60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Automation.
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$!
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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!
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 54% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 8.7%, Puzzle 5.8%, Building 3%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 30.7%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 8.3%, Building 3.8%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 18.5%, Puzzle 16.1%, Logic 11%, Building 1.4%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 33.3% ★, Automation 28.5%, Building 14.7%, Logic 12%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 33.8% ★, Automation 23.8%, Building 11.6%, Logic 9.5%, 1980s 6.4%
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 35.5% ★, Automation 23%, Building 9.6%, Logic 9.3%, 1980s 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 34.9% ★, Automation 29.2%, Building 16.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Logic 5%
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 31% ★, Automation 24.7%, Building 13.2%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 6.4%
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Automation 23.1%, Logic 10.9%, Level Editor 9.8%, Physics 8.3%
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 40.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Building 12.3%, Puzzle 7.1%, Logic 7.1%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Programming 25.4% ★, Building 15.6%, 1980s 7.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Automation 28.5%, Logic 13.1%, Level Editor 9.1%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 67.1% ★, Puzzle 10.7%, Level Editor 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Simulation 4.6%
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% ★, Puzzle 8.3%, Automation 7.9%, Logic 6.5%, Simulation 2.1%
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 28.1%, Building 12.5%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 34.1% ★, Automation 27.3%, Building 14.7%, Physics 8.9%, Puzzle 6.3%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Puzzle 22.9%, Logic 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, Level Editor 3.8%
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Why similar: Programming 26% ★, Automation 21%, Building 15.5%, Physics 11.5%, Logic 9.9%
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 66.5% ★, Automation 15.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Logic 4.5%, Simulation 2.2%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 23.6%, Building 15.3%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 73.9% ★, Puzzle 13.5%, Simulation 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%, Indie 2.5%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 27.5%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 8.4%, Physics 7.7%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 63.8%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Automation 31.8%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Building 4.7%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 35.4% ★, Automation 29.4%, Logic 11.7%, Physics 10%, Puzzle 6.6%
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Physics 35.8%, Crafting 25.5%, Logic 14.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Automation 43.9%, Programming 38.2% ★, Logic 9.2%, Simulation 4.8%, Resource Management 2.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 48.1% ★, Automation 28.5%, Puzzle 11.7%, Simulation 5.9%, Logic 3.8%
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ visual puzzles and hack other players’ creations. No coding or physics background required.
Why similar: Programming 32.8% ★, Automation 24.7%, Building 13.4%, Logic 10.5%, Level Editor 9.3%
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Automation 57.6%, Physics 20.3%, Puzzle 12.6%, Simulation 5%, 2D 2.9%
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 43.2% ★, Automation 33.5%, Crafting 8%, Puzzle 7.8%, 2D 2.5%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Building 19.3%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 10.1%, Crafting 7%
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 35.6% ★, Automation 27.7%, Building 12.8%, Logic 11.4%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 74% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 1%
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 69.4% ★, Building 12.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 4.2%, Logic 3.9%
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Programming 29% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Resource Management 5%
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 58.1% ★, Logic 16.6%, Puzzle 12.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Indie 2.9%
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% ★, Automation 27.3%, Building 14%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 7.5%
In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Automation 35.2%, Logic 11.6%, Puzzle 6.8%, Simulation 2.8%
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 9.9%, Retro 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Building 14.9%, Physics 14.6%, Logic 13%, Retro 8.1%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 45.2%, Building 24.7%, Logic 11.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Resource Management 4.8%
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 38.4% ★, Automation 28.1%, Building 12.9%, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 6.6%
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Building 17.4%, Logic 12.6%, Simulation 9%, Crafting 8.2%
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: Building 26.8%, Physics 23.4%, Automation 15.7%, Puzzle 10.8%, Logic 8.5%
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 34.6%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 5.1%, Simulation 3.3%
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 39.2% ★, Automation 30.6%, Building 15%, Puzzle 6.1%, Simulation 2.9%
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Building 33.3%, Crafting 15.4%, Physics 15.1%, Retro 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
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 54.8% ★, Automation 25.2%, Logic 8.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 2.1%
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Programming 31.2% ★, Automation 27.1%, Building 15.7%, Physics 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
Inspired by legendary classics from the ’90s, Craftlings will take you on a journey full of strategic decisions and test your skills in optimizing automated production chains and Craftlings’ paths. Gather, deliver, build, and fight for wealth and glory in the unique, nostalgic world of Craftlings.
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Automation 29.6%, Building 17.5%, Puzzle 7.5%, Retro 6.5%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 47.7%, Building 25.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 5.5%, Simulation 4.3%
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 62% ★, Building 18.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 2.2%
A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that expand on classic sokoban gameplay with new and creative mechanics. Build your own devious creations with the included level editor!
Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 20%, Logic 17.8%, Puzzle 17.6%, Level Editor 13.9%, Retro 11.1%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 44.7%, Building 20.3%, Logic 12.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Puzzle 8.2%
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Building 19.1%, Logic 15.8%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Building 17.1%, Level Editor 14.4%, Physics 14.1%, Puzzle 9.6%
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
Why similar: Programming 48.2% ★, Automation 42.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, Simulation 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...
Why similar: Programming 65.8% ★, Logic 14.7%, Retro 9.4%, Puzzle 4.9%, Adventure 2.6%
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Why similar: Building 38.8%, Physics 23.5%, Puzzle 12.6%, Level Editor 10.8%, Crafting 7%
