60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Puzzle, Singleplayer, Logic.
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?
SOKOBOT
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!
Opus Magnum
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!
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 33.9% ★, Automation 21.2%, Logic 12.3%, Nonlinear 9.7%, Puzzle 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 43.8% ★, Automation 27%, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 10.5%, Simulation 3.9%
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 40.5% ★, Automation 28.3%, Puzzle 12.1%, Logic 7.1%, Simulation 4.5%
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 62.5% ★, Automation 12.1%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 5.1%, Simulation 3.4%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 54.9% ★, Logic 17.7%, Automation 12.6%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 4.4%
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 64.2% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Logic 8.8%, Automation 7.8%, Simulation 4.3%
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 50.1% ★, Puzzle 16.5%, Automation 15.7%, Logic 13.5%, Indie 2.1%
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 50.3% ★, Robots 24.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Building 3.5%
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 42.6% ★, Automation 23.4%, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 7.1%, Simulation 4.6%
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 67.6% ★, Simulation 13.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Why similar: Programming 27.6% ★, Automation 18.8%, Robots 18.3%, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 39.8% ★, Automation 26.1%, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 4.5%
Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.
Why similar: Puzzle 23.7%, Funny 20.9%, Comedy 17.2%, Building 11%, Simulation 10.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 55.5% ★, Automation 22.3%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 6.1%, Simulation 2.9%
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Robots 19.1%, Logic 16.6%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 3.6%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Automation 23.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Logic 4.6%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 44.9%, Logic 17.5%, Puzzle 13.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 5.8%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!
Why similar: Programming 27.3% ★, Automation 25%, Logic 14.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Colorful 5.7%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 56.1%, Logic 21%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 8.5%, 3D 1.9%
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 43.2% ★, Automation 26.7%, Logic 13.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 4.1%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 49.1%, Logic 20.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 6.2%
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.
Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Automation 23.9%, Logic 15.9%, Robots 9.4%, Puzzle 8.5%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 49.7% ★, Automation 32.8%, Simulation 6.1%, Robots 6.1%, Building 2.5%
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Automation 27.5%, Logic 11.8%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 5.2%
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 41.1% ★, Automation 26.9%, Robots 18.8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 3.4%
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Logic 20.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Puzzle 9.7%, Isometric 6.6%
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 50.3% ★, Logic 17.6%, Puzzle 11%, Simulation 10.3%, Colorful 5.3%
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 43.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Logic 14.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Puzzle 5.7%
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Programming 39% ★, Automation 22.2%, Logic 14.4%, Puzzle 6.8%, Simulation 4.6%
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
Why similar: Robots 27.9%, Logic 19.9%, Stylized 14.3%, Puzzle 10.8%, Funny 10.4%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 64.1%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 8.3%, Building 5.5%, Simulation 4.8%
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Programming 50.9% ★, Logic 20.1%, Automation 14%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 1.6%
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: Programming 38.3% ★, Automation 32.9%, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Building 4.6%
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: Automation 34.6%, Programming 27.6% ★, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 10.1%, Funny 7.8%
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 33.6% ★, Automation 24.7%, Robots 17.9%, Logic 11.8%, Puzzle 5.8%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Puzzle 25.2%, Logic 23.1%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
You might think that working on the assembly line is tedious work, but not if you're manufacturing Factory Balls! Your job in this logic puzzle game is to custom craft each ball to a specific order. You've got all the tools you need to fulfill each order... except the instruction manual.
Why similar: Logic 44.1%, Puzzle 23.1%, Stylized 14.6%, Colorful 10%, Indie 6.8%
А fun and innovative puzzle game about a wired robot who delivers batteries to his wireless friends.
Why similar: Robots 34.4%, Logic 28.7%, Puzzle 15.5%, Funny 9.5%, Stylized 5.6%
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 72.9% ★, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 7.2%, Logic 5.1%, Building 3%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 20.1%, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 7.3%, Simulation 5.1%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Robots 19.1%, Logic 14.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Isometric 6.7%
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 54.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Funny 9.7%, Colorful 6%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Automation 33.4%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 5.8%
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 51.3% ★, Automation 24.5%, Logic 11.9%, Puzzle 5.8%, Simulation 2.9%
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
Why similar: Robots 46.4%, Funny 15.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Building 10.4%, Puzzle 8%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 88.1%, Building 4.8%, Simulation 4.4%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1%
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 36.8% ★, Automation 16.6%, Robots 16.2%, Logic 13.5%, Puzzle 7.7%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 46.7% ★, Automation 30.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 5.7%, Building 4.5%
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 34.1% ★, Automation 24%, Robots 16.9%, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 42% ★, Automation 25.8%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 6.8%
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 63.6%, Puzzle 14.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Building 6.4%, Colorful 5.6%
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 77.9% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Simulation 9.2%
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 35.3% ★, Automation 22.6%, Robots 18.3%, Logic 13.4%, Simulation 4.5%
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Logic 22.4%, Simulation 21.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Building 5.9%
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 82.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Colorful 6%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Automation 26.2%, Logic 17.9%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 5.3%
A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.
Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Robots 27.2%, Puzzle 12.1%, Stylized 9%, Building 4.7%
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 54.5% ★, Automation 21.2%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 3.5%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Automation 29.1%, Robots 16.6%, Simulation 5.3%, Building 4.2%
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 40.5%, Logic 20.4%, Puzzle 11%, Isometric 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%
