60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Programming, Strategy, Singleplayer.
A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.
Autonauts
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.
Icaria
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
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 37.1% ★, Automation 19.2%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 5%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Robots 7.4%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 31% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
Sail your island. Bring new land home. A colony sim where heroes of history and myth gather, build and fight to survive. Merge islands, plan your settlement, set each hero’s priorities and automate production—then take command in battle. Turn a tiny camp into a moving homeland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Programming 20.1% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 36.2% ★, Automation 18.4%, Robots 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 45.9% ★, Automation 17.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Robots 6.5%
Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.
Why similar: Programming 41.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Robots 12.9%, Base Building 6.7%, Sandbox 6.4%
"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 29% ★, Automation 24.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 6.5%
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 35.8% ★, Automation 22.2%, Robots 12.4%, Artificial Intelligence 11.3%, Simulation 5.7%
Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 40% ★, Automation 19.3%, Robots 11.1%, Artificial Intelligence 9.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Automation 21.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 23.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Puzzle 5.4%, Sandbox 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 59% ★, Automation 27.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Puzzle 5.6%, Exploration 1.7%
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 46.5% ★, Automation 18.3%, Robots 14.4%, Artificial Intelligence 8.2%, Strategy 5.2%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Automation 26.8%, Robots 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 40.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Strategy 6%
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Artificial Intelligence 11.2%, Robots 9%, Grid-Based Movement 7.7%
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Programming 31.6% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Robots 11.4%, Artificial Intelligence 8.8%
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.
Why similar: Programming 53.3% ★, Automation 21.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Resource Management 4.1%
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 46.2% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 12.6%, Robots 10%, Sandbox 8.3%
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Programming 33.6% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Automation 12.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Robots 10.7%
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 56.2% ★, Automation 26.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 5.2%, Sandbox 2.6%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Robots 9%, Simulation 8.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 67.9% ★, Automation 21.1%, Puzzle 4.1%, Simulation 3.7%, Sandbox 2.3%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 5%
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 39.8% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 5.1%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 23.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Robots 6.8%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 51.6% ★, Automation 23.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 4.3%
An automation roguelite for 1–4 players. Set worker bots to craft and deliver supplies while fighting bots battle the Goofy Goo. Piece a broken planet back together, strengthen your production network and try new strategies on each run.
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
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 52.8% ★, Robots 18.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 4.9%
GODBOX is a coding god-sim where you program life, grow your power by unlocking divine domains, and compete against rival deities. Help your devoted Folk survive while you harness their faith to fuel your divine ascension.
Why similar: Programming 36.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 13.5%, Artificial Intelligence 12.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 39% ★, Automation 19%, Robots 14.6%, Artificial Intelligence 12.9%, Strategy 4.9%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Programming 25.1% ★, Automation 21%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Robots 7.2%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Automation 24.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Strategy 5%
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 22.1%, Artificial Intelligence 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 5.7%
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Programming 35.1% ★, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9%, Mining 7.6% ★
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Automation 11.9%, Strategy 8.3%
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 58.9% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Puzzle 6.8%, Simulation 6.3%
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 54.2% ★, Automation 26.6%, Simulation 6.6%, Puzzle 6.3%, Grid-Based Movement 5.1%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 6.9%
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.9%
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 48.2% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Simulation 5.5%
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Why similar: Programming 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Artificial Intelligence 10.5%
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 46.6% ★, Automation 25.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 5.5%
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 48.7% ★, Automation 27.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 3.6%
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 49.9% ★, Automation 22.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 6%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 13.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Artificial Intelligence 11.1%, Simulation 7.6%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Survival 4.8%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 18%, Automation 14.5%, Survival 7.3%, Simulation 7%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Mining 6.9% ★
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Mining 8.7% ★
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Automation 27.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 53.4% ★, Automation 19.8%, Artificial Intelligence 8.7%, Sandbox 5.3%, Resource Management 3.8%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Robots 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Programming 22.1% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Capitalism 8.2%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 52.5% ★, Robots 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Artificial Intelligence 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
Program your robot in real-time to fight in a nervous 2D fighting game !
Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Automation 18.2%, Robots 14.1%, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Real Time Tactics 7.3%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 65.3% ★, Robots 19.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Indie 2.1%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 52.9% ★, Automation 16.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Puzzle 6.5%, Simulation 5.9%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Automation 26.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Sandbox 4.1%
