60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.
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.
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.
Opus Magnum
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!
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 51.5% ★, Automation 34%, Strategy 6.8%, Puzzle 6.4%, 2D 1%
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 49.5% ★, Automation 33.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 5.6%, Indie 1.3%
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 36% ★, Automation 28.5%, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Puzzle 6.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.2% ★, Automation 27.1%, Logic 5.7%, Puzzle 4.8%, Indie 0.7%
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 39.5% ★, Automation 29.3%, Level Editor 7.1%, Puzzle 6.1%, Logic 5.4%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 30.7%, Logic 7.6%, Puzzle 6.6%, Strategy 5.6%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Automation 30.8%, Logic 7.1%, Puzzle 6.8%, Strategy 5.8%
[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 45.2% ★, Automation 36.6%, Logic 8.1%, Puzzle 6.6%, 2D 2.2%
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Automation 36.4%, Logic 5.8%, Puzzle 5.7%, Level Editor 5%
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 45.2% ★, Automation 30.6%, Immersive Sim 8.7%, Puzzle 7.3%, Logic 7.2%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 44.3% ★, Automation 37.2%, Logic 8.6%, Puzzle 6.7%, 2D 1.9%
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 31.3%, Puzzle 7.4%, Logic 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%
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 46.2% ★, Automation 29.6%, Logic 7.2%, Puzzle 6.3%, Strategy 6%
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 50.3% ★, Automation 35%, Puzzle 7.7%, Logic 3.6%, 2D 2.1%
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 48% ★, Automation 31%, Strategy 8%, Logic 7.4%, Puzzle 4.8%
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 44.2% ★, Automation 30.9%, Level Editor 9.6%, Puzzle 6.8%, Logic 6.5%
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.
Why similar: Programming 52.4% ★, Automation 17.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Puzzle 6.5%, Logic 5.4%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 30.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 5.1%
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 53.8% ★, Automation 30.6%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Resource Management 4%, 2D 1.1%
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 47.5% ★, Automation 35%, Logic 8.1%, Puzzle 6.5%, 2D 1.8%
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% ★, Automation 29.6%, Level Editor 10.1%, Logic 8%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 55.9% ★, Automation 15.6%, Logic 8%, Puzzle 7%, Strategy 6.4%
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 57.5% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
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 46.7% ★, Automation 28.5%, Logic 8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
Hex-a-Decimal is an automation puzzle game on a hexagon grid. Set up lines of conveyors, pausers, sensors, and various other components to get signals to where they need to go. It's a challenging game that anyone can pick up, but the question is: how far will YOUR puzzle solving skills take you?
Why similar: Programming 27.1% ★, Automation 25.3%, Strategy 15.9%, Puzzle 8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 28.7%, Level Editor 10%, Logic 7.7%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 47.4% ★, Automation 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 6.7%, Strategy 6.6%, Puzzle 4%
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% ★, Automation 15.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Logic 2.8%, Indie 1.5%
Direct your secret guild of tiny gnomes, hidden somewhere out in the forest, to manufacture products as efficiently as possible in this optimization-based puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 45.3% ★, Automation 32.9%, Logic 8.4%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 6.5%
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 55.7% ★, Automation 32.2%, Puzzle 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 31.9%, Level Editor 10%, Logic 7.2%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 46.7% ★, Automation 36%, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 3.8%, Strategy 1.5%
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 39.9% ★, Automation 27.7%, Immersive Sim 12%, Logic 7.4%, Strategy 6.6%
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% ★, Automation 10.1%, Puzzle 7.8%, Logic 4.9%, Indie 1.5%
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 48.7% ★, Automation 25.8%, Logic 8.4%, Immersive Sim 7.4%, Strategy 4.7%
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 53.4% ★, Automation 29.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 3.9%, Indie 0.7%
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 47.7% ★, Automation 28.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 5.7%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 55.2% ★, Automation 30.3%, Puzzle 9.7%, Logic 2.5%, Indie 1.5%
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 60.7% ★, Automation 29.7%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 60.7% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 6.5%, Logic 5.5%, Indie 1%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 41.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, 2D 2.6%, Indie 0.9%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Programming 25.2% ★, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Puzzle 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 56.7% ★, Automation 19.5%, Puzzle 13.4%, Logic 7.2%, Indie 1.3%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 65.8% ★, Automation 16.6%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 6.2%, 2D 1.1%
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 47.3% ★, Automation 31.6%, Strategy 7%, Puzzle 5.7%, Logic 5.4%
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% ★, Automation 8%, Puzzle 6.6%, Logic 4.1%, Indie 0.9%
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 54.1% ★, Automation 28.1%, Logic 5.9%, Puzzle 4.3%, Resource Management 3.8%
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 40.8% ★, Automation 30.6%, Level Editor 10.1%, Logic 8.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
An atmospheric horror, exploration and automation game all set in the dim halls of an apartment building
Why similar: Programming 45.6% ★, Automation 34%, Logic 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Puzzle 5.5%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 54.7% ★, Automation 24.4%, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 8.8%, 2D 1.4%
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 37.7%, Strategy 7.9%, Puzzle 3.7%, Logic 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 45% ★, Automation 33.2%, Strategy 7.7%, Puzzle 6.8%, Logic 6.7%
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 52.5% ★, Automation 29.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Logic 4.1%, Resource Management 2.3%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 41.7%, Programming 35.3% ★, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Puzzle 5.3%
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 73.7% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Puzzle Platformer 5.4%, Logic 4.2%, Strategy 3.6%
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 47.3% ★, Automation 32.5%, Logic 8.1%, Puzzle 7.1%, Strategy 3.2%
Solve spreadsheet-based puzzles and handle crazy coworkers in a normal day's work at VeriData Inc.
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Immersive Sim 23.3%, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 4.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
Learn programming in a fun way! An educational game that teaches the basics of programming and algorithmic logic. No prior knowledge of programming is required to play.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 22.1%, Level Editor 10.3%, Logic 7.4%, Puzzle Platformer 6.5%
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 62.8% ★, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, 2D 4.3%
