60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Logic, Indie.
A programming puzzle game where you step into the role of a gameplay programmer, write code to build the core mechanics of a wide variety of games, and solve increasingly challenging development problems.
Programming Simulator
you are a game developer who writes game code according to the tasks assigned by the company. You need to drag and drop nodes and connect them to build a complete behavioral logic!
Shaderland
Shaderland :: a creative-programming puzzle game :: wire up nodes // create world of pixels // guide polygonal creatures // learn computer graphics
you are a game developer who writes game code according to the tasks assigned by the company. You need to drag and drop nodes and connect them to build a complete behavioral logic!
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Game Development 31.3% ★, Logic 11.8%, Education 7.5%, Simulation 4%
Shaderland :: a creative-programming puzzle game :: wire up nodes // create world of pixels // guide polygonal creatures // learn computer graphics
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Game Development 23.4% ★, Logic 12.2%, Automation 7.6%, Education 7%
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Game Development 33% ★, Logic 11.3%, Education 6.4%, Puzzle 4.2%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 64.9% ★, Logic 11.1%, Automation 10.3%, Puzzle 5.4%, Education 3.9%
Instruct a robot to resolve hostage situations in this tactical programming puzzle game. Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment to save every hostage. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 63.2% ★, Logic 17.2%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Indie 1.5%
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 69.4% ★, Logic 8.2%, Puzzle 7.5%, Education 5.1%, Simulation 3.9%
Mnemonimov is a fantasy console where you program in ASSEMBLY like in the 80s. Build anything from games to operating systems and understand how computers work at a low level.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Game Development 29.9% ★, Logic 10.1%, Automation 8.3%, Education 7%
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 68.5% ★, Puzzle 7.9%, Education 6.7%, Automation 5.2%, Logic 4.9%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Game Development 35.2% ★, Programming 26.6% ★, Automation 10.4%, Education 8.5%, Logic 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 46% ★, Game Development 15.8% ★, Logic 14.5%, Automation 8.7%, Simulation 4.2%
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 58.8% ★, Logic 16%, Education 8%, Simulation 7.9%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 56.3% ★, Automation 13.7%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 4.2%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Automation 8%, Education 5.4%
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 76.3% ★, Logic 7.1%, Puzzle 6.6%, Simulation 2.9%, Automation 2.7%
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 49.3% ★, Logic 14%, Automation 11.3%, Education 8.1%, Puzzle 7%
The world's first Unity programming learning game with C-Sharp. Explore, solve, and modify code in themed challenges from basics to expert levels. Dive into a one-of-a-kind learning adventure, mastering Unity along the way.
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Game Development 33.8% ★, Logic 9.9%, Education 7.6%, Puzzle 4.6%
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 58.2% ★, Logic 17.2%, Education 8.9%, Puzzle 6.9%, Simulation 5.8%
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 49.7% ★, Logic 14.6%, Automation 12%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 6.7%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 52.6% ★, Logic 14.8%, Automation 12.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 6.3%
Practice computer science algorithms offline, for job interviews or personal skill building: read a problem, write C, run the full test deck, and get a deterministic verdict with instruction counts and the output assembly language code on a fantasy RISC machine.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Game Development 24.3% ★, Logic 11.2%, Education 7.5%, Automation 6.4%
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 68.3% ★, Education 9.4%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 5.3%, Simulation 3.3%
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 46.4% ★, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 10.1%, Indie 8.1%, Automation 7.9%
Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.
Why similar: Programming 59.3% ★, Logic 22.1%, Puzzle 12.2%, 2D 2.6%, Indie 1.9%
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 61.3% ★, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 5.2%, Strategy 2.8%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 56.2% ★, Logic 21.9%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 7.1%, Casual 2.2%
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 52.9% ★, Logic 16.3%, Game Development 10.7% ★, Education 10.4%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 65.5% ★, Automation 15.5%, Puzzle 8.6%, Education 5.6%, Strategy 2.4%
Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong dream.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Game Development 34.8% ★, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 3.3%, Indie 2.1%
Small games to casually play when you wake up early on a Saturday morning.
Why similar: Game Development 35.2% ★, Programming 32.7% ★, Automation 11.3%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 64.3% ★, Education 10.9%, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 6.7%, Simulation 6%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Logic 12.4%, Automation 11.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Education 5.7%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Logic 18%, Automation 15.3%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 3.4%
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 50.9% ★, Logic 14.1%, Automation 12.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 4.5%
Dive into a sandbox operating system simulator and learn to code with FantasyLang. Personalise your desktop, build and tweak apps, uncover hidden secrets, and venture into the darknet. Shape the system however you like. Your OS, your rules.
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, Game Development 35.3% ★, Logic 8.7%, Education 7.6%, Simulation 5%
U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.
Why similar: Programming 62% ★, Logic 16%, Puzzle 8%, Automation 6.1%, Simulation 2.3%
Bug Catcher is a lost Creature Collector where you solve bugs and catch Buggies. Rearrange the game's code to fix and catch over 100 Buggies, and explore the hidden secrets of an unreleased game. No programming knowledge required!
Why similar: Programming 49.1% ★, Game Development 32.2% ★, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 7.1%, 2D 1.5%
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 58.7% ★, Puzzle 14.7%, Logic 13.6%, Automation 7.2%, Indie 2.3%
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 58% ★, Automation 14.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%
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 48.3% ★, Logic 15.4%, Education 12.1%, Automation 8.6%, Puzzle 7.7%
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 57.4% ★, Logic 16.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Education 7.1%
[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 53.6% ★, Logic 17.6%, Automation 15.5%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 1.9%
Cal & Bomba is a programmatic puzzle game. Program short sequences to navigate the playfield, aim your cannon using potions, and take down your enemies with various explosives. Turn your enemies against each other, and create explosive chain reactions. 150+ puzzles sure to melt your brain!
Why similar: Programming 58.8% ★, Logic 19.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Education 7.1%, Strategy 2.7%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 56% ★, Logic 17.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Automation 9%, Simulation 5%
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: Game Development 29.7% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Logic 11.5%, Automation 10%, Education 9.5%
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 50.5% ★, Logic 13.5%, Automation 12.7%, Puzzle 8.2%, Education 7.6%
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 54% ★, Logic 17%, Automation 14.2%, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 3.5%
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 63.8% ★, Education 11.5%, Automation 11.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Indie 3.8%
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 71.7% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Education 5.6%, Indie 3.9%
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 50.8% ★, Logic 14.3%, Automation 11%, Education 7.4%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 69.8% ★, Education 11.4%, Puzzle 7.3%, Simulation 5.8%, Logic 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 59.1% ★, Automation 11.6%, Puzzle 11%, Simulation 9.9%, Logic 4.9%
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 50% ★, Logic 17.1%, Automation 13%, Indie 11.8%, Puzzle 8.1%
ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.
Why similar: Programming 49.4% ★, Logic 15.6%, Automation 11.4%, Puzzle 7.1%, Education 6.9%
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 50.9% ★, Logic 16.6%, Automation 12%, Puzzle 8.1%, Education 7.8%
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 68.9% ★, Simulation 9.8%, Education 9.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 4.5%
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 34.3% ★, Game Development 31% ★, Logic 13.2%, Automation 8.7%, Puzzle 5.9%
Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 61.1% ★, Logic 17.4%, Education 9.2%, Puzzle 8.1%, Casual 1.4%
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 65.8% ★, Logic 11%, Automation 10.1%, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 3.6%
Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?
Why similar: Programming 79.4% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 7.7%
