60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Singleplayer, Sandbox.
Lead a paramilitary force against a growing space Cult threat. Program your units, build a fleet, trade, research, and engage in deep tactical combat in this RPG-strategy hybrid.
Beam Time
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.
Terranny
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
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 59.8% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 6%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Auto Battler 20.5%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 13.7% ★, Tactical 10.5%, Simulation 4.3%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 53.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 12.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Space 8.9%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 44.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 17.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 10.8% ★, Simulation 5.9%
DumbBots: Hello World is the FREE introduction to the world of coding a DumbBot. Learn a new skill in 2020, and pickup the basics of coding with drag-and-drop ease in a fun setting. Or show your coding mettle by competing with other DumbBots.
Why similar: Programming 46.9% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Artificial Intelligence 13.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 6.9% ★
Echoes of the Architects is a fast-paced real-time strategy game where creativity drives victory. Design modular, programmable units to build your perfect army. Adapt and outsmart your opponents in dynamic skirmishes that reward tactical precision, ingenuity, and strategic mastery.
Why similar: Programming 28.2% ★, Auto Battler 21.9%, Tactical 12.3%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 10.7% ★, Artificial Intelligence 9.2%
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 69.3% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
Circuit Stance is a turn-based strategy roguelike game. Players take on the role of a super AI, programming robot AI chips to craft unique strategies, competing in intense arena battles to secure resources and glory.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Auto Battler 25.7%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 12.2% ★, Futuristic 5.8%
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Why similar: Programming 77.4% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 8.3%
A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Auto Battler 24.8%, RPG 5.4%, Strategy 4.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Auto Battler 24.4%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 15.3% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 3.9%
An alien voice resonates within your head: IF.PROGRAM.ROBOSNAKE.SMART. KILL.ENEMY.AI.THEN.WIN.AGAINST.FRIENDS. SAVE.HUMANITY.
Why similar: Programming 60.4% ★, Artificial Intelligence 24.6%, Strategy 15%
Gene Evolution is a game that simulates the microscopic world. You can design unique cells, edit their attributes, functions, and intelligence. Then release them into the microscopic world and watch them forage, reproduce, compete, and continually evolve through mutations.
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Artificial Intelligence 16.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!
Why similar: Space 25.1%, Moddable 15.9% ★, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, RPG 9.9%
Explore real digital life in The Bibites! Play god by guiding your bibites on their evolutionary journey or engineer your own. Analyze their Neural Network brains and genetic information as they adapt to their environments. Save your favorites and test their strength in Challenge Mode!
Why similar: Programming 36.7% ★, Artificial Intelligence 19.8%, Auto Battler 15.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 5.9%
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Programming 34.2% ★, Moddable 17.5% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Space 12.4%, Open World 7.4%
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Auto Battler 18.7%, Space 11.4%, Tactical 10.2%, Management 7%
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Why similar: Programming 32.8% ★, Auto Battler 23.4%, Tactical 11.1%, Space 9.3%, Management 5.4%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 71% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 8.3%, 2D 2.2%, Singleplayer 1%
Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.
Why similar: Programming 68.5% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 9.7%, 2D 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Lazy Galaxy 2 is an idle/clicker game with base-building and RTS elements. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe! Expand your base, fight vicious foes, and conquer the galaxies. Acquire combat experience and convert into candy, the most precious alien resource!
Why similar: Auto Battler 27.3%, Moddable 16.3% ★, Space 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%, RPG 6.7%
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Programming 41.9% ★, Sandbox 20.7%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 11%, Management 7.2%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 74.2% ★, Space 15.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Project: Centurion is a narrative-driven adventure puzzle game built around real-world Linux skills. Players must use actual Linux commands and systems knowledge to interact with the ship, parse logs, repair services, and uncover what happened to the crew—and whether escape is still possible.
Why similar: Programming 65% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Space 12.2%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Singleplayer 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 80.3% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
Why similar: Auto Battler 29.5%, Space 14.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Moddable 11.9% ★, Strategy 7.1%
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Moddable 13.7% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Space 11.3%, Open World 11.1%
A space trader & combat sim meets squad-RPG, large scale conquest, choice driven gameplay with fluid & punchy tactical real-time combat set in a dynamic open-world sandbox.
Why similar: Space 22.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, RPG 13.9%, Open World 13.6%, Simulation 10.9%
Build, customize, and unleash your ultimate space platform in NebulArena, a fast-paced, fully automated PvP arena where strategy, design, and destruction collide!
Why similar: Auto Battler 33.6%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 16.9% ★, Tactical 16.4%, Space 13.6%, Strategy 6.2%
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Moddable 22.7% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 10.8%, Simulation 5.4%
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 50.9% ★, Futuristic 9.8%, Artificial Intelligence 9.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
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 94.8% ★, Simulation 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
The Endless Mission is a community-driven creation sandbox game where you can play, hack, and create within a world...within a world...within a world, eventually making and sharing your own games...with the world.
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Moddable 25.6% ★, Sandbox 25%
Gridlords is a strategic async-PvP autobattler set in a fantasy pixel-art world. Build your ultimate castle, command legendary heroes, and outsmart rivals to prove your strategy reigns supreme.
Why similar: Auto Battler 39.1%, Tactical 14.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 11.7% ★, Management 6.2%
Plastic Conflict is a real-time strategy battle where toy soldiers wage war across backyard battlefields. Command troops, fortify scrap-built bases, manage resources, and outmaneuver enemies in fast-paced tactical combat where every flank, defense, and decision matters.
Why similar: Auto Battler 40.3%, Sandbox 19.6%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 12.8%, RPG 5.8%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 62.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 9.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%
Help a sentient robot escape an oppressive society through your abilities to hack and reprogram devices & automatons in the world
Why similar: Programming 49.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 18.7%, Tactical 12%, Futuristic 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.4%
Step into a time portal to 1993. While your friends are battling it out in the latest FPS adventures, you got the opportunity to learn the newest trend, programming. Turn on your CRT monitor and learn to write code, compete with others in challenges or write minigames.
Why similar: Programming 64.5% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Simulation 9.6%, 2D 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 92.4% ★, Simulation 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Conludus is an interactive learning system that uses gamification to make studying information technology fun and engaging. The system has 3 game modes, a quest. Conludus is actively expanding to provide fun learning in different topics. Try Conludus today and take your IT skills to the next level!
Why similar: Programming 59.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 23.7%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 62.5% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 7%, RPG 6.2%, Strategy 5.1%
Become the commander of a mighty army of fearsome battledroids, and watch them fight in epic battles of mass destruction. Create your defences and test their strength, or send your forces to crush those of your friends and enemies online!
Why similar: Auto Battler 25.4%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 19.4% ★, Tactical 15.5%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%
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 91.2% ★, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 55.1% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 7.5%, Management 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 66.3% ★, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 4.5%
A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.
Why similar: Programming 70.8% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 11.4%, 2D 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Oaken Tower is a synergy-heavy PvP autobattler where your tower of items fights other players. Build deadly combos and scale exponentially. Every decision matters.
Why similar: Auto Battler 38.5%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 30.6% ★, Tactical 12%, Strategy 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
NANOVOID is a 2D tactical space shooter that puts you in command of your own modular spaceship. Engage in intense, physics-driven battles, strategize with ship customization, and outsmart your enemies
Why similar: Sandbox 17.1%, Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Space 16%, Tactical 14.8%, Open World 14.6%
Tactical puzzle game where you need to program your robots to finish the task.
Why similar: Programming 53.7% ★, Tactical 12.8%, Space 11.2%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Strategy 6.3%
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Why similar: Space 24.9%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 68.1% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%, 2D 2.1%
Build your guild, gear your party, and send them into battle. Broken Divide is a tactical autobattler RPG with deep skill trees, real-time ATB combat, and a growing roster of heroes to master.
Why similar: Auto Battler 48.6%, RPG 16.2%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
A fantasy auto-battler with roguelike elements. With 56 units and 72 trait variants in both factions, every run is unique. Construct your best team, manage your economy and choose key battles to retry. How will you sculpt your path to victory?
Why similar: Auto Battler 35.4%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 27.1% ★, Tactical 18.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
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 81.9% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Design, build, and code a factory within the magical world of Runeline! Work on producing increasingly complex products, which will require you to write not just functional but optimized code, all within the simple instructions of the machine core.
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 6.5%, Strategy 5.9%
A Zlime auto-battle strategy game that allows you to create the most powerful Zlime team. Each Zlime will have its own unique skill and stats. Equipping them with the perfect items can lead you to a victory.
Why similar: Auto Battler 52.2%, Tactical 16.6%, Strategy 13.3%, 2D 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
A battle is won before it begins. Ratnik is a medieval auto battler focused on smart unit composition, positioning and counterplay. Defeat powerful Lords, unlock new forces and master the art of war.
Why similar: Auto Battler 35.6%, Tactical 19.8%, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 7.7%
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 49.3% ★, Moddable 19% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 6.6%, Futuristic 6.3%
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 63.3% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Futuristic 7.4%, Simulation 4.9%, Sci-fi 4.2%
"Jigsaw Puzzle + Arithmetic" is a casual yet engaging game that appeals to puzzle gamers who enjoy immersive experiences. Customize your gameplay by rearranging "piece placement," "number manipulation," and "score selection" to aim for a high score in each stage.
Why similar: Programming 51.2% ★, Sandbox 16%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Simulation 4.2%
