60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Indie, Puzzle.
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.
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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.
Selfless Heroes
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
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 49.9% ★, Education 19.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Puzzle 8.6%, Building 8.4%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Simulation 27.2%, Strategy 24.9%, Puzzle 7.8%, 2D 3.2%
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 50.8% ★, Simulation 23.5%, Education 16.6%, Puzzle 9.1%
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 41.5% ★, Education 23%, Simulation 17.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, 2D 4.4%
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 49.4% ★, Simulation 21.5%, Education 16.1%, Puzzle 9.2%, 2D 3.1%
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.
Why similar: Programming 50% ★, Education 20.3%, Simulation 15%, Puzzle 13.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Write spells. Guide a shikigami. Bring light to a moonlit garden. Arrange actions, conditions and loops to solve 60 puzzles across five chapters, or plan your way through a changing survival garden. Cast, observe, and turn a clumsy routine into an elegant solution.
Why similar: Simulation 30%, Strategy 25.8%, Programming 25.1% ★, Puzzle 12.8%, 2D 5.7%
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 44.1% ★, Simulation 23.1%, Building 12.4%, Education 11%, Puzzle 9.4%
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 55.8% ★, Simulation 22.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) simulates the development of North Korea's Pyongyang economy. It is an economic simulation and not a game, and useful for an economics class.
Why similar: Simulation 38.8%, Strategy 33.1%, Education 28.1%
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 46.5% ★, Simulation 18%, Education 13.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%
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 55.6% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Puzzle 13.2%, Education 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Join Rus the Dinosaur, Hippo the Hedgehog, and Syd the Sloth, to put a stop to whoever's causing the volcano of Pear Island to erupt!
Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Programming 32.8% ★, Education 13.8%, Puzzle 8.1%
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Why similar: Programming 47.8% ★, Simulation 26.7%, Education 13.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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: Simulation 30.1%, Programming 27.9% ★, Strategy 25.9%, Puzzle 11.2%, 2D 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 50.6% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 13.5%, 2D 5.5%
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 40.1% ★, Education 14%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 10.4%
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 44.5% ★, Simulation 23.3%, Education 11.6%, Building 10.8%, Puzzle 8.9%
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 38.4% ★, Education 14.1%, Simulation 13.2%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 59.8% ★, Simulation 25.9%, Puzzle 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
You don't steer the chicken. You program it. Write real scripts in a fake desktop OS and send your bird into fields that reseed every run, so hardcoded coordinates work exactly once. Upgrades aren't +1% damage: they're if statements, for loops, and the memory to hold a list.
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 18.9%, Puzzle 8.5%, 2D 3.3%
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 64.5% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Puzzle 11.6%, Education 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Building 18.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.6%
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 63.2% ★, Education 14.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Logic Car is a coding-based puzzle game in which you program cars to achieve goals. Check the conditions given in each unique stage and take advantage of the various functions installed in the vehicle. Sometimes the laws of physics can be the solution. Now is the time to unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Simulation 28.9%, Education 16.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, 2D 5.5%
Ket's Quantum Oracle is a programming puzzle game built around quantum computation. Help engineer Ket, stranded in the ruins of a distant future, repair the quantum gateway, solve its challenges, and uncover the secrets of a broken future.
Why similar: Programming 40% ★, Simulation 24%, Education 15.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Building 8.7%
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 46.7% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 19.5%, Education 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
DA-VI-NC1 is a Turing-machine-based coding puzzle game. You must complete the puzzles, pass the Turing test, and discover the philosophical world of DA-VI-NC1 with the Mona Lisa.
Why similar: Programming 50.9% ★, Education 18.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, 2D 3.3%
Close the loop and the lamp lights. Build the relay, the gate, the adder, the latch, the counter, and a machine that reads Morse. Every circuit runs on a real simulator, and the parts you build become parts you build with. 238 levels about electricity and the machines people made from it.
Why similar: Programming 35.4% ★, Education 21.8%, Simulation 19.5%, Puzzle 12.2%, Building 7.9%
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 43.9% ★, Education 15.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Puzzle 9.6%
Solve logic puzzles and obstacle courses in this robot simulation game! Immerse yourself in the exciting world of robotics and programming! Create your own robot, connect logic blocks and teach it to solve challenging tasks!
Why similar: Programming 41.5% ★, Education 17.7%, Simulation 15%, Building 12.6%, Puzzle 12.5%
A hardcore puzzle game about digital circuits
Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Education 34.5%, Puzzle 16.2%, 2D 6.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Conludus is an interactive learning system that uses gamification to make studying information technology fun and engaging. The system has 3 game modes, a quest. Conludus is actively expanding to provide fun learning in different topics. Try Conludus today and take your IT skills to the next level!
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Education 25.7%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 15.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 50.9% ★, Simulation 15%, Building 11.6%, Education 9.6%, Puzzle 9.6%
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 43.6% ★, Puzzle 12.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 10.3%
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 44.9% ★, Education 17.7%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 10.7%, Puzzle 10.6%
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 48.1% ★, Simulation 23.2%, Education 14.3%, Puzzle 13.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 49.1% ★, Building 17.4%, Simulation 15.5%, Puzzle 13.2%, 2D 4.4%
Program potato workers to process numbers with simple punch-in instructions at a factory that mimics a processor. Optimize solutions to solve challenging open-ended puzzles. Punch, observe, learn, repeat.
Why similar: Programming 51.7% ★, Education 20.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, 2D 2.2%
Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Education 26.6%, Simulation 23.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
In DeadLock, the player must connect the processor and the resources it needs in the appropriate order to prevent 'DeadLock' from occurring. More and more targets need to be scheduled, and new kinds of resources emerge. It's up to the player to efficiently schedule without generating 'Deadlock'.
Why similar: Strategy 31.7%, Simulation 24.1%, Puzzle 20.3%, Building 15.9%, 2D 6.9%
Build working digital computers in a 3D voxel sandbox. Design logic circuits, CPUs, memory, and programmable machines using switches, wires, gates, LEDs, and reusable components, limited only by your imagination.
Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Education 21.3%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 16.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 52% ★, Education 21.1%, Simulation 13.2%, Puzzle 11%, 2D 2.3%
Mather is a fast-paced, high-pressure console math game. Beat the clock, solve equations, unlock 9 Steam achievements, and prove your brain power!
Why similar: Strategy 39.9%, Education 35.1%, Puzzle 16%, 2D 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Flow is a math puzzle game with minimalist graphics and challenging levels. Connect numbers, place operators, and sharpen your mind in a relaxing setting.
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Education 18.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Puzzle 12.7%
A lockpicking simulator that does not roll dice. Pin tumbler locks, simulated rather than scored: no hidden success chance, no progress bar. A pin sets because you held the pick still inside a window a fraction of a millimetre wide, long enough to catch.
Why similar: Simulation 42%, Education 32.4%, Puzzle 17.6%, 2D 6.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
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 58.1% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Puzzle 12.7%, Education 12%, 2D 2.4%
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Why similar: Simulation 23.3%, Building 22.9%, Strategy 20.6%, Education 16.3%, Puzzle 12.6%
Solve puzzles by building different things for your automata! In the end, you will find that it is not just a video game...
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Strategy 40.7%, Puzzle 11%
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Why similar: Simulation 23.7%, Building 23%, Strategy 22.2%, Puzzle 19.2%, 2D 5.4%
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 41.4% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Building 19%, Puzzle 14.7%, 2D 4.9%
The Con Simulator is a simulation game for players who are dreaming about organizing their own comic con! (｡･ω･)ﾉﾞ
Why similar: Simulation 44.1%, Strategy 39.9%, Building 16.1%
A playing-card-themed logic puzzle game where you assemble code to generate patterns using loops and conditionals. From simple rows to complex nested-loop challenges, master the logic and try to complete this visually satisfying puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 60.6% ★, Education 26.2%, Puzzle 12%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 42.2% ★, Building 17.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Puzzle 11.3%, Strategy 9.3%
Tired of boring network diagrams? Network & Cyber Security Simulator takes networking and cybersecurity into an interactive first-person (FPS) simulation game! Learn by doing, configure realistic CLI terminals from scratch, solve technical puzzles, and become the digital architect!
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 18.5%, Education 17.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Programming 28.8% ★, Education 24.4%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 10.7%, 2D 6.8%
