60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Singleplayer, Automation.
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Kernel Quest
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Logic Arrows
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.
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 41.7% ★, Automation 16.1%, Puzzle 9.1%, Building 8.7%, Minimalist 7.9%
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 33.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Logic 8.9%, Building 6.8%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 16.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.4%
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 47.4% ★, Automation 17.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Logic 10.5%, Simulation 4.4%
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 41.4% ★, Automation 14.7%, Logic 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Puzzle 8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 59.4% ★, Automation 14.5%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 6.7%, Simulation 3.1%
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 37.3% ★, Automation 14.2%, Logic 12.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.9%
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 50.3% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Logic 12.5%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 5.2%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Automation 19%, Logic 15.5%, Minimalist 9.5%, Puzzle 8.9%
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 34.7% ★, Automation 13.8%, Logic 12.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Puzzle 7.3%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 36.2% ★, Automation 15.1%, Logic 12%, Puzzle 8.1%, Abstract 7.6%
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 42.5% ★, Automation 17.3%, Logic 14.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 39.2% ★, Automation 14.4%, Sandbox 9%, Logic 8.8%, Abstract 7.5%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 17%, Logic 14.9%, Building 9.9%, Puzzle 9.4%
[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!
Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Automation 19.2%, Logic 15.1%, Minimalist 10.8%, Puzzle 9%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Logic 16.7%, Automation 8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 4.7%
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 44.3% ★, Automation 16.5%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 7.2%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 16.7%, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 10.2%, Building 6.1%
Numbers are light; logic is the lens. "Prime Prism" is a pure logic puzzle game themed around prime numbers and factorization. Construct circuits of light using optical tools like "Prisms" and "Lenses" to decompose and synthesize numbers. Over 140 stages across 11 worlds await your challenge.
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Logic 18.5%, Abstract 14.4%, Puzzle 11.5%, Minimalist 8.1%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Automation 14%, Abstract 12.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Building 6.9%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Automation 16.1%, Logic 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.7%
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 48.7% ★, Logic 15.2%, Puzzle 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 8.8%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Automation 17.6%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 6.9%
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 46.1% ★, Automation 16.5%, Logic 14%, Simulation 6.7%, Puzzle 6.5%
An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.
Why similar: Programming 41% ★, Automation 20.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 7.1%
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 41.3% ★, Automation 15.5%, Logic 12%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 7.8%
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 68.8% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Logic 8.7%, Automation 5.3%, Simulation 4.9%
Build circuits and manage heat as you complete tasks in this surprisingly intuitive puzzle game unlike anything you've ever played before.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Logic 16.1%, Abstract 12%, Puzzle 11.1%, Minimalist 8.7%
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 44.9% ★, Logic 15.1%, Automation 13.1%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6.7%
Push and pop your way through Stack Machines - an open-ended puzzle programming game. Use a variety of modules to read, transform and output different input sequences. Optimize your solutions for size, module count, speed and cost-effectiveness.
Why similar: Programming 31.9% ★, Abstract 14%, Logic 12.1%, Minimalist 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%
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 39.3% ★, Automation 20.5%, Logic 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 42.8% ★, Logic 13.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
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 39.1% ★, Logic 12.1%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 11%, Building 8.4%
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 67.9% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Automation 8.2%, Logic 5.2%, Simulation 3.8%
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 44.2% ★, Automation 17.1%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Abstract 9%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 58.8% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Puzzle 10.3%, Minimalist 7.7%, Simulation 7.1%
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 42.8% ★, Automation 17.5%, Logic 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 9.3%
Block motion is a puzzle / design game where you place functional blocks to design a working factory. Build your design, press play and watch your factory in action. You have the freedom to solve the challenges any way you want; The only limit is your imagination.
Why similar: Programming 30.4% ★, Logic 14.4%, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.8%
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 44.8% ★, Automation 15.1%, Logic 13.5%, Puzzle 7.7%, Building 6.9%
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 45% ★, Automation 10%, Sandbox 8.9%, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 8.2%
Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes.
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Logic 16.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Minimalist 6.7%
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 74.9% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 7.4%, Automation 4%, Simulation 3.5%
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Programming 23.1% ★, Automation 14%, Sandbox 12.9%, Abstract 11.5%, Minimalist 9.9%
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 63.5% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Puzzle 12.3%, Simulation 8.7%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Logic 12.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Puzzle 8.2%
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 53.9% ★, Puzzle 18.2%, Logic 13.4%, Automation 10.3%, Indie 1.3%
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 57.6% ★, Automation 14%, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 8.8%, Sandbox 3.9%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Automation 16.3%, Puzzle 13.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Logic 4.8%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Programming 23.9% ★, Automation 18.8%, Abstract 14.1%, Minimalist 12.1%, Puzzle 10.8%
The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Programming 47.4% ★, Automation 16%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 6.4%
Mnemonimov is an assembly-based fantasy console with a retro monochrome screen. Experience the challenge and the fun of old-school game development without the headaches of real hardware.
Why similar: Programming 39.3% ★, Logic 12.7%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 7.2%
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 42.9% ★, Logic 13.8%, Abstract 10.5%, Minimalist 10.3%, Puzzle 9.6%
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
Why similar: Programming 34.2% ★, Automation 15.3%, Logic 15.3%, Minimalist 10.9%, Building 9.3%
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Logic 16.4%, Automation 10.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 4%
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 58.6% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Logic 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Puzzle 6%
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 49.4% ★, Automation 15%, Logic 11.5%, Minimalist 7.5%, Sandbox 6.4%
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 60.6% ★, Logic 17.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Puzzle 9.2%, 2D 1.4%
Develop magical programming abilities while building spells. Lambda Spellcrafting Academy is a card-based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. If you've ever wanted to dabble in spellcraft (programming) here is a fun way to get started.
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Logic 16.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Puzzle 10%, Minimalist 6.6%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Building 7.7%
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 64.8% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Sandbox 7.9%, Simulation 6.5%, Building 6.5%
