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An open-ended programming game in which you optimise 4-core assembly code to maintain a 1990s alt-history dystopian megacity's infrastructure. Take jobs from middlemen with hidden agendas and uncover the chilling consequences of your "routine" fixes in this assembly language puzzle thriller.

Why similar: Programming 43.7% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Minimalist 10%

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 45.8% ★, Automation 19.4%, Simulation 12.1%, Minimalist 11.9%, Puzzle 10.3%

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

Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Simulation 22.3%, Automation 16.4%, Puzzle 12.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.

Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Level Editor 10.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Minimalist 9.7%

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 58.2% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Level Editor 12.4%, Puzzle 11.6%

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 45.6% ★, Automation 17.9%, Simulation 14.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Puzzle 6.7%

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 52.4% ★, Automation 21.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 49% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Level Editor 10.7%, Minimalist 8.3%

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 40.5% ★, Text-Based 14.6%, Minimalist 13.2%, Automation 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%

Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.

Why similar: Programming 44.6% ★, Automation 22.8%, Minimalist 14.1%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 8.1%

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 49.9% ★, Automation 20.3%, Minimalist 18.6%, Puzzle 11.3%

A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.

Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Minimalist 14.4%, Automation 13.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Puzzle 11.5%

Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)

Why similar: Programming 49.8% ★, Text-Based 28.5%, Simulation 20.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Automation 17.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Puzzle 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 44.3% ★, Automation 18.9%, Level Editor 14.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Puzzle 10%

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 70.9% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Automation 6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!

Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Simulation 15.7%, Text-Based 10.7%, Level Editor 10.6%, Puzzle 10.3%

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 47.8% ★, Automation 18.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Minimalist 10.9%, Puzzle 9.5%

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 69.7% ★, Puzzle 11.5%, Automation 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 46.3% ★, Text-Based 18.5%, Automation 17.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Puzzle 6.9%

[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 48.4% ★, Automation 23.8%, Minimalist 16.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.

Why similar: Programming 45.6% ★, Automation 18.3%, Level Editor 15.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 9.8%

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 47.1% ★, Automation 15.8%, Text-Based 14%, Minimalist 9.7%, Simulation 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 44.4% ★, Automation 20%, Simulation 12.9%, Level Editor 11.9%, Puzzle 10%

Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.

Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Automation 20.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Puzzle 11%, Singleplayer 1%

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 55.3% ★, Automation 19.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Puzzle 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 66.1% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Puzzle 13.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 77.3% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%, Automation 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 54.2% ★, Automation 11.6%, Text-Based 10.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 9%

An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.

Why similar: Programming 44.3% ★, Automation 24.7%, Simulation 17.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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

Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Text-Based 18%, Automation 14.2%, Puzzle 11.7%, Minimalist 5.3%

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 49.4% ★, Automation 20.4%, Simulation 17.9%, Puzzle 11.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 62.6% ★, Automation 25.2%, Puzzle 11.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Simple logic game about abstract minimalist factories

Why similar: Simulation 29.9%, Minimalist 20%, Automation 19.9%, Level Editor 15.8%, Puzzle 13.3%

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 58.9% ★, Automation 17.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, Puzzle 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

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 56.7% ★, Automation 16.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Puzzle 3.6%

Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.

Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Automation 19.9%, Level Editor 15.3%, Minimalist 10.7%, Puzzle 10%

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 53.7% ★, Simulation 18.9%, Automation 18.1%, Text-Based 8.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 65.7% ★, Simulation 24.9%, Puzzle 9.4%

Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)

Why similar: Programming 58.3% ★, Automation 17.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 49.2% ★, Automation 19.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Minimalist 8.3%, Puzzle 6.2%

A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.

Why similar: Programming 57.6% ★, Simulation 21.6%, Automation 20%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 48.5% ★, Automation 22.8%, Puzzle 15.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Singleplayer 1%

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Simulation 34.3%, Programming 28.7% ★, Automation 25%, Puzzle 11.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Bad Data is a puzzle game set in a simulated OS environment and gamified spreadsheet program. Figure out the rules of each cell and mark the bad ones as Bad Data. Create your own levels in the level editor as well as create your own Custom Rules in the rule designer.

Why similar: Programming 33.5% ★, Level Editor 27.7%, Simulation 22.2%, Puzzle 14.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%

An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.

Why similar: Programming 56.1% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 43.8% ★, Automation 23.8%, Simulation 17.9%, Minimalist 8%, Puzzle 5.8%

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 45.7% ★, Automation 23.1%, Simulation 16.6%, Minimalist 8.7%, Puzzle 5.3%

Block motion is a puzzle / design game where you place functional blocks to design a working factory. Build your design, press play and watch your factory in action. You have the freedom to solve the challenges any way you want; The only limit is your imagination.

Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Level Editor 16.6%, Minimalist 14.4%, Automation 13.6%, Simulation 11.7%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 66.8% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Automation 10.6%, Puzzle 9.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 47.9% ★, Simulation 28.3%, Automation 13.8%, Puzzle 9%, Singleplayer 1%

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 59.8% ★, Simulation 28%, Puzzle 10.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 63.1% ★, Automation 16.9%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 41.5% ★, Automation 19%, Level Editor 15.4%, Simulation 13%, Puzzle 10.6%

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 65.2% ★, Simulation 23.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

A magical automation puzzle game where you program a little shikigami automaton using visual spell blocks - explore, harvest energy, and cleanse corrupted sigils in a cozy fantasy world.

Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Simulation 32.6%, Automation 19.4%, Puzzle 13.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 50.7% ★, Automation 12.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Puzzle 9.5%, Text-Based 8.4%

The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.

Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, Automation 19.3%, Simulation 15.7%, Puzzle 12.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 52.1% ★, Automation 22%, Puzzle 12.6%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 65.2% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Puzzle 14.6%, Automation 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%