- #1 PromptCrafter
97% match8 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: DevHaskell
Windows
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
Why similar: Programming 28.7% ★, Typing 25.7% ★, Automation 16.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Time Management 9.9%
- #2 Pawn.OS()
96% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Punic Code
Windows
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Typing 25.3% ★, Automation 19.7%, Text-Based 10.8%, Strategy 3.9%
- #3 Word Factori
96% matchVery Positive84% of 447 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 31.5% ★, Typing 21.2% ★, Automation 19.5%, Management 8.8%, Puzzle 5.7%
- #4 If Red Then Stop
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
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 39.7% ★, Automation 22%, Artificial Intelligence 7.8%, Text-Based 7.4%, Simulation 7.2%
- #5 Brainfuck Challenge
94% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Lyric Law
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 46.9% ★, Automation 19.7%, Typing 17.8% ★, Text-Based 9%, Puzzle 6.6%
- #6 Idle AI Factory
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kabreet Games
Windows
Dive into the world of machine learning! Idle AI Architecture is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-million dollar tech empire.
Why similar: Programming 27.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 18.6%, Automation 17.9%, Time Management 11.8%, Management 11.8%
- #7 Loopindex
93% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: SomepxPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows
Test your wits on the unique “loop mechanic” with single player or co-op multiplayer.
Why similar: Programming 32.6% ★, Sokoban 21.5% ★, Automation 21%, Artificial Intelligence 18.4%, Puzzle 4.8%
- #8 Pragma Twice
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bryan Gillespie
Windows
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 46.7% ★, Automation 23.2%, Sokoban 16.5% ★, Puzzle 7%, Simulation 6.6%
- #9 MHRD
91% matchVery Positive89% of 433 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 53.6% ★, Typing 21.6% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Difficult 7.1%, Puzzle 6.4%
- #10 SOKOBOT
91% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Alexander Taylor
Windows
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 21.8%, Difficult 11.4%, Isometric 8.5%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #11 CryptoRIG
90% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: HASSI
Windows
CryptoRIG is a semi-idle server management game focussed on cryptocurrency mining and trading.
Why similar: Programming 26.4% ★, Automation 20.3%, Artificial Intelligence 19.4%, Time Management 16.1%, Management 9.1%
- #12 Assignment 42
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 37 reviews2021
Dev: ArriblePub: Mindfire
Windows · Mac
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 33.4% ★, Automation 19.9%, Artificial Intelligence 17.7%, Difficult 11.3%, Puzzle 6%
- #13 SHENZHEN I/O
89% matchVery Positive95% of 4,421 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 59.5% ★, Automation 22.6%, Difficult 7.9%, Puzzle 5.8%, Simulation 3.9%
- #14 Delta 4 Terminal Protocol
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ignivar Technology Solutions
Windows
Wake up to silence. One terminal, one survivor, one dying ship. Can you bring the Delta-4 back online? Delta 4 is a sci-fi survival terminal sim—type commands, decode logs, and fight to keep a dying ship alive.
Why similar: Programming 41.7% ★, Typing 22.5% ★, Time Management 12.2%, Text-Based 8.3%, Simulation 6.3%
- #15 Comet 64
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 186 reviews2021
Dev: Onur AyasPub: what sorceress this
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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% ★, Typing 17.1% ★, Automation 13.8%, Difficult 9.7%, Puzzle 6.3%
- #16 Opus Magnum
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,719 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 49.5% ★, Automation 29%, Puzzle 11.3%, Simulation 5.7%, Difficult 3.7%
- #17 Torrent Empire
84% matchMixed64% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Steel Games
Windows
Are you ready to build your own torrent empire? Crack software, manage servers, dive into shady deals, and outsmart the authorities—all in the shadow of the 2000s. Balance risk and reward in this terminal-based strategy sim. Become a digital legend or lose it all!
Why similar: Programming 35.1% ★, Typing 31.2% ★, Management 9%, Text-Based 7.7%, Simulation 6.5%
- #18 Finite State Automaton Challenges
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Tramolly Game
Windows · Mac
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 54.1% ★, Automation 30.6%, Puzzle 8.3%, Strategy 5.5%, 2D 1.5%
- #19 Charge!
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Depths Games
Windows
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 41.9% ★, Automation 24.9%, Management 8.6%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 5.6%
- #20 1000-BIT
83% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: 89o
Windows · Linux
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 47.1% ★, Typing 25.1% ★, Text-Based 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #21 functional
84% matchMixed63% of 43 reviews2021
Dev: yancoutoPub: Marvellous Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Automation 18%, Text-Based 17.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #22 Omni
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JackHasaKeyboard
Linux
Omni is a game that teaches you how to program.
Why similar: Typing 37.6% ★, Automation 16.7%, Isometric 11.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #23 Time Ocean
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShiniaraPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Time Ocean is a puzzle game that you use time manipulation to overcome obstacles and reach a goal. Help the water drop that fell alone in the vast sea of time to solve the difficult puzzles and reach the last point of the sea.
Why similar: Sokoban 23% ★, Time Manipulation 17.7% ★, Difficult 17.5%, Isometric 13.3%, Puzzle 9.8%
- #24 Book of Decisions
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: SayrGames
Windows
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Typing 46% ★, Artificial Intelligence 22.7%, Text-Based 9.6%, Puzzle 7.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #25 Robot Unlock
80% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Adrian Toncean
Windows · Linux
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 41.6% ★, Automation 24.9%, Difficult 12.4%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 6.2%
- #26 Great Permutator
81% matchVery Positive86% of 148 reviews2014
Dev: Ripatti Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 40.4% ★, Automation 25.7%, Difficult 13.3%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 6.5%
- #27 Tyfortress: Tactical Typing
79% matchPositive85% of 34 reviews2021
Dev: Sensen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Protect human race last fortress against the robots by typing phrases and single words! Build and evolve towers that will help while you destroy robots by typing their words! Oh, and don't forget... Before that, you'll need to type phrases fast to gather a good amount of resources to build towers!
Why similar: Typing 37.1% ★, Automation 23.6%, Management 12%, Difficult 10.5%, Text-Based 7.2%
- #28 The Developer
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2020
Dev: Huntah
Windows
Run your own game development company, creating hit games for over 60 years worth of console releases
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Time Management 18.1%, Management 16.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #29 the Sequence [2]
78% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: [OneManBand]Pub: [OneManBand]
Windows
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 31.2%, Difficult 10.4%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 4.4%
- #30 The Farmer Was Replaced
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,884 reviews2025
Dev: Timon HerzogPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 43.1% ★, Automation 20.4%, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Puzzle 4.7%
- #31 Signal Maze
76% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: theArkitectPub: IndieArk
Windows
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 61.2% ★, Sokoban 14.4% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, 3D Vision 9.2% ★, Strategy 2.3%
- #32 DumbBots
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Hall
Windows
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Automation 20.5%, Artificial Intelligence 20.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.9%
- #33 Omnibullet
76% matchPositive100% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Arbitrary Combination
Windows
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 25.5% ★, Automation 23%, Difficult 11.9%, Management 11.7%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #34 [the Sequence]
77% matchVery Positive90% of 179 reviews2016
Dev: [OneManBand]
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
[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 45.1% ★, Automation 31.3%, Difficult 12.5%, Puzzle 8.1%, 2D 3%
- #35 SpaceChem
77% matchVery Positive92% of 5,057 reviews2011
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 50.3% ★, Difficult 17.8%, Automation 14.9%, Puzzle 14.7%, Simulation 1.1%
- #36 Hexahedra
75% matchPositive100% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Sidequest Ninja
Windows · Linux
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 42.3% ★, Automation 23.9%, Time Manipulation 18.8% ★, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 5.1%
- #37 QuantumPulse 2A
73% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Dashing Strike
Windows · Mac · Linux
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 15%, Difficult 13.6%, Text-Based 8.2%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #38 Dino Domino
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Porridge
Windows
Pixel-art "pseudo-programming" turn-based puzzle game.Swap commands to rewrite the rules: heal with fireballs, make enemies explode, trigger chain reactions!
Why similar: Programming 38.3% ★, Sokoban 21.1% ★, Automation 13.6%, Difficult 12.1%, Puzzle 6.3%
- #39 Echoes of Asjud
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InnerGlow Games
Windows
DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF A.I.Explore the post-apocalyptic landscape of Westervoort and Arnhem through the eyes of a survivor.Navigate, uncover, and puzzle your way to the conclusion.
Why similar: Programming 34.3% ★, Typing 27% ★, Artificial Intelligence 22.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Puzzle 5.4%
- #40 Robot Programmer
73% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: ZeroPub: Zero Cores
Windows · Mac
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Automation 27.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 4.7%
- #41 Codeyssey
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Write real Python code to repair Codey's spaceship and get him home! Automate and optimize tasks as you explore the planet Codey has landed on. Improve your problem solving and coding skills step by step.
Why similar: Programming 39.1% ★, Automation 23.8%, Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 6%
- #42 Infinifactory
73% matchVery Positive95% of 2,459 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 28.7%, Puzzle 11.6%, Difficult 9%, Simulation 6.2%
- #43 Kernel Quest
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jonathan Dupré
Windows
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 50.2% ★, Automation 30%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 7.4%, 2D 3%
- #44 TIS-100
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,045 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 72.9% ★, Difficult 9.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Automation 6.1%, Simulation 4.3%
- #45 TAU-09
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: axsys_crash
Windows · Linux
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 43.6% ★, Automation 21.9%, Sokoban 13.6% ★, Simulation 6.9%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #46 Human Resource Machine
71% matchVery Positive94% of 4,614 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 68.6% ★, Automation 12.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 4.8%, Difficult 4.3%
- #47 DumbBots: Hello World
71% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Michael Hall
Windows
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 42.2% ★, Artificial Intelligence 16.7%, Automation 15.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #48 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
70% matchVery Positive89% of 678 reviews2019
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 51% ★, Automation 24.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 11.1%
- #49 Code Has Price
69% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Fewjix
Windows
Collect and buy commands. Construct program from them. Run code to get more coins and commands. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 40.7% ★, Automation 24%, Sokoban 24% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Puzzle 4.1%
- #50 Kaizen: A Factory Story
67% matchVery Positive93% of 646 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 23.3%, Difficult 11.7%, Puzzle 6.6%, Simulation 6.2%
- #51 Upload Labs
66% matchVery Positive92% of 6,472 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Programming 34.5% ★, Automation 31.3%, Time Management 13.8%, Management 9.7%, Simulation 9.3%
- #52 As Planned
70% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: besukohu
Windows
"As Planned" is a puzzle game in which players give a limited number of instructions to a slime that repeats the same movement to move boxes to specified positions.
Why similar: Sokoban 47.5% ★, Programming 28.7% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Top-Down 9.7%, 2D 4.3%
- #53 Baba Is You
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,702 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 32.9% ★, Sokoban 24.9% ★, Difficult 21%, Puzzle 16.5%, 2D 2.7%
- #54 Arcana Automata
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grumpy Penguin Games
Windows
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 50.3% ★, Automation 23.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Text-Based 7.2%
- #55 Typo!
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: unNamedPub: unnamed Studio
Windows
Defend your computer's firewall in this fast-paced typing game, battling waves of word-based viruses in Endless or Survival mode, where speed and accuracy are your only weapons against defeat.
Why similar: Typing 53.4% ★, Programming 26.5% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, 2D 3.5%
- #56 Escape From Hard Drive
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: Fewjix
Windows
EFHD is a game where programs change how game works. Modify and run the source files to create, destroy and move other objects.
Why similar: Programming 32% ★, Sokoban 26.8% ★, Automation 20.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Simulation 4%
- #57 May's Journey
66% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Chaima Jemmali
Windows · Mac · Linux
May’s Journey is a 2.5D puzzle game where players use pseudo code to solve environmental mazes and learn programming basics, guiding protagonist May to restore balance in a fractured, fictional world.
Why similar: Programming 56.6% ★, Typing 28.1% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #58 Glyphs Apprentice
69% matchMixed61% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: inSPIRE Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.
Why similar: Programming 65.2% ★, Difficult 19.4%, Puzzle 11.3%, 2D 4.1%
- #59 Code World
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 44 reviews2017
Dev: Fewjix
Windows
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 45.8% ★, Automation 24.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Puzzle 5.7%, Simulation 5.4%
- #60 Backcast
66% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: botterYosukePub: Sasaco Co., Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 55.2% ★, Automation 27%, Simulation 11.6%, Top-Down 4.6%, 2D 1.7%