60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Logic, Puzzle.
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.
Virtual Circuit Board
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.
Mnemonimov
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.
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 25.1% ★, Education 10.1%, Hacking 10% ★, Science 9.8% ★, Automation 9.8%
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 25.4% ★, Design & Illustration 10.7% ★, Education 10.1%, Hacking 9.8% ★, Automation 9.4%
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 28.1% ★, Automation 13.8%, Hacking 10.7% ★, Science 9.5% ★, Education 9.4%
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 28.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Science 8.2% ★
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 33.2% ★, Hacking 11.8% ★, Education 10.4%, Automation 9.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 31.4% ★, Automation 14.9%, Hacking 13% ★, Education 10%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 28.3% ★, Hacking 14.6% ★, Science 11.7% ★, Automation 11.6%, Education 11.3%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Education 14.8%, Hacking 8.8% ★, Automation 8.6%, Puzzle 5.7%
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 48.1% ★, Education 16.4%, Science 9.6% ★, Simulation 6.8%, Sandbox 6.6%
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 38.4% ★, Automation 17.5%, Education 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 24.4% ★, Automation 14.4%, Hacking 13% ★, Science 10.8% ★, Education 10.4%
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Why similar: Programming 26.5% ★, Hacking 14.2% ★, Automation 12.8%, Education 11.3%, Science 9.2% ★
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Hacking 19.6% ★, Automation 16.6%, Education 13%, Simulation 5%
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 38.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Science 11% ★, Puzzle 8.1%, Building 5.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 56% ★, Automation 17.6%, Education 6.9%, Puzzle 5.7%, Simulation 4.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 17.1%, Science 16.3% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Puzzle 9.7%
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 35.5% ★, Automation 17.2%, Education 15.5%, Sandbox 10%, Building 7.5%
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 42.7% ★, Science 11.1% ★, Education 11%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 30.3% ★, Automation 15.7%, Education 13.5%, Hacking 9.1% ★, Building 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 37.6% ★, Automation 20.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Puzzle 10.4%
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 46.8% ★, Hacking 18% ★, Education 14.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 39.9% ★, Automation 19.2%, Education 11.2%, Simulation 9%, Science 8.8% ★
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 30.6% ★, Automation 16.3%, Science 12.6% ★, Education 11.7%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 47.7% ★, Hacking 20% ★, Automation 14.9%, Puzzle 6.5%, Simulation 4.4%
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 45.5% ★, Hacking 19.1% ★, Automation 18.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Puzzle 7.1%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Building 7.7%
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 35.8% ★, Education 12.8%, Science 12.2% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 7.8%
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 44.3% ★, Automation 21.9%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%
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% ★, Education 18.6%, Automation 17.9%, Science 13.8% ★, Simulation 10.6%
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 51.7% ★, Automation 24.2%, Education 9.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Exploration 3%
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 35.9% ★, Automation 21.1%, Hacking 10.1% ★, Education 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%
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 42.9% ★, Education 20.6%, Sandbox 15.1%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 9.3%
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 60.7% ★, Education 12.7%, Automation 9.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 4.8%
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 48.7% ★, Automation 23.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, Simulation 6.3%, Sandbox 3.1%
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Hacking 23.3% ★, Education 17.7%, Puzzle 6.7%, Science 4.1% ★
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 42% ★, Automation 22%, Sandbox 10.9%, Puzzle 7.4%, Relaxing 5.3%
Click to place components to create anything from a piano to a computer in a virtual sandbox environment.
Why similar: Education 18.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Programming 13.2% ★, Building 9.1%, Design & Illustration 8.9% ★
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 40.5% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Education 13.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 48% ★, Automation 19.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Education 9%
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 48% ★, Hacking 17.3% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Education 12.1%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 66.3% ★, Hacking 11.1% ★, Puzzle 7%, Automation 4.6%, Education 4.5%
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Why similar: Programming 42.9% ★, Hacking 22.5% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Education 11.8%, Puzzle 6.4%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Hacking 19.7% ★, Automation 16.6%, Simulation 7.1%, Sandbox 6.8%
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 41.8% ★, Automation 15.7%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7%, Education 7%
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 39.5% ★, Simulation 14.6%, Automation 13.3%, Education 12.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 38.5% ★, Automation 25%, Building 11.6%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 9.3%
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 47.9% ★, Science 13.4% ★, Automation 11.6%, Puzzle 7.7%, Education 6.5%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 20.2%, Education 9.8%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 6.1%
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 47% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 13%, Education 10.1%, Building 8.7%
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 52% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Automation 3.6%
Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.
Why similar: Programming 35% ★, Hacking 18.7% ★, Automation 16.1%, Education 14.2%, Puzzle 4.9%
Dream Home Designer is a game where you get to create your dream house. Select a plot, build, furnish and customize every detail according to your visions in this sandbox style experience.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 39.3% ★, Education 17.2%, Sandbox 16%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 10.8%
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 40.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Education 12.6%, Building 7%, Simulation 6.4%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Automation 19%, Education 16.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Puzzle 6.4%
Edd-E is a pixel-art game maker with custom visual scripting and publishing platform. Create games and Publish them with just one click. Play games from other creators or edit them. Learn programming and game development!
Why similar: Programming 23.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Education 16.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 9.4%
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Hacking 19% ★, Automation 15.9%, Education 15.1%, Science 14.8% ★, Sandbox 10.7%
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Programming 21.1% ★, Automation 16.4%, Hacking 15.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 8.4%
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 65% ★, Education 10.5%, Puzzle 8.8%, Automation 6.5%, Simulation 6.4%
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Why similar: Programming 49.4% ★, Hacking 19.1% ★, Automation 16.6%, Education 4.6%, Simulation 3.7%
Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
Why similar: Programming 36.4% ★, Automation 17.6%, Education 12%, Hacking 11.1% ★, Sandbox 8.2%
