60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Puzzle, Indie.
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 74.6% ★, Education 7.5%, Simulation 6.2%, Puzzle 5.5%, Difficult 4.1%
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
Why similar: Programming 61.8% ★, Simulation 13%, Education 8.2%, Puzzle 7.8%, Indie 5.6%
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 77.5% ★, Puzzle 5.9%, Simulation 5.7%, Education 4.2%, Difficult 4.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 60.3% ★, Education 16.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 5.6%, Difficult 4.1%
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 53.6% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Education 11%, Indie 6.5%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 64.1% ★, Education 17.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Puzzle 5.9%, Indie 2.3%
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 59.2% ★, Simulation 18.3%, Education 10.4%, Puzzle 6.7%, Indie 5.4%
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 69.8% ★, Education 11.5%, Puzzle 7.1%, Simulation 5.9%, Indie 3.9%
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 72.5% ★, Education 9.1%, Simulation 7.7%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 3.8%
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 70.8% ★, Puzzle 12.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Indie 5%, Difficult 2.2%
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 54.4% ★, Education 17.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Difficult 7.6%, Puzzle 7%
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 58.9% ★, Education 20.3%, Simulation 11.5%, Puzzle 6.6%, Indie 2.7%
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 49.9% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Education 14.2%, Puzzle 7.3%, Indie 6.5%
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 66.8% ★, Puzzle 14.7%, Difficult 9.8%, Indie 4.2%, Education 2.5%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 64.1% ★, Simulation 20.5%, Puzzle 10.7%, Indie 4.7%
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Programming 57.2% ★, Education 15.4%, Simulation 10%, Typing 7.6% ★, Puzzle 5.3%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 59% ★, Education 20.8%, Simulation 20.2%
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 60.7% ★, Education 14%, Difficult 7.8%, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 7%
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 77.4% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Puzzle 8.5%
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 68.7% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 5.3%
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 59.7% ★, Education 18.3%, Typing 9.9% ★, Puzzle 6.3%, Indie 5.8%
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 52.7% ★, Education 13.5%, Typing 9.8% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 59.5% ★, Simulation 15.4%, Education 13.6%, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 2.4%
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 62% ★, Education 16.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Puzzle 7%, Indie 2.4%
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 72.2% ★, Education 16.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Puzzle 5.3%
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 59.3% ★, Education 14.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Puzzle 6.6%, Difficult 6.4%
Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Education 16.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Puzzle 8.6%, Indie 2%
Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.
Why similar: Programming 59.4% ★, Education 17.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Difficult 6.4%, Puzzle 4.5%
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Simulation 17.2%, Education 12%, Indie 6.8%, Puzzle 5.8%
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 60.4% ★, Education 21.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Puzzle 7.1%, Indie 1.9%
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Education 16.4%, Typing 13.9% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Difficult 6.6%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 67.2% ★, Education 19.8%, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 3.3%
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 67% ★, Education 19.5%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 5.3%
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ visual puzzles and hack other players’ creations. No coding or physics background required.
Why similar: Programming 55.1% ★, Education 18.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Difficult 7.8%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 61.4% ★, Education 20.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Puzzle 6%
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 57.6% ★, Education 20%, Simulation 9.9%, Puzzle 7.4%, Difficult 5.1%
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 65% ★, Education 20.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 6.6%
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 77.5% ★, Simulation 8%, Puzzle 7.7%, Indie 3.5%, Difficult 3.3%
Design. Simulate. Detonate. As a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute, you design atomic devices to satisfy the demands of the State. A hardcore physics game simulating hydrodynamics, neutron transport, and thermonuclear fusion.
Why similar: Programming 65.1% ★, Simulation 16%, Difficult 9.7%, Puzzle 9.2%
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Why similar: Programming 48.2% ★, Typing 18.6% ★, Education 13.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Difficult 5.4%
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Why similar: Programming 65.7% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Typing 8.3% ★, Education 7.3%, Indie 4.1%
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 65.5% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Difficult 8.9%, Indie 3%
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 55% ★, Puzzle 21.2%, Difficult 14.9%, Indie 8.9%
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Education 52.9%, Simulation 25.1%, Puzzle 16.7%, Indie 5.3%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 50.1% ★, Education 26.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Indie 1.1%
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Why similar: Education 52.9%, Simulation 34.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Indie 4.7%
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 64.5% ★, Puzzle 13%, Simulation 11.5%, Difficult 5.6%, Indie 5.4%
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Typing 21.4% ★, Education 15.7%, Simulation 9.9%, Puzzle 1.7%
Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 76.3% ★, Education 21.2%, Indie 2.5%
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 54.4% ★, Education 23.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 7.6%, Indie 2.1%
Hacker’s Journey is a realistic hacking simulation game built around scenarios written by cybersecurity experts. No Hollywood hacking. Learn the tools, techniques, and tradecraft used in the wild.
Why similar: Programming 57.9% ★, Education 24.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Indie 3.2%
Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.
Why similar: Programming 62% ★, Education 20.3%, Simulation 17.7%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 72.5% ★, Difficult 12.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 5.9%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Programming 46.9% ★, Typing 23.7% ★, Education 18.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 2.4%
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 78.1% ★, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Indie 3.1%
⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.
Why similar: Programming 58.9% ★, Education 21.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 4.1%, Indie 2.9%
Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!
Why similar: Education 50%, Simulation 32%, Puzzle 18%
Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.
Why similar: Puzzle 31.7%, Education 30.8%, Difficult 24%, Indie 13.6%
