60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Indie, Singleplayer.
Trapped inside a living database, use real SQL to unlock regions and challenge the system that watches every query. Use SELECT to investigate, UPDATE to repair and remember: DROP NOT ALLOWED. It doesn’t matter if you’re a SQL noob or a veteran; the game teaches you everything you need as you play.
MHRD
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.
CHAQS
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
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 47.6% ★, Education 14.5%, Typing 14.3% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 6%
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Why similar: Programming 29.3% ★, Typing 21% ★, Education 11.8%, Cyberpunk 9.4%, Detective 8.9%
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 51.6% ★, Education 15.8%, Difficult 11.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Logic 4.4%
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Logic 13.4%, Education 12.6%, Difficult 11%, Puzzle 6.8%
Learn programming by implementing an elevator through a guided tour
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Typing 19.3% ★, Education 15.3%, Logic 11.4%, Simulation 6.7%
Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Education 18.3%, Detective 13.6%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 50.6% ★, Education 15.3%, Logic 15%, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 61.7% ★, Education 13.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Logic 4.8%, Simulation 3.4%
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 56.1% ★, Education 9.8%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Difficult 6.7%
She kept the machine that holds the city up. It ran correctly for eleven years, and last night it killed her. Step through her rune-tape, watch the registers, rewind the trace, and name the line that did it. You never write a program. You read one, and you convict it.
Why similar: Programming 47.4% ★, Detective 17.7%, Logic 12.5%, Puzzle 6.8%, Difficult 6.1%
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 49.6% ★, Education 16.9%, Logic 16%, Puzzle 6.9%, Simulation 6%
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 47.5% ★, Difficult 14.3%, Puzzle 13.9%, Logic 12.1%, Sci-fi 4.4%
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 50.8% ★, Education 20.5%, Typing 14.4% ★, Puzzle 7.2%, Indie 4%
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 53.2% ★, Education 20%, Puzzle 9.9%, Indie 7.3%, Simulation 6%
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 64.7% ★, Education 10.6%, Logic 8.3%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 4.4%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Logic 11.2%, Education 11%, Simulation 8.9%, Difficult 6.5%
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 40.9% ★, Education 13.8%, Typing 13.1% ★, Difficult 8.5%, Logic 8.2%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.7% ★, Logic 11.6%, Education 8.1%, Difficult 7%, Puzzle 6%
Regular Expressions (Regex) are a powerful text pattern-matching tool used for searching, replacing, and validating strings. The game wraps Regex into text-based puzzle, allowing players to gradually master regular expressions as they progress through levels.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Logic 18.4%, Detective 17%, Education 15.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
Cyber Warrior is a hacking simulator where you play as an ex retired bureau agent recruited back to take on a powerful criminal organization. Explore dozens of interactive desktops, navigate 200+ in-game websites, solve puzzles, customize your setup and make decisions that will shape a new cyber age
Why similar: Programming 34% ★, Typing 22.5% ★, Detective 13.5%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 4.2%
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 68% ★, Difficult 7.4%, Logic 7%, Puzzle 7%, Education 4.9%
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 60.2% ★, Logic 17.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
An action hacking simulator set in a fully simulated world. Choose your path, craft your own tools, exploit vulnerabilities, and build your reputation. Every company, hacker, and law enforcement agency operates independently — nothing happens by chance. Every playthrough is unique.
Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Typing 21.2% ★, Detective 11.2%, Logic 10.4%, Cyberpunk 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 49.3% ★, Education 16.6%, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 7.7%, Sci-fi 5.1%
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 41.8% ★, Education 14%, Logic 12.2%, Difficult 10.6%, Puzzle 8%
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 44.5% ★, Education 13.1%, Logic 12.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Difficult 7.9%
CHAQS 44 is a system simulation game that encourages players to explore, learn, and experiment. It offers a wide range of realistic tools and environments designed to test understanding and curiosity.
Why similar: Programming 44.9% ★, Education 19.2%, Typing 19% ★, Simulation 9.7%, Choices Matter 2.9%
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 50.9% ★, Education 13.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Difficult 10.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 39.6% ★, Education 14.8%, Logic 13.1%, Difficult 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%
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 50.4% ★, Detective 16.3%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Education 7.3%
Type to guess the words used to create machine-made artworks, while slowly uncovering the algorithm's reflections on its own work. Come investigate more than 1,500 generated artworks across 7 carefully curated galleries.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Typing 23.7% ★, Detective 13.6%, Logic 8.7%, Education 7.8%
Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes. If you think you're smart enough, give this puzzle a try.
Why similar: Programming 41.2% ★, Logic 16%, Difficult 11.3%, Puzzle 8%, Education 7.7%
"Prime Prism" is a pure logic puzzle game themed around prime numbers and factorization. Construct circuits of light using optical tools like "Prisms" and "Lenses" to decompose and synthesize numbers. Over 140 stages across 11 worlds await your challenge.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Logic 18.6%, Difficult 14.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.6%
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 59.4% ★, Education 21.6%, Puzzle 7.3%, Simulation 6%, Logic 3.9%
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 52.6% ★, Logic 15.9%, Education 11.4%, Puzzle 10.4%, Casual 2.8%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language: probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. The better your code, the better you hack.
Why similar: Programming 37.5% ★, Typing 24% ★, Cyberpunk 11%, Education 8.1%, Logic 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 42.5% ★, Education 14.8%, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Indie 9.8%
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 54.3% ★, Logic 22.1%, Puzzle 13.1%, 2D 4.7%, Indie 2.3%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Education 21.3%, Logic 13.8%, Casual 1.9%, 2D 1.7%
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 63% ★, Difficult 16%, Puzzle 11%, Indie 6.5%, 2D 3.5%
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 50.1% ★, Logic 16%, Education 13.8%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 9.1%
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 65% ★, Puzzle 11.6%, Logic 7.4%, Detective 7.4%, Sci-fi 3.2%
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 43.8% ★, Education 16%, Simulation 9.9%, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 8.7%
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 44.9% ★, Education 14.6%, Logic 13.8%, Difficult 10%, Puzzle 6.7%
Flow is a math puzzle game with minimalist graphics and challenging levels. Connect numbers, place operators, and sharpen your mind in a relaxing setting.
Why similar: Programming 35.9% ★, Logic 18.5%, Education 17.4%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 6.2%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 52.1% ★, Logic 22.2%, Puzzle 13.7%, Indie 8.7%, Casual 3.4%
Venture forth through this puzzle game across space. Use your command terminal to guide the Onlooker interstellar probe through treacherous galaxies to explore the farthest reaches of the universe. Avoid asteroids, perform research tasks, and weave through the stars!
Why similar: Programming 48.1% ★, Logic 17.1%, Puzzle 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Simulation 7.5%
Develop magical programming abilities while building spells. Lambda Spellcrafting Academy is a card-based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. If you've ever wanted to dabble in spellcraft (programming) here is a fun way to get started.
Why similar: Programming 46.6% ★, Education 17.7%, Logic 16%, Puzzle 8.3%, 2D 3.1%
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 43.2% ★, Education 24.1%, Logic 15%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 6.5%
A command-line puzzle game where you solve Git word problems by typing real Git commands. From beginner basics to advanced rebasing, master 100 levels of version control challenges and become a Git legend, one commit at a time.
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Typing 24.4% ★, Education 16.1%, Logic 10.1%, Puzzle 6.4%
Send your Panda on an adventure and at the same time you'll learn how to code cool algorithms! Guide your Panda through colorful areas by using simple commands. Learn programming / STEM concepts like recursion and loops while having fun. But beware! Don't get caught while eating bamboo!
Why similar: Programming 62.8% ★, Education 23%, Puzzle 8%, Casual 3.1%, Indie 1.8%
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 52.4% ★, Logic 19%, Education 14.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, 2D 1.8%
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 48.1% ★, Education 17.6%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 5.7%
Solve logic puzzles and obstacle courses in this robot simulation game! Immerse yourself in the exciting world of robotics and programming! Create your own robot, connect logic blocks and teach it to solve challenging tasks!
Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Logic 18.2%, Education 18%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 6.2%
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 49.8% ★, Education 21.8%, Logic 16.8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Indie 2.7%
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 57.9% ★, Cyberpunk 11.8%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 7.7%, Difficult 5.1%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Typing 24.5% ★, Education 14.4%, Cyberpunk 11%, Logic 8.4%
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 50.4% ★, Education 26%, Puzzle 11.3%, Simulation 7.8%, 2D 3.2%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 60% ★, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 10.8%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Indie 4.8%
