60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Automation, 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 67.4% ★, Automation 20.2%, Simulation 5.5%, Education 4.4%, 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 51.3% ★, Automation 19.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Education 6.8%, Sandbox 5.1%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 25%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Education 8.6%
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 73.2% ★, Automation 10.5%, Education 7.9%, 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 50.2% ★, Automation 21.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Education 9%, Simulation 9%
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% ★, Automation 23.8%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 5.4%
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 64% ★, Automation 28.6%, Education 6%, 2D 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 73.2% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Education 3.8%
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 50.6% ★, Automation 23.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Education 7.5%, Immersive Sim 5.6%
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 60.3% ★, Automation 27.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 2.7%, 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 77.8% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Automation 7%, Education 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 53.2% ★, Automation 23.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Education 6.3%, Sandbox 5.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Automation 11.3%, Education 11.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 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 48.4% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Automation 15.5%, Education 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
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 47.4% ★, Automation 13.6%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 11.9%, Education 11.1%
Become a doctor in Robospital and fix robots. Learn Python programming, write code, and test your code!
Why similar: Programming 46% ★, Software Training 24.3% ★, Automation 12.7%, Education 9%, Simulation 6.8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 58.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 52.6% ★, Automation 25.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 6.3%, Resource Management 4.8%
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 45.7% ★, Automation 22.3%, Education 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 5.9%
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% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Sandbox 12.4%
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 54.1% ★, Automation 27%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 70% ★, Education 12.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 62% ★, Automation 20.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Education 5.4%, 2D 1%
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 49.6% ★, Automation 21.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Education 7.6%
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 59.3% ★, Automation 28%, Simulation 10.7%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 48.6% ★, Automation 22.4%, Education 11.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 7.2%
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 56.2% ★, Education 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 13.3%, 2D 1.8%
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 49.2% ★, Automation 22.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Education 8.3%
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 84.7% ★, Simulation 6.1%, Automation 5.7%, Education 3%, 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 64.9% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 12.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 56.2% ★, Automation 20%, Education 8.2%, Sandbox 5.2%, Resource Management 5%
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 51.7% ★, Automation 26.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 54.1% ★, Automation 30.3%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Resource Management 3.9%, 2D 1.1%
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 52.2% ★, Automation 24.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Education 8.6%, Top-Down 3.9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 58.2% ★, Automation 26.3%, Simulation 12.9%, 2D 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 70.7% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Education 10.6%
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 66.7% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Automation 4.4%, 2D 2.2%
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 54.2% ★, Automation 19.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 6.3%, Education 4.8%
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 63.2% ★, Automation 24.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 1%
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 56.5% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Education 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, 2D 1.2%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 58.8% ★, Automation 17.8%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 9.8%, 2D 0.9%
"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 37.5% ★, Automation 30%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 8.3%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 79% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Automation 20.4%, Simulation 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Education 7.5%
In First-Person Data Explorer, datasets become immersive 3D environments where numbers shape color, size, movement, and more. Load, generate, or edit your data during gameplay, and turn raw values into something you can see, experience - and explore.
Why similar: Programming 52.9% ★, Simulation 21.8%, Education 15.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Why similar: Programming 33% ★, Automation 30.8%, Simulation 26%, Resource Management 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 18.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Education 7.1%
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 59.2% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 54.2% ★, Automation 22.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Education 8.7%, Sandbox 3.9%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Automation 18.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Education 9.2%
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 67.5% ★, Automation 20.2%, Simulation 5.2%, Sandbox 3.3%, Education 3.2%
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 70.1% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Education 10.4%, 2D 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 29.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Immersive Sim 5.9%, Sandbox 4.4%
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 56.1% ★, Automation 26.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Sandbox 3.4%, Education 3.3%
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 69% ★, Automation 20%, Simulation 6.9%, Sandbox 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 76.8% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Education 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.
Why similar: Programming 68.6% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, 2D 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 71.4% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 13.2%, 2D 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Instruct a robot to resolve hostage situations in this tactical programming puzzle game. Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment to save every hostage. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 80.1% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
