60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Puzzle, Singleplayer.
An open-ended programming game in which you optimise 4-core assembly code to maintain a 1990s alt-history dystopian megacity's infrastructure. Take jobs from middlemen with hidden agendas and uncover the chilling consequences of your "routine" fixes in this assembly language puzzle thriller.
functional
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
QuantumPulse 2A
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.
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 43.7% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Minimalist 10%
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 50.3% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Text-Based 8.6%, Alternate History 8.2%, Hacking 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 74.5% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 5.3%, Hacking 5.3% ★, Difficult 2.6%
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 56.9% ★, Simulation 18.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Hacking 8.7% ★, Difficult 3.6%
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 68.2% ★, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 13.3%, Difficult 2.6%, Indie 1.2%
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 69.2% ★, Puzzle 14.4%, Alternate History 11.2%, Simulation 2.9%, Logic 2.1%
Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)
Why similar: Programming 54.7% ★, Text-Based 28.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 76.1% ★, Puzzle 11.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Logic 2.6%, Indie 0.8%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 55% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Puzzle 9.9%, Hacking 9.5% ★
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Puzzle 8.9%, Minimalist 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
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 76.5% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Logic 1.6%, Difficult 1.3%
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 53.2% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Hacking 11.9% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Logic 4.1%
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 61.9% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Hacking 10.1% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 5.4%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Text-Based 18.7%, Hacking 11.4% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 7.4%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 65.9% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, Minimalist 6.7%, Psychological Horror 2.9%
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 68.7% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Difficult 2.5%, Indie 1.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 76.4% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 6.2%, Logic 3.8%, Difficult 2.8%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 68% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Logic 5.6%, Hacking 5.5% ★
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 66.8% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 71.2% ★, Simulation 14.8%, Puzzle 14%
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 78.3% ★, Puzzle 13.4%, Hacking 7.2% ★, Indie 1.2%
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 58.8% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Puzzle 13.7%, Minimalist 5.6%, Logic 5.1%
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 79.7% ★, Puzzle 17.8%, Indie 2.5%
Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!
Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Puzzle 11.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Hacking 8.1% ★
A programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Text-Based 19%, Hacking 11.1% ★, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 7.8%
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 65.3% ★, Hacking 11.7% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Logic 3.2%
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 76.3% ★, Puzzle 15.6%, Difficult 6.2%, Indie 2%
A single player graphics-coding puzzle game for creative coders and coding creatives. Built for people who like their graphics coding low level and retro styled.
Why similar: Programming 61.4% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Hacking 12.3% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 2.7%
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Why similar: Programming 63.4% ★, Text-Based 16.4%, Hacking 10.4% ★, Simulation 5.2%, Puzzle 4%
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 69.3% ★, Puzzle 15%, Simulation 11.9%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 71% ★, Text-Based 23.2%, Logic 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%, Indie 0.5%
Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.
Why similar: Programming 67.1% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Puzzle 7%, Hacking 6.7% ★, Logic 2.7%
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 66% ★, Puzzle 17.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Logic 4%, Difficult 1.3%
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 53.7% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Text-Based 8.2%, Hacking 8.1% ★
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 68% ★, Puzzle 14.9%, Simulation 10.7%, Logic 4.7%, Singleplayer 1%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 61.2% ★, Simulation 19.5%, Puzzle 15.6%, Logic 1.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 59.6% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Minimalist 10%, Simulation 9.8%, Logic 5.6%
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 58.2% ★, Simulation 12.9%, Text-Based 11.3%, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 4.9%
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 64.7% ★, Hacking 11.6% ★, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Singleplayer 1%
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
Why similar: Programming 53.8% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Hacking 14% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 62.3% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Minimalist 9.2%, Logic 2.4%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 58.1% ★, Text-Based 19.3%, Puzzle 13.2%, Hacking 3.5% ★, Minimalist 3.4%
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 64% ★, Puzzle 21.9%, Difficult 6.2%, Logic 4.4%, Simulation 1.8%
An immersive indie hacking simulation game. Help the Project Daybreak team expose a secret government program.
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Simulation 14.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Hacking 13.4% ★, Puzzle 8.9%
HELLO HACKER features a realistic terminal. Use real Linux commands, network scanning, password cracking, and cryptography to infiltrate 10 interconnected servers and expose a deadly government surveillance program. Your colleague is missing. You're next. Are you ready to be a hacker?
Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Text-Based 16.2%, Hacking 11.1% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 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 75.6% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 10.8%, Logic 1.3%, Indie 0.5%
Markov Alg is a puzzle game where you can change the game field according to instructions that are written on the game field
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Hacking 10.9% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Puzzle 7%
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 51.5% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, Minimalist 9.6%, Logic 4.6%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Puzzle 11%, Minimalist 10.6%, Hacking 9.2% ★, Difficult 6.1%
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 59.1% ★, Text-Based 16.3%, Puzzle 7.6%, Minimalist 6.9%, Simulation 5.6%
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 71.7% ★, Text-Based 14.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
An interactive text-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 66.7% ★, Text-Based 24%, Minimalist 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.5%
NO DOCS. NO TUTORIAL. NO ESCAPE. Tackle an evolving spectrum of puzzles within a simulated computer system using only terminal commands. Inspired by a bad day with a package manager.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Text-Based 24.1%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Difficult 4.3%
Solve spreadsheet-based puzzles and handle crazy coworkers in a normal day's work at VeriData Inc.
Why similar: Programming 62.2% ★, Puzzle 13.6%, Simulation 13.4%, Minimalist 7.5%, Logic 3%
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 84.5% ★, Simulation 14.3%, Indie 1.2%
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 56% ★, Simulation 23.5%, Puzzle 9.8%, Logic 4.4%, Difficult 4.2%
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 61.9% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Logic 4.1%, Difficult 2.8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Puzzle 12.8%, Minimalist 10.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Logic 6.1%
Pick up the tokens, write the source code, and repair the data that your doctor has deleted! Write source code that achieves the input and expected output pairs set for each stage. The code is written in tolerance, a dedicated language.
Why similar: Programming 58.6% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Puzzle 12.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Tapeheads is an atmospheric retro-futuristic simulation. Use a one-of-a-kind computer and its unusual programming language to solve puzzles about manipulating data.
Why similar: Programming 53.1% ★, Alternate History 19.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 5.1%
