Games Like Kaizen: A Factory Story

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 45.6% ★, Automation 22.6%, Puzzle 9%, Logic 8.9%, Simulation 4.2%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 52% ★, Automation 16.8%, Logic 8.4%, Education 5.5%, Difficult 5.4%

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 37.8% ★, Automation 21.3%, Building 9.3%, Puzzle 8.7%, Difficult 6.2%

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 46.7% ★, Difficult 13%, Puzzle 11.7%, Automation 11.7%, Logic 10.2%

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: Automation 37.6%, Logic 16.1%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Puzzle 8.3%

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 54.8% ★, Education 11.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Difficult 10.1%, Puzzle 7.2%

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 67.6% ★, Difficult 6.8%, Logic 5.9%, Puzzle 5.9%, Automation 4.9%

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 47.8% ★, Solitaire 12% ★, Logic 11.7%, Automation 9.7%, Puzzle 6.3%

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: Automation 46.7%, Building 11.1%, Logic 10.1%, Strategy 9%, Sandbox 7.6%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Education 13.1%, Logic 12.5%, Automation 8.8%, Puzzle 4.8%

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 38.7% ★, Automation 20.4%, Logic 12.2%, Building 7.2%, Puzzle 6.1%

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: Automation 39.4%, Building 16.5%, Logic 15%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.7%

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 63% ★, Puzzle 9%, Education 8.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Difficult 7%

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 41.4% ★, Automation 22.7%, Logic 15.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 5.8%

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 37.4% ★, Automation 18.8%, Logic 11%, Difficult 9.1%, Building 7.3%

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 48.1% ★, Automation 18.2%, Education 11.4%, Logic 9%, Puzzle 4.1%

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Programming 24.9% ★, Automation 19.8%, Education 14.1%, Building 8.1%, 1980s 8.1%

Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.

Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Logic 13%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%

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 60% ★, Education 10.5%, Automation 9.3%, Puzzle 7%, Logic 4%

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 37.4% ★, Automation 18.6%, Education 14%, Logic 9.6%, Building 6.5%

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 35.1% ★, Automation 24.3%, Building 9.4%, Logic 9.2%, 1980s 7.8%

Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.

Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Automation 19%, Difficult 9.1%, Logic 8.3%, Building 7.8%

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 36.9% ★, Automation 10.8%, Education 10%, Difficult 7.1%, Logic 6.3%

Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!

Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Solitaire 20.9% ★, Logic 14.4%, Building 9.2%, Retro 8.9%

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: Automation 65.2%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 4.2%

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Automation 34%, Building 14.6%, Education 12.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.6%

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 31.4% ★, Automation 16%, Education 11.2%, Logic 10%, Difficult 8.5%

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 37.6% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 10.3%, Logic 7.4%, Building 6.2%

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 43.5% ★, Education 13%, Logic 12.3%, Difficult 9.7%, Simulation 9.2%

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 52.3% ★, Automation 27.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Building 5.9%, Sandbox 2.8%

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 58.6% ★, Education 17%, Puzzle 6.1%, Simulation 6%, Building 5.4%

Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.

Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Logic 15%, Building 10.8%, Retro 8%

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 71.9% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Sandbox 5.4%, Retro 4.9%

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 42.4% ★, Automation 23.7%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 7%, Simulation 4.6%

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 64.2% ★, Education 8.5%, Logic 7.2%, Puzzle 7.1%, Automation 6.3%

uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.

Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Logic 16.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Building 10.4%

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 35.4% ★, Automation 21.2%, Education 15.7%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 5.5%

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 38.1%, Education 18.8%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.4%

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 56% ★, Automation 17.5%, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 6.3%, Difficult 4.6%

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Programming 51.6% ★, Automation 20.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Logic 4%

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 47.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 11.9%, Stylized 8.8%, Puzzle 8.1%

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 33.8% ★, Automation 14.3%, Education 11.6%, Logic 11%, Difficult 9%

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.

Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Logic 13.8%, Education 13.8%, Building 8.1%, Puzzle 6.4%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 51%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 8%

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 38.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Building 7.7%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 57.2%, Building 18%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 6.8%, Sandbox 6.7%

A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.

Why similar: Programming 43.8% ★, Automation 22.8%, Building 9.3%, Puzzle 6.7%, Strategy 5.6%

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 39.3% ★, Automation 20.4%, Logic 14.1%, Puzzle 6.7%, Simulation 5.3%

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 39.4% ★, Automation 21.4%, Education 12.9%, Building 8.8%, Puzzle 5.7%

A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 71.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 8.5%, 2D 3.7%, Indie 2.1%

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Programming 32.2% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 4.5%

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 38.6% ★, Difficult 19.5%, Puzzle 16.7%, Logic 16.4%, Indie 2.8%

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 43.5% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 5.7%, Simulation 5.2%

Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.

Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Logic 17.1%, Building 14%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 8.3%

Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.

Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 10.5%, Difficult 9.3%

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

Why similar: Automation 47%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 55.6% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Education 10.3%, Building 8.5%, Puzzle 7.2%

Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.

Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Solitaire 33.5% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%, Simulation 5.8%

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 72.4% ★, Puzzle 11%, Logic 7.1%, Retro 3.5%, Strategy 2.9%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Programming 46.8% ★, Automation 25%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 5.6%