60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Programming, Singleplayer, Simulation.
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Upload Labs
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
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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 28.9% ★, Automation 22.7%, Idler 11.2%, Incremental 10.4%, Simulation 8.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 58.9% ★, Automation 19.2%, Logic 8.6%, Simulation 4.3%, Difficult 3.9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 43.7% ★, Automation 21.5%, Logic 10.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
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 50.7% ★, Automation 16%, Hacking 14.3% ★, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 4.7%
Farmer = nil is a programming automation farm game. Write scripts for your robots, collect resources, unlock tech, and build the most efficient farm.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 20.3%, Incremental 10.4%, Idler 10.3%, Logic 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 46.2% ★, Automation 21.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Logic 6.3%, Strategy 6.2%
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 50.9% ★, Automation 25.3%, Logic 8.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Puzzle 3.7%
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 50.7% ★, Automation 16.5%, Hacking 12.7% ★, Idler 9.4%, Simulation 3.5%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 12.8%, Difficult 5%, Simulation 4.8%
Down on your luck, you build an AI assistant to pay the rent. Buy hardware, research upgrades, and train your model as it becomes something… New. It begins to write its own code — merge blindly, or audit its changes. A warning: sometimes ignorance is bliss. It's counting on that...
Why similar: Programming 29% ★, Automation 20.1%, Incremental 16.4%, Idler 12.5%, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%
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 39.6% ★, Automation 19.5%, Hacking 11.2% ★, Simulation 7.1%, Logic 7.1%
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 44.5% ★, Automation 24.2%, Logic 11.9%, Incremental 5.5%, Simulation 4.9%
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 46.7% ★, Automation 18.1%, Idler 8.3%, Logic 7.6%, Artificial Intelligence 5.9%
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 69% ★, Hacking 7.9% ★, Logic 5.5%, Automation 5.1%, Simulation 4.5%
Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Automation 20.4%, Logic 9.6%, Artificial Intelligence 7.6%, Idler 7.2%
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Automation 12.6%, Logic 11.6%, Hacking 11% ★, Difficult 6.6%
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 45.2% ★, Automation 21.4%, Logic 10.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 4.5%
[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 45.1% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 12.6%, Difficult 6.2%, Minimalist 4.9%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 44.4% ★, Automation 26.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Incremental 11.2%, Indie 1.5%
An incremental hardware engineering game with a Windows XP themed UI. Configure and optimize processor components, build your own CPU, and run automated benchmarks. Harvest telemetry and gather research funding to unlock new hardware, and scale your processing power.
Why similar: Programming 32% ★, Automation 18.5%, Incremental 14.3%, Idler 9.7%, Simulation 8.5%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Automation 18.1%, Hacking 14.1% ★, Simulation 7.4%, Logic 6.8%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 19.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Idler 7.6%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 51.9% ★, Automation 22.1%, Hacking 14.9% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 2.5%
SysOps Saga is a simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing the intricate web of software, security, and hardware to keep digital systems running. Developed by a FAANG veteran, this game offers an immersive and educational experience for IT enthusiasts.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 10%, Simulation 9.1%, Hacking 7.7% ★
Incremental hacker about faking productivity while stealing from your employer. Sell intel for credits or keep it and raise suspicion. One bad audit and you’re back to Intern.
Why similar: Programming 33.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Hacking 14.2% ★, Incremental 13.5%, Idler 10%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 8.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Difficult 6.8%
Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.
Why similar: Programming 37.5% ★, Automation 18%, Hacking 13.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 9.3%, Logic 7.7%
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 63.2% ★, Logic 14.6%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 4%, Puzzle 3%
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 39.6% ★, Automation 18.7%, Logic 9.8%, Artificial Intelligence 8.5%, Procedural Generation 6.3%
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 50.8% ★, Automation 26.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Logic 5.7%, Minimalist 4.1%
Circuitra is a challenging visual logic puzzle game about building increasingly complex circuit boards. Limited inputs, tight board space and changing contract constraints force you to debug and rethink your designs in order to grow your circuit-design business.
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 22.4%, Logic 13%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 3%
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 43.6% ★, Automation 25%, Simulation 6.9%, Logic 5.6%, Difficult 4.5%
Your AI agent gets a body. A tiny pixel-art avatar on your desktop that chops wood while your assistant codes. Upgrades, a shop, rare collectibles, and full MCP control. Privacy-first: never reads your code.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 13.9%, Idler 13.2%, Incremental 13%, Artificial Intelligence 10.3%
A wizard finds a computer terminal inside his scrying orb. Tend your tower through a fantasy command line — brew, research, scry, ward — then write spells that teach the orb to do it for you. Prepare yourself for incursions by other wizards.
Why similar: Programming 29.3% ★, Automation 14.8%, Incremental 14.2%, Idler 13.7%, Hacking 13.5% ★
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 45.9% ★, Automation 23.4%, Logic 10.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 5.3%
Write code to command your defenses. Overhead is a strategy game where your code is your weapon; script turret (or sensor) behavior in JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or any WASM language. Every scenario is seeded and deterministic. Write a better script, get a better score.
Why similar: Programming 47.1% ★, Automation 19.5%, Hacking 8.4% ★, Procedural Generation 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 45.3% ★, Automation 21%, Hacking 16.2% ★, Logic 8.2%, Simulation 6%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 40.7% ★, Automation 18.7%, Logic 11.2%, Artificial Intelligence 10.5%, Simulation 7.7%
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Automation 16.7%, Incremental 15.1%, Idler 12.1%, Artificial Intelligence 10.4%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 49.9% ★, Automation 16.4%, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Minimalist 4.6%
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 47.7% ★, Hacking 17.1% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Logic 10.7%, Difficult 4.9%
You don't steer the chicken. You program it. Write real scripts in a fake desktop OS and send your bird into fields that reseed every run, so hardcoded coordinates work exactly once. Upgrades aren't +1% damage: they're if statements, for loops, and the memory to hold a list.
Why similar: Programming 53.8% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Incremental 10.8%, Strategy 9%, Logic 6.3%
If your're into logic, problem-solving and building complex systems, then this is a game for you. All the fun of creating systems, using a visual node language, without worring about written syntax of text based programming. Learn real programming skills much faster in a explosions packed battle.
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Automation 22.2%, Idler 10.5%, Logic 9.5%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, Automation 19.5%, Logic 11%, Artificial Intelligence 9.8%, Difficult 6.4%
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 60.9% ★, Automation 29.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Puzzle 3%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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 45.6% ★, Automation 20.3%, Logic 10.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Difficult 5.9%
A single-player business simulation about running a technology company. You act as its CEO, CTO, and CFO at the same time: building products, managing staff and finances, going public, and competing with rival firms.
Why similar: Programming 50.6% ★, Incremental 21.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Minimalist 4.9%, Sandbox 4.5%
SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!
Why similar: Programming 42.8% ★, Automation 21.7%, Logic 11.4%, Difficult 6.5%, Simulation 4.8%
Tired of the AI slop? Create your own, but this time earn you money! (Idle) Incremental game where you aim to be the biggest player on the market. Build, train models, automate and acquire companies to grow your business.
Why similar: Programming 21.6% ★, Automation 18%, Incremental 15.4%, Simulation 14.5%, Idler 14.3%
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 37.3% ★, Automation 15.9%, Hacking 13.1% ★, Logic 10.9%, Simulation 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 71% ★, Automation 11%, Simulation 5.4%, Logic 4.3%, Puzzle 3%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Programming 45.7% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 13%, Logic 10.4%, Difficult 6.2%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, Automation 20.5%, Incremental 11.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Procedural Generation 5.7%
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 48.3% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 12%, Simulation 11.1%, Puzzle 3.1%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Logic 13.6%, Hacking 12.1% ★, Incremental 10.3%, Difficult 9%
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 57.5% ★, Logic 12.6%, Automation 11.6%, Strategy 5.1%, Simulation 3.6%
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 44.7% ★, Simulation 16.5%, Automation 15.6%, Logic 11%, Indie 7.3%
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 58.4% ★, Logic 11.5%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 4.6%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 53.2% ★, Automation 21.5%, Simulation 15.2%, Logic 3.8%, Puzzle 3.7%
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 53.7% ★, Automation 13.6%, Logic 10.6%, Difficult 9.4%, Puzzle 5%
