60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Simulation, Singleplayer.
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.
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Arcana Automata
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.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 68% ★, Automation 19.4%, Simulation 5.5%, Education 4.5%, Sandbox 2.1%
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 51.8% ★, Automation 18.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Education 7%, Sandbox 5.2%
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 47.4% ★, Automation 24.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 9.9%, Education 5.7%
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 73.7% ★, Automation 10%, Education 8.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Sandbox 1.6%
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 50.6% ★, Automation 21%, Education 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 9%
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 73.1% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Education 3.9%
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 64.8% ★, Automation 27.6%, Education 6.2%, 2D 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 50.4% ★, Automation 26.2%, Simulation 20.1%, 2D 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 51% ★, Automation 22.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Education 7.7%, Immersive Sim 5.8%
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 61.3% ★, Automation 26.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 78.2% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Automation 6.7%, Education 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 56.2% ★, Automation 23.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Resource Management 5.5%, Top-Down 1.9%
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 48.7% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Automation 14.9%, Education 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 47.5% ★, Automation 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Education 11.4%
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 54.6% ★, Automation 22.3%, Simulation 13.3%, Resource Management 5.9%, Top-Down 2.5%
Become a doctor in Robospital and fix robots. Learn Python programming, write code, and test your code!
Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Software Training 24.9% ★, Automation 12%, Education 9.2%, Simulation 6.7%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 22.6%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 6%
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 60% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Education 8%, Automation 7.5%
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 74.7% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%
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 53.2% ★, Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Education 10.2%, 2D 1.2%
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 46.1% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 5.9%
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 53.2% ★, Automation 25.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 6.4%, Resource Management 4.7%
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 69.9% ★, Education 12.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Sandbox 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%
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 56.1% ★, Education 14.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 13.1%, 2D 1.8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 59.3% ★, Automation 21.1%, Simulation 18.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 54.4% ★, Automation 22.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Education 6.8%, Sandbox 5.5%
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 54.8% ★, Automation 26.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 57% ★, Automation 19.4%, Education 8.5%, Sandbox 5.1%, Simulation 4.8%
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 84.9% ★, Simulation 6.1%, Automation 5.5%, Education 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 50% ★, Automation 20.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Education 7.8%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 62.5% ★, Automation 20%, Simulation 10.5%, Education 5.5%, 2D 1%
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% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 7.2%
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 60.1% ★, Automation 27.1%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 65.3% ★, Automation 20.7%, Education 13.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 49.6% ★, Automation 21.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Education 8.5%
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 52.7% ★, Automation 22.1%, Sandbox 7.4%, Education 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%
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 51.4% ★, Automation 19%, Sandbox 10.8%, Education 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 22.2%, Education 10.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Simulation 7%
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 52.2% ★, Automation 26.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 66.8% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Automation 4.2%, 2D 2.2%
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 64% ★, Automation 23.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 1%
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 55.1% ★, Automation 29.4%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Resource Management 3.8%, 2D 1.2%
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 52.7% ★, Automation 23.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Education 8.9%, Top-Down 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 70.6% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Education 10.8%
CHAQS 44 is a system simulation game that encourages players to explore, learn, and experiment. It offers a wide range of realistic tools and environments designed to test understanding and curiosity.
Why similar: Programming 56.4% ★, Simulation 18.4%, Education 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, 2D 1.2%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 58.9% ★, Automation 25.4%, Simulation 13%, 2D 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 54.6% ★, Automation 18.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 6.4%, Education 5%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 79.1% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
A single-player business simulation about running a technology company. You act as its CEO, CTO, and CFO at the same time: building products, managing staff and finances, going public, and competing with rival firms.
Why similar: Programming 59.5% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Resource Management 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Milling machine simulator will inspire novices and experts alike. Realistic physics and movements allow you to familiarize yourself with the machine in a 3D workshop setting. Enjoy playing around, learning and prototyping in Free milling mode. Or challenge yourself in Career mode.
Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Automation 17.8%, Education 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%
"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 38.2% ★, Automation 29.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 8.4%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 59.3% ★, Automation 17.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 9.8%, 2D 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 48.8% ★, Automation 19.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Education 7.8%
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 42% ★, Automation 29%, Simulation 13.5%, Immersive Sim 5.7%, Sandbox 4.8%
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 56.8% ★, Automation 23.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Sandbox 3.1%, Resource Management 2.7%
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 54.7% ★, Automation 21.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Education 8.9%, Sandbox 3.9%
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 62% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Education 7.2%
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 68.2% ★, Automation 19.4%, Simulation 5.2%, Education 3.4%, Sandbox 3.3%
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 70% ★, Simulation 17.4%, Education 10.7%, 2D 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
