Games Like EXAPUNKS

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 67.8% ★, Hacking 13.7% ★, Puzzle 5.3%, Automation 3.6%, Logic 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest experience to EXAPUNKS, focusing on pure assembly code and hardware-level puzzle solving.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 63.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Logic 6.2%, Puzzle 4.8%, Hacking 2.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Another Zachtronics classic that challenges you to build circuits and write assembly code to solve complex engineering problems.

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 54.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Logic 6.4%, Simulation 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished automation puzzle game from Zachtronics that shares the same satisfying 'open-ended' solution design philosophy.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Hacking 13.4% ★, Logic 9.3%, Automation 8.3%, Puzzle 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An excellent educational game that takes you from building basic logic gates to creating a fully functional computer architecture.

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 50% ★, Automation 21%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 4.2%, Sandbox 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D automation puzzle game that forces you to think spatially and logically to build efficient production lines.

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 56.6% ★, Puzzle 12.7%, Automation 10.6%, Logic 7.5%, Difficult 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A complex, difficult automation puzzle game that requires deep logical planning and multi-threaded thinking.

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: Hacking 75.6% ★, Programming 14.2% ★, Cyberpunk 2.9%, Logic 2.2%, Great Soundtrack 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A terminal-based hacking simulator that captures the authentic feel of navigating a network and executing commands in a command-line interface.

Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!

Why similar: Automation 48.2%, Logic 20.3%, Puzzle 17.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A collection of Zachtronics puzzle games that perfectly captures the retro-computing aesthetic and programming challenges found in EXAPUNKS.

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 73.6% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Automation 5.6%, Logic 4.9%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A programming puzzle game where you manage multiple workers simultaneously, requiring complex logic and parallel processing.

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 54.9% ★, Hacking 23.9% ★, Simulation 7%, Puzzle 6.4%, Difficult 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardware design simulation game where you build processors and logic circuits to meet specific performance requirements.

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 72.4% ★, Automation 8.6%, Puzzle 7.7%, Logic 3%, Simulation 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging game that teaches assembly-like programming concepts through simple office-themed puzzles.

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 39.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Hacking 16.1% ★, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy puzzle game focused on modular synthesis, requiring you to patch signals and automate complex 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 51.6% ★, Hacking 24.1% ★, Automation 13.3%, Cyberpunk 5.8%, Puzzle 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive, free-to-play programming-based idle game that lets you automate hacking scripts to take over servers.

Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.

Why similar: Hacking 47.9% ★, Programming 32.9% ★, Cyberpunk 9.3%, Puzzle 4.5%, Simulation 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential hacking simulation game that focuses on the thrill of infiltrating corporate servers and covering your tracks.

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 74.2% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 6.1%, Great Soundtrack 3.4%, Difficult 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A circuit-design puzzle game that emphasizes logic and automation in a clean, minimalist sci-fi environment.

When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.

Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Hacking 36.2% ★, Cyberpunk 12%, Puzzle 3.6%, Indie 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk heist game where you use a portable computer to write code and hack security systems in real-time.

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 80.8% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 5%, Logic 2.8%, Sandbox 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that introduces machine learning concepts through visual programming and automation tasks.

hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.

Why similar: Programming 47.4% ★, Hacking 34.9% ★, Cyberpunk 8.2%, Puzzle 4.4%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based, multiplayer hacking game where you write actual JavaScript to interact with the game world and other players.

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: Hacking 45.2% ★, Programming 42.7% ★, Simulation 3.8%, Cyberpunk 3.1%, Logic 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer hacking simulator that offers a persistent world and realistic command-line interaction.

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 53.5% ★, Automation 22.3%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep logic-based automation game that tasks you with building complex machines to process data streams.

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 46.4% ★, Hacking 29.4% ★, Logic 6.9%, Simulation 5.8%, Puzzle 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game where you modify the game's own memory and code to overcome obstacles.

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

Why similar: Programming 57.6% ★, Hacking 30.9% ★, Cyberpunk 6%, Great Soundtrack 3.2%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world adventure game where you can hack the source code of the world to manipulate objects and environments.

In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!

Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Automation 20%, Cyberpunk 11.5%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An automation game that tasks you with programming robots to complete complex cooking recipes in a cyberpunk setting.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Programming 50.3% ★, Hacking 34.8% ★, Puzzle 6.6%, Difficult 5.3%, Simulation 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tense, terminal-based exploration game where you control drones to scavenge derelict ships using command-line inputs.

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 47.5% ★, Hacking 20.4% ★, Automation 10.4%, Puzzle 5.8%, Logic 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled programming puzzle game that tasks you with writing code for a virtual 8-bit computer.

Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

Why similar: Programming 42.1% ★, Hacking 25.3% ★, Automation 16.2%, Logic 8.9%, Puzzle 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A logic and automation game that tasks you with building complex tunnel networks using programming and signal-based logic.

Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.

Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, Hacking 20.3% ★, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 6.7%, Difficult 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-based puzzle game that uses light and signal manipulation to create complex, satisfying solutions.

Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.

Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Hacking 23.4% ★, Automation 13.4%, Logic 6.9%, Cyberpunk 6.8%

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 77.9% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Puzzle 7.2%, Indie 3.5%, Difficult 3.3%

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

After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.

Why similar: Hacking 51.7% ★, Programming 31.6% ★, Simulation 5.2%, Puzzle 5.1%, Great Soundtrack 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click hacking thriller that focuses on investigation, digital forensics, and puzzle-solving.

Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.

Why similar: Hacking 45.7% ★, Programming 37% ★, Cyberpunk 8.2%, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the realistic aspects of hacking, including network scanning and vulnerability exploitation.

CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!

Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Hacking 27.2% ★, Logic 8.8%, Cyberpunk 5.9%, Difficult 5.5%

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

Why similar: Programming 46.7% ★, Automation 18.6%, Hacking 16.8% ★, Puzzle 6.1%, Logic 5%

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Programming 58.9% ★, Automation 18.1%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Logic 2.8%

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 40.3% ★, Hacking 25.2% ★, Automation 12.7%, Logic 7.9%, Puzzle 5.3%

Hacker Evolution is a hacking simulation game, featuring unparalleled graphics and features. You play the role of a former intelligence agent, specializing in computer security. When a chain of events sets off worldwide, leaving critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and attempt to stop...

Why similar: Hacking 53.6% ★, Cyberpunk 15%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 8%, Difficult 6.8%

A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Why similar: Programming 60.7% ★, Automation 15.4%, Hacking 10.3% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Logic 2.7%

The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.

Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Hacking 38.3% ★, Cyberpunk 8.9%, Logic 6.4%, Simulation 3.1%

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 55% ★, Automation 18.3%, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 6.3%, Difficult 4.7%

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 44.2% ★, Hacking 22.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Logic 5.3%, Puzzle 5.1%

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 71.2% ★, Hacking 18.5% ★, Puzzle 8%, Indie 2.4%

Become an expert hacker by using your raw brainpower! Learn how to get ahead in your new job at a cybersecurity company. Analyze servers for weaknesses, and hack them using their own subroutines to access the data they protect.

Why similar: Hacking 49.5% ★, Cyberpunk 16%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 11.1%, Difficult 6.6%

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 51.3% ★, Automation 20.8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 7.3%, Difficult 5.4%

SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.

Why similar: Programming 49.9% ★, Hacking 13.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Logic 8.3%, Puzzle 6.3%

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 45.3% ★, Hacking 21.8% ★, Automation 13.6%, Logic 7.4%, Puzzle 4%

Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.

Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Hacking 34.3% ★, Cyberpunk 11.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Simulation 3.8%

Can you push through?! Security Hole is a challenging spatial puzzle with a cyberpunk story. You become a hacker who passes 3D virus blocks through security holes to save humanity. The game mechanics look like a workout tool for spatial thinking.

Why similar: Hacking 45.3% ★, Cyberpunk 21.8%, Puzzle 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%, Difficult 7.4%

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 49.2% ★, Puzzle 19.1%, Logic 12.6%, Difficult 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 4.3%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Puzzle 32.1%, Simulation 30.2%, Sandbox 22.8%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top by discovering a simplified and enjoyable version of real-life hacking methods. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.

Why similar: Hacking 40.5% ★, Programming 30.6% ★, Cyberpunk 11.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 5.1%

Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.

Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Hacking 26.1% ★, Automation 15.3%, Logic 5.6%, Difficult 3.6%

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 78.4% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 6.5%, Sandbox 4.9%

Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.

Why similar: Hacking 72.3% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Cyberpunk 8.6%, Sandbox 5.5%, Indie 1.5%

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 62.7% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 5.3%, Simulation 2.4%

⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.

Why similar: Programming 51.4% ★, Hacking 35.2% ★, Simulation 4.4%, Sandbox 3.7%, Puzzle 3.7%

A paranoid cybercriminal tries to regain control over an underground marketplace stolen by his former coworkers. You must utilize your hacking and intelligence gathering skills to get rid of hitmen sent by your enemies in a race with worsening mental state and terrifying hallucinations.

Why similar: Hacking 57.9% ★, Cyberpunk 15.4%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 6.2%

Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...

Why similar: Hacking 85% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 5.9%

Darknet is a strategy/puzzle game in which you play as an elite hacker in the Net. Plug into cyberspace, using viruses, worms, and exploits to steal the data before your signal gets traced. Includes both VR and non-VR versions.

Why similar: Hacking 51.8% ★, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Puzzle 10.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%, Difficult 6.5%

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 64.5% ★, Automation 25.6%, Simulation 5%, Sandbox 2.6%, Indie 2.1%

Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.

Why similar: Programming 47.6% ★, Hacking 43% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1%