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Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.

Why similar: Programming 39.2% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 7%, Minimalist 6.7%

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 45.8% ★, Automation 13.3%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 8.6%, Education 5.4%

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 40.9% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 11.2%, Education 8.2%, Puzzle 6.5%

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 43.7% ★, Automation 17.5%, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Education 5.4%

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 52.9% ★, Automation 25.1%, Puzzle 7.8%, Education 5.5%, Strategy 4.3%

[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 41.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Logic 13.2%, Minimalist 7.8%, Puzzle 7.3%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 60% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 5.6%, Education 4.3%

Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.

Why similar: Programming 50.9% ★, Logic 18.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, Retro 7.8%, 2D 4.1%

Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.

Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Automation 22%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 8%, Cute 4.3%

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 51.5% ★, Automation 25%, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 10.2%, Indie 0.8%

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 51.4% ★, Logic 12.7%, Automation 10.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, Minimalist 4.8%

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 41.5% ★, Automation 18.1%, Logic 11.1%, Education 7.3%, Puzzle 5.9%

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 48.5% ★, Automation 24.3%, Puzzle 8.8%, Minimalist 6.8%, Logic 6.1%

Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.

Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Automation 21.7%, Logic 10.2%, Education 9.2%, Puzzle 8.2%

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 65.7% ★, Automation 9.9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Education 7.8%, Logic 4.5%

The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.

Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 8.2%, Retro 6.8%

Circuitra is a challenging visual logic puzzle game about building increasingly complex circuit boards. Limited inputs, tight board space and changing contract constraints force you to debug and rethink your designs in order to grow your circuit-design business.

Why similar: Programming 46.5% ★, Automation 21.2%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 8.8%, Top-Down 2.6%

Write Python-style code to program repair patchers and rescue a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector. Start with four commands; every file you restore unlocks loops, variables, functions and lists, until your programs bring all 1,474,560 bytes back to life. The whole game fits on one floppy.

Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Automation 25.4%, Retro 8%, Education 5.8%, Minimalist 5.5%

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 44.9% ★, Automation 22.4%, Logic 12%, Puzzle 8.7%, Strategy 4.1%

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 46.1% ★, Automation 24.4%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 7.4%, Atmospheric 2.7%

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.

Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 17.5%, Logic 13%, Education 7.7%, Puzzle 4.8%

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 40.4% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 8.3%, Strategy 3.7%

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 69.4% ★, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 7.9%, Automation 6.6%, Education 6.2%

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 28.3% ★, Automation 20.7%, Logic 12.2%, Puzzle 9%, Stylized 5.6%

Program three distinct towers with readable visual logic, then solve handcrafted tower-defense puzzles where placement, line of sight and every code block matter. No programming experience required.

Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Automation 21.9%, Logic 12.7%, Puzzle 6%, Strategy 5.5%

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 46.6% ★, Automation 22.7%, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 9%, Education 7.7%

Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.

Why similar: Programming 44.6% ★, Automation 26.6%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 6.1%, Strategy 4.5%

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 42.8% ★, Automation 22.8%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 7.7%, Retro 5.4%

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 55.6% ★, Automation 19.6%, Education 12.2%, Puzzle 7.5%, Casual 3.1%

A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.

Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Automation 23.3%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 6.4%, Strategy 5.4%

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 46.4% ★, Automation 27.6%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 6.2%, Strategy 5.7%

Tapeheads is an atmospheric retro-futuristic simulation. Use a one-of-a-kind computer and its unusual programming language to solve puzzles about manipulating data.

Why similar: Programming 40.7% ★, Automation 16.7%, Logic 12.9%, Retro 7.2%, Education 6.4%

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 44.2% ★, Automation 22.2%, Logic 11.4%, Education 8.1%, Puzzle 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 50% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 9.2%, Education 8.1%, Minimalist 4.7%

A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.

Why similar: Programming 49.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Logic 15%, Puzzle 9.3%, Minimalist 7.9%

Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.

Why similar: Programming 42.9% ★, Automation 21.2%, Logic 11.6%, Education 9.9%, Puzzle 6.3%

Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.

Why similar: Programming 47.8% ★, Automation 19.2%, Education 8.6%, Puzzle 7.1%, Logic 5.7%

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 57.4% ★, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Strategy 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

OBRUM is a strategic logical puzzle roguelite where you manage an unstable system, trigger devastating chain reactions, and fight to keep the board from collapsing. OBRUM rewards pattern recognition & long-term planning. You are not solving a puzzle, you are engineering outcomes.

Why similar: Programming 31.2% ★, Automation 11.1%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 8.1%, Minimalist 7.5%

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 42.8% ★, Automation 21.2%, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Minimalist 5.1%

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 53.7% ★, Automation 13.2%, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%

A playing-card-themed logic puzzle game where you assemble code to generate patterns using loops and conditionals. From simple rows to complex nested-loop challenges, master the logic and try to complete this visually satisfying puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.

Why similar: Programming 63.7% ★, Education 14%, Minimalist 8.6%, Puzzle 8.5%, Casual 4.2%

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 53.3% ★, Logic 14.5%, Automation 13.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Retro 5.3%

Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.

Why similar: Programming 56.1% ★, Logic 16.3%, Education 11.5%, Puzzle 8%, Retro 4%

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 41.6% ★, Automation 28.4%, Logic 11.1%, Puzzle 7.3%, Retro 5.5%

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 46% ★, Automation 21.8%, Logic 14.5%, Education 8.6%, Puzzle 8.2%

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 76.1% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Logic 6.8%, Automation 5.5%, Education 3%

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 43.9% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 6.3%, Strategy 4.4%

ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.

Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 13.6%, Education 7.7%, Puzzle 7.2%

Build circuits and manage heat as you complete tasks in this surprisingly intuitive puzzle game unlike anything you've ever played before.

Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 9.7%, Retro 7.5%, Minimalist 6.8%

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 54.4% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Automation 13.5%, Logic 12.1%, Education 1.5%

Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.

Why similar: Programming 67.4% ★, Logic 17.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Strategy 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.

Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Automation 22.1%, Logic 11.3%, Education 6.6%, Puzzle 4.9%

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 38.6% ★, Automation 18.2%, Logic 11%, Education 9.5%, Minimalist 6.9%

An atmospheric horror, exploration and automation game all set in the dim halls of an apartment building

Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 14.2%, Retro 7.4%, Puzzle 6.1%

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 42.3% ★, Automation 19.5%, Logic 11.8%, Education 9.8%, Puzzle 6.6%

Develop magical programming abilities while building spells. Lambda Spellcrafting Academy is a card-based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. If you've ever wanted to dabble in spellcraft (programming) here is a fun way to get started.

Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Logic 14.6%, Education 10%, Puzzle 8.2%, Minimalist 4.8%

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Programming 24.2% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Minimalist 9.1%, Logic 8.3%

Farmer = nil is a programming automation farm game. Write scripts for your robots, collect resources, unlock tech, and build the most efficient farm.

Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 23.1%, Logic 9.9%, Education 6.7%, Retro 3.7%