60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Puzzle, Singleplayer.
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.
Virtual Circuit Board
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.
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!
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 26.9% ★, Automation 16.4%, Education 11.8%, Science 10.2% ★, Sandbox 9.8%
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 32.4% ★, Automation 23%, Education 12.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Logic 7.6%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 33.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Logic 8.9%, Building 6.8%
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 32.6% ★, Automation 24.4%, Education 10%, Simulation 8.9%, Logic 7.9%
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 30% ★, Automation 22.1%, Education 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 6.6%
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 33% ★, Automation 25.3%, Science 9.2% ★, Logic 7.6%, Simulation 6%
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 30.2% ★, Automation 22.7%, Education 14.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 7%
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Connect, test, assemble and fail in spectacular ways. This cozy simulator lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved!
Why similar: Programming 28% ★, Automation 21.4%, Education 10.3%, Science 9.2% ★, Sandbox 8.1%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 28.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Education 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Science 8.2% ★
Mnemonimov is an assembly-based fantasy console with a retro monochrome screen. Experience the challenge and the fun of old-school game development without the headaches of real hardware.
Why similar: Programming 28.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Education 12.2%, Science 8.9% ★, Sandbox 8.5%
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: Automation 23.6%, Programming 21.4% ★, Education 17.3%, Science 11.4% ★, Simulation 10.9%
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 32.7% ★, Automation 27.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 6.3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 24.3%, Logic 7%, Education 6.7%, Simulation 4.4%
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 38% ★, Automation 29.3%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Puzzle 4.6%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Education 15.4%, Automation 12.7%, Logic 10.2%, Simulation 6.2%
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 33.5% ★, Automation 14.9%, Education 11.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 6.9%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 41% ★, Automation 22.4%, Abstract 9.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Education 7.4%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 31.6%, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 6.6%, 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 46.6% ★, Education 17.4%, Science 9% ★, Simulation 7.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 36.6% ★, Automation 26.1%, Simulation 9%, Education 9%, Logic 8.6%
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 27.4% ★, Automation 22.7%, Education 11.5%, Science 11% ★, Sandbox 10.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 38.8% ★, Automation 24.2%, Science 14.4% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Puzzle 5.4%
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 39.2% ★, Simulation 12%, Education 11.1%, Sandbox 10%, Science 9.9% ★
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 34% ★, Automation 22.8%, Education 11.5%, Logic 7.9%, Building 6.4%
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 33.3% ★, Automation 17.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Education 11.8%, Sandbox 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 28.2% ★, Automation 18%, Education 12.3%, Science 11.3% ★, Logic 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 36.5% ★, Automation 29.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Logic 9.5%, Simulation 4.9%
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 41.3% ★, Automation 26%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 11%, Education 8.5%
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 34.6% ★, Automation 26.8%, Education 11.8%, Logic 7.6%, Simulation 7%
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 32.9% ★, Automation 25%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 8.6%, Logic 8.5%
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 30.5% ★, Automation 24.4%, Sandbox 10%, Logic 8.5%, Building 7.6%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Automation 33.5%, Logic 10.5%, Minimalist 5.1%, Simulation 4.9%
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 36.3% ★, Automation 21.2%, Logic 9.4%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 31% ★, Automation 26.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 7.2%
Edd-E is a pixel-art game maker with custom visual scripting and publishing platform. Create games and Publish them with just one click. Play games from other creators or edit them. Learn programming and game development!
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Programming 20.3% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Education 15.2%, Simulation 9.7%
SysOps Saga is a simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing the intricate web of software, security, and hardware to keep digital systems running. Developed by a FAANG veteran, this game offers an immersive and educational experience for IT enthusiasts.
Why similar: Programming 32.8% ★, Automation 30.1%, Education 9.4%, Simulation 9%, Logic 7.9%
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 32.7% ★, Automation 26%, Education 16.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Simulation 4.7%
A programmer's career sim. Acquire actual coding skills while playing! Learn programming from zero, earn skill points, change your office, create devices and games with visual programming. Our code learning game is a perfect introduction to Python, C++, C#, Java, or JavaScript.
Why similar: Programming 24.1% ★, Automation 22.1%, Education 11.2%, Science 10.3% ★, Sandbox 8.9%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Programming 18.6% ★, Education 10.6%, Abstract 10.5%, Building 7.5%
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Why similar: Programming 26% ★, Automation 19.5%, Education 12.1%, Science 8.8% ★, Sandbox 7.7%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 29.2% ★, Automation 23.6%, Education 14.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.5%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Automation 29.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 4.7%
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 48.7% ★, Automation 35.5%, Education 9.5%, Puzzle 4.8%, 2D 1.1%
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 34.1% ★, Science 13.3% ★, Education 13%, Simulation 12%, Logic 8.5%
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 35.7% ★, Education 20.4%, Automation 19.6%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 9%
Push and pop your way through Stack Machines - an open-ended puzzle programming game. Use a variety of modules to read, transform and output different input sequences. Optimize your solutions for size, module count, speed and cost-effectiveness.
Why similar: Programming 26.7% ★, Simulation 16%, Education 13.6%, Abstract 11.2%, Science 10.4% ★
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: Automation 35.2%, Programming 34.8% ★, Building 11.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 35% ★, Education 17.1%, Automation 16.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 9.7%
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 34.3% ★, Automation 30.8%, Building 10.9%, Logic 10.4%, Sandbox 5.7%
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 56.9% ★, Automation 13.7%, Education 13%, Simulation 5.4%, Puzzle 5%
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 34.6% ★, Education 13.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Science 11.4% ★, Logic 9.3%
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 41.5% ★, Education 21.9%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Puzzle 6%
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 37.8% ★, Automation 27.5%, Education 13.2%, Logic 10.2%, Simulation 6.2%
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 39.1% ★, Automation 23.8%, Education 12.7%, Logic 7%, Sandbox 6.6%
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Programming 19.6% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Abstract 9.4%, Building 8.5%
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 48.7% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Puzzle 5.8%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Automation 26.3%, Education 11.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
[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 39.9% ★, Automation 35.7%, Logic 10.8%, Minimalist 6.2%, Puzzle 4.6%
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: Automation 35.9%, Programming 34.2% ★, Building 12.2%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 4%
