
Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.

Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.

Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

Bottanics
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.
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 32.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Robots 13.7%, Education 10.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
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 32.1% ★, Automation 20.9%, Farming Sim 18.8%, Robots 14.2%, Strategy 4.1%
Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 35.8% ★, Automation 18.2%, Robots 12.7%, Education 9.8%, Logic 8.6%
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 41% ★, Automation 19.4%, Logic 9.9%, Education 9.6%, Sandbox 6.5%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Robots 8%, Education 7.6%, Strategy 6.8%
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 42.9% ★, Automation 16.6%, Farming Sim 11.7%, Education 8.1%, Logic 7%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 22.1%, Farming Sim 10.6%, Base Building 5.8%, Robots 4.6%
Farmer = nil is a programming automation farm game. Write scripts for your robots, collect resources, unlock tech, and build the most efficient farm.
Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Automation 19.7%, Farming Sim 17.5%, Logic 7.3%, Education 6.6%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 58.9% ★, Automation 19.2%, Logic 8.6%, Education 5%, Puzzle 3.8%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Automation 21.4%, Logic 10.4%, Robots 7.6%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 37.5% ★, Robots 15.1%, Automation 13.7%, Education 13.4%, Logic 10.1%
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
Why similar: Programming 41.7% ★, Automation 17.2%, Robots 16.5%, Education 8.8%, Logic 4.4%
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 36% ★, Automation 20%, Robots 16.5%, Education 11.8%, Logic 5%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 21.3%, Education 10.3%, Logic 8.6%, Sandbox 7.7%
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 54.9% ★, Automation 26.7%, Education 6.7%, Puzzle 5.5%, Strategy 4.9%
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 34.5% ★, Automation 17.7%, Robots 16.6%, Logic 9.9%, Education 8.5%
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 51.3% ★, Automation 25.5%, Logic 9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 3.3%
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 37.5% ★, Automation 17.8%, Robots 10.8%, Education 10.2%, Logic 9.3%
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 38.9% ★, Automation 23.3%, Logic 12.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Puzzle 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 38.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Robots 17.3%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 65.7% ★, Automation 10.2%, Education 9.1%, Puzzle 5.8%, Logic 4%
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 43.4% ★, Automation 16.9%, Logic 11.6%, Base Building 7.8%, Education 5%
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 48.8% ★, Robots 22%, Sandbox 8.4%, Education 7.3%, Simulation 7%
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 45.1% ★, Automation 24.5%, Logic 12%, Sandbox 7.1%, Puzzle 5%
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 38.4% ★, Automation 20.9%, Robots 15.3%, Logic 8.9%, Education 7.3%
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 45.3% ★, Automation 22.6%, Logic 11.3%, Education 8.8%, Puzzle 6%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 52.1% ★, Automation 15.4%, Logic 12.2%, Education 7.2%, Puzzle 6.7%
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: Programming 41.6% ★, Automation 14.5%, Logic 10.3%, Education 9.3%, Simulation 8%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Automation 22.1%, Logic 11.3%, Education 6.6%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 68.7% ★, Education 7.2%, Logic 6.9%, Automation 6.7%, Puzzle 5.7%
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 49.4% ★, Automation 23.4%, Logic 6.7%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 5.1%
Circuitra is a challenging visual logic puzzle game about building increasingly complex circuit boards. Limited inputs, tight board space and changing contract constraints force you to debug and rethink your designs in order to grow your circuit-design business.
Why similar: Programming 47.5% ★, Automation 22.1%, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 6.1%, Simulation 5.5%
Solve logic puzzles and obstacle courses in this robot simulation game! Immerse yourself in the exciting world of robotics and programming! Create your own robot, connect logic blocks and teach it to solve challenging tasks!
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Robots 19.8%, Logic 13.5%, Education 11.1%, Puzzle 6%
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 18.7%, Robots 12.6%, Logic 9.8%, Education 8.4%
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 45.2% ★, Automation 23.1%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 6%, Strategy 4.6%
Learn programming in a fun way! An educational game that teaches the basics of programming and algorithmic logic. No prior knowledge of programming is required to play.
Why similar: Programming 36.5% ★, Robots 15.1%, Automation 14%, Education 11.1%, Logic 9.9%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 20.1%, Logic 11.3%, Education 8.5%, Sandbox 6.6%
A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.
Why similar: Programming 41.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Robots 12.9%, Base Building 6.7%, Sandbox 6.4%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Automation 21.9%, Logic 8.3%, Sandbox 6.8%, Base Building 6%
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 43.8% ★, Automation 19.5%, Logic 10.4%, Education 9.1%, Strategy 4.8%
In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!
Why similar: Programming 36.6% ★, Automation 21.8%, Robots 17.7%, Logic 9.4%, Sandbox 5.5%
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 52.7% ★, Automation 22.1%, Sandbox 7.4%, Education 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%
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 55.6% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 6.8%, Strategy 6.2%
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 43.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Logic 11.7%, Education 9.2%, Sandbox 8%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 20.6%, Education 9.2%, Logic 7.5%, Sandbox 6.6%
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 35% ★, Automation 17.8%, Robots 14.5%, Logic 9.9%, Education 8.6%
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 48.6% ★, Robots 13.3%, Logic 9.4%, Education 7.6%, Simulation 7%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 21%, Education 12.5%, Logic 9.7%, Sandbox 7.1%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 46% ★, Automation 28.4%, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 5.6%, Simulation 2.7%
"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 31.7% ★, Automation 27.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8%
Build and program customizable robots using simple logic systems to overcome clever grid-based challenges and help Robby reunite with his friends.
Why similar: Programming 34.9% ★, Robots 22%, Automation 15.4%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
Bring your robots to help overwhelmed farmers and ranchers restore order to their chaotic lands. Use your programming skills to code the robots to clean the farm from messy livestock, bring them to the pen, tend with their food, and get a share of the farm's profitability from the livestock product
Why similar: Programming 52% ★, Robots 20.2%, Farming Sim 16%, Simulation 5.7%, Puzzle 3.1%
Aim for a high score by creating complex train set layouts. Program points and signals to direct trains and keep them moving. Run more and more trains… but don’t let them crash!
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Automation 23.9%, Logic 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Education 5.5%
DumbBots: Hello World is the FREE introduction to the world of coding a DumbBot. Learn a new skill in 2020, and pickup the basics of coding with drag-and-drop ease in a fun setting. Or show your coding mettle by competing with other DumbBots.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 13.2%, Education 12.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Logic 8.5%
Write Python-style code to program repair patchers and rescue a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector. Start with four commands; every file you restore unlocks loops, variables, functions and lists, until your programs bring all 1,474,560 bytes back to life. The whole game fits on one floppy.
Why similar: Programming 46.3% ★, Automation 27.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Education 7.1%, Simulation 4.6%
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 32.9% ★, Automation 17.3%, Farming Sim 17%, Robots 13.4%, Education 9.5%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 25.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Logic 5.7%
Program three distinct towers with readable visual logic, then solve handcrafted tower-defense puzzles where placement, line of sight and every code block matter. No programming experience required.
Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 11.5%, Robots 8.8%, Strategy 6.1%
TurtleCAD 3D is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to pilot a sea turtle to create 3D polygonal graphics. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Education 9.1%, Sandbox 7.9%, Automation 7.7%, Simulation 5.7%