60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Singleplayer, Puzzle, Logic.
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.
Finite State Automaton Challenges
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Charge!
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.
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 56.6% ★, Automation 15.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Education 3.8%
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 45.1% ★, Automation 13.3%, Science 12.4% ★, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 7.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 69.1% ★, Automation 13%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 6%, Education 3.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 52.7% ★, Science 19.2% ★, Automation 12.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 2.8%
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 71.5% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Automation 6.6%, Education 5.6%, Logic 3.3%
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 42.9% ★, Detective 18.7%, Logic 12.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 74.7% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 5.5%, Education 4.6%, Automation 4.4%
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 68.4% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Detective 7.4%, Logic 4.5%, Strategy 3.3%
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 14.4%, Science 10.7% ★, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 8.9%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Programming 31.6% ★, Science 16.6% ★, Automation 13.3%, Logic 10.1%, Education 8.8%
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 57% ★, Puzzle 14.9%, Logic 8.3%, Automation 8.3%, Science 6.8% ★
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 60% ★, Automation 17.3%, Puzzle 12.3%, Logic 7.8%, Indie 1.4%
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 51.7% ★, Automation 14.1%, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Education 6.7%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 65.2% ★, Logic 11.5%, Education 7.8%, Automation 7.2%, Puzzle 6.9%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 65.3% ★, Science 11.7% ★, Logic 8.8%, Education 8.4%, Casual 3.1%
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 81.1% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Logic 4.7%, Automation 3.4%, Education 2.1%
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 67.5% ★, Science 12.9% ★, Education 8.7%, Puzzle 7.4%, Logic 2.6%
Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!
Why similar: Programming 49.9% ★, Science 20.2% ★, Logic 11%, Puzzle 8.6%, Strategy 4.6%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 62.9% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Logic 9.2%, Automation 2.6%
VELONE is a creative automation game in which you assemble and program mechanisms to solve logic puzzles. Both relaxing and highly replayable, you save the planet VELONE by creating automated constructs that move and assemble according to your masterplan.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Automation 16.3%, Logic 10.3%, Relaxing 7.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 55% ★, Automation 15.6%, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 8.9%, Strategy 6.9%
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 63.5% ★, Automation 13.2%, Education 9%, Puzzle 8%, Casual 3.5%
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 54% ★, Automation 14.8%, Logic 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Puzzle 5.9%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world, semi-realistic art style with puzzle-solving, programming, and visual novel elements. play as a Soul Seal Master, Craft Soul Seals, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 52.2% ★, Automation 18.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Puzzle 6.5%, Logic 5.3%
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 71.8% ★, Puzzle 10.7%, Science 10.2% ★, Education 4.4%, Indie 2.1%
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 58.1% ★, Science 14.5% ★, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Education 5.6%
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 47.9% ★, Science 15.6% ★, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 7%, Education 6.4%
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Logic 11.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Relaxing 8.1%, Automation 7%
Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes.
Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Logic 11.2%, Science 10.5% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Detective 7.7%
[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 54.8% ★, Automation 18.8%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 8.9%, Casual 2.6%
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Connect, test, assemble and fail in spectacular ways. This cozy simulator lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved!
Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Science 14.7% ★, Automation 13.3%, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 61.1% ★, Logic 15%, Puzzle 14.3%, Casual 5.6%, Indie 4.1%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 53.9% ★, Automation 12.1%, Logic 10.7%, Relaxing 5.8%, Strategy 5.1%
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 50.3% ★, Automation 14.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Puzzle 6.7%, Logic 6.7%
Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?
Why similar: Programming 81.9% ★, Puzzle 13.9%, Indie 4.2%
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 52.5% ★, Automation 13.5%, Logic 9.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Puzzle 7%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Automation 19.3%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 9.1%, Casual 1.8%
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 60.7% ★, Automation 17.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 5%, Casual 2.5%
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 42.6% ★, Logic 12.7%, Relaxing 11.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Strategy 9%
Build machines... break codes... win the war! It's 1942 and the world is engulfed in war. Meanwhile, in a country mansion in South East England, a group of expert mathematicians are fighting a war of their own, breaking an unbreakable Nazi code... Enigma!
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Strategy 17%, Automation 11.4%, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
Grace Hopper: Bug Rescue is a colourful puzzle game about finding bugs (insects and coding errors).
Why similar: Programming 35.1% ★, Science 11.4% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Education 9%, Puzzle 8.3%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Science 13.4% ★, Automation 11.6%, Puzzle 7.7%, Education 6.5%
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 69.5% ★, Logic 11.9%, Puzzle 8.2%, Education 7.4%, 2D 1.6%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Programming 47.8% ★, Automation 18.1%, Science 13% ★, Logic 7.4%, Education 7.1%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 17%, Logic 11.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 7.2%
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 62.6% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Education 6.6%, Casual 3.6%
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 74.9% ★, Education 9.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Casual 5.2%, Indie 0.9%
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 55.4% ★, Automation 15.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Puzzle 5.2%, Puzzle Platformer 5%
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 48.2% ★, Science 18.1% ★, Automation 11.3%, Logic 8.8%, Education 7.3%
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 70.6% ★, Puzzle 11.7%, Education 9.3%, Indie 3.9%, Casual 2.9%
A tower defense game where you program your turrets instead of upgrading them. Drag and drop visual code blocks to define targeting, conditions, and firing logic. No coding experience needed. Your strategy is your code.
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Automation 15.6%, Strategy 10.6%, Logic 10.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
An interactive text-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 64.8% ★, Science 15.8% ★, Education 10.6%, Casual 5.3%, 2D 2.1%
Solve puzzles by building different things for your automata! In the end, you will find that it is not just a video game...
Why similar: Programming 60.1% ★, Strategy 27.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Indie 4.2%
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 67.7% ★, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Education 8.1%, 2D 1.6%
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 50.9% ★, Science 19.6% ★, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 8.9%, Education 6.7%
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 69.7% ★, Automation 13%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 7.4%, Indie 1%
Engineer a production line to build pixel art images one at a time. Get your timing and placement right to match the solution image and finish the level!
Why similar: Programming 62.7% ★, Automation 17.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Casual 9%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 76.4% ★, Strategy 20.4%, Indie 3.1%
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 55.6% ★, Science 10.9% ★, Automation 9.5%, Puzzle 7.8%, Education 6.6%
