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Games Like Glyphs Apprentice

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Programming, Puzzle, Difficult.

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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.

Reviews: Mixed — 61% — of 18 reviews
Released: 2017-03-16
Developer: inSPIRE Games
Genres: Indie
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 4.9 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.5 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 99%

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    97% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2018
    Dev: Spiderwork Games
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    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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    Why similar: Programming 78%, Indie 22%

  2. #2 Fourtex Jugo
    96% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2017
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    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2017
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    Windows
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    Why similar: Difficult 50.9%, Indie 33.8%, 2D 15.3%

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    95% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2017
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Programming 72.8%, Indie 16.1%, Puzzle 11%

  5. #5 TIS-100
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,045 reviews2015
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%

    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 8.2%, Indie 3%

  6. #6 Cool Headed
    94% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2018
    Dev: joqlepecheur
    Windows

    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 72.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Indie 13.8%

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    93% matchVery Positive92% of 5,057 reviews2011
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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    92% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    Why similar: Programming 71.2%, Puzzle 12%, Difficult 9%, Indie 7.8%

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    91% matchVery Positive94% of 4,614 reviews2015
    Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 78.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 5.5%, Difficult 4.5%

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    90% matchVery Positive94% of 2,088 reviews2018
    Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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!

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    91% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2016
    Dev: Space Budgie
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%

    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 11.9%, Indie 7.5%

  12. #12 SHENZHEN I/O
    89% matchVery Positive95% of 4,421 reviews2016
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%

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    89% matchVery Positive89% of 433 reviews2017
    Dev: Funghisoft
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%

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    88% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2016
    Dev: mindhelix.pl
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,719 reviews2017
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

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    87% matchVery Positive88% of 281 reviews2017
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%

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    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    Windows

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  39. #39 Minimal
    74% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2016
    Dev: Gammosaur
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    70% matchVery Positive99% of 180 reviews2024
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    71% matchVery Positive95% of 614 reviews2019
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    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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    72% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2021
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    Windows

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  44. #44 Drag Engineer
    73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
    Dev: Guang Pu
    Windows

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    70% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: Adrian Baudat
    Windows

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    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
    Dev: Tramolly Game
    Windows · Mac

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    72% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2017
    Dev: Mighty Studios, LLC
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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  48. #48 Infinifactory
    69% matchVery Positive95% of 2,459 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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  49. #49 While (You) World.Create()
    73% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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  50. #50 1-DC
    68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
    Dev: 89o
    Windows · Linux

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  51. #51 Robot Unlock
    67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
    Dev: Adrian Toncean
    Windows · Linux

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  52. #52 Great Permutator
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 148 reviews2014
    Dev: Ripatti Software
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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  53. #53 Pixel Forge
    67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: MELOVITY
    Windows · Mac

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  54. #54 DA-VI-NC1
    67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    68% matchMixed58% of 38 reviews2022
    Dev: twelveAddOnePub: Baker's dozen
    Windows

    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!

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  56. #56 OCTOPTICOM
    68% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2018
    Dev: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD.
    Windows · Linux

    OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

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  57. #57 Algotica Iterations
    70% matchMixed53% of 177 reviews2017
    Dev: Alexander Goodwin
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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

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  58. #58 Kaizen: A Factory Story
    63% matchVery Positive93% of 646 reviews2025
    Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
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    69% matchMixed52% of 33 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Origin Space is an action RPG. Your character is a pilot of a combat spaceship, a member of a long-standing feud between the Federation and the Cultists. Having defeated hordes of enemies in dynamic battles, change the course of history!

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  60. #60 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
    65% matchVery Positive89% of 678 reviews2019
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%

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