- #1 Phasewright
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lucaren
Windows
A pulse crosses one cell per tick — the longer way arrives later. From that one rule you build machines out of light: lay conduits, split colours, hit the beat. Quiet, untimed, free.
Why similar: Strategy 20.8%, Abstract 20.2%, Programming 12.7% ★, Automation 12.3%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #2 I Made Myself An AI
96% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Draih
Windows
Build circuits and manage heat as you complete tasks in this surprisingly intuitive puzzle game unlike anything you've ever played before.
Why similar: Abstract 22.2%, Programming 21.7% ★, Puzzle 12%, Logic 10.8%, Futuristic 9.4%
- #3 Funge
96% match5 user reviews67% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: NoodleStorm
Windows
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 28.1% ★, Abstract 23.4%, Automation 16.7%, Puzzle 12%, Logic 7.9%
- #4 U.V.S. Nirmana
94% matchVery Positive89% of 220 reviews2026
Dev: CoincidencePub: Klei Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.1% ★, Abstract 15.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 10.2%
- #5 BridgeFix 2=3-1
95% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
BridgeFix 2=3-1 is a beautiful, relaxing and rewarding puzzle game which adds new twists to the game Hashi-wo-kakero. The game is easy to learn, hard to master and offers you plenty of puzzles to solve.
Why similar: Strategy 29.7%, Abstract 28.6%, Puzzle 17.3%, Logic 15.4%, 2D 6.4%
- #6 Alien Cartographer
94% matchPositive94% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: FachchefGames
Windows · Mac
Alien Cartographer is a Minesweeper-like logic deduction puzzle game, where the player has to identify various buildings on a hexagonal grid using environmental hints and the strict rules of their architecture.
Why similar: Abstract 22.4%, Hex Grid 21.5% ★, Puzzle 12%, Logic 12%, Level Editor 11.4%
- #7 Robot Unlock
93% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Adrian Toncean
Windows · Linux
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 25.4% ★, Automation 18.8%, Abstract 16.9%, Puzzle 10.6%, Level Editor 10.5%
- #8 Square Man Puzzle Game
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: J D WisePub: Postdiluvian Games
Windows
Square Man is a real-time puzzle game where you must solve stages by achieving certain goals. Most often you’ll be collecting stars and/or reaching the exit, but you might also have to melt ice, fill in water, turn lava to stone, or even fight monsters!
Why similar: Abstract 26.4%, Strategy 19.5%, Level Editor 17.7%, Puzzle 15.3%, Logic 15%
- #9 Nullum
91% matchPositive94% of 49 reviews2020
Dev: Misc.261
Windows
Nullum is a minimalist puzzle game. The goal is to eliminate all tiles by creating matching numbers.
Why similar: Abstract 33.4%, Strategy 30.4%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 5.5%
- #10 Great Permutator
91% matchVery Positive87% of 150 reviews2014
Dev: Ripatti Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 25.4% ★, Automation 20%, Puzzle 10.5%, Strategy 9%, Level Editor 8.6%
- #11 Blendefine
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 寰宇四象计划
Windows
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 27.4% ★, Automation 24.1%, Strategy 16%, Puzzle 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
- #12 Bombe
89% matchVery Positive96% of 385 reviews2023
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Abstract 26.5%, Automation 20.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Programming 13.8% ★, Puzzle 11.9%
- #13 ABI-DOS
88% matchVery Positive92% of 438 reviews2024
Dev: ABI.DOS.SOFTWARE
Windows
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 25.7% ★, Automation 18.2%, Abstract 16%, Strategy 11.4%, Puzzle 8.4%
- #14 Elsewhere
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: eMbAh
Windows
Activate every shape in abstract logic puzzles built from gems, signals, and shifting paths. Learn each gem's rule, solve the campaign, then build and share your own levels through the editor and Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Strategy 24.8%, Abstract 21.2%, Puzzle 14.9%, Level Editor 9.3%, Logic 7.9%
- #15 D6scend
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ra9r
Windows
D6SCEND is a single-player 3D puzzle game centered around manipulating a six-sided die. Roll across tile-based, multi-level mazes to reach a goal tile with a specific face value oriented upward. Master spatial reasoning and orientation tracking in a minimalist sci-fi world.
Why similar: Abstract 30.8%, Strategy 18.4%, Futuristic 12.8%, Puzzle 12.8%, Logic 11.3%
- #16 Sublime element
86% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Thedox Games
Windows · Linux
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 24.4% ★, Automation 19.5%, Abstract 16.6%, Level Editor 11%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #17 Selfless Heroes
86% matchPositive80% of 46 reviews2020
Dev: Félicien Brochu
Windows · Linux
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: Strategy 29.8%, Programming 27.5% ★, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #18 Block Shop
84% matchVery Positive99% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Foolbox Studio
Windows · Linux
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Strategy 31.1%, Puzzle 15.4%, Logic 10.3%, Difficult 3.5%
- #19 The Sigil Engine
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Soda Elephant Studio
Windows
Write spells. Guide a shikigami. Bring light to a moonlit garden. Arrange actions, conditions and loops to solve 60 puzzles across five chapters, or plan your way through a changing survival garden. Cast, observe, and turn a clumsy routine into an elegant solution.
Why similar: Strategy 29.8%, Automation 18.3%, Programming 18% ★, Puzzle 14.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%
- #20 Beam Time
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Connor Slade
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 35.3% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Puzzle 14.5%, Logic 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
- #21 Number Machine: Math Factory
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ARIELEK
Windows · Mac · Linux
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 24.6% ★, Automation 20.5%, Hex Grid 18.3% ★, Puzzle 9.7%, Logic 8.5%
- #22 Pentavex 2
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Christian Baune
Windows · Linux
Tetravex is too easy for you? Here come Pentavex 2. Discover more that 10 rules with variants, side matching is only one of them! Use the level editor, share packs and enjoy other players packs.
Why similar: Abstract 30.1%, Strategy 29.5%, Puzzle 13.7%, Logic 9.3%, Level Editor 8.9%
- #23 Prime Prism
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Totori Works
Windows
"Prime Prism" is a pure logic puzzle game themed around prime numbers and factorization. Construct circuits of light using optical tools like "Prisms" and "Lenses" to decompose and synthesize numbers. Over 140 stages across 11 worlds await your challenge.
Why similar: Abstract 29.8%, Programming 28.6% ★, Logic 14.2%, Puzzle 13.6%, Difficult 5.8%
- #24 Robot Programmer
81% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: ZeroPub: Zero Cores
Windows · Mac
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Automation 22.5%, Puzzle 12.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Logic 11.3%
- #25 Programming Factory
81% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: KUOKUO
Windows
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 26.5% ★, Automation 22.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Logic 12.4%, Strategy 11.6%
- #26 Maybe... I'll go to the beach
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bilge
Windows
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 31.3% ★, Automation 21.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 10.9%
- #27 Opus Magnum
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,277 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 35.8% ★, Automation 25.6%, Puzzle 17.8%, Logic 9.4%, Hex Grid 3.4% ★
- #28 yarne
79% matchPositive100% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Rowan Wood
Windows · Mac
A relaxing abstract puzzle game about unraveling shapes and optimizing space.
Why similar: Abstract 32.6%, Strategy 31.7%, Puzzle 18.5%, Logic 9.3%, 2D 5.3%
- #29 Hexograph
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Icospheric
Windows
Hexograph is a hexagonal twist on nonogram puzzles. Use logic to solve handcrafted multi-color grids, read clues across three directions, untangle special hint rules, and reveal colorful hidden pictures.
Why similar: Hex Grid 21.4% ★, Abstract 21.1%, Strategy 21%, Logic 15.8%, Puzzle 14.9%
- #30 Code Grid
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NanQiPub: Rodway
Windows
Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.
Why similar: Programming 30.3% ★, Automation 22%, Puzzle 12.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Logic 9.3%
- #31 ZERO_FILL
77% matchNo user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Catoio Software
Windows
ZERO_FILL is a minimalist logic puzzle game. Bring all numbers to zero: click on a square to reduce or increase its value, but be careful - it also affects its neighbors. Includes a campaign with 75 boards, a boards creator and infinite random boards generation.
Why similar: Strategy 24.5%, Abstract 16.5%, Logic 16.5%, Puzzle 16.4%, Level Editor 10.9%
- #32 robot become human
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team 27
Windows
You are a little robot aiming to understand the world outside of your station, and with it, discover your own humanity. Traverse the facility and try to reach the surface world in this vocaloid inspired puzzle game.
Why similar: Strategy 28.4%, Puzzle 24.1%, Futuristic 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, 2D 6.3%
- #33 Kaizen: A Factory Story
75% matchVery Positive92% of 721 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Klei Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29% ★, Automation 18.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #34 Blueprint Factory
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Smiling Panda Studios
Windows
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Why similar: Programming 29.5% ★, Automation 25.9%, Strategy 14%, Puzzle 13.9%, Logic 5.3%
- #35 KAMI 2
74% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: State of PlayPub: Noodlecake
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kami 2 is a relaxing puzzle game where you fold colorful paper to fill each board with a single color in as few moves as possible. Solve hundreds of handcrafted levels or create and share your own with the puzzle builder. Designed with real sheets of folded paper.
Why similar: Abstract 31.9%, Strategy 30.4%, Puzzle 14.3%, Level Editor 9.9%, 2D 6.8%
- #36 VELONE
76% matchMostly Negative41% of 31 reviews2022
Dev: ZAR 21Pub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
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 31.1% ★, Automation 24.3%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 11.5%, Futuristic 8.1%
- #37 Genesis Factory
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: qm_mofan
Windows
Genesis Factory is a factory-building automation sim where you program your workers. Mine, cut, pump, and forge raw materials, then code workers with a visual flowchart to gather, carry, produce, and stockpile. Research blueprints, logistics, and drones to grow a self-running empire.
Why similar: Strategy 30.5%, Programming 20.4% ★, Automation 14.2%, Puzzle 12.6%, Futuristic 10.6%
- #38 Orbital Upgrade
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fynntastic Games
Windows
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 25.9% ★, Automation 21.7%, Strategy 19%, Puzzle 12.5%, Logic 7.4%
- #39 Trailkeeper
73% match2 user reviews67% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: OateyGames
Windows
Trailkeeper is a hand-authored collection of four classic logic puzzles — Slitherlink, Masyu, Yajilin, and Hashi — set to the rhythm of a quiet woodland trail. Solve at your own pace, return for a new daily trail, and trace your way through every grid in the bank.
Why similar: Strategy 49.1%, Puzzle 20.6%, Logic 19.3%, 2D 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #40 Bilattice
73% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Starmaps, LLC
Windows
Bilattice is a massive puzzle game featuring over 300 hand-crafted levels and tons of unique mechanics. The mechanics interact with each other in endlessly interesting ways to produce hours of mind-bending content. The sheer number of clever gimmicks offered by this game is hard not to appreciate.
Why similar: Abstract 32.1%, Strategy 30.1%, Puzzle 14.6%, Logic 10.5%, 2D 6.8%
- #41 Block Machine
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: kerntief
Windows
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 32.5% ★, Abstract 18.3%, Automation 15.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Logic 13.1%
- #42 The Magnets
72% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: Onuralp Kanatsz
Windows
The Magnets is a logic puzzle game.
Why similar: Abstract 35.6%, Logic 16.9%, Puzzle 16.5%, Strategy 14%, 2D 7.4%
- #43 Vexcell
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: J.M. Bremer
Windows
Vexcell is an elegant, minimalist puzzle game. Embrace the satisfaction of everything falling into place.
Why similar: Strategy 38.3%, Abstract 28.8%, Puzzle 21.2%, 2D 8.7%, Indie 2.3%
- #44 Crayon Computer
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Artless Games
Windows · Mac
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 35.9% ★, Abstract 29.2%, Automation 18.8%, Puzzle 10.4%, 2D 3.1%
- #45 Charge!
72% match4 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Depths Games
Windows
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 30.6% ★, Automation 22.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Logic 10.8%
- #46 The Qubit Factory
69% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Logical Basis
Windows · Mac
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 31.3% ★, Automation 22.5%, Abstract 15.9%, Puzzle 13.9%, Logic 11.7%
- #47 ff link
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: NamedJustin
Windows · Linux
Abstract puzzle game about creating links between nodes through colored arms sticking out of the nodes. 75 handcrafted levels. Each level has unique solution.
Why similar: Abstract 45%, Puzzle 20%, Level Editor 12.9%, Logic 11.1%, 2D 7.5%
- #48 Finite State Automaton Challenges
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Tramolly Game
Windows · Mac
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 39.9% ★, Automation 27.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, 2D 2.6%
- #49 Senalux
71% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel with Hat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Senalux is a hex-based puzzle game about optics where you solve challenging puzzles with colorful lasers. Use the red, green and blue lasers, combine them to the right color and illuminate the target.
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.7% ★, Programming 20.6% ★, Puzzle 15.8%, Logic 13.5%, Abstract 9.9%
- #50 Beaming
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Kyle Florence
Windows · Mac
Beaming is a minimalist logic-based puzzler that involves directing beams through a hexagonal grid.
Why similar: Hex Grid 25.2% ★, Strategy 20.7%, Puzzle 17%, Logic 16.7%, Level Editor 13.3%
- #51 I Was Lost
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CH3 Collective
Windows
Move walls, avoid danger in a labyrinthic poem, and create your own stories in this unique puzzle experience where each level is a poem's verse unraveling as you progress. Control not only your position but also move walls to create new paths and escape from seemingly impossible situations.
Why similar: Abstract 30.9%, Level Editor 16.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Puzzle 12.9%, Logic 12%
- #52 Pirates on Target
70% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: RainForest GamesPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows
Move the blocks strategically, your objective is to change the trajectory of the cannonballs until they reach the pirate ship. Simple yet challenging.
Why similar: Strategy 33.9%, Abstract 33.5%, Logic 9.1%, 2D 7.4%, Puzzle 6.3%
- #53 Cloud Arch Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Jose MoralesPub: Bare Metal Games
Windows
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
Why similar: Programming 34% ★, Automation 23.1%, Strategy 17.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Logic 6.9%
- #54 ProBelt
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Snakebelt
Windows
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 29.2% ★, Automation 19.9%, Level Editor 12.4%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #55 ZIRQUITZ
67% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Surrogate of Sorrow
Windows · Linux
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Abstract 25.3%, Automation 18%, Strategy 17.1%, Programming 15.5% ★, Puzzle 11.1%
- #56 Link Lab
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Fracture Games
Windows · Linux
Connections are all you need to succeed. Link objects together to share and mix traits to create the tools you need to solve each level. Be careful which resource you spend where though, as each one is single use and you might need that piece later!
Why similar: Abstract 36.8%, Strategy 33.8%, Puzzle 19%, 2D 7.9%, Indie 1.9%
- #57 Programmer Dungeon Knightress
67% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: Dragon Lord Studio
Windows · Linux
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 32.2% ★, Automation 21.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Logic 11.6%
- #58 Hexio
67% match8 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Logisk Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Connect all the nodes into beautiful and abstract shapes in this exciting puzzle game. Enjoy a relaxing piano soundtrack in your delightful experience.
Why similar: Abstract 33.3%, Puzzle 18.5%, Logic 18.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Atmospheric 5.4%
- #59 While (You) World.Create()
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toium
Windows
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: Strategy 46%, Programming 34% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Indie 8.1%