
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Automation, Singleplayer.

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.

Opus Magnum
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!

MOLEK-SYNTEZ
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
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 43.8% ★, Automation 25.6%, Puzzle 11.8%, Logic 8.5%, Simulation 4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Automation 19.6%, Science 15.2% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 8.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 54.2% ★, Automation 20.6%, Logic 8.7%, Puzzle 6.2%, Simulation 2.9%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 22%, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 8.9%, Science 8.3% ★
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 42.2% ★, Automation 25.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Building 7.5%, Logic 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 33% ★, Automation 25.3%, Science 9.2% ★, Logic 7.6%, Simulation 6%
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 37.3% ★, Automation 24.6%, Puzzle 11.7%, Building 8.5%, Logic 5.2%
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 40.3% ★, Automation 22.4%, Logic 10.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Puzzle 5.8%
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 39.9% ★, Automation 22%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 4.6%
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 50.3% ★, Automation 28.5%, Puzzle 9.1%, Strategy 5%, Casual 3%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 6%
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 36.9% ★, Automation 23.4%, Logic 8.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Building 7.5%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 39.3% ★, Automation 28.3%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 3.2%
In the second episode of Finite State Automation Challenges, you will use finite-state automata to overcome 80 challenges from character string manipulation, computer science, and mathematics.
Why similar: Programming 45.1% ★, Automation 13.3%, Science 12.4% ★, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 7.9%
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 45.5% ★, Puzzle 15.7%, Automation 13.4%, Logic 9.8%, Science 5.6% ★
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 25.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Science 13.6% ★, Logic 11.9%, Simulation 7.6%
[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 41% ★, Automation 28.5%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8.7%, Difficult 3.1%
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 36% ★, Automation 25%, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 9.1%, Building 7.9%
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 41.2% ★, Automation 26.1%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 3.3%
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 38.5% ★, Automation 20.1%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 6.7%, Building 5.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 52% ★, Logic 13.6%, Automation 11.6%, Puzzle 7.3%, Education 5.1%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Automation 16.7%, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 10.2%, Building 6.1%
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 60.8% ★, Automation 11.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Logic 4.1%, Education 3.9%
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 31.9% ★, Automation 20.5%, Science 12.9% ★, Building 6.6%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 35.4% ★, Automation 16.8%, Science 13.7% ★, Logic 9.6%, Building 6.5%
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 37.5% ★, Automation 22.1%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 8.1%, Building 6.8%
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 21.5%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Management 6.6%
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Connect, test, assemble and fail in spectacular ways. This cozy simulator lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved!
Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Automation 20.9%, Science 11.7% ★, Logic 10.1%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 22%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 6.7%, Building 5.8%
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 35.4% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 9%, Building 7.8%, Puzzle 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 41.3% ★, Automation 18.8%, Logic 12.1%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 4.5%
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Automation 16.6%, Science 13.5% ★, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 36.2% ★, Automation 29.5%, Logic 9.4%, Building 8.9%, Puzzle 7.8%
Build machines... break codes... win the war! It's 1942 and the world is engulfed in war. Meanwhile, in a country mansion in South East England, a group of expert mathematicians are fighting a war of their own, breaking an unbreakable Nazi code... Enigma!
Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Automation 17.6%, Logic 10.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Puzzle 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 51.9% ★, Puzzle 11.5%, Logic 11.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.4%
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 40.8% ★, Automation 14.1%, Science 8.2% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Logic 6.9%
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 64.8% ★, Puzzle 10%, Automation 7.8%, Logic 7.1%, Simulation 4.5%
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 41.2% ★, Automation 24.7%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 4.9%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 21.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Building 5.7%, Simulation 5.5%
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 38.8% ★, Automation 30.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, Building 8.9%, Simulation 6.7%
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 39.4% ★, Automation 23%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 7.3%, Building 6.3%
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 57.3% ★, Science 11.3% ★, Puzzle 8.3%, Education 6%, Simulation 5.8%
SysOps Saga is a simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing the intricate web of software, security, and hardware to keep digital systems running. Developed by a FAANG veteran, this game offers an immersive and educational experience for IT enthusiasts.
Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Automation 27.5%, Logic 10.6%, Science 6.7% ★, Simulation 6.2%
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Why similar: Programming 39% ★, Science 13.1% ★, Logic 11.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Building 6.5%
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 47.8% ★, Logic 13%, Science 12.3% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 8.6%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 16.5%, Logic 11%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 36.2% ★, Automation 16.2%, Science 11.7% ★, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 38.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Science 11% ★, Puzzle 8.1%, Building 5.9%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 23%, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 5.9%
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 54.4% ★, Automation 22.9%, Puzzle 9%, Education 6.3%, Casual 3.8%
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 70.6% ★, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 6.1%, Automation 5.9%, Simulation 3.3%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world, semi-realistic art style with puzzle-solving, programming, and visual novel elements. play as a Soul Seal Master, Craft Soul Seals, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 44.7% ★, Automation 31.7%, Puzzle 7.3%, Logic 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%
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 54.3% ★, Automation 20.6%, Logic 8.6%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 3.6%
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Education 4.3%
Direct your secret guild of tiny gnomes, hidden somewhere out in the forest, to manufacture products as efficiently as possible in this optimization-based puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 41.9% ★, Automation 26.2%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 9.2%
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 26.3% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 8.8%, Building 8.3%
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 61.5% ★, Puzzle 12.1%, Science 9% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Indie 3.1%
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Automation 18.4%, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Education 6.9%
A programmer's career sim. Acquire actual coding skills while playing! Learn programming from zero, earn skill points, change your office, create devices and games with visual programming. Our code learning game is a perfect introduction to Python, C++, C#, Java, or JavaScript.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 21.1%, Science 12.8% ★, Logic 9.3%, Building 7.3%