60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Singleplayer, Puzzle, Logic.
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.
Opus Magnum
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!
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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 45.9% ★, Automation 21.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 9%, Simulation 4.2%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Automation 16.2%, Logic 8.5%, Difficult 5.6%, Education 5.5%
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 37.8% ★, Automation 20.6%, Building 9.4%, Puzzle 8.9%, Difficult 6.3%
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 46.6% ★, Difficult 13.3%, Puzzle 12%, Automation 11.2%, Logic 10.2%
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 48.3% ★, Solitaire 11.9% ★, Logic 11.7%, Automation 9.3%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 54.7% ★, Education 11.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Difficult 10.3%, Puzzle 7.3%
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%, Logic 16.3%, Building 13.4%, Puzzle 8.5%, Strategy 8.4%
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 7%, Puzzle 6.1%, Logic 6%, Automation 4.7%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 33% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 12.1%, Education 9.6%, Building 7.8%
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 45.5%, Building 11.3%, Logic 10.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 38.6%, Building 16.9%, Logic 15.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%
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 39% ★, Automation 19.7%, Logic 12.5%, Building 7.3%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 62.9% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Education 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Difficult 7.1%
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 41.8% ★, Automation 21.8%, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 5.8%
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 48.7% ★, Automation 18%, Education 11.5%, Logic 9%, Puzzle 4.2%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 25% ★, Automation 19.1%, Education 14.3%, Building 8.2%, 1980s 8.2%
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 37.6% ★, Automation 18.1%, Logic 11.2%, Difficult 9.3%, Building 7.4%
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 31.8%, Logic 13.1%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 10.7%
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 37.6% ★, Automation 17.9%, Education 14.1%, Logic 9.7%, Building 6.6%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 20%, Logic 11.7%, Education 10.2%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 60.2% ★, Education 10.5%, Automation 8.9%, Puzzle 7.1%, Logic 4.1%
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 33.5% ★, Automation 15.4%, Education 12.2%, Logic 9.4%, 1980s 7.2%
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 35.4% ★, Automation 18.4%, Difficult 9.3%, Logic 8.4%, Building 7.9%
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 35.4% ★, Automation 23.5%, Building 9.5%, Logic 9.3%, 1980s 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 10.4%, Education 10%, Difficult 7.2%, Logic 6.4%
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 64.4%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 4.2%
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 26.8%, Solitaire 21% ★, Logic 14.6%, Building 9.3%, Retro 9%
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 31.6% ★, Automation 15.4%, Education 11.3%, Logic 10.1%, Difficult 8.7%
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 33.3%, Building 14.9%, Education 13%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Education 10.4%, Logic 7.5%, Building 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 72.4% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 5.3%, Retro 4.8%
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 43.4% ★, Education 13%, Logic 12.4%, Difficult 9.9%, Simulation 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 42.8% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 4.6%
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 17.1%, Puzzle 6.3%, Simulation 5.8%, Building 5.4%
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 28.2%, Logic 16.8%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Building 10.5%
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 52.8% ★, Automation 27.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Building 6%, Sandbox 2.8%
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Simulation 18.2%, Logic 15.3%, Building 10.9%, Retro 8.1%
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 64.5% ★, Education 8.5%, Puzzle 7.2%, Logic 7.2%, Automation 6%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 44%, Building 19.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
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 56.3% ★, Automation 16.8%, Logic 8.9%, Puzzle 6.5%, Difficult 4.7%
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 44.9% ★, Logic 13.9%, Education 13.8%, Building 8.1%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 35.8% ★, Automation 20.5%, Education 15.9%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 5.5%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 45.9%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 12%, Stylized 9%, Puzzle 8.6%
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 33.9% ★, Automation 13.7%, Education 11.7%, Logic 11.1%, Difficult 9.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 52.1% ★, Automation 20%, Simulation 10.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Logic 4.1%
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 50.3%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 8.1%
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 39.6% ★, Automation 19.7%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Strategy 5.3%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Education 19.2%, Building 10%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.4%
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%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 8.6%, 2D 3.7%, Indie 2.2%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Automation 22%, Building 9.4%, Puzzle 6.9%, Strategy 5.6%
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 43% ★, Automation 31.7%, Logic 10.3%, Simulation 9%, Economy 2.4%
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 39.7% ★, Automation 20.7%, Education 13%, Building 8.9%, Puzzle 5.9%
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 56.5%, Building 18.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.
Why similar: Building 43.6%, Simulation 20.7%, Economy 18.5%, Singleplayer 7.2%, Indie 7.1%
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: Programming 33.4% ★, Automation 32.3%, Simulation 17.1%, Puzzle 9.6%, Indie 4.6%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 24.8%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 5.9%, Simulation 5.1%
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Strategy 15%, Logic 13.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, Difficult 9.6%
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 38.9%, Solitaire 34% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Simulation 5.9%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 49.7%, Building 17.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 7.3%
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 72.2% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 7.1%, Retro 3.5%, Strategy 2.9%
