60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Automation, Singleplayer.
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Circuitra
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.
Charge!
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.
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 37.7% ★, Automation 22.4%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Management 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 36.1% ★, Automation 23.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Building 8.4%, Management 8%
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 40.2% ★, Automation 26.4%, Building 14%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 4.2%
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 45.1% ★, Automation 28.6%, Puzzle 13.2%, Logic 4.5%, Building 3.8%
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 35.3% ★, Automation 24.6%, Building 14.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Logic 4.3%
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 34.7% ★, Automation 29.8%, Building 15.7%, Puzzle 11.1%, Simulation 5.3%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 40.7% ★, Automation 25.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Cute 6.1%, Logic 5.5%
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 36.5% ★, Automation 26.7%, Building 16.5%, Puzzle 12.6%, Simulation 3.7%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 32.8% ★, Automation 23.8%, Building 12.9%, Management 11.8%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 34.9% ★, Automation 26.6%, Building 15.1%, Puzzle 9.6%, Logic 6.2%
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 34% ★, Automation 30.3%, Building 16.5%, Puzzle 8%, Logic 4.6%
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 32.8% ★, Automation 22.3%, Building 11.1%, Management 9.9%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 43% ★, Automation 25.9%, Management 7.7%, Puzzle 7.4%, 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 51% ★, Automation 31.6%, Puzzle 10.1%, Strategy 5.4%, 2D 1.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 57.7% ★, Automation 24%, Puzzle 7.3%, Logic 4.8%, Building 3%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 44.5% ★, Automation 18.7%, Building 12.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, Logic 6.8%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 24.5%, Building 13.5%, Puzzle 9%, Logic 5.7%
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 35.7% ★, Automation 26.3%, Building 15.7%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 4.7%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 44.6% ★, Automation 26.6%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 6.1%, Strategy 4.5%
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 43% ★, Automation 33.4%, Puzzle 7.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Logic 3.4%
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 43.8% ★, Automation 30.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 6.6%, Building 3.3%
Build compact machine networks, route packets, manage heat, and crush rising quotas in this factory-building roguelike. Buy new machines, stack powerful relics, and survive run-changing Boss Blinds.
Why similar: Programming 32.4% ★, Automation 25.4%, Building 12.5%, Management 10.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 33.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 7.3%, Simulation 3%
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 41.1% ★, Automation 23.3%, Building 10.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Logic 5.5%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 26.4%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 6%, Strategy 4.6%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 49.9% ★, Automation 23.2%, Building 11.3%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 4.9%
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 39.6% ★, Automation 24.8%, Building 11.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Strategy 4.8%
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Building 16.9%, Management 16.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Puzzle 7%
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic!" Practice witchcraft, summon daemons, harness crystal vibrations, and never EVER let the Magic Smoke escape as you help the villagers, protect the kingdom, and strive to unlock magic's deepest secrets in this cozy, witchy sim!
Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Automation 19.9%, Management 9.7%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
Why similar: Programming 25.1% ★, Automation 24.8%, Building 15.7%, Management 12.5%, Puzzle 9.2%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory! 🏆 The 3rd-highest rated game of 2022 on OpenCritic.
Why similar: Programming 27.1% ★, Automation 25.9%, Building 12.1%, Puzzle 11.6%, Cute 7.5%
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 43% ★, Automation 21.4%, Building 15.2%, Logic 6.5%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 43.7% ★, Automation 30.3%, Building 9%, Management 6.4%, Simulation 4.9%
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 40.7% ★, Automation 24.6%, Building 11.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 6.2%
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 44.8% ★, Automation 23.6%, Building 11.2%, Puzzle 8.9%, Strategy 5.3%
[点金方块]BricksPhilosophorum is an automated game that uses an assembly line to study alchemy. The game starts with collecting minerals, purchasing land, unlocking technology, and building automated production lines.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Programming 25.3% ★, Building 17.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.4%
[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 44.8% ★, Automation 34%, Puzzle 10.4%, Logic 7.1%, 2D 3.3%
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
Why similar: Programming 29.4% ★, Automation 25.8%, Building 14.4%, Management 9.4%, Puzzle 7.5%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 49.1% ★, Automation 25.4%, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 8.8%, Logic 2%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 22.6%, Building 12.2%, Logic 6.4%, Puzzle 6.4%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, Automation 19.6%, Puzzle 13.1%, Logic 6.9%, Cute 5.5%
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 45.6% ★, Automation 29%, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Logic 6.5%
Aim for a high score by creating complex train set layouts. Program points and signals to direct trains and keep them moving. Run more and more trains… but don’t let them crash!
Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Automation 29.5%, Building 13.6%, Puzzle 7%, Logic 5.9%
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 54.8% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Logic 6.1%, Automation 5%
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 40.9% ★, Building 18.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.6%
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 44.8% ★, Automation 33.7%, Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%
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 52.7% ★, Automation 28.7%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 5.3%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%
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 44.4% ★, Automation 25.5%, Puzzle 11.3%, Logic 6.7%, Simulation 5.3%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 49.4% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Logic 5.3%, 2D 4.1%
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 45.7% ★, Automation 29.4%, Puzzle 11.5%, Logic 5.3%, Strategy 5.1%
U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.
Why similar: Programming 55.2% ★, Automation 14.2%, Puzzle 10.8%, Logic 6.8%, Strategy 5%
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 41.4% ★, Automation 26.4%, Building 13.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Logic 5.4%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Automation 24.8%, Building 14.4%, Management 10.1%, Puzzle 7.7%
Run your own data center. Design server boards component by component and use your boards space wisely. Wire power and network throughout your floor to form specialized clusters, and dispatch contracts to your custom hardware. Scale from a single rack to a massive redundant, multi-cluster operation.
Why similar: Programming 28.6% ★, Automation 26.9%, Management 14.7%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 5.2%
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Why similar: Programming 38.9% ★, Automation 28.9%, Puzzle 11%, Strategy 7.8%, Logic 4.2%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Automation 28.6%, Building 13.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 6%
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 70.9% ★, Puzzle 11.6%, Automation 8.8%, Simulation 4.2%, Logic 4%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 65.1% ★, Puzzle 12.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Logic 8.5%, Strategy 4.2%
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 68.4% ★, Automation 13.5%, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 3.3%, Logic 2.4%
