Games Like CodeSpells

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 92% ★, Simulation 4.4%, Indie 1.9%, Education 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle game that requires assembly-level programming to repair corrupted code.

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 76.7% ★, Simulation 7.8%, Education 7.2%, Sandbox 6.5%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming puzzle game that introduces machine learning concepts through visual programming logic.

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 76.1% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: You write actual JavaScript code to control your units and automate your empire in a persistent MMO world.

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: Programming 70.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Education 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep building game where you construct complex digital circuits and functional logic systems.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 70.6% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 9.9%, Education 6.6%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Teaches you how computers work by letting you build one from scratch using logic gates and assembly.

A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.

Why similar: Programming 91.4% ★, Adventure 4.4%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world adventure where you can hack the source code of objects to change their behavior and solve puzzles.

Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.

Why similar: Programming 91.6% ★, Indie 4.6%, Adventure 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person programming game where you modify the world's code to solve spatial puzzles.

Adventure Land is an experimental Indie MMORPG. ANYONE can Code not just one, but up to 4 characters! You can play manually, use the given default Javascript Code, or learn programming to do more! Going open-source at 10,000 installs!

Why similar: Programming 86.9% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: An MMO where you control your character entirely through custom JavaScript code.

Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Why similar: Programming 67.7% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Multiplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox that uses a visual programming language to create complex machines and gadgets.

Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!

Why similar: Magic 57.3%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 14.7%, Action 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for deep customization of spells by combining different magical effects and modifiers.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 88.1% ★, Simulation 4.7%, Education 3%, Sandbox 2.5%, Indie 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A complex engineering game focused on building circuits and writing assembly code to solve technical challenges.

Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.

Why similar: Programming 76.1% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 6%, Indie 3.1%, Education 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic hacking simulator that relies on terminal commands and scripting to progress.

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 68.9% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Education 8.1%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox for creating your own digital logic circuits and complex electronic systems.

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 89% ★, Simulation 4.5%, Sandbox 3.9%, Education 2.2%, Indie 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG where you write scripts to hack servers and automate your progression.

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 80.8% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Indie 4.4%, Action 1.6%, Multiplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game where you use programming to automate your base and manage resources.

Arcane Assembly is a fantasy metroidvania where you create spells using a visual programming language. Unlock new instructions, upgrade your powers, and fight epic bosses on your journey to becoming the most powerful wizard who ever lived.

Why similar: Programming 82.8% ★, Sandbox 7.4%, Action 3.6%, Adventure 3.5%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action-adventure gameplay with deep spell customization and programming elements.

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Magic 44.8%, Sandbox 26.7%, Simulation 15.7%, Action 6.5%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends magic and automation, allowing you to build complex systems to harness arcane power.

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Programming 74.6% ★, Multiplayer 14.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 2.6%, Education 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: You program the AI of your robot squad to compete in tactical, autonomous battles.

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Programming 61.9% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Education 11.4%, Simulation 11%, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox for building and programming your own interactive electronic devices from scratch.

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 77.9% ★, Simulation 9.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Teaches programming concepts through automation by teaching robots to perform repetitive tasks.

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 66.8% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Sandbox 12%, Education 4%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game where you build and program robots to solve various engineering challenges.

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 90.5% ★, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game where you manipulate the rules of the game world by moving blocks of code-like text.

Waltz of the Wizard sends you on journey of mischief, mayhem and mild sarcasm in a fantastical realm full of spells, secrets and some pretty strange characters.

Why similar: Magic 30.7%, Sandbox 29.5%, Simulation 21.6%, Action 7.4%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A VR sandbox that captures the feeling of experimenting with magic and physics in an immersive environment.

Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!

Why similar: Sandbox 39.8%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 20.8%, Action 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox adventure focused on the creative and experimental aspects of magic.

Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.

Why similar: Programming 69.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 8.8%, Education 8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that uses programming and logic to teach complex scientific concepts.

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 85.7% ★, Education 4.8%, Simulation 4.7%, Indie 3.2%, Sandbox 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A programming puzzle game where you automate office tasks using assembly-like instructions.

In this rogue-lite adventure, you free the Academy of Greifenstein from magical creatures by using your spells creatively. Explore this modern magical world alone or in local co-op mode with friends and family, customize your character, solve mysteries, and find powerful artifacts.

Why similar: Magic 37.6%, Simulation 31.3%, Action 11.2%, Indie 10.1%, Adventure 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy action game that features a robust system for customizing and upgrading magical abilities.

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 79.1% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 9.2%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Programming 75.3% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Education 7.2%, Adventure 3%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive hacking simulator that uses terminal-based commands to progress through a mystery.

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Sandbox 69.1%, Indie 17.5%, Action 13.4%

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 75.6% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Education 6%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hardware design game that challenges you to build a functional computer from basic logic gates.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 50.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 6.5%

Build spells using a unique visual spell programming system. Create shields, mines, totems, anti-missiles, decoys, or anything else you can come up with. Challenge others to online duels where you fight with your custom spells.

Why similar: Programming 87.5% ★, Multiplayer 4.1%, Action 4%, Magic 3.3%, Indie 1.1%

Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

Why similar: Programming 73.1% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Education 6.9%

Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 80.4%, Multiplayer 19.6%

The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…

Why similar: Sandbox 67.6%, Indie 16.6%, Action 15.8%

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: Sandbox 46.8%, Simulation 25.4%, Education 19.6%, Action 4.4%, Adventure 3.8%

Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR

Why similar: Programming 66.6% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Indie 3.4%

Onset is an open world Lua scripting sandbox without predefined goals. Choose from hundreds of Lua functions from our Developer Wiki to create your own scripts and gamemodes. Onset is a perfect starting point for beginners interested in learning how to program.

Why similar: Simulation 35.7%, Sandbox 29.6%, Indie 13.4%, Action 13.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.

Why similar: Magic 62.8%, Adventure 20.2%, Multiplayer 16.9%

Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!

Why similar: Magic 87.3%, Indie 12.7%

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: Sandbox 42.9%, Simulation 26.1%, Education 20.2%, Indie 10.7%

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 81.6% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Education 7.5%, Indie 1.8%

A game inspired by classic Magic Carpet, with modern graphics and features. You play as a sorcerer, exploring mysterious worlds, changing them, discovering ancient secrets, creating new spells, fighting creatures and other mages, building and destroying as you please.

Why similar: Sandbox 47.4%, Indie 21%, Adventure 16.7%, Action 14.9%

Enter the groundbreaking world of Project Third Eye, a VR physics game where creativity meets interactivity. Build anything with powerful tools and add logic using the visual scripting panel. Embark on an immersive adventure of endless possibilities. Get your copy now!

Why similar: Programming 68.1% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 6.9%, Education 6.7%, Action 3.2%

Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

Why similar: Sandbox 51.5%, Magic 25.1%, Indie 12.5%, Action 10.8%

An open multiplayer sandbox game; includes tools, props, levels, NPCs, character models, game-modes and much more! Make your own using our mod kit!

Why similar: Programming 100% ★

Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.

Why similar: Sandbox 46.8%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 16.1%, Action 10.1%, Magic 9.8%

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Magic 38.4%, Sandbox 33.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Action 6.8%

An Amazing Wizard is a 2D fast-paced metroidvania-inspired spell-slinging roguelike where you'll create spells. Master 7 elements and merge 120 unique spells in any order to create endless possibilities. Choose from 250+ perks and 200 artifacts. Collect your lost memories and reclaim true name!

Why similar: Magic 69.4%, Adventure 15.9%, Action 14.7%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Sandbox 57.1%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Indie 14%, Adventure 13.8%

Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.

Why similar: Sandbox 57.6%, Simulation 23%, Indie 8%, Adventure 6.6%, Action 4.9%

AI Spellcraft is a battle game where you create original spells using kanji, and an AI evaluates their damage and effects. Use your word sense to craft the ultimate spell!

Why similar: Simulation 100%

"Magicraft" is a Roguelike game that uses a variety of spells to match unimaginable spell effects, and the construction of ultra-high degrees of freedom cannot even be exhausted by developers.

Why similar: Magic 58.8%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 12.2%, Multiplayer 1.9%

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Programming 76.6% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Adventure 5.7%, Action 3.8%

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 65.5% ★, Sandbox 19.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Indie 3.3%, Action 1.6%

Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.2%, Magic 31.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Action 7.9%, Adventure 4.6%