
Test your wits on the unique “loop mechanic” with single player or co-op multiplayer.
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Test your wits on the unique “loop mechanic” with single player or co-op multiplayer.

Frood Robotics
Get your robot to the trophy! The catch: you can't control the robot directly, you must program it with a crude and cruelly limited programming language. Avoid pits, press buttons, and remember, if it's a bug but it works, then it is not a bug.

Bottanics
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Get your robot to the trophy! The catch: you can't control the robot directly, you must program it with a crude and cruelly limited programming language. Avoid pits, press buttons, and remember, if it's a bug but it works, then it is not a bug.
Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Sokoban 21.6% ★, Robots 17.6%, Automation 17.2%, Puzzle 4.3%
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 32.7% ★, Automation 25.7%, Robots 18.4%, Artificial Intelligence 15.9%, Puzzle 3.1%
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 47.5% ★, Automation 24.5%, Sokoban 17.8% ★, Puzzle 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Automation 20.9%, Robots 20.6%, Artificial Intelligence 17.3%, Puzzle 5.2%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 28.5% ★, Automation 17.9%, Robots 17.1%, Artificial Intelligence 15.8%, Science 12.6%
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 55.3% ★, Automation 32.5%, Puzzle 7.3%, Casual 3.3%, 2D 1.2%
Help a sentient robot escape an oppressive society through your abilities to hack and reprogram devices & automatons in the world
Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Robots 21.7%, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Automation 13.4%, Puzzle 5.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 48.4% ★, Automation 23.7%, Science 17.1%, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 0.7%
Program your robot in real-time to fight in a nervous 2D fighting game !
Why similar: Programming 34.4% ★, Automation 20.6%, Robots 20.4%, Artificial Intelligence 18.5%, Co-op 3.3%
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 38.9% ★, Automation 22.3%, Artificial Intelligence 16.7%, Robots 14.2%, Puzzle 5.5%
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 53.7% ★, Automation 32.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 1.7%, 2D 0.7%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 28.5%, Robots 10.6%, Puzzle 7.5%, 2D 2.5%
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 45% ★, Automation 27.8%, Science 12.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Casual 2.8%
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 40.2% ★, Automation 27.4%, Robots 22.8%, Puzzle 6.7%, Logic 2.1%
Collect and buy commands. Construct program from them. Run code to get more coins and commands. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Sokoban 24.8% ★, Automation 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%, Puzzle 3.5%
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 51.1% ★, Robots 21.6%, Automation 15.2%, Puzzle 6.8%, Casual 2.7%
Join SirKwitz on another coding adventure in this edutainment puzzle game. Manage instructions, execute functions and loops, and navigate Booleans as you code this quirky robot through each challenge.
Why similar: Programming 40% ★, Automation 26.8%, Robots 23.2%, Puzzle 6.4%, Casual 2.3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 66% ★, Automation 26%, Puzzle 5.6%, Logic 1.7%, Indie 0.4%
If your're into logic, problem-solving and building complex systems, then this is a game for you. All the fun of creating systems, using a visual node language, without worring about written syntax of text based programming. Learn real programming skills much faster in a explosions packed battle.
Why similar: Programming 39.7% ★, Automation 26.1%, Robots 20.1%, Puzzle 6.4%, Artificial Intelligence 4.5%
excellent is a puzzle game based on data analysis, where data is stored into blocks. Arrange the data, create new blocks and ranges, and discover how the function blocks work and interact with the data in order to solve the puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Sokoban 38.2% ★, Puzzle 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 4%, Logic 2.3%
"As Planned" is a puzzle game in which players give a limited number of instructions to a slime that repeats the same movement to move boxes to specified positions.
Why similar: Sokoban 49.6% ★, Programming 28.4% ★, Puzzle 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 5%, 2D 3.4%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 43.8% ★, Automation 22.9%, Sokoban 14.4% ★, Robots 9.8%, Puzzle 6%
Command Reboot is a pixel-inspired space-set logic-planning programming adventure game
Why similar: Robots 28%, Sokoban 24.5% ★, Programming 20.4% ★, Artificial Intelligence 12.8%, Puzzle 5%
In this puzzle game, play as an agile robot whose duty is to turn on the facility computers.
Why similar: Sokoban 50.4% ★, Robots 33.1%, Puzzle 7.6%, Casual 5.1%, 2D 3.1%
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 52.1% ★, Automation 32.3%, Puzzle 8.5%, Casual 2.8%, 2D 2.5%
Build and program customizable robots using simple logic systems to overcome clever grid-based challenges and help Robby reunite with his friends.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Robots 28.4%, Automation 18.9%, Puzzle 9%, Casual 5.4%
It's a nice puzzle to move the same numbers next to each other.
Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Sokoban 37.1% ★, Puzzle 5.4%, Casual 3.3%, 2D 2.6%
In this minimalist logic puzzle game, you will become the architect of computational rules. Arrange versatile logic blocks to construct sophisticated data processing pathways.
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Automation 25.5%, Artificial Intelligence 21.1%, Puzzle 7%, Casual 3.2%
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 41.6% ★, Automation 26.7%, Robots 22%, Puzzle 5.9%, 2D 2.1%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 35% ★, Automation 24.2%, Robots 20.1%, Science 13.7%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 48.9% ★, Automation 29.5%, Science 10.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Logic 2.1%
[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 48.6% ★, Automation 35%, Puzzle 7.6%, Casual 3%, 2D 2.6%
Build robots, devise a battle plan and fight alongside them!
Why similar: Programming 31% ★, Automation 17.8%, Robots 16.7%, Artificial Intelligence 15.1%, Local Co-Op 11.7%
In the second episode of Finite State Automation Challenges, you will use finite-state automata to overcome 80 challenges from character string manipulation, computer science, and mathematics.
Why similar: Programming 54.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Science 14.6%, Puzzle 7.3%, Casual 2.7%
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 68.3% ★, Sokoban 16.9% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 2%, Casual 1.1%
MoSimulator is a robotics simulation game with an arcade feel that lets players mod in their own robots. Experience the excitement of competitive student robotics in a fun, accessible format where you can bring your own robot designs to life and compete in simulated matches.
Why similar: Robots 36.6%, Programming 25.8% ★, Automation 18.1%, Local Co-Op 8.2%, Casual 5.3%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 48.6% ★, Automation 35.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Puzzle 5.8%, 2D 1.8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Automation 36.1%, Puzzle 7.8%, Logic 2.6%, 2D 2.3%
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 72.9% ★, Automation 13.8%, Puzzle 8.5%, Casual 2.8%, Indie 0.8%
Sokogeek is a block-pushing logic game with electrifying mechanics. Help Flux, a robot vacuum cleaner, escape each level by building the energy circuit that powers the exit. The complexity of the puzzles will test your spatial awareness, abstract thinking, and analytical skills to their limits.
Why similar: Sokoban 38.8% ★, Programming 19.1% ★, Robots 14.3%, Science 9.7%, Puzzle 9%
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 45.4% ★, Robots 23.1%, Automation 20%, Puzzle 7.3%, Logic 2.2%
In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!
Why similar: Programming 39.4% ★, Automation 28.3%, Robots 24.2%, Puzzle 5.2%, Logic 1.8%
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 51.3% ★, Automation 29.5%, Artificial Intelligence 9.7%, Puzzle 5.4%, Logic 2.2%
An isometric puzzle game, that makes you think like a programmer.
Why similar: Programming 38.8% ★, Robots 19.1%, Artificial Intelligence 13.2%, Sokoban 12.9% ★, Science 8.1%
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 60.5% ★, Automation 26.4%, Puzzle 7.3%, Casual 4.3%, Indie 1.1%
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 48.6% ★, Automation 29.3%, Robots 11.7%, Puzzle 5.8%, Logic 2.1%
Program your team of AIs to infiltrate corporation servers and find your brother Hermann. This game is about the fun of coding and optimization. There is always something to improve.
Why similar: Programming 45.6% ★, Robots 22.6%, Automation 21.7%, Puzzle 6.6%, Logic 2%
Marvellous Inc. is a programming puzzle game, where you program robots to solve tasks.
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Automation 22.7%, Robots 18.6%, Artificial Intelligence 12%, Puzzle 5.6%
Rekindle is a Sokoban-like puzzle adventure game. Find your disappearing best friend in a Post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Sokoban 39.3% ★, Robots 25.9%, Artificial Intelligence 23.4%, Puzzle 7.2%, Casual 3.1%
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 51.1% ★, Automation 33.5%, Puzzle 7.4%, Casual 2.6%, Logic 2.4%
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 32.8% ★, Automation 24.3%, Artificial Intelligence 20.6%, Science 13.7%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 57.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Puzzle 14.4%, Science 6.7%, Logic 2%
Sokoban-puzzle with exclusive gameplay mechanics on a space fantasy theme.
Why similar: Sokoban 48% ★, Robots 28.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Casual 4.3%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 66.6% ★, Robots 31.8%, Indie 1.6%
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 54.1% ★, Automation 27.7%, Puzzle 9.3%, 2D 3.3%, Casual 3.1%
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 53.7% ★, Automation 25.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.5%, Puzzle 4.7%, Logic 1.6%
A puzzle game inspired by sokoban. Play the role of a power-recycling robot. Plan your route carefully to maneuvering other units and make your way out. Collcet power little by little, locate the source of Infinite Power and Leave this Factory.
Why similar: Sokoban 51.4% ★, Robots 29.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, 2D 2.9%
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 59.2% ★, Automation 21.2%, Puzzle 10%, Casual 5.8%, Logic 2.4%
A 2D sandbox where every tile is a tiny machine. Create video games, board games, puzzles, art, tutorials, contraptions, and entire interactive worlds. Share creations, play with friends, and collaborate online. Inspired by Redstone.
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Automation 25%, Artificial Intelligence 16.6%, Science 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.4%
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
Why similar: Programming 52.8% ★, Automation 17.7%, Robots 17.4%, Puzzle 4%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%