- #1 Virtual Escape: The Play Room
97% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2016
Dev: Default Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Find a way to escape the room, and unravel a strange story.
Why similar: Indie 41.9%, Adventure 39.6%, Puzzle 18.5%
- #2 Factotum 90
96% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: TACS Games
Windows
You’re in deep space and something’s collided with the ship. Main power is offline and you’re trapped. It’s lucky you have access to this walker control terminal. It’s a little old but with these two robots and some clever thinking you might be able to get power back online and save the day.
Why similar: Indie 52.5%, Adventure 47.5%
- #3 Adele: Following the Signs
96% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2016
Dev: Unosquare
Windows · Mac · Linux
The year is 2029. It is the end of the world. Take on the role of Mike; who is in the woods with his daughter, fleeing from a wave of zombies. During the escape, Mike falls and loses consciousness. He awakes to find that Adele is nowhere to be found. He'll need to follow the signs.
Why similar: Indie 50.2%, Adventure 49.8%
- #4 A-Escape VR
94% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: CTN Design, LLCPub: A-Escape
Windows
A-Escape is an escape room game built from the ground up for VR. Will you escape in time?
Why similar: Indie 51.4%, Adventure 48.6%
- #5 LogicBots
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 184 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 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 77.5% ★, Indie 12.4%, Puzzle 10.1%
- #6 Cool Headed
93% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: joqlepecheur
Windows
Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?
Why similar: Programming 69.4% ★, Indie 19.1%, Puzzle 11.5%
- #7 Glitchspace
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2016
Dev: Space Budgie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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 73.1% ★, Indie 9.8%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 7.9%
- #8 7 Billion Humans
89% matchVery Positive94% of 2,088 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 80.3% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 7.6%, Funny 3%
- #9 Glyphs Apprentice
91% matchMixed61% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: inSPIRE Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.
Why similar: Programming 72.8% ★, Indie 16.1%, Puzzle 11%
- #10 Algotica Iterations
91% matchMixed53% of 177 reviews2017
Dev: Alexander Goodwin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you
Why similar: Programming 59.8% ★, Indie 12.9%, Adventure 12.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, Funny 6%
- #11 Human Resource Machine
89% matchVery Positive94% of 4,614 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 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 80.1% ★, Puzzle 9.6%, Indie 8.1%, Funny 2.2%
- #12 Prime Mover
88% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 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 76.8% ★, Indie 12.1%, Puzzle 11.1%
- #13 A.V.
90% matchMixed63% of 38 reviews2015
Dev: FirstForever StudiosPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A.V. is a first-person stealth-puzzle-musical-adventure game (Try saying that 5 times fast). The game places the player in the role of a rogue music-processing algorithm from a computer's sound systems. From this role, the player can view the world only through audible means.
Why similar: Indie 51.6%, Adventure 48.4%
- #14 TIS-100
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,045 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 87.5% ★, Puzzle 7.7%, Indie 4.8%
- #15 Cyber Sentinel
87% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2016
Dev: mindhelix.pl
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 68.6% ★, Indie 20.4%, Puzzle 11%
- #16 Goblet of Maya
86% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: CubeInSquare
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Goblet Of Maya - Challenging Pixel Art Platformer
Why similar: Indie 61.3%, Adventure 38.7%
- #17 Signal Maze
76% 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 86.6% ★, Puzzle 13.4%
- #18 Coding Learn
82% matchMixed58% of 38 reviews2022
Dev: twelveAddOnePub: Baker's dozen
Windows
Coding Learn is a game that will help you master real programming! Traveling with the robot to the mysterious castle, you will gradually learn the basics of writing code and solve problems, helping the main character to move towards the goal!
Why similar: Programming 82.6% ★, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 5.2%
- #19 Predefined: A Programming Puzzle Game
80% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Metehan SENER
Windows
Predefined is a 3D puzzle game where planning is key. Navigate a burrow through levels filled with puzzles and obstacles. Enjoy Twitch Integration and Idle Mode for interactive gameplay and community collaboration.
Why similar: Programming 76.1% ★, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 10.6%
- #20 While (You) World.Create()
79% 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: Programming 66.2% ★, Indie 24.6%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #21 Brainfuck Challenge
73% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Lyric Law
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 77.5% ★, Indie 13.1%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #22 Gnomes & Co: The Art of the Build
83% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Cheers Games
Windows
Direct your secret guild of tiny gnomes, hidden somewhere out in the forest, to manufacture products as efficiently as possible in this optimization-based puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 54.4% ★, Indie 36.6%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #23 Prelogate
85% matchVery Positive91% of 98 reviews2014
Dev: blamedrop
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 63% ★, Indie 22.7%, Puzzle 14.3%
- #24 Debugger 3.16: Hack'n'Run
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2018
Dev: Spiderwork Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Help Debugger 3.16 to find and delete all bugs in the game worlds of the developer. Learn and use program code in this award-winning puzzle platformer to program you very own game at the end!
Why similar: Programming 71.1% ★, Indie 28.9%
- #25 Replicube
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 610 reviews2025
Dev: Walaber Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 87.3% ★, Puzzle 12.7%
- #26 Gamepad Massage
82% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: XenoAmess
Windows
Gamepad Massage is a massage game, in which you can use your XBOX controller for Massage. You can even build your own rhythms of the massage using java-script.It have some builtin levels for you to learn about how to write the codes you need.
Why similar: Programming 71.8% ★, Indie 28.2%
- #27 Algo Bot
81% matchVery Positive82% of 187 reviews2018
Dev: Fishing CactusPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 75.3% ★, Indie 12.9%, Puzzle 11.8%
- #28 SHENZHEN I/O
79% matchVery Positive95% of 4,421 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 88% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Indie 4.5%
- #29 MHRD
81% matchVery Positive89% of 433 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 77.9% ★, Indie 14%, Puzzle 8.1%
- #30 CodeSpells
84% matchMostly Negative39% of 265 reviews2015
Dev: ThoughtSTEM, LLC
Windows · Mac
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 83.2% ★, Indie 10.1%, Adventure 6.7%
- #31 异常 | Exception
78% matchVery Positive95% of 614 reviews2019
Dev: Kunpo Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 82% ★, Indie 18%
- #32 Beam Time
68% 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 80.3% ★, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 6.6%
- #33 May's Journey
70% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Chaima Jemmali
Windows · Mac · Linux
May’s Journey is a 2.5D puzzle game where players use pseudo code to solve environmental mazes and learn programming basics, guiding protagonist May to restore balance in a fractured, fictional world.
Why similar: Programming 77.6% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 4.7%
- #34 Opus Magnum
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,719 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 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 75.4% ★, Puzzle 15%, Indie 9.5%
- #35 Pix
78% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel After Pixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pix jumps through perilous platformer levels on a quest to collect colorful, sparkling pixels. Death lurks around every corner in each risky mission to recover the glowing goodness!
Why similar: Indie 51.4%, Adventure 48.6%
- #36 Bamboo Forest
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Wouter van PuttenPub: Panda Land Studios
Windows
Send your Panda on an adventure and at the same time you'll learn how to code cool algorithms! Guide your Panda through colorful areas by using simple commands. Learn programming / STEM concepts like recursion and loops while having fun. But beware! Don't get caught while eating bamboo!
Why similar: Programming 85.2% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 5.4%
- #37 while True: learn()
72% matchVery Positive91% of 8,061 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 85.6% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 5.3%
- #38 From The Mystery Zone
67% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: kakeia
Windows
You find yourself in a pitch-dark world. Avoid dangerous events, restore memory, and escape from the “Mystery Zone”.
Why similar: Programming 67.9% ★, Adventure 14.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Indie 5.3%
- #39 Eekeemoo - Splinters of the Dark Shard
77% match6 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Cooply Solutions Ltd
Windows
In this awesome third person adventure game you will help Eekeemoo rescue his friends from the clutches of the evil Dark Shard! Your quest will take you deep into the Dark Shards four corrupted splinter worlds.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #40 MineSweeper VR
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 42 reviews2016
Dev: Funny Twins
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The famous "Minesweeper" is now in virtual reality! Classic gameplay with stunning control and excellent atmosphere!
Why similar: Indie 72.8%, Puzzle 27.2%
- #41 CRANGA!: Harbor Frenzy
76% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: HandMade Game
Windows
CRANGA!: Harbor Frenzy is a casual VR puzzle game that brings popular block-pushing games to a whole new level with a crane, VR, and explosions! Control an industrial crane to push and remove shipping containers from a teetering tower. One wrong move will bring about epic destruction!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Silicon Zeroes
74% 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 74.5% ★, Indie 15.7%, Puzzle 9.9%
- #43 ICEBOX: Speedgunner
74% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: Games Of EdanPub: Capricorn 76 Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A competitive Run-and-Gun 3D Platforming FPS video game ...THE CLOCK'S TICKING… Carve an ice-cool path through the Icebox, cutting corners, dodging obstacles & eliminating guards, as you race to become the Ultimate Speedgunner. Can you “Escape the Icebox” before time runs out?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Stone Story RPG
62% matchVery Positive91% of 977 reviews2023
Dev: Rex Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 58.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...
Why similar: Programming 69.6% ★, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 12%, Puzzle 4.2%
- #45 KnotBot
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: BeetBomb
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 61.2% ★, Indie 30.4%, Puzzle 8.4%
- #46 SpaceChem
73% matchVery Positive92% of 5,057 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 73.3% ★, Puzzle 18.6%, Indie 8.1%
- #47 Grave Mania: Undead Fever
73% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2016
Dev: Anino GamesPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows
Put zombies to rest!
- #48 The Endless Mission
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: E-Line Media
Windows
The Endless Mission is a community-driven creation sandbox game where you can play, hack, and create within a world...within a world...within a world, eventually making and sharing your own games...with the world.
Why similar: Programming 54.7% ★, Indie 24%, Adventure 21.3%
- #49 Birdsketball
71% matchVery Positive97% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: Waynetron
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Local multiplayer basketball with birds.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Wanderjahr
72% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Workyrie Game Studio
Windows
Wanderjahr is a JRPG with real time combat and an intriguing story. “This universe, this reality, there’s a source code behind all of it. We’d know, we already found it.” “And with it, we will cleanse this reality of all evil.”
- #51 1-DC
56% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: 89o
Windows · Linux
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 88.3% ★, Puzzle 11.7%
- #52 The Artist
71% match6 user reviews57% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Motoda Media
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The Artist is a first person puzzle adventure inspired by other mysterious puzzle games like Myst, The Witness, and Firewatch. Sucked into The Artist's canvas world, you must solve the strange puzzles scattered across his island to find a way back home. If you fail, you will be trapped in the canvas forever.
Why similar: Indie 51.4%, Adventure 48.6%
- #53 Finite State Automaton Challenges
60% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 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 88.2% ★, Puzzle 11.8%
- #54 Cluckles' Adventure
69% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: @lukasinspacePub: Funbit Pty Ltd
Windows
Cluckles may be small, but she is feisty and brave. Guide her through 100+ challenging levels to rescue the chicks and defeat the evil minions!
Why similar: Indie 51.4%, Adventure 48.6%
- #55 Star Stuff
54% matchVery Positive99% of 180 reviews2024
Dev: Ánimo Games StudioPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac
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 71.1% ★, Puzzle 12.1%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 5.9%
- #56 Drag Engineer
64% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Guang Pu
Windows
If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.
Why similar: Programming 85% ★, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #57 DA-VI-NC1
55% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Baby Bear Fish
Windows
DA-VI-NC1 is a Turing-machine-based coding puzzle game. You must complete the puzzles, pass the Turing test, and discover the philosophical world of DA-VI-NC1 with the Mona Lisa.
Why similar: Programming 84.1% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 5.7%
- #58 Elven Legend 2: The Bewitched Tree
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Growing Grass Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Elven Legend 2 - exciting time-management strategy in a fantasy world, where an evil witch has bewitched the Life Tree of the Elven Kingdom.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #59 Cologne
70% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Nhneno
Windows
Race on multiple tracks in cosmic realms and cities. Fast machines, challenging levels, tough rivals and places you have never seen before. Climb to the top and race against other drivers around the world.
Why similar: Adventure 54.7%, Indie 45.3%