60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Automation, Programming, Singleplayer.
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Warp Factory
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.
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!
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 35.9% ★, Automation 26.5%, Building 12.4%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 6.7%
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 47.3% ★, Automation 26%, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 4.6%, Logic 4.3%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 42.1% ★, Automation 15.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Building 8.8%, Minimalist 8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Automation 27.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Minimalist 8.2%, Logic 6.3%
[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 42.2% ★, Automation 27.6%, Minimalist 9.3%, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 6.1%
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 39.8% ★, Automation 25%, Building 13.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 4.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 60.2% ★, Automation 21.5%, Puzzle 6.6%, Logic 4.5%, Simulation 3.4%
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 36.8% ★, Automation 28.2%, Building 13.6%, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 4.5%
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 42.8% ★, Automation 24%, Puzzle 9.7%, Building 7.6%, Logic 5.2%
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 40.2% ★, Automation 20.9%, Building 8.7%, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 5.9%
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 38.6% ★, Automation 25.3%, Building 12.7%, Puzzle 9.3%, Logic 6.3%
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 40.3% ★, Automation 24.2%, Building 12.3%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 5.6%
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 56% ★, Automation 29.8%, Puzzle 9.6%, Casual 2.9%, 2D 1.4%
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 50.9% ★, Automation 16.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 6.2%, Casual 4.3%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 23.2%, Building 9.5%, Puzzle 8.2%, Grid-Based Movement 6.2%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Automation 25.5%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Logic 5.9%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 23.6%, Puzzle 8.5%, Minimalist 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, Automation 20.7%, Building 8.9%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 6.1%
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 40.3% ★, Automation 22.4%, Building 10.9%, Puzzle 8.3%, Minimalist 5.7%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Automation 22.1%, Puzzle 10.6%, Minimalist 6.5%, Logic 4.8%
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 45.9% ★, Automation 27.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Logic 6.4%, Simulation 3.9%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 50.1% ★, Automation 22.3%, Puzzle 12.1%, Simulation 11%, Indie 1.9%
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 67.6% ★, Automation 11.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 3.9%, Casual 2.2%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Automation 29.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Casual 6.4%, 2D 4%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 24.8%, Puzzle 8.6%, Minimalist 6.7%, Logic 6%
Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation. Connect nodes to build custom algorithms and route endless passenger waves. Clear strict wait time and power targets to upgrade your system. If floors overflow, your hack is detected—game over!
Why similar: Programming 46.6% ★, Automation 26.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Minimalist 8.2%, Simulation 5%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 26%, Simulation 7.6%, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 3.5%
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 71.1% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Automation 7.6%, Simulation 5.2%, Logic 3.7%
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Automation 18.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Minimalist 12%, Puzzle 10.6%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 66.4% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 11.1%, Minimalist 10.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 47.5% ★, Automation 26%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Logic 6.1%
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 44.2% ★, Automation 20.4%, Building 9.8%, Logic 6.2%, Puzzle 5.8%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 39.7% ★, Automation 25.1%, Building 13.2%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 5.9%
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 46.4% ★, Automation 19.8%, Building 12.4%, Logic 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%
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 57.2% ★, Automation 12.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Logic 6.5%, Minimalist 6.3%
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 39.8% ★, Automation 23.2%, Building 10.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 5.9%
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 44% ★, Automation 23.8%, Building 10%, Puzzle 7.3%, Simulation 6.1%
A programming puzzle game where you never control the snake directly. Instead, you build its behavior by connecting blocks, then press play and see if your logic works. Think like a programmer as you solve 70 puzzles, with 30 more coming soon.
Why similar: Programming 35.4% ★, Automation 16%, Minimalist 12.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, Simulation 8.8%
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 46.2% ★, Automation 22.5%, Building 8.9%, Puzzle 7.7%, Logic 5.7%
Engineer a production line to build pixel art images one at a time. Get your timing and placement right to match the solution image and finish the level!
Why similar: Programming 46.5% ★, Automation 25.1%, Minimalist 11.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Casual 7.5%
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 76.5% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Automation 6.2%, Simulation 3.9%, Logic 3.2%
The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Automation 23.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 6.9%, Logic 6.6%
Instruct a robot to resolve hostage situations in this tactical programming puzzle game. Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment to save every hostage. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 67.5% ★, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 11%, Logic 8.1%, Indie 1.3%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 56.5% ★, Automation 26.4%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 59.8% ★, Automation 23.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Casual 3.7%, Indie 3%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 24.5%, Building 10.7%, Puzzle 7.8%, Logic 5.4%
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 55.3% ★, Puzzle 18.1%, Automation 15.4%, Logic 5.7%, Indie 1.8%
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 60% ★, Automation 20.8%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 4.4%, Simulation 4.2%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 26.3%, Building 12.6%, Puzzle 7.3%, Simulation 5.2%
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Automation 28.4%, Building 11.6%, Puzzle 6.8%, Logic 6%
A tower defense game where you program your turrets instead of upgrading them. Drag and drop visual code blocks to define targeting, conditions, and firing logic. No coding experience needed. Your strategy is your code.
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Automation 26.8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Logic 6.4%, Minimalist 4.1%
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 46.5% ★, Automation 27.4%, Puzzle 9.8%, Indie 9.3%, Logic 7%
Robot Unlock is an open-ended puzzle game with 75+ levels. Design your own solutions and optimize them for speed, instructions or space and compare with other players. Create your own levels, challenge other players and solve community made ones.
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 27.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 6.1%, Logic 5.7%
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 48.3% ★, Automation 15.7%, Building 10.4%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 5.6%
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 27.3%, Puzzle 10.5%, Minimalist 6.1%, Logic 4.2%
The whole game fits on one floppy disk. Write Python-style code to program repair patchers, reclaim a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector, and watch your programs bring 1,474,560 bytes back to life. Automation, unlocks, chiptunes — every byte hand-counted.
Why similar: Programming 49.8% ★, Automation 32.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Minimalist 7.3%, 2D 2.1%
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 50.5% ★, Automation 30.1%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Casual 2.6%
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 47% ★, Automation 18%, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 8.2%, Indie 7%
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 44.8% ★, Automation 27.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Logic 6.8%, Simulation 5.2%
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 56.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Logic 7.1%, Simulation 4.5%
