- #1 Opus Magnum
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,277 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 44.3% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Logic 10.7%, Simulation 3.9%
- #2 SOKOBOT
96% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Alexander Taylor
Windows
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 34% ★, Automation 20.3%, Logic 12.5%, Nonlinear 9.9%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #3 Infinifactory
96% matchVery Positive95% of 2,485 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 27.4%, Puzzle 12.5%, Logic 7.2%, Building 4.6%
- #4 Human Resource Machine
95% matchVery Positive94% of 4,703 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 62.7% ★, Automation 11.5%, Puzzle 9.8%, Logic 5.3%, Simulation 3.3%
- #5 7 Billion Humans
94% matchVery Positive93% of 2,145 reviews2018
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 64.4% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 8.9%, Automation 7.4%, Simulation 4.3%
- #6 Turing Complete
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,808 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Automation 26.5%, Logic 17.2%, Puzzle 5.5%, Simulation 5%
- #7 LogicBots
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 187 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 49.9% ★, Robots 25.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Puzzle 8.7%, Building 3.5%
- #8 SpaceChem
92% matchVery Positive92% of 5,094 reviews2011
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 50.2% ★, Puzzle 16.9%, Automation 15%, Logic 13.7%, Indie 2.2%
- #9 Kaizen: A Factory Story
91% matchVery Positive92% of 721 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Klei Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 43% ★, Automation 22.5%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 4.6%
- #10 Silicon Zeroes
91% matchVery Positive87% of 284 reviews2017
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 67.4% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #11 World of Contraptions
90% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
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% ★, Robots 18.7%, Automation 18%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 6.3%
- #12 Word Factori
89% matchVery Positive84% of 482 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 40.1% ★, Automation 25.1%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 4.5%
- #13 Sunshine Heavy Industries
89% matchVery Positive99% of 434 reviews2021
Dev: Rocket Rat Games
Windows
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 23.9%, Funny 21%, Comedy 17.2%, Building 11%, Simulation 10.5%
- #14 SHENZHEN I/O
88% matchVery Positive95% of 4,533 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 55.9% ★, Automation 21.5%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 6.3%, Simulation 2.9%
- #15 Robo Instructus
87% matchVery Positive85% of 74 reviews2019
Dev: Big AB Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 48.5% ★, Robots 19.4%, Logic 16.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 3.5%
- #16 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
86% matchVery Positive89% of 694 reviews2019
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 47.5% ★, Automation 22.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Logic 4.6%
- #17 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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 43.5%, Logic 17.9%, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 11.5%, Building 6%
- #18 The Signal State
85% matchVery Positive87% of 698 reviews2021
Dev: Reckoner IndustriesPub: iterco
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 35.4% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 16.1%, Robots 9.6%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #19 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
82% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 41.4% ★, Automation 25.9%, Robots 19.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 3.4%
- #20 shapez
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 62.6%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 8.7%, Building 5.7%, Simulation 4.9%
- #21 Modulus: Factory Automation
82% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 54.8%, Logic 21.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 8.8%, 3D 2%
- #22 Alan's Automaton Workshop
84% matchVery Positive83% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: Laputa Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 43.5% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 4.1%
- #23 Great Permutator
84% matchVery Positive87% of 150 reviews2014
Dev: Ripatti Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 41.1% ★, Automation 26.4%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 5.2%
- #24 Star Stuff
81% matchVery Positive99% of 190 reviews2024
Dev: Ánimo Games Studio
Windows · Mac
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 44.8% ★, Automation 29.2%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 7.7%, Colorful 1.4%
- #25 Mars First Logistics
78% matchVery Positive95% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 28.2%, Logic 19.9%, Stylized 13.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Funny 10.5%
- #26 shapez 2 - Factory
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 47.9%, Logic 21%, Puzzle 11.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 6.4%
- #27 uFactory
80% matchMixed69% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
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 35.5%, Logic 21.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Puzzle 10%, Isometric 6.7%
- #28 while True: learn()
79% matchVery Positive91% of 8,246 reviews2019
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 72.6% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Logic 5.1%, Building 3%
- #29 OCTOPTICOM
81% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD.
Windows · Linux
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% ★, Logic 17.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Colorful 5.3%
- #30 Baba Is You
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,648 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 43.4% ★, Puzzle 25.6%, Logic 23.4%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #31 Automachef
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 925 reviews2019
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.5%, Programming 27.9% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Funny 8%
- #32 CHR$(143)
78% matchVery Positive96% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: Nicolas Jean
Windows · Linux
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Automation 31.8%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Building 4.7%
- #33 Freshly Frosted
76% matchVery Positive99% of 375 reviews2022
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory! 🏆 The 3rd-highest rated game of 2022 on OpenCritic.
Why similar: Programming 27.4% ★, Automation 24.2%, Logic 14.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Colorful 5.8%
- #34 Autonauts
76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 32.1%, Robots 6.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Building 2.6%
- #35 Neon Noodles
75% matchVery Positive80% of 110 reviews2023
Dev: Vivid Helix
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 33.8% ★, Automation 23.7%, Robots 18.3%, Logic 12%, Puzzle 6%
- #36 Robot Detour
73% matchVery Positive99% of 196 reviews2024
Dev: Nozomu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
А fun and innovative puzzle game about a wired robot who delivers batteries to his wireless friends.
Why similar: Robots 34.6%, Logic 28.6%, Puzzle 15.7%, Funny 9.5%, Stylized 5.4%
- #37 Factory Balls
75% matchVery Positive99% of 152 reviews2019
Dev: Bart Bonte
Windows
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 44.3%, Puzzle 23.4%, Stylized 14.2%, Colorful 10%, Indie 6.8%
- #38 Hard Chip
73% matchVery Positive91% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Elorth
Windows
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 38.5% ★, Automation 19.3%, Logic 15.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 5.1%
- #39 Logic World
73% matchVery Positive94% of 369 reviews2021
Dev: Mouse Hat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 37.9% ★, Automation 22.2%, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 5.7%, Stylized 5%
- #40 Good Company
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 33.9%, Robots 19.6%, Logic 15%, Isometric 6.8%, Simulation 6.8%
- #41 Virtual Circuit Board
72% matchVery Positive92% of 323 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 14.5%, Puzzle 7.1%, Simulation 5.1%
- #42 Automation
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: One Tree Hill Studios
Windows
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Automation 61.3%, Puzzle 17.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Colorful 5.2%, Indie 2.4%
- #43 RoboCo
71% matchVery Positive88% of 220 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
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 46.7%, Funny 15.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 8%
- #44 SirKwitz
72% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Predict Edumedia
Windows
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% ★, Robots 16.5%, Automation 15.8%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #45 Factorio
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 87.7%, Building 5%, Simulation 4.5%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #46 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 398 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 34.3% ★, Automation 23%, Robots 17.3%, Logic 14.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #47 The Lilliput Workshop
70% matchVery Positive93% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Automation 29.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Building 4.6%
- #48 Retro Gadgets
71% matchVery Positive90% of 536 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 58.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Automation 32.1%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 5.8%
- #49 Replicube
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Walaber Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 78.1% ★, Puzzle 13.1%, Simulation 8.8%
- #50 The Qubit Factory
70% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Logical Basis
Windows · Mac
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 42.3% ★, Automation 24.8%, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 6.8%
- #51 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
69% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 53.1%, Puzzle 15.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Funny 10.1%, Colorful 6.2%
- #52 MoteMancer
68% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
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 62.3%, Puzzle 15.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Building 6.6%, Colorful 5.8%
- #53 Brave New Wonders
67% matchVery Positive87% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: City From Naught Inc.
Windows
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Programming 40.7% ★, Automation 27.8%, Robots 21%, Simulation 5.4%, Building 4.2%
- #54 Main Assembly
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,355 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 36.2% ★, Automation 19.9%, Robots 19.2%, Logic 12.9%, Simulation 4.6%
- #55 The Farmer Was Replaced
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,633 reviews2025
Dev: Timon HerzogPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 52.4% ★, Automation 23.9%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 5.9%, Simulation 2.9%
- #56 Factory 95
67% matchNo user reviews87% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Macrobit Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Logic 22.9%, Simulation 21.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Building 6%
- #57 Factory Planner
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 400 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
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 82.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Colorful 6.3%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #58 Linkito
67% matchVery Positive87% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: KalinarmPub: Playdigious Originals
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 40.8% ★, Automation 25.2%, Logic 18.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #59 EXAPUNKS
68% matchVery Positive95% of 1,900 reviews2018
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 54.8% ★, Automation 20.3%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 3.5%
- #60 Microtopia
66% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 43.7%, Robots 34.8%, Colorful 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%, Building 4.9%