60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Simulation, Singleplayer.
Harvest planets with programmable robots. Write real Python to collect every resource on the map, deliver it to your spaceship, and avoid the hazards. Sharpen your problem solving and coding skills, one level at a time. No coding experience needed — learn as you play.
Autonauts
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Icaria
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 34.9% ★, Automation 20.4%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Farming Sim 6.7%, Resource Management 6.1%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 27.5% ★, Automation 16.5%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.2%
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 41.1% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 10.6%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 6%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 34.4% ★, Automation 19.9%, Education 16%, Robots 10.2%, Crafting 8%
This is a game that simulates farm management through programming. Players need to develop their economy, upgrade technology, unlock more advanced commands and resources, and deal with various uncertain destructive events. The game simplifies the complexity and extracts the automation elements.
Why similar: Programming 36.4% ★, Automation 20.4%, Education 14.8%, Farming Sim 11.4%, Robots 4.6%
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 52.2% ★, Automation 27.7%, Education 9.6%, Strategy 4.5%, Exploration 2.8%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Programming 21.3% ★, Automation 20.4%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Farming Sim 11.7%, Crafting 8.6%
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 44% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 12.5%, Farming Sim 9.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
A deep programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Building 7.9%, Resource Management 7%
Join SirKwitz on another coding adventure in this edutainment puzzle game. Manage instructions, execute functions and loops, and navigate Booleans as you code this quirky robot through each challenge.
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Automation 23%, Education 18.7%, Robots 12.4%, Resource Management 3.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 63.8% ★, Automation 22.7%, Education 8.1%, Building 2.3%, Simulation 2.1%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 51.4% ★, Automation 20.4%, Education 8.7%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 4.6%
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 51% ★, Automation 23.3%, Education 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 5.4%
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 53.6% ★, Automation 21.1%, Education 20.7%, Casual 2.5%, Indie 1.8%
Marvellous Inc. is a programming puzzle game, where you program robots to solve tasks.
Why similar: Programming 32.4% ★, Coding 18.4% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 15.6%, Robots 9.4%
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 41% ★, Automation 22%, Education 13.4%, Building 8.3%, Procedural Generation 4.9%
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 36.9% ★, Automation 26.2%, Farming Sim 15.7%, Robots 11.7%, Strategy 4.4%
Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Automation 20.4%, Coding 17.1% ★, Education 12.6%, Robots 9%
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 39.4% ★, Automation 23.4%, Robots 11.2%, Education 11.1%, Procedural Generation 5.5%
'Conge's Crunch Time' is a puzzle game where you solve factory tasks through intuitive drag-and-drop programming. Write code for your robot to clear each level, delve deeper into the factory, encounter new puzzle concepts and data-structure creatures, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Programming 34.2% ★, Coding 21.4% ★, Automation 18%, Education 14.1%, Robots 10.1%
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 68.2% ★, Education 14.3%, Automation 11.7%, Simulation 2.4%, Casual 1.7%
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 50.9% ★, Automation 28.5%, Building 12%, Simulation 3.8%, 2D 1.9%
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Education 22.7%, Automation 16.9%, Robots 12.2%, Simulation 4%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Automation 26.3%, Procedural Generation 7%, Robots 6.1%, Simulation 4.5%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Automation 28.4%, Education 16%, Building 9%, Simulation 4.6%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 59.5% ★, Education 19.5%, Automation 12.1%, Building 4.7%, Simulation 3.1%
"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: Programming 31.6% ★, Automation 30%, Resource Management 16.6%, Crafting 11%, Strategy 4.4%
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 44.9% ★, Automation 21.9%, Education 14.3%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 4.7%
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 47.8% ★, Automation 24.6%, Education 16.7%, Strategy 4%, Simulation 3.5%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Programming 27% ★, Automation 17.8%, Education 14.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.3%
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 41% ★, Automation 31.2%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 5.8%, Resource Management 4.5%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 23.7%, Education 19.4%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 2.6%
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Why similar: Programming 53% ★, Robots 17.1%, Education 11.8%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 6.6%
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 48.4% ★, Automation 26.3%, Education 14%, Crafting 5.4%, Simulation 4.9%
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% ★, Automation 24.4%, Education 11%, Coding 5.8% ★, Idler 5%
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 63.2% ★, Education 22%, Building 7.1%, Simulation 4%, Coding 2.9% ★
An automation roguelite where single-use JunkDroids turn out to be surprisingly useful: automate production network, rebuild a broken world piece by piece, and stop the Goofy Goo before it consumes everything. Play solo or in coop.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Programming 20.8% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Robots 10.1%, Building 9.6%
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Automation 22.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.6%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 9.3%, Robots 9.1%
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 50.4% ★, Automation 26.2%, Education 11.6%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 4.6%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Automation 22.5%, Education 14.7%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.3%
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 43.3% ★, Automation 28.2%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 6.2%, Strategy 4.1%
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 47.9% ★, Automation 26.7%, Building 7.5%, Education 5.4%, Strategy 4.6%
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Farming Sim 15%, Resource Management 13.2%, Robots 12.2%, Building 10.2%
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 45.6% ★, Automation 23.6%, Education 13.6%, Building 8.8%, Simulation 3.9%
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% ★, Education 12%, Automation 8.1%, Simulation 3.2%, Indie 1.3%
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 48.8% ★, Automation 20.7%, Building 11.6%, Education 8.4%, Simulation 3.4%
Mnemonimov is a fantasy console where you program in ASSEMBLY like in the 80s. Build anything from games to operating systems and understand how computers work at a low level.
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Automation 17%, Education 16.3%, Coding 12.7% ★, Building 8.4%
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 58.8% ★, Automation 32%, Simulation 3.4%, Building 3.4%, Indie 1.4%
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 50% ★, Automation 22.6%, Procedural Generation 6.7%, Education 5.9%, Strategy 5.6%
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% ★, Automation 33%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 4.9%, 2D 2.2%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 26.6%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Simulation 3.7%
Bridge2Code is a bridge-building game where you can code a bridge using a simple programming language. Your goal is to create a bridge that can support a car going from the start to the end.
Why similar: Programming 45.1% ★, Education 18.6%, Building 14%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%
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 40.7% ★, Automation 22.7%, Education 14.9%, Robots 14%, Strategy 4.4%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 20%, Education 16%, Building 9%, Exploration 6.1%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Robots 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%
Edd-E is a pixel-art game maker with custom visual scripting and publishing platform. Create games and Publish them with just one click. Play games from other creators or edit them. Learn programming and game development!
Why similar: Programming 27.6% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 19.4%, Building 9.7%, Robots 8.6%
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Why similar: Programming 38.3% ★, Automation 21.3%, Education 13.9%, Robots 11.3%, Building 9.1%
