60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Puzzle, Programming, Difficult.
Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.
Debugger 3.16: Hack'n'Run
Help Debugger 3.16 to find and delete all bugs in the game worlds of the developer. Learn and use program code in this award-winning puzzle platformer to program you very own game at the end!
Fourtex Jugo
A challenging single-player strategy puzzler with rule-based mechanics and hand-crafted levels.
Help Debugger 3.16 to find and delete all bugs in the game worlds of the developer. Learn and use program code in this award-winning puzzle platformer to program you very own game at the end!
Why similar: Programming 78.2% ★, Indie 21.8%
A challenging single-player strategy puzzler with rule-based mechanics and hand-crafted levels.
Jump Step Step is a gorgeous and funny programming game with bonsai trees, a crazy robot and a broken rocket. Bob is short-circuited and goes mental. Please send him a series of moves to guide him back to his ship. Without your help Bob will probably tell himself to step on a spike and die.
Why similar: Programming 73% ★, Indie 15.9%, Puzzle 11.1%
Adventure little wizard named Javva, looking for his Coffee stolen by evil skeleton King. Enjoy challenging gameplay - then Javva Juice for you! Here you have to work hard to be like before you go through the next dungeon!
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 72.4% ★, Puzzle 14%, Indie 13.6%
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 79.5% ★, Difficult 9.2%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 3%
Unique logic game with simple controls and addictive gameplay. There is no story, no clutter - everything is simple, minimalistic. Whole game tries to keep you focused on one simple goal, which is solving current puzzle.
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 58.6% ★, Difficult 18.7%, Puzzle 17.5%, Indie 4.4%, 2D 0.8%
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 71.2% ★, Puzzle 12.1%, Difficult 9%, Indie 7.7%
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 79.3% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 5.4%, Difficult 4.4%
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 83.8% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 5.2%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 79.5% ★, Difficult 9.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Indie 2.8%, 2D 0.3%
Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.
Why similar: Programming 80.6% ★, Puzzle 12%, Indie 7.4%
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 72.8% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 9.2%, Difficult 8.7%
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 71.8% ★, Indie 14.6%, Puzzle 13.6%
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 66.2% ★, Difficult 14%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 9.5%
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 71.4% ★, Puzzle 16.6%, Indie 6.1%, Difficult 4.7%, 2D 1.1%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 66.1% ★, Puzzle 17.6%, Indie 16.3%
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 84.7% ★, Puzzle 15.3%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Difficult 24.5%, Puzzle 21.7%, Indie 8.2%, 2D 3.3%
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Why similar: Programming 64.1% ★, Difficult 18%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 3.9%, 2D 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 71.5% ★, Puzzle 17.5%, 2D 6.6%, Indie 4.4%
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 87% ★, Puzzle 13%
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 68.4% ★, Difficult 16.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Indie 2.1%, 2D 1.8%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 76.9% ★, Puzzle 14.1%, Indie 9.1%
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 75.9% ★, Puzzle 14.5%, 2D 5.3%, Indie 4.3%
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 59.7% ★, Difficult 14.9%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 9.1%, 2D 3.3%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 86.8% ★, Puzzle 13.2%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 82.3% ★, Puzzle 9.7%, Difficult 6.1%, 2D 1.8%
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 78% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Difficult 7.3%, Indie 4.2%
[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 63.8% ★, Difficult 15.9%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 4.4%, 2D 4.1%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 61.2% ★, Difficult 22.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 6%
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 85.8% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 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 85.3% ★, Puzzle 11%, Indie 3.7%
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Why similar: Programming 92.3% ★, Indie 7.7%
Gamepad Massage is a massage game, in which you can use your XBOX controller for Massage. You can even build your own rhythms of the massage using java-script.It have some builtin levels for you to learn about how to write the codes you need.
Why similar: Programming 78.8% ★, Indie 21.2%
Predefined is a 3D puzzle game where planning is key. Navigate a burrow through levels filled with puzzles and obstacles. Enjoy Twitch Integration and Idle Mode for interactive gameplay and community collaboration.
Why similar: Programming 83% ★, Puzzle 17%
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 60.5% ★, Indie 27.9%, Puzzle 11.6%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 69.4% ★, Difficult 10.5%, Indie 10.1%, Puzzle 10%
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 79.5% ★, Puzzle 11.3%, Indie 9.2%
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 67.3% ★, Difficult 12.6%, Indie 10.3%, Puzzle 9.8%
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 65.3% ★, Difficult 18.2%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 3.7%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 64.9% ★, Difficult 14%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 5%, 2D 3.7%
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 86.9% ★, Indie 13.1%
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 84.6% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, 2D 2.2%
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 64.2% ★, Puzzle 17.4%, Difficult 12%, Indie 6.4%
You are a malfunctioning AI. Find ways to kill your master while respecting your laws. Craft commands word by word, and outsmart Alice by finding loopholes.
Why similar: Programming 57.2% ★, Difficult 20.1%, Puzzle 12%, Indie 6.4%, 2D 4.3%
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 82.2% ★, Puzzle 11%, Indie 3.5%, 2D 3.3%
Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you
Why similar: Programming 76.2% ★, Puzzle 13%, Indie 10.8%
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 80.8% ★, Puzzle 12.7%, 2D 3.5%, Indie 3.1%
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 70.5% ★, Indie 18%, Puzzle 11.5%
A fun and frantic maze game with classic arcade style
Why similar: Indie 100%
Coding Learn is a game that will help you master real programming! Traveling with the robot to the mysterious castle, you will gradually learn the basics of writing code and solve problems, helping the main character to move towards the goal!
Why similar: Programming 96.1% ★, Indie 3.9%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 84.3% ★, Puzzle 13.1%, 2D 2.6%
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 64.4% ★, Difficult 17.3%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 4.1%, 2D 1.8%
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 63.1% ★, Difficult 18.2%, Puzzle 12.5%, Indie 4.6%, 2D 1.6%
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 67.3% ★, Difficult 15.8%, Puzzle 10.1%, Indie 3.9%, 2D 2.9%
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 62.1% ★, Difficult 18.4%, Puzzle 12%, 2D 4.1%, Indie 3.4%
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 81.3% ★, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 3.7%, 2D 3.4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 76.5% ★, Puzzle 16.9%, Indie 6.6%
