
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Puzzle, Indie.

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.

Programmer Dungeon Knightress
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!

Cyber Sentinel
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.
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 35.3% ★, Automation 13.3%, Education 10.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Logic 9.8%
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 44.4% ★, Indie 20.6%, Education 14.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Puzzle 7.5%
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: Indie 35.2%, Programming 33.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 5.8%
Everything is either ON or OFF. Boolean is an open-ended problem solving game where you build circuits and send signals!
Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Indie 27.9%, Programming 24.4% ★, Logic 8.8%
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 54.3% ★, Education 10.2%, Indie 8.6%, Simulation 7.4%, Automation 6.9%
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 55.7% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Indie 8.2%, Education 8.1%, Puzzle 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 43.7% ★, Automation 17.4%, Simulation 9.9%, Puzzle 9.1%, Logic 8.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 53.4% ★, Automation 13.8%, Logic 8.9%, Simulation 6.9%, Education 5.9%
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 39.6% ★, Simulation 18.9%, Indie 13.1%, Logic 8.8%, Education 8.1%
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 46.6% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Logic 12.3%, Education 11.9%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 38% ★, Automation 15%, Simulation 15%, Logic 10.9%, Education 9.6%
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 48.9% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Indie 13.7%, Education 11.9%, Puzzle 5.4%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Education 13.9%, Logic 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Automation 7.4%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Automation 15.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 36% ★, Education 16.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Logic 11.1%, Automation 10.4%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Automation 15.1%, Simulation 14.1%, Logic 11%, Education 8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Simulation 21.7%, Automation 14%, Indie 8.6%, Puzzle 8.5%
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 33.3% ★, Automation 17.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Education 11.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Indie 13.8%, Logic 10.2%, Education 9.9%
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 48.1% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Logic 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
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 44.9% ★, Simulation 22.9%, Indie 14.7%, Education 10.2%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 52.3% ★, Education 16%, Simulation 12.8%, Puzzle 5.8%, Indie 5%
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 53% ★, Simulation 17.4%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 8.1%, Education 7.8%
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Simulation 19.2%, Logic 12.4%, Education 10.1%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 47.3% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Logic 13.6%, Education 13.5%, Puzzle 6%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 42.8% ★, Logic 13.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
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 44.4% ★, Simulation 21.3%, Indie 11.1%, Education 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 38.7% ★, Automation 17.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 8.8%
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 36.8% ★, Automation 14.6%, Education 14.4%, Logic 9.7%, Simulation 8.6%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Programming 39% ★, Simulation 26.2%, Indie 19.4%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 5.3%
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 49.1% ★, Education 16.6%, Automation 14.1%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 39.3% ★, Automation 14%, Education 11%, Logic 10.8%, Simulation 10.7%
Develop magical programming abilities while building spells. Lambda Spellcrafting Academy is a card-based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. If you've ever wanted to dabble in spellcraft (programming) here is a fun way to get started.
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Education 12.9%, Logic 12.4%, Indie 8.9%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 38.9% ★, Automation 15.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Education 10.9%, Logic 10.1%
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 59.2% ★, Simulation 16%, Indie 11.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Education 5.2%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 45.9% ★, Indie 25.8%, Logic 17.4%, Puzzle 11%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 16.5%, Logic 11%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 38% ★, Automation 14.9%, Simulation 11.9%, Education 10.9%, Logic 7.8%
Trapped inside a living database, use real SQL to unlock regions and challenge the system that watches every query. Use SELECT to investigate, UPDATE to repair and remember: DROP NOT ALLOWED. It doesn’t matter if you’re a SQL noob or a veteran; the game teaches you everything you need as you play.
Why similar: Programming 40.1% ★, Education 14.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 9.5%, Logic 8.5%
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: Simulation 30.2%, Programming 23.2% ★, Indie 19.6%, Automation 19.4%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 66.2% ★, Simulation 7.6%, Puzzle 6.2%, Logic 6%, Indie 5.7%
Step into a time portal to 1993. While your friends are battling it out in the latest FPS adventures, you got the opportunity to learn the newest trend, programming. Turn on your CRT monitor and learn to write code, compete with others in challenges or write minigames.
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Education 19.1%, Simulation 16.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Puzzle 9%
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 37.4% ★, Simulation 18.9%, Indie 13.2%, Education 11.8%, Logic 11%
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 48% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Automation 16%, Education 8.1%, Sandbox 7.4%
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 62.4% ★, Indie 26.8%, Puzzle 10.8%
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Why similar: Programming 46.3% ★, Automation 18.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 7%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Programming 26.4% ★, Simulation 19.3%, Education 17.5%, Automation 15.4%, Logic 13%
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 38.4% ★, Education 15.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Automation 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Automation 20.5%, Logic 14.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Indie 7.3%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Automation 15.8%, Education 15.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Simulation 7.8%
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.
Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Automation 15.9%, Logic 13.2%, Education 11.9%, Simulation 9.7%
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 43% ★, Automation 18.5%, Logic 13.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Logic 11.7%, Education 9.8%
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 38.5% ★, Automation 15.5%, Logic 11.8%, Indie 8.3%, Simulation 7.6%
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 40.9% ★, Education 11.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Automation 9.6%, Indie 7.4%
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 37.2% ★, Education 13.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Automation 12%, Logic 10.5%
Logic Car is a coding-based puzzle game in which you program cars to achieve goals. Check the conditions given in each unique stage and take advantage of the various functions installed in the vehicle. Sometimes the laws of physics can be the solution. Now is the time to unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Simulation 26.7%, Education 13.1%, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 8.8%
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 42.7% ★, Automation 15.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 7.7%