brain, assemble your machine, and watch your algorithm fight. You can grab the controls anytime — but the real victory is the one your design wins on its own.
Echoes of the Architects
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Terranny
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Why similar: Programming 26.3% ★, Mechs 18.9% ★, Auto Battler 18.5%, Automation 13%, Tactical 8%
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
Why similar: Programming 32% ★, Auto Battler 17.7%, Robots 13.5%, Automation 13%, Tactical 6.6%
It moves the way you built it. It wins the way you built it. Assemble the 18cm-tall autonomous hobby robot “SIGNOS” and program its behavior logic with flowchart-style “Thought Tiles.” No controls during battle — SIGNOS fights on its own, guided solely by the logic you designed.
Why similar: Auto Battler 25.1%, Programming 24% ★, Mechs 18.8% ★, Robots 9.4%, Automation 8.5%
Build mechas, form mecha teams, and command them to fight.
Why similar: Mechs 31.4% ★, Auto Battler 19.4%, Robots 17.3%, Military 7.2%, Tactical 6.8%
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Auto Battler 22.4%, Automation 17.4%, Robots 13.6%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 5.3% ★
Build your squad, install powerful upgrades, and watch your machines battle automatically. Survive a 10 round gauntlet, push your build to its limits in Endless Mode, or experiment freely in Sandbox Mode.
Why similar: Mechs 33% ★, Auto Battler 31.7%, Robots 20.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Tactical 6.3%
Program your Mech with cards in this turn-based roguelike. Choose your cards and upgrades wisely in order to complete your missions!
Why similar: Programming 40.1% ★, Mechs 33.1% ★, Automation 8.3%, Top-Down 6.2%, Tactical 6.1%
Robo Gauntlet is a chaotic robo programming rally game where you program robots then watch them perform the actions and cause mayhem on the way to the finish line!
Why similar: Programming 37.9% ★, Mechs 27.7% ★, Robots 16.4%, Top-Down 5.1%, Sci-fi 4.5%
Survive all the waves in this cybernetic auto battle rougelite. Customize your robot for unique combat and fun!
Why similar: Mechs 34.7% ★, Auto Battler 32.9%, Robots 20.1%, Action 4.5%, Sci-fi 4.3%
Program three distinct towers with readable visual logic, then solve handcrafted tower-defense puzzles where placement, line of sight and every code block matter. No programming experience required.
Why similar: Programming 48.2% ★, Automation 23.9%, Robots 8.7%, Tactical 8.6%, Top-Down 5.1%
A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!
Why similar: Programming 44.6% ★, Auto Battler 24.4%, Automation 22.6%, Combat 4.3%, Simulation 2.3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 72.6% ★, Automation 23.4%, Simulation 2.9%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Build robots, devise a battle plan and fight alongside them!
Why similar: Programming 32.1% ★, Auto Battler 21.1%, Automation 15.1%, Robots 13%, Tactical 8.5%
Echoes of the Architects is a fast-paced real-time strategy game where creativity drives victory. Design modular, programmable units to build your perfect army. Adapt and outsmart your opponents in dynamic skirmishes that reward tactical precision, ingenuity, and strategic mastery.
Why similar: Programming 27.8% ★, Auto Battler 23.2%, Automation 16%, Tactical 9.5%, Combat 4.9%
A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!
Why similar: Programming 34.2% ★, Mechs 30.3% ★, Robots 16.8%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Combat 4.5%
Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.
Why similar: Programming 50% ★, Automation 23.7%, Robots 19%, Simulation 3%, Sci-fi 1.8%
Project Nimbus is a high speed mech action game set in a post apocalyptic world. Players control 'Battle Frames' - humanoid battle suits armed with an arsenal of weapons.
Why similar: Mechs 68.7% ★, Robots 19.7%, Action 5%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Indie 1.6%
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
Why similar: Mechs 61.5% ★, Robots 18.2%, Sci-fi 6%, Tactical 5.5%, Action 3.1%
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 67.3% ★, Automation 32.4%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 55.9% ★, Automation 27.2%, Robots 9.2%, Simulation 6%, Indie 1.2%
Automatons is 1v1 Player vs Player turn-based strategy game. Build the infrastructure to spawn autonomous robots with customizable weapons and logic to fight and defeat your fellow employee and destroy their base. Do you have what it takes to become employee of the month?
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Auto Battler 24.8%, Robots 17.2%, Automation 16.8%, Sci-fi 3.3%
Build a battle top in your garage. Draft cassette tapes and wire them into its brain. Pull the cord, and it fights the tournament on its own. A roguelike strategy game where you win on the workbench, or you learn something and go back to the basement to build again.
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Automation 25%, Auto Battler 17.2%, Tactical 9.6%, 3D 1.7%
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 62.8% ★, Automation 30.9%, Simulation 4.2%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
If your're into logic, problem-solving and building complex systems, then this is a game for you. All the fun of creating systems, using a visual node language, without worring about written syntax of text based programming. Learn real programming skills much faster in a explosions packed battle.
Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Automation 24.6%, Robots 17.3%, Auto Battler 5.2%, Combat 4.8%
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 43.7% ★, Automation 28.2%, Robots 18.4%, Simulation 5%, Top-Down 3.8%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Automation 26.2%, Robots 20%, Simulation 3.8%, Indie 1.3%
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Automation 22.2%, Robots 20.4%, Simulation 2%, Indie 1.1%
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 61.6% ★, Automation 25.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Top-Down 4.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
"CodePhantom" is a 3D action game where you pilot the humanoid combat mech PHANTOM and take on a variety of missions. Experience the thrill of controlling a powerful mech with smooth, responsive gameplay. Enjoy intense, no-nonsense mech action designed for fans of authentic robotic combat.
Why similar: Mechs 55.6% ★, Robots 26.7%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Action 6.1%, 3D 2.6%
Pilot your fully customizable Arsenal mech and join your fellow mercenaries in defending humanity from the corrupted machines and gigantic robots in this post-apocalyptic action game!
Why similar: Mechs 66.6% ★, Robots 20.7%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Action 5.4%, Multiplayer 1%
Tokyo holds the last remnants of human life. All our pilots are dead; you are our sole surviving AI. Commandeer a fleet of dormant mechas via an ancient backup protocol. Inject assembly code, optimize sparse memory, and achieve absolute annihilation. Never forget that The Core is observing you.
Why similar: Programming 60.2% ★, Robots 19.1%, Automation 14.7%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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 58.4% ★, Automation 23.6%, Robots 10.1%, Simulation 6.9%, Indie 0.8%
Gun Metal is a futuristic action-packed experience where you take control of the fully transformable prototype combat vehicle known as the Havoc Suit.The Havoc Suit, a prototype combat vehicle, remains the only hope to save civilization from a tireless enemy.
Why similar: Mechs 64.8% ★, Robots 20.8%, Action 10%, Sci-fi 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
MechRunner is an endless action game that casts you as a powerful mech in stunning cinematic battles against a relentless robotic army.
Why similar: Mechs 52.6% ★, Robots 28.4%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Action 7.7%
Command modular mechs in Typhon, a sci-fi tactical strategy game where you outthink rivals by scripting your bots with Python. Customize, adapt, and evolve your forces in real time in the hostile alien world of AEGIS IVb to dominate the battlefield.
Why similar: Programming 32.1% ★, Mechs 27.7% ★, Automation 17.6%, Robots 14.4%, Simulation 2.8%
Program your team of AIs to infiltrate corporation servers and find your brother Hermann. This game is about the fun of coding and optimization. There is always something to improve.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Auto Battler 23%, Automation 20.2%, Robots 10.9%, Combat 5%
You are in control of DAT, a Battle Mech Peace Keeping Force. You must save Earth’s Migrants and the Mars Colonies from the threat of the ANTS uprising. Who or what could be leading this threat against Mars, and the new planned perfect utopia for humanity?
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 71.1% ★, Robots 25.4%, Indie 3.5%
In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 25.5%, Robots 19.9%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Simulation 3.8%
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 49.9% ★, Automation 25%, Robots 16.8%, Simulation 3.4%, Top-Down 2.4%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 68.5% ★, Robots 16%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Indie 2.7%, 3D 2.6%
"StreamStratos" is a 3D action game.
Why similar: Programming 36.5% ★, Mechs 29.7% ★, Robots 15.5%, Sci-fi 6.9%, 3D 4.1%
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 81.9% ★, Automation 12.6%, Simulation 3.3%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Build your party and design their combat logic using If-Then conditions and skill rotations. Watch your tactics unfold in fast, RNG-free auto-battles. If you fall, analyze the enemy, reconfigure your setup, and try again. Solve the puzzle-dungeons and min-max your score!
Why similar: Programming 49.3% ★, Auto Battler 32.7%, Automation 11.5%, Tactical 3.7%, Combat 2.6%
Join SirKwitz on another coding adventure in this edutainment puzzle game. Manage instructions, execute functions and loops, and navigate Booleans as you code this quirky robot through each challenge.
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Automation 26.6%, Robots 21%, Simulation 3.3%, Indie 0.5%
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 55% ★, Automation 32.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
War Robots VR: The Skirmish is a short, but highly immersive teaser-shooter for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive set in the universe of the War Robots franchise.
Why similar: Mechs 46.1% ★, Robots 31.6%, Military 7.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Action 5.4%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 25.4%, Robots 19.1%, Simulation 3.1%, Sci-fi 2.7%
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 61.6% ★, Automation 31.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Gear up, customize your mech, and take on high-stakes missions! Simple yet deep—experience the thrill of mech action on the battlefield!
Why similar: Mechs 60.5% ★, Military 11.7%, Combat 7.6%, Top-Down 6.8%, Action 6.8%
Help a sentient robot escape an oppressive society through your abilities to hack and reprogram devices & automatons in the world
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Robots 20.8%, Automation 14.1%, Tactical 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.2%
DUAL GEAR is a Tactical Action Turn-Based Strategy Game inspired by Japanese Mecha. To go beyond the traditional, DUAL GEAR engages the player to pilots their mechs with Real-Time Action Shooting while experiencing the high pressure of Tactical Turn-Based Layers!
Why similar: Mechs 66.1% ★, Robots 17%, Simulation 6.8%, Action 4.9%, Tactical 3.5%
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 60.6% ★, Automation 28.4%, Simulation 6.4%, Top-Down 3.5%, Indie 0.8%
Assemble your team of heroes. Program their strategy with PseudoC or C#. Watch them battle in a classic RPG-inspired arena. Learn from what happens, and improve your code. Are you game to code?
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Auto Battler 27.9%, Automation 22.1%, Simulation 1.5%, Indie 1.1%
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 85.3% ★, Automation 8.2%, Simulation 4.3%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Relive iconic scenes from "Mobile Police PATLABOR" in this 3D console action game. Experience dual perspectives: Main Missions as the SV2, and Another Side Missions as their rivals. Hone your pilot skills in Simulator Mode, featuring shooting ranges and Labor duels.
Why similar: Mechs 61.7% ★, Robots 29.6%, Action 6.1%, 3D 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Build it. Master it. Win with pure will. Forge the ultimate ARMORED CORE with your own hands.
Why similar: Mechs 54.2% ★, Military 21.2%, Combat 8.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Action 6.1%
You play as a mech pilot, tasked with demonstrating the newest weapons, at a futuristic arms fair. The enemy and player tear off weapons from each other’s bodies mid-fight, forcing you to quickly adopt new strategies, while impressing buyers.
Why similar: Mechs 52.6% ★, Robots 11.2%, Military 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Action 7.3%
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Automation 23%, Robots 20.7%, 3D 3.9%, Simulation 3.7%
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 89% ★, Automation 6.5%, Simulation 3.1%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
