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 is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Text-Based 19%, Simulation 15.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Minimalist 9.8%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 64% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Minimalist 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Text-Based 8.4%, Alternate History 8%, Hacking 7.6% ★
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% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Hacking 5.6% ★, Simulation 5.1%, Difficult 2.8%
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 66.2% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Logic 5.7%, Singleplayer 1%
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 56.8% ★, Simulation 17.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Hacking 9.3% ★, Difficult 4%
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 14.5%, Alternate History 11%, Simulation 2.8%, Logic 2.3%
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 76.6% ★, Puzzle 11.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Logic 2.8%, Indie 0.8%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 55.1% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Hacking 10.1% ★, Puzzle 10%
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 68.3% ★, Puzzle 13.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Difficult 2.9%, Indie 1.3%
Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Text-Based 28.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 52.8% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Hacking 12.5% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Logic 4.4%
Reverse-engineer a private 1990s BBS. Read disassembly, patch broken checks, optimize a nine-core rack, and write assembly firmware that locks onto live scope traces. With 200+ puzzles, full controller support and offline play, you can refine your assembly skills on all your devices!
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Hacking 10.1% ★, 1990's 9%, Text-Based 8.3%, 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 76.8% ★, Puzzle 12.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Logic 1.7%, Difficult 1.4%
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 15.1%, Puzzle 9%, Minimalist 8.3%, Simulation 8%
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 50.6% ★, Text-Based 18.3%, Hacking 12% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 7%
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 61.5% ★, Simulation 10.8%, Hacking 10.7% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 5.7%
Program potato workers to process numbers with simple punch-in instructions at a factory that mimics a processor. Optimize solutions to solve challenging open-ended puzzles. Punch, observe, learn, repeat.
Why similar: Programming 71.8% ★, Puzzle 12.8%, Simulation 6.1%, Difficult 5.5%, Logic 1.8%
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 74.6% ★, Puzzle 12.8%, Simulation 12.6%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 76% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 5.9%, Logic 4.1%, Difficult 3%
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 68.3% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Difficult 2.7%, Indie 1.5%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 66.4% ★, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 11.7%, Minimalist 6.5%, Psychological Horror 2.9%
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 64.9% ★, Hacking 12.1% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Logic 3.4%
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 77.7% ★, Puzzle 13.4%, Hacking 7.6% ★, Indie 1.3%
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 64.4% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Hacking 10.6% ★, Simulation 4.7%, Puzzle 3.9%
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 79.4% ★, Puzzle 17.9%, Indie 2.7%
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 66.9% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Logic 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 59% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Puzzle 13.9%, Minimalist 5.5%, Logic 5.4%
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 59.1% ★, Text-Based 15.3%, Puzzle 13.6%, Minimalist 6.7%, Logic 4.1%
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 50.8% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Text-Based 11.1%, Hacking 8.6% ★
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% ★, Hacking 12.9% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 2.9%
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 75.6% ★, Puzzle 15.6%, Difficult 6.7%, Indie 2.1%
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 66.1% ★, Puzzle 17.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Logic 4.3%, Difficult 1.5%
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 69.5% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 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 53.4% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, Hacking 8.6% ★, Simulation 8.4%, Text-Based 8%
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 47.1% ★, Text-Based 18.5%, Hacking 11.8% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 7.4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 61.8% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Puzzle 15.9%, Logic 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 71% ★, Text-Based 22.8%, Logic 4.8%, 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 14.4%, Hacking 7.1% ★, Puzzle 7.1%, Logic 2.9%
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 68% ★, Puzzle 15%, Simulation 10.3%, Logic 5%, Singleplayer 1%
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 64.5% ★, Hacking 12.2% ★, Puzzle 11.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Tokyo holds the last remnants of human life. All our pilots are dead; you are our sole surviving AI. Commandeer a fleet of dormant mechas via an ancient backup protocol. Inject assembly code, optimize sparse memory, and achieve absolute annihilation. Never forget that The Cluster is observing you.
Why similar: Programming 62.8% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Puzzle 11.4%, Logic 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 53.6% ★, Hacking 14.8% ★, Text-Based 14.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Puzzle 7.7%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 59.7% ★, Puzzle 14%, Minimalist 9.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Logic 6%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Text-Based 18.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, Hacking 3.7% ★, Minimalist 3.3%
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 62.5% ★, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 10.8%, Minimalist 8.9%, Logic 2.6%
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 63.4% ★, Puzzle 21.9%, Difficult 6.7%, Logic 4.6%, Simulation 1.7%
A story-rich hacking sim played inside a real Linux desktop. Recon networks, break web apps, crack crypto, and extract hidden data with tools that behave like the real thing, while an autonomous AI watches the network, learns, and hacks back. The commands are real. So are the consequences.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Hacking 14.2% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Puzzle 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 69.2% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Minimalist 6.5%, Logic 5.6%, Simulation 4.5%
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 75.8% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Logic 1.4%, Indie 0.6%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Puzzle 11%, Minimalist 10.1%, Hacking 9.7% ★, Difficult 6.6%
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 46.8% ★, Text-Based 15%, Hacking 11.5% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 15.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, Minimalist 9.3%, Logic 4.9%
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 62.1% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Puzzle 7.4%, Minimalist 6.2%, Simulation 5.2%
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 67.4% ★, Puzzle 15.7%, Logic 5.9%, Simulation 4.9%, Minimalist 4.1%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language: probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. The better your code, the better you hack.
Why similar: Programming 48.7% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Hacking 14.1% ★, Simulation 11%, Minimalist 4.3%
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 22.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Logic 4.7%, Difficult 4.6%
An interactive text-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 67.6% ★, Text-Based 23.3%, Minimalist 7.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.5%
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%, Puzzle 11.9%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 47.8% ★, Text-Based 23.7%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 6.9%, Difficult 4.8%
