60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Singleplayer, Programming, Puzzle.
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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!
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.9% ★, Automation 19.1%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 6.3%, Logic 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 48.2% ★, Automation 23%, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 8.6%, Logic 2.9%
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 51.4% ★, Puzzle 19.1%, Automation 12.4%, Science 8.3% ★, Logic 3.4%
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 60.4% ★, Science 15.7% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 1.5%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 63% ★, Automation 11.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 5.1%
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 58.3% ★, Simulation 23.6%, Puzzle 11.3%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 1.8%
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 44.9% ★, Automation 24.1%, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 9.9%, Indie 2.7%
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 41.3% ★, Science 21.1% ★, Automation 15.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Puzzle 6%
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 44.4% ★, Automation 23.2%, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 12%, Logic 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 66.1% ★, Puzzle 11.6%, Automation 10%, Simulation 7.1%, Indie 2.7%
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: Simulation 27.9%, Programming 27.1% ★, Automation 27%, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 6%
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 48.3% ★, Automation 13.5%, Science 12.9% ★, Simulation 10%, Puzzle 9.6%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 49.1% ★, Automation 25%, Simulation 11.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 2.6%
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 57.3% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Puzzle 12.1%, Science 11.1% ★, Indie 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 67.2% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Automation 6.6%, Indie 2.6%
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 57.7% ★, Automation 22.2%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 7%, Logic 3.6%
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 55.2% ★, Automation 28%, Simulation 13.5%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 41.9% ★, Science 22% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 3.9%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Science 55.4% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Puzzle 16.6%, Logic 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%
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 50.6% ★, Automation 24%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 9.4%, Logic 3.9%
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 50.6% ★, Automation 21.5%, Simulation 10.9%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 4.1%
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 46.3% ★, Automation 24.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Logic 4.6%
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 58.9% ★, Automation 18.1%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Logic 2.8%
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 39.1% ★, Science 21% ★, Automation 15.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Puzzle 8.4%
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
Why similar: Automation 43.9%, Simulation 29.7%, Puzzle 18.1%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 3.3%
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 67.8% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Puzzle 14.4%
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 41.7% ★, Science 22.4% ★, Automation 21.8%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 5.2%
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 74.2% ★, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 6.8%, Automation 5%, Logic 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 51.6% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Indie 1.8%
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 61.1% ★, Simulation 23.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 4%
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 64.4% ★, Simulation 21%, Puzzle 9.8%, Indie 4.7%
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Automation 18.8%, Science 18% ★, Simulation 9.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
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 49.6% ★, Automation 23.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 3%
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 46.6% ★, Automation 30.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 5.9%, Logic 3.7%
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 47% ★, Automation 23.7%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Logic 4.5%
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Why similar: Simulation 72.2%, Singleplayer 14.9%, Indie 12.9%
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 42.4% ★, Automation 19.4%, Science 19.3% ★, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 7.5%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Automation 26.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, Logic 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
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 46.6% ★, Automation 26.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Puzzle 9%, Logic 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 64.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Logic 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.3%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Programming 46.5% ★, Science 30% ★, Automation 19.6%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%
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 52.4% ★, Automation 24.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Puzzle 6.6%, Logic 3.5%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Automation 33.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Logic 3.5%
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 40.3% ★, Science 24.3% ★, Automation 19.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Logic 3.8%
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 49.1% ★, Automation 23.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Logic 4.4%
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 46.4% ★, Automation 23.1%, Simulation 12%, Puzzle 11.7%, Logic 5.1%
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 33.7% ★, Science 24% ★, Automation 17.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 51.9% ★, Automation 25.2%, Simulation 17.6%, Logic 4.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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: Science 50.8% ★, Simulation 19.5%, Puzzle 18.8%, Logic 7.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 50.3% ★, Automation 25%, Simulation 12.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.
Why similar: Programming 49.7% ★, Science 25.5% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 2%
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 46.8% ★, Automation 24.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 3.4%
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 67.2% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 5.4%, Indie 1.6%
[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 51.3% ★, Automation 29%, Puzzle 11.8%, Logic 4.8%, Indie 2.1%
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 50.6%, Simulation 19.2%, Puzzle 17%, Logic 6.9%, Indie 3.5%
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 66.5% ★, Puzzle 13.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Logic 5.6%, Indie 2.4%
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Why similar: Simulation 37%, Science 30.8% ★, Programming 21.9% ★, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 2%
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 76% ★, Puzzle 17.1%, Simulation 4%, Logic 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 58.2%, Simulation 19.4%, Puzzle 19.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Science 47.2% ★, Automation 44.1%, Simulation 4.9%, Logic 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
