60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Logic, Puzzle.
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.
Turing Complete
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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!
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 52.9% ★, Education 18%, Automation 12%, Puzzle 6%, Building 5.5%
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 49.1% ★, Automation 30%, Puzzle 11%, Building 3.7%, Sandbox 2.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 57.2% ★, Automation 22.8%, Education 7.5%, Puzzle 5.5%, Building 2.6%
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 28.1% ★, Science 13.4%, Education 10.7%, Investigation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
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% ★, Automation 21.4%, Education 16.2%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 29.7% ★, Science 16.2%, Automation 14.7%, Education 12.6%, Building 9.4%
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 41.6% ★, Science 23.5%, Education 15.5%, Puzzle 8%, Minimalist 5.2%
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 28.2% ★, Automation 15.9%, Science 15.5%, Education 12.4%, Building 10.1%
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 35.3% ★, Automation 21.2%, Education 12%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 61.6% ★, Science 12.8%, Education 10.7%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 4.9%
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 32.2% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 15.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%
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 53.2% ★, Automation 16.5%, Puzzle 15.3%, Science 9.3%, Education 2.6%
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 46.8% ★, Education 16.9%, Science 13%, Building 6.8%, Sandbox 6.1%
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 40.5% ★, Automation 37.8%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 5.9%, Simulation 5%
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$!
Why similar: Programming 33.6% ★, Automation 28.6%, Building 14.4%, Physics 8.8%, Puzzle 6%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.8%
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 22.1% ★, Science 16.9%, Automation 14.9%, Building 10.8%, Education 10%
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 46.9% ★, Automation 21.9%, Education 13.9%, Sandbox 5.9%, Puzzle 4.6%
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 39.4% ★, Automation 21.4%, Education 12.9%, Building 8.8%, Puzzle 5.7%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Science 22.2%, Automation 21.1%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 5.1%
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 43.7% ★, Automation 29.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 3.6%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 35.3% ★, Automation 23.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 8.6%
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 31.9%, Building 14.5%, Management 13.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%
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 31.4% ★, Science 18.1%, Automation 16.3%, Education 13.3%, Building 10.5%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Programming 21.4% ★, Automation 15.8%, Science 15.1%, Education 11.8%, Building 9.6%
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 31.1%, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%
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 64.9% ★, Education 17.4%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 8%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 24.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Education 17.6%, Building 13%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 29.8% ★, Automation 21%, Science 17.4%, Education 13.7%, Physics 6.2%
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 27.7% ★, Science 17.9%, Automation 17.4%, Education 12.3%, Building 9.3%
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 45.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 8.7%, Management 7.6%
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 31.8%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 15%, Crafting 10.2%, Puzzle 8.5%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Programming 18.4% ★, Education 10.2%, Building 8.9%, Investigation 8.5%
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 33.3% ★, Automation 21.6%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 8%
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.7%
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 40.8% ★, Automation 26.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
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 36.4% ★, Automation 13.2%, Education 12.2%, Science 10.5%, Building 9.1%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 30%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.9%
Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.
Why similar: Programming 29.2% ★, Science 16%, Education 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 8.4%
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Sandbox 15%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 12%, Top-Down 5.7%
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 47.8% ★, Automation 35.5%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 2.8%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Education 15.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.3%
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 65.5% ★, Education 19.8%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 6.7%
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 32.4% ★, Automation 20.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Physics 6.4%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 71.8%, Top-Down 9.4%, Simulation 6.2%, Strategy 5.5%, Casual 3.9%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 5.7%
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 49% ★, Automation 33.7%, Puzzle 9.3%, Building 5%, Simulation 3.1%
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 74.2% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Alternate History 8.6%, Strategy 2.4%, Simulation 1.2%
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 19.9%, Physics 15.1%, Education 15.1%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Why similar: Management 40.7%, Strategy 24.6%, Simulation 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Casual 7%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Education 18.5%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 10.4%
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Science 29%, Automation 27.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Management 10.9%
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 69.1% ★, Sandbox 16%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 4.9%
Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!
Why similar: Education 33.9%, Automation 29.7%, Puzzle 12.2%, Top-Down 8.7%, Simulation 6.2%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Building 29.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 8.2%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 39%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 7.2%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Building 18.8%, Management 14.5%, Puzzle 8.1%, Minimalist 7%
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Sandbox 19.7%, Building 17.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Management 12.8%
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 61.4% ★, Education 13.4%, Automation 11.8%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 2%
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
Why similar: Science 37.7%, Physics 16.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Top-Down 11.6%, Open World 10%
