- #1 Turing Complete
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,204 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Education 16.6%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 5.8%, Building 4.4%
- #2 Virtual Circuit Board
96% matchVery Positive93% of 305 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Science 15.2%, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #3 Prime Mover
96% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 62% ★, Science 10.7%, Education 10.1%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 3.8%
- #4 while True: learn()
95% matchVery Positive91% of 8,107 reviews2019
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 48.1% ★, Education 16.2%, Science 11.1%, Sandbox 6.2%, Building 5.7%
- #5 Replicube
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 683 reviews2025
Dev: Walaber Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 66.1% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Simulation 3.6%
- #6 ComPressure
94% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2021
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 28.1% ★, Science 13.4%, Education 10.7%, Investigation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #7 Logic World
93% matchVery Positive94% of 353 reviews2021
Dev: Mouse Hat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Programming 32.2% ★, Science 14.7%, Education 13.2%, Logic 11.3%, Building 9.3%
- #8 SHENZHEN I/O
92% matchVery Positive95% of 4,452 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Logic 12.4%, Education 8.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Sandbox 2.8%
- #9 ABI-DOS
91% matchVery Positive93% of 416 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 41.3% ★, Education 13.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Logic 9.6%, Building 8.8%
- #10 Quantum Odyssey
90% matchVery Positive93% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Quarks Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.
Why similar: Programming 29.9% ★, Science 16%, Education 12.4%, Logic 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #11 Kaizen: A Factory Story
89% matchVery Positive93% of 689 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 45% ★, Logic 13.8%, Education 13.8%, Building 8.1%, Puzzle 6.4%
- #12 OCTOPTICOM
91% 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.
Why similar: Programming 39% ★, Science 18.3%, Education 13.5%, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 7.3%
- #13 Silicon Zeroes
89% matchVery Positive88% of 281 reviews2017
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 67% ★, Education 16.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 6.4%
- #14 Opus Magnum
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,887 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 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 61.7% ★, Logic 14%, Puzzle 13.5%, Building 3.7%, Sandbox 3.6%
- #15 Alan's Automaton Workshop
88% matchVery Positive83% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Laputa Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 40.9% ★, Education 17.7%, Logic 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.2%
- #16 Linkito
86% matchVery Positive89% of 155 reviews2024
Dev: KalinarmPub: Playdigious Originals
Windows · Linux
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Programming 41.4% ★, Logic 17.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Puzzle 7.9%, Relaxing 4.9%
- #17 Infinifactory
86% matchVery Positive95% of 2,465 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 47.4% ★, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Logic 7.7%
- #18 U.V.S. Nirmana
84% matchVery Positive91% of 148 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 55.2% ★, Logic 15.8%, Puzzle 8.2%, Philosophical 4.3%, Pixel Graphics 4%
- #19 SpaceChem
85% matchVery Positive92% of 5,063 reviews2011
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 56.3% ★, Puzzle 15.8%, Logic 14.3%, Science 8.1%, Education 2.6%
- #20 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 35.3% ★, Science 17.2%, Education 15.2%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 5.9%
- #21 LogicBots
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 184 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 52.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Education 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 7.5%
- #22 SOKOBOT
83% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Alexander Taylor
Windows
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 45.2% ★, Logic 15.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Puzzle 8%
- #23 Sand:box
81% matchVery Positive94% of 1,594 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Science 19.2%, Education 17.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Logic 14.9%, Building 9.7%
- #24 Retro Gadgets
81% matchVery Positive90% of 509 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 61.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 30.5% ★, Education 20.1%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Logic 9.4%
- #25 Learning Factory
80% matchVery Positive86% of 515 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 29.3% ★, Science 17.2%, Education 15.1%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #26 MHRD
82% matchVery Positive89% of 439 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 67.5% ★, Education 19.1%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 5.4%
- #27 Hard Chip
79% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Elorth
Windows
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Science 17%, Education 14.1%, Logic 13.4%, Building 9.6%
- #28 Puzzletronics Digital Infinite
79% matchVery Positive84% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: Naoka Games
Windows
Puzzletronics Digital Infinite is a minimalist puzzle in the style of jigsaw. The player must move pieces to form logical circuits while listening to a calm and relaxing soundtrack.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.2%, Logic 19.1%, Building 14.6%, Puzzle 11.7%, Top-Down 9.1%
- #29 World of Contraptions
78% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Why similar: Programming 27.3% ★, Science 17.3%, Logic 12%, Education 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #30 Sandboxels
75% matchVery Positive95% of 954 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Science 30.4%, Education 22.1%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 13.7%, Relaxing 3.8%
- #31 7 Billion Humans
77% matchVery Positive94% of 2,104 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!
Why similar: Programming 69.5% ★, Education 10.7%, Logic 9.1%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 2.2%
- #32 Zen Trails
78% matchVery Positive100% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Universe Juice
Windows
A zen-inducing spirograph-making experience to calm the soul while stimulating the mind.
Why similar: Programming 38.9% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 15.1%, Immersive Sim 8.6%, Simulation 5.1%
- #33 Upload Labs
73% matchVery Positive92% of 7,397 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Logic 14.7%, Management 10.8%, Immersive Sim 7.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #34 Word Factori
76% matchVery Positive85% of 453 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 37.8% ★, Logic 13.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.2%
- #35 Human Resource Machine
77% matchVery Positive94% of 4,642 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 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 67.3% ★, Education 13.7%, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 5.2%, Sandbox 2%
- #36 Pure Logic
76% matchVery Positive94% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Sigmund Hoien
Windows
Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!
Why similar: Science 30.1%, Logic 24.2%, Education 24%, Puzzle 10.1%, Minimalist 5.4%
- #37 Bombe
75% matchVery Positive96% of 377 reviews2023
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Programming 21.6% ★, Education 11.2%, Building 8.5%, Logic 8.5%, Investigation 8.4%
- #38 Modulus: Factory Automation
72% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Building 18.7%, Sandbox 18.6%, Logic 15.3%, Management 15%, Immersive Sim 7.7%
- #39 TIS-100
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,067 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 77.6% ★, Logic 8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Education 5.2%, Simulation 1.7%
- #40 Jigsaw Puzzles Infinite
73% matchVery Positive86% of 459 reviews2023
Dev: Bartek Karczmarczyk
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Sit back, relax and build puzzles to your heart's content. Assemble one of the many included puzzles, or add your own images. Customize size and shape of the pieces for any puzzle. Enjoy Classic mode or try out Zen mode for a new type of puzzle experience.
Why similar: Education 21.7%, Sandbox 16.8%, Puzzle 14.7%, Building 13.8%, Relaxing 10.5%
- #41 Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
74% matchVery Positive98% of 96 reviews2020
Dev: Northway Games
Windows
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Why similar: Building 20.8%, Education 18.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Logic 11.4%, Puzzle 11%
- #42 The Lilliput Workshop
71% matchVery Positive95% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 57.9% ★, Building 15.8%, Puzzle 9.9%, Strategy 5.7%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #43 shapez
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.9%, Building 16.2%, Management 14.7%, Logic 13.3%, Open World 8%
- #44 The Farmer Was Replaced
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,430 reviews2025
Dev: Timon HerzogPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 54.5% ★, Education 15%, Logic 11.9%, Sandbox 6.7%, Puzzle 5.2%
- #45 Baba Is You
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,029 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 42.5% ★, Logic 21.1%, Puzzle 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, 2D 2.8%
- #46 Archipel Logic Infinite
70% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: WanderLux Games
Windows
「Archipel Logic Infinite」 is a challenging puzzle game inspired by the popular Nurikabe. Explore legendary archipelagos by marking cells as land or sea to unchart maps. Enjoy challenging puzzles and endless procedurally generated content for limitless exploration.
Why similar: Logic 42.3%, Puzzle 23%, Strategy 10.4%, Minimalist 9.9%, 2D 5.2%
- #47 Electronics Puzzle Lab
71% matchVery Positive86% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sagitta Studios
Windows
Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!
Why similar: Education 40.5%, Logic 19.4%, Puzzle 15.3%, Top-Down 10.4%, Simulation 6.2%
- #48 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
70% matchVery Positive85% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 46.5% ★, Education 20.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Puzzle 7.4%, Strategy 4%
- #49 PC Creator - PC Building Simulator
72% matchMixed65% of 218 reviews2021
Dev: CREATY
Windows
Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.
Why similar: Programming 33.5% ★, Science 15.3%, Education 10.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 8.7%
- #50 Patrick's Parabox
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,475 reviews2022
Dev: Patrick Traynor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
Why similar: Logic 46.2%, Puzzle 26.2%, Minimalist 13.4%, 2D 6%, Strategy 5.8%
- #51 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
69% matchVery Positive89% of 682 reviews2019
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 54.8% ★, Science 23.7%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 5.1%, Logic 5%
- #52 Signal Maze
67% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: theArkitectPub: IndieArk
Windows
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 73.1% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Logic 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.3%, Strategy 2.2%
- #53 Main Assembly
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 31.1% ★, Science 16.8%, Logic 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #54 shapez 2 - Factory
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Logic 20.4%, Management 19.4%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 18.5%, Puzzle 10%
- #55 CHR$(143)
69% matchVery Positive96% of 79 reviews2021
Dev: Nicolas Jean
Windows · Linux
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Building 17.1%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
- #56 EmuDevz
66% matchVery Positive89% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: [r]labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Programming 53.3% ★, Education 17.5%, Logic 16.4%, Puzzle 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
- #57 Electrogical
66% matchVery Positive93% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: kinjoPub: Phoenixx Inc.
Windows
"Jigsaw Puzzle + Arithmetic" is a casual yet engaging game that appeals to puzzle gamers who enjoy immersive experiences. Customize your gameplay by rearranging "piece placement," "number manipulation," and "score selection" to aim for a high score in each stage.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Education 14.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Logic 8.5%, Puzzle 7.3%
- #58 Factorio
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.6%, Building 17.2%, Management 16.5%, Open World 10%, Strategy 8.7%
- #59 Plasma
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,093 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 45.1% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Logic 15.4%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 3.6%