60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Indie, Automation.
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.
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!
Prelogate
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
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 42.2% ★, Automation 25.9%, Indie 11.2%, Puzzle 10.6%, Logic 10%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 40.1% ★, Indie 30.5%, Logic 17.9%, Puzzle 11.5%
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: Indie 35.2%, Programming 33.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 5.8%
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 55.9% ★, Indie 32.4%, Puzzle 11.7%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Automation 29%, Logic 15.6%, Indie 9.1%, Puzzle 7.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 55.3% ★, Automation 22%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 5.9%, Indie 5.9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 43.1% ★, Automation 25.9%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 8.6%, Indie 8.5%
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 45.7% ★, Automation 28.7%, Puzzle 9.5%, Indie 9.3%, Logic 6.8%
[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 39.7% ★, Automation 29%, Logic 15%, Indie 8.4%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 51.2% ★, Automation 22.6%, Indie 18.3%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 60.8% ★, Indie 13%, Automation 11.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Logic 5%
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 62.4% ★, Indie 12.4%, Puzzle 9%, Logic 8.4%, Automation 7.9%
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 43.2% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 14.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 6.4%
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 54.4% ★, Indie 36.6%, Puzzle 8.9%
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 37.4% ★, Automation 27.3%, Logic 15.8%, Indie 10.6%, Puzzle 8.8%
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 42.5% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 13.8%, Indie 11.3%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 26.2%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 9.2%
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 46.9% ★, Puzzle 15.1%, Automation 14.5%, Logic 12.5%, Indie 10.9%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 28.1%, Indie 12.5%, Puzzle 11.9%, Logic 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 43.2% ★, Automation 23.7%, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 8.2%
Miegakure is a game where you navigate a four-dimensional world to perform miraculous feats and solve puzzles.
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Automation 24%, Indie 12.9%, Puzzle 11.3%, Logic 4.6%
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 52.5% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 10.2%, Indie 8.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 44.4% ★, Automation 29.5%, Logic 16%, Puzzle 8.2%, Indie 1.9%
ZACH-LIKE is a book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics. The digital version of ZACH-LIKE contains the full contents of the book, a bunch of terrible games that Zach made before SpaceChem, and some prototypes and early builds of Zachtronics games, both released and... not.
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 17.1%, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 6.8%
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 54.6% ★, Indie 34.2%, Puzzle 11.1%
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 56.7% ★, Automation 33.7%, Puzzle 9.6%
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 42.7% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Indie 8.4%
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.
Why similar: Programming 60.3% ★, Indie 28.2%, 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 46.3% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Indie 5.5%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Programming 39.1% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 15.4%, Indie 10.3%, Puzzle 8.3%
Build machines... break codes... win the war! It's 1942 and the world is engulfed in war. Meanwhile, in a country mansion in South East England, a group of expert mathematicians are fighting a war of their own, breaking an unbreakable Nazi code... Enigma!
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Indie 25.1%, Automation 19.2%, Logic 13.5%, Puzzle 7.7%
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.
Why similar: Programming 44.9% ★, Automation 33.4%, Logic 8.4%, Puzzle 6.8%, Indie 6.5%
Colourful sandbox toy - Experimental treasure hunt. Manipulate an abstract machine to shape and explore colourful landscapes, and find the mysteries hidden in a shifting world.
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 44.7% ★, Automation 27.3%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 6%
Alien Jelly delivers on 50 levels of thoughtful puzzle design, mixed with weird and lovable characters packaged in a 50’s b-movie sci-fi environment.
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 40.4% ★, Automation 25%, Logic 14.6%, Indie 11.8%, Puzzle 8.2%
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 56.3% ★, Indie 20.4%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 11.1%
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 70.4% ★, Indie 8.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Logic 7.5%, Automation 6.2%
A puzzle game about magnets designed for human brains.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 59.3% ★, Logic 19.1%, Automation 13.9%, Puzzle 7.7%
Code Tracer is a simple puzzle game. You only have to cut codes, but be careful about time and electricity.
VR shoot'em up where the enemies come to you on the rhythm of the music.
Why similar: Indie 100%
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 54.7% ★, Indie 45.3%
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 39.7% ★, Automation 33.8%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 5.9%
Caliper 2 is an absolute, turn-based puzzle. By manipulating objects with different properties, you need to put some object on the button and enter the portal.
Oika tells the story of the living cosmos as a personal story through a series of first-person scientific experiences.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Destroy all the cubes! Use the laser to launch your cubes and match your colors by 3 or more, to remove all cubes from the level to move to the next level.
Addictive one line puzzle to wake up your brain Draw a line and solve it!
Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.
Pressured is a unique and intense number puzzler. Hit your targets to unlock pieces of the dark story, all told via the poetry of Nicholas Gordon. Created by Paul Marrable With music from Matt Mcfarland.
Challenge puzzle masters from all over the world Accompanied by powerful sound effects, solve 108 puzzles and take possession of the secret treasure of the Aztecs.
Towers is a VR-only puzzle game. Find your way through 3D tower mazes by twisting floors into place.
Why similar: Indie 100%
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: Automation 33.9%, Indie 30.1%, Programming 26.3% ★, Puzzle 9.7%
某朝末年，烽烟四起。楚郡内生灵涂炭，青壮被逼无奈大多数只能进入深山落草为寇。在这几乎死境的楚郡内，想活下去，只有比别人更残忍。
Why similar: Indie 100%
In the far future, the invention of instantaneous and waste-free transportation has brought a new age of utopia for humanity. Explore this brave vision of our destiny, and see its many wonders.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.
