60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Logic.
Mnemonimov is a fantasy console where you program in ASSEMBLY like in the 80s. Build anything from games to operating systems and understand how computers work at a low level.
Virtual Circuit Board
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.
Logic World
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!
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 21.4% ★, Hacking 13.2% ★, Automation 10.7%, Education 10.5%, Science 8.7%
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 24.7% ★, Hacking 14.9% ★, Education 11.8%, Automation 11.7%, Science 10.7%
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 33.6% ★, Automation 17.4%, Education 17%, Logic 8.8%, Sandbox 7.4%
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 25.3% ★, Hacking 16.4% ★, Science 11.8%, Education 11.7%, Automation 11.1%
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 34.8% ★, Automation 25%, Building 11.1%, Logic 9.3%, 1980s 6.7%
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 28.5% ★, Hacking 12.7% ★, Education 10.4%, Automation 8.7%, Science 6.6%
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 35.6% ★, Education 14.7%, Science 13.8%, Logic 11.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 30.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Science 14.3%, Education 13.6%, Building 8.2%
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 44.1% ★, Hacking 23% ★, Automation 14.3%, Logic 7.1%, Puzzle 4.7%
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 33.9% ★, Automation 15.5%, Education 11.9%, Logic 9.1%, 1980s 7.5%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 42.4% ★, Science 17.9%, Automation 17.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 46.4% ★, Hacking 21.1% ★, Education 13.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Puzzle 5.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 52.2% ★, Automation 17.5%, Logic 8.6%, Education 7.5%, Puzzle 4.1%
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 33.6% ★, Automation 19.1%, Hacking 14.1% ★, Logic 12.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 58.4% ★, Logic 14.4%, Automation 12.1%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 2.8%
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 47.4% ★, Education 18.6%, Science 10.7%, Building 5.1%, Simulation 5.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 27% ★, Automation 16.8%, Hacking 14.7% ★, Education 10.6%, Logic 10%
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 62.2% ★, Hacking 13.3% ★, Logic 5.6%, Puzzle 5.2%, Education 4.8%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 44.7% ★, Education 18.7%, Automation 15.6%, Hacking 7.8% ★, Puzzle 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 28.5% ★, Game Development 25% ★, Automation 15.4%, Logic 10.4%, Sandbox 8.4%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 20%, Logic 11.5%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 67% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Retro 4.5%
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 59.5% ★, Education 11.3%, Science 10%, Simulation 8.6%, Puzzle 8%
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 38% ★, Hacking 25.2% ★, Education 12.1%, Logic 9.6%, Simulation 8.4%
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: Hacking 40.3% ★, Programming 38.5% ★, Education 6.1%, Simulation 5.9%, Logic 4.2%
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 46.7% ★, Automation 24%, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 4.6%
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 37.5% ★, Automation 22.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Puzzle 8.1%
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 62.8% ★, Education 11.1%, Logic 7.1%, Puzzle 6.5%, Automation 6.3%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 25.3%, Logic 14.4%, Puzzle 6.8%, Simulation 5%
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 37.2% ★, Automation 20.4%, Logic 12.1%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.
Why similar: Programming 23% ★, Hacking 15.9% ★, Automation 12.1%, Science 12%, Education 11.1%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 20%, Sandbox 10%, Puzzle 5.1%
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 37.1% ★, Science 17%, Education 15%, Logic 10.7%, Simulation 8.3%
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 59.4% ★, Education 13.9%, Automation 9.5%, Puzzle 6.5%, Logic 4.1%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 30% ★, Game Development 21% ★, Automation 15.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Logic 8.9%
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.
Why similar: Programming 60.4% ★, Education 19.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Puzzle 6.1%, Indie 2.4%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Programming 23.6% ★, Education 14.2%, Building 8.5%, Logic 8.1%
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 33.1% ★, Hacking 21.4% ★, Automation 16.7%, Education 14.2%, Logic 7.4%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Game Development 19.3% ★, Programming 15% ★, Automation 12.4%, Education 11.5%, Hacking 8.4% ★
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 44.1% ★, Hacking 20.8% ★, Education 17.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Puzzle 7%
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Hacking 35.7% ★, Education 6.2%, Simulation 5.6%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 49.3% ★, Hacking 19.9% ★, Automation 14.1%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 3.5%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Programming 28.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Education 16.8%, Science 16.1%, Building 9.4%
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.
Why similar: Programming 56.8% ★, Education 23.1%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 6.9%, Indie 3.7%
A programming puzzle game where you step into the role of a gameplay programmer, write code to build the core mechanics of a wide variety of games, and solve increasingly challenging development problems.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Game Development 29.9% ★, Logic 10.1%, Automation 8.3%, Education 7%
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 30.3% ★, Hacking 15.8% ★, Automation 15.3%, Education 11.2%, Logic 6.1%
Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.
Why similar: Programming 70.5% ★, Hacking 19.1% ★, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 2.1%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 54.2% ★, Education 21.4%, Science 11.3%, Logic 11.2%, 2D 0.7%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 25.5%, Logic 12.1%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 5.2%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Hacking 12.4% ★, Automation 12.3%, Education 11.8%, Science 9.4%
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Logic 13.9%, 1990's 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.4%
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
Why similar: Programming 34.4% ★, Hacking 23.3% ★, Education 16.2%, Logic 10.2%, Game Development 6.8% ★
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 31.6% ★, Automation 13.7%, Education 11.4%, Science 10.8%, Logic 9.6%
Dive into a sandbox operating system simulator and learn to code with FantasyLang. Personalise your desktop, build and tweak apps, uncover hidden secrets, and venture into the darknet. Shape the system however you like. Your OS, your rules.
Why similar: Programming 24.9% ★, Game Development 22.4% ★, Hacking 16.2% ★, Education 11.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
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 31.9% ★, Game Development 25.3% ★, Hacking 12.3% ★, Education 12.2%, Logic 8.6%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Education 18%, Science 14.6%, Building 11.2%, Logic 10.5%
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 22.3% ★, Hacking 15% ★, Automation 14.1%, Science 11.2%, Education 11%
DA-VI-NC1 is a Turing-machine-based coding puzzle game. You must complete the puzzles, pass the Turing test, and discover the philosophical world of DA-VI-NC1 with the Mona Lisa.
Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Hacking 20.1% ★, Education 15.2%, Logic 11.7%, Simulation 5.3%
A 2D creative sandbox where every tile is a tiny machine. Inspired by Redstone, LEGO, and Tabletop Simulator. One ruleset - Infinite possibilities. Create, experiment, and play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Programming 22.2% ★, Automation 14.2%, Science 11.8%, Game Development 11.5% ★, Education 10.7%
