60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Singleplayer, 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 57.3% ★, Automation 14.7%, Puzzle 8.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Education 4%
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 45.4% ★, Science 12.7%, Automation 12.2%, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 53.3% ★, Science 19.3%, Automation 11.4%, Puzzle 10.9%, Logic 2.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 69.6% ★, Automation 12%, Logic 7.6%, Puzzle 6.3%, Education 3.3%
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% ★, Puzzle 9%, Automation 5.9%, Education 5.7%, Logic 3.3%
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% ★, Puzzle 11.1%, Detective 7.5%, Logic 4.5%, Puzzle Platformer 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 42.6% ★, Detective 18.8%, Logic 12.2%, Puzzle 8%, Strategy 7.9%
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 75.3% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 5.6%, Education 4.5%, Automation 3.9%
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
Why similar: Programming 50.6% ★, Science 12.2%, Automation 11%, Strategy 7.2%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 50.4% ★, Automation 13.2%, Science 10.9%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 9.4%
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 31.8% ★, Science 16.9%, Automation 12.3%, Logic 10.2%, Education 9.1%
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 58.6% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Logic 10.3%, Automation 9.2%, Education 4.6%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 70.5% ★, Logic 12.2%, Puzzle 9.8%, Strategy 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 60.8% ★, Automation 15.9%, Puzzle 12.8%, Logic 8%, Indie 1.4%
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 15.4%, Logic 8.4%, Automation 7.6%, Science 6.9%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 65.1% ★, Science 11.6%, Logic 9%, Education 8.6%, Casual 3%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 53.7% ★, Automation 13.2%, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%
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 52.1% ★, Automation 13%, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 8%, Education 6.9%
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 67.2% ★, Science 13%, Education 8.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Logic 2.6%
U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.
Why similar: Programming 60.9% ★, Logic 10%, Puzzle 8.5%, Strategy 6.7%, Automation 6.5%
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 80.9% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Logic 4.8%, Automation 3.1%, Education 2.1%
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 49.5% ★, Science 20.4%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 8.8%, Strategy 4.5%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 55.9% ★, Automation 12.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 7.9%, Education 4.6%
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 52.9% ★, Automation 15.1%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Relaxing 7.9%
Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.
Why similar: Programming 51.9% ★, Automation 13.8%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 8%, Education 7.2%
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 10.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Logic 9.3%, 2D 2.4%
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 58.1% ★, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 9.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Education 5.7%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 55.6% ★, Automation 14.4%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 9.3%, Strategy 6.9%
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 58.9% ★, Detective 21.2%, Logic 9%, Puzzle 7.8%, Indie 1.4%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 52.8% ★, Automation 17%, Strategy 10.1%, Puzzle 6.8%, Logic 5.5%
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Automation 13.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Puzzle Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 9.1%
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 57.7% ★, Science 14.6%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Education 5.8%
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 63.9% ★, Automation 12.2%, Education 9.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Casual 3.5%
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 62.7% ★, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 13.9%, 2D 3.2%, Casual 3.2%
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 71.4% ★, Puzzle 11%, Science 10.3%, Education 4.5%, Indie 2.1%
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 50.2% ★, Science 14.6%, Automation 11.1%, Logic 10.2%, Education 6.1%
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 47.6% ★, Science 15.8%, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 7.2%, Education 6.6%
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 48.8% ★, Automation 14.3%, Relaxing 8.7%, Logic 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
Work at a 90s soda company as their sole data analyst. You will not just learn SQL, but earn front row seats to the hidden mysteries beneath. While uncovering mysteries can be exciting, be careful not to slip up on the job - Your manager is an unforgiving brute. No coding experience required.
Why similar: Programming 60.7% ★, Detective 21.7%, Puzzle 6.8%, Education 5.8%, Casual 2.8%
Discover the mysteries of Latmos with block coding. Learn about the cultural heritage and history of humanity while preparing for the future.
Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Science 12%, Logic 9.1%, Education 7.7%, Strategy 7.5%
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
Why similar: Programming 59.7% ★, Automation 14.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Puzzle 7.4%, Logic 6.1%
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 50% ★, Logic 11.3%, Science 10.6%, Puzzle 9%, Detective 7.8%
Reverse-engineer a private 1990s BBS. Read disassembly, patch broken checks, optimize a nine-core rack, and write assembly firmware that locks onto live scope traces. With 200+ puzzles, full controller support and offline play, you can refine your assembly skills on all your devices!
Why similar: Programming 51.9% ★, Detective 11.3%, Science 11.2%, Logic 10.1%, Strategy 6.9%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 60.7% ★, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 14.7%, Casual 5.6%, Indie 4%
[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 55.4% ★, Automation 17.4%, Logic 11.6%, Puzzle 9.3%, Casual 2.6%
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 81.5% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Indie 4.1%
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 61.4% ★, Automation 16.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Logic 5.1%, Casual 2.6%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 54.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 9.5%, Casual 1.8%
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 54.3% ★, Automation 11.2%, Logic 10.9%, Relaxing 5.8%, Strategy 5.1%
A playing-card-themed logic puzzle game where you assemble code to generate patterns using loops and conditionals. From simple rows to complex nested-loop challenges, master the logic and try to complete this visually satisfying puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 73.8% ★, Education 10.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Casual 4.9%, Singleplayer 1%
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 42.5% ★, Logic 12.8%, Relaxing 11.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Strategy 8.8%
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 50.7% ★, Automation 13.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Puzzle 7%, Logic 6.8%
This is a game that simulates farm management through programming. Players need to develop their economy, upgrade technology, unlock more advanced commands and resources, and deal with various uncertain destructive events. The game simplifies the complexity and extracts the automation elements.
Why similar: Programming 38.8% ★, Science 14.5%, Detective 14.1%, Automation 10.8%, Education 6.3%
ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.
Why similar: Programming 51.4% ★, Automation 12.8%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 8%, Relaxing 6.2%
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 53.2% ★, Automation 12.5%, Logic 9.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Puzzle 7.3%
Grace Hopper: Bug Rescue is a colourful puzzle game about finding bugs (insects and coding errors).
Why similar: Programming 35% ★, Science 11.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Education 9.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 65.3% ★, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8.9%, Education 8.9%, Casual 2.4%
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 69.1% ★, Logic 11.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, Education 7.6%, 2D 1.5%
Close the loop and the lamp lights. Build the relay, the gate, the adder, the latch, the counter, and a machine that reads Morse. Every circuit runs on a real simulator, and the parts you build become parts you build with. 238 levels about electricity and the machines people made from it.
Why similar: Programming 46% ★, Science 17.9%, Logic 11.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Education 9.6%
