60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Singleplayer, Simulation.
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.
The Farmer Was Replaced
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.
import robots
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.
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 46.6% ★, Automation 15.4%, Education 9.3%, Idler 7.2%, Text-Based 4%
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 40.7% ★, Automation 17.6%, Education 11.6%, Robots 6.5%, Idler 6.3%
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 38.6% ★, Automation 17.4%, Education 12.5%, Robots 7.3%, Strategy 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 58.2% ★, Automation 24.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Education 7.5%, Casual 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 51.8% ★, Automation 18.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Education 7%, Sandbox 5.2%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Robots 8%, Education 7.6%, Strategy 6.8%
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 45.5% ★, Automation 22.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Education 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%
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 47.2% ★, Automation 19%, Education 11.6%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 6.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 67.8% ★, Automation 18.8%, Education 6%, Simulation 5.1%, Sandbox 1.3%
Farmer = nil is a programming automation farm game. Write scripts for your robots, collect resources, unlock tech, and build the most efficient farm.
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 19.4%, Idler 10%, Education 8%, Simulation 7.7%
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 71.1% ★, Education 10.4%, Automation 9.4%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 1.3%
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 52.1% ★, Automation 21%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Resource Management 5.1%
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 57.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Idler 9.2%, Text-Based 5%, Simulation 4.1%
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 19.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Idler 7.6%
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 58.4% ★, Automation 17.9%, Education 15.8%, Text-Based 4.2%, Indie 1.8%
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 48.5% ★, Automation 22.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Base Building 4.6%, Resource Management 4.3%
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 48.1% ★, Automation 19.5%, Idler 10%, Education 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%
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 49.9% ★, Automation 17.5%, Education 11%, Robots 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%
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 44.7% ★, Education 14.3%, Automation 11.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10.5%
Circuitra is a challenging visual logic puzzle game about building increasingly complex circuit boards. Limited inputs, tight board space and changing contract constraints force you to debug and rethink your designs in order to grow your circuit-design business.
Why similar: Programming 51.9% ★, Automation 20.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 5.7%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 53.2% ★, Automation 22.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Robots 4.2%
Program a little robot crew and bring a neighborhood café to life. Cook, serve, restock, and refine your routines across 24 services. Mix visual programming with hands-on minigames, then keep your kitchen humming in Desktop Companion mode.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Automation 15.6%, Economy 8.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%
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 76.1% ★, Education 8.4%, Simulation 7.4%, Automation 6.3%, Indie 1.2%
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 50% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 12.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Sandbox 6.5%
Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Education 18.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
"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: Programming 34% ★, Automation 25.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 7.1%
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 65.9% ★, Strategy 20.2%, Robots 11.3%, Indie 2.6%
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 48.3% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 10.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%
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 37.2% ★, Automation 24.9%, Idler 12.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 7.9%
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 55.8% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Robots 11.4%, Education 8.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Programming 36.4% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Automation 12.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 57.7% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Education 10.3%, Automation 7%, Strategy 7%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 20.3%, Idler 9.7%, Education 8.7%, Strategy 8.6%
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 46.6% ★, Automation 19.5%, Education 10.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%
A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.
Why similar: Programming 45.9% ★, Automation 17.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Robots 6.5%
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 47.5% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Automation 14.1%, Education 11.1%, Sandbox 4.6%
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 44.8% ★, Automation 21.2%, Education 15.4%, Robots 9.3%, Simulation 5.8%
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 50.9% ★, Automation 25.7%, Simulation 19%, Casual 2.5%, Indie 0.9%
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 47.3% ★, Education 17.7%, Automation 14.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Robots 8.6%
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 74.5% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Sandbox 6.8%, Education 5.3%, Indie 1.6%
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 62.2% ★, Automation 26.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Sandbox 1.6%, Indie 1.4%
Bridge2Code is a bridge-building game where you can code a bridge using a simple programming language. Your goal is to create a bridge that can support a car going from the start to the end.
Why similar: Programming 46.7% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 19.5%, Education 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 34.9% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 20%, Automation 14.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 51.3% ★, Automation 17%, Simulation 8.1%, Education 6.2%, Base Building 6.2%
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 68.6% ★, Education 16.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Sandbox 4%, Indie 0.8%
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 53.1% ★, Automation 22.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Education 10.8%, Indie 0.7%
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 52% ★, Automation 22.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8%, Education 4.1%
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 63.8% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Automation 3.9%
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 67.4% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Education 13.8%, Indie 2.2%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 45.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Education 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%
Trade Bots is an educational simulation game featuring technical analysis and algorithmic trading. Buy or sell an unknown stock using its real, historic data based solely on patterns and technical indicators. As your profit increases, unlock upgrades that help expedite + automate gameplay with bots.
Why similar: Programming 30% ★, Automation 16.2%, Education 13.2%, Economy 12.4%, Idler 10.1%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 62% ★, Automation 19.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Education 7.3%, Casual 1.2%
This is a game that simulates farm management through programming. Players need to develop their economy, upgrade technology, unlock more advanced commands and resources, and deal with various uncertain destructive events. The game simplifies the complexity and extracts the automation elements.
Why similar: Programming 37.5% ★, Automation 16.8%, Education 11.3%, Idler 8.6%, Robots 6.9%
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 51.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Education 12.9%, Simulation 7%, Text-Based 6.9%
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Automation 18.7%, Education 13.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.8%
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 83.8% ★, Simulation 5.6%, Automation 5.2%, Education 4%, Indie 0.8%
Write code to command your defenses. Overhead is a strategy game where your code is your weapon; script turret (or sensor) behavior in JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or any WASM language. Every scenario is seeded and deterministic. Write a better script, get a better score.
Why similar: Programming 54% ★, Automation 19.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Education 4.4%, Base Building 4.2%
