60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Singleplayer.
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
ComPressure
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.
Bombe
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
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% ★, Science 13.4% ★, Education 10.7%, Investigation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Programming 21.6% ★, Education 11.1%, Building 8.5%, Logic 8.5%, Investigation 8.4%
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 33.3% ★, Science 15.2% ★, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Sandbox 10%
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 7.2%
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
Why similar: Programming 41% ★, Education 12.8%, Science 9.8% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.2%
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%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 3.9%
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 10.9%, Building 9.2%
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 37.7% ★, Logic 13.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.3%
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 44.8% ★, Logic 13.9%, Education 13.8%, Building 8.2%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 63.1% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Puzzle 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Simulation 4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Science 24.1% ★, Puzzle 11.3%, Simulation 5.3%, Logic 5.1%
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% ★, Education 16.2%, Science 11.1% ★, Sandbox 6.2%, Building 5.7%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 52% ★, Education 16.4%, Logic 16.1%, Puzzle 5.9%, Building 4.4%
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Why similar: Programming 32.2% ★, Education 13.6%, Science 13% ★, Logic 12%, Sandbox 7.8%
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 68.5% ★, Education 18.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 5.4%
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 6.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Logic 12.5%, Education 8.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Sandbox 2.8%
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% ★, Education 11.1%, Logic 9%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 2.3%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 58% ★, Education 21%, Puzzle 10.8%, Logic 5.1%, Minimalist 2%
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 7.9%
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: Science 22.2% ★, Education 19.3%, Sandbox 13%, Building 12.8%, Logic 12.1%
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 62.3% ★, Education 21.7%, Puzzle 11%, Simulation 3.2%, Casual 1.8%
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Logic 16.2%, Education 15.2%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 5.3%
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 77.7% ★, Logic 7.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Education 5.2%, Simulation 1.7%
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 47.2% ★, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Puzzle 12%, Logic 7.7%
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 66.9% ★, Education 13.9%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 5.3%, Sandbox 2%
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 70.7% ★, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Sandbox 5.1%, Simulation 2.2%
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%, Logic 13.4%, Building 9.6%
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Why similar: Programming 51% ★, Logic 16.5%, Education 14.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6%
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 49.4% ★, Building 17.1%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
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 61.5% ★, Logic 14.1%, Puzzle 13.5%, Building 3.8%, Sandbox 3.7%
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Programming 56.8% ★, Logic 21.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Relaxing 5.3%, Strategy 3.8%
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Logic 21.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 3.2%
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 87.8% ★, Puzzle 12.2%
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 56.3% ★, Puzzle 15.7%, Logic 14.4%, Science 8.1% ★, Education 2.6%
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 29.2% ★, Science 17.2% ★, Education 15%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.
Why similar: Programming 58.1% ★, Logic 23.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Strategy 3.9%, 2D 3.6%
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 41.3% ★, Logic 17.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Puzzle 7.9%, Relaxing 4.9%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 57.5% ★, Logic 24.6%, Puzzle 14.4%, Casual 3.6%
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: Programming 34.6% ★, Science 21.6% ★, Logic 19.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Sandbox 5.4%
Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.
Why similar: Science 31.7% ★, Logic 15.5%, Education 15%, Puzzle 12.9%, Relaxing 6.2%
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 20.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Puzzle 7.3%, Strategy 4%
[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 57.7% ★, Logic 20.8%, Puzzle 10%, Minimalist 6.4%, 2D 3.2%
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 59% ★, Logic 22.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, Building 4.8%, Simulation 2.9%
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 41.4% ★, Logic 13.3%, Science 12.6% ★, Education 10.6%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 48.1% ★, Sandbox 15%, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
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 58.6% ★, Building 18.9%, Puzzle 13.9%, Simulation 4.7%, 2D 3.8%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Logic 12.1%, Education 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.2%
Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes.
Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Logic 15%, Sandbox 10.4%, Science 9.7% ★, Puzzle 7.2%
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 39% ★, Science 13.1% ★, Logic 11.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Building 6.5%
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 34.6% ★, Education 13.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Science 11.4% ★, Logic 9.3%
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 35.8% ★, Education 12.8%, Science 12.2% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 7.8%
Click to place components to create anything from a piano to a computer in a virtual sandbox environment.
Why similar: Education 18.3%, Programming 13.3% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Logic 11.8%, Building 9.7%
Mnemonimov is an assembly-based fantasy console with a retro monochrome screen. Experience the challenge and the fun of old-school game development without the headaches of real hardware.
Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Education 13.3%, Science 12.9% ★, Logic 11.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!
Why similar: Programming 56.3% ★, Education 19.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 4.1%, Minimalist 3.4%
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
Why similar: Science 33.5% ★, Education 21.7%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 5.7%
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 42.3% ★, Education 14.3%, Logic 13.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Puzzle 6.8%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Education 18.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Logic 13%, Immersive Sim 6.8%
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Why similar: Programming 74.2% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Education 7.2%, Simulation 3.8%
