60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Simulation, Indie.
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.
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!
Prime Mover
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.
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 54.7% ★, Puzzle 14.2%, Logic 11.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Indie 4.9%
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 48.6% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Science 9.9% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Education 7.7%
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 65.6% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Difficult 7.3%, Logic 6.2%, Simulation 5.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 60% ★, Logic 10.4%, Education 7.2%, Difficult 6.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Education 15.6%, Logic 14.4%, Simulation 8.1%, Puzzle 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 44.8% ★, Puzzle 14.8%, Difficult 13.6%, Logic 10.5%, Science 7.7% ★
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 45.5% ★, Simulation 18.3%, Education 11.1%, Difficult 9.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 43.6% ★, Logic 13%, Education 12%, Difficult 11.6%, Puzzle 8%
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 50.9% ★, Simulation 16.5%, Education 13.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 6.5%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 41.9% ★, Science 22% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 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 43.3% ★, Education 13%, Logic 12.4%, Difficult 9.8%, Simulation 9.3%
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 29.6% ★, Science 16.8% ★, Education 11.4%, Logic 10.3%, Difficult 8.6%
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 38.6% ★, Education 11.8%, Science 10.9% ★, Difficult 8.1%, Simulation 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 48.9% ★, Education 16.2%, Science 13.4% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Puzzle 6.8%
Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.
Why similar: Science 25.8% ★, Difficult 12.6%, Simulation 12%, Puzzle 10.5%, Education 10.1%
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 68.9% ★, Simulation 18%, Puzzle 13.1%
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 12.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 6.4%, Logic 4.4%
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 34.3% ★, Science 18.5% ★, Education 13.4%, Logic 10.1%, Simulation 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 60.9% ★, Education 9.6%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Logic 7.3%
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 33.4% ★, Puzzle 19.1%, Difficult 18.3%, Logic 15.3%, Indie 6.7%
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 33.6% ★, Science 16.1% ★, Education 13.9%, Logic 11.5%, Simulation 7.8%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Logic 20.3%, Puzzle 15.2%, Indie 13.2%
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 46.8% ★, Education 19.8%, Logic 12.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 50.5% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 11%, Difficult 9%, Logic 7.6%
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.
Why similar: Abstract 32.2%, Logic 23.3%, Minimalist 21.2%, Puzzle 12.6%, Education 4.5%
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 41.5% ★, Science 23.5% ★, Education 15.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Minimalist 5.3%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 54.5% ★, Education 19.3%, Puzzle 12%, Minimalist 4.6%, Logic 4.4%
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 42.9% ★, Logic 13.7%, Difficult 11.3%, Puzzle 8.9%, Minimalist 7.7%
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 53.4% ★, Simulation 20.2%, Education 11.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 6.1%
Colorgrid is a puzzle game about mixing colors in a Lab. Find the correct positions for your lasers and mirrors to get the right mix of colors in each material.
Why similar: Science 23.3% ★, Education 13.6%, Logic 13%, Difficult 12.4%, Minimalist 12.3%
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 43.2% ★, Education 13.4%, Abstract 11.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Logic 9.2%
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 47.2% ★, Difficult 13.3%, Logic 12%, Simulation 11.8%, Puzzle 10.1%
Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.
Why similar: Puzzle 25%, Minimalist 19.9%, Logic 17.7%, Education 16.8%, Indie 9.7%
[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 45.8% ★, Logic 15.2%, Minimalist 12.8%, Difficult 10.9%, Puzzle 9.4%
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
Why similar: Science 25.9% ★, Abstract 15.9%, Education 13.9%, Difficult 11.4%, Logic 8.5%
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 45.4% ★, Education 16.3%, Logic 10.8%, Difficult 10.2%, Simulation 8.9%
Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.
Why similar: Difficult 26.6%, Puzzle 25.8%, Education 20.2%, Minimalist 18.1%, Indie 9.3%
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.
Why similar: Programming 48.8% ★, Logic 17.9%, Difficult 13%, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 4.6%
Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!
Why similar: Programming 39.6% ★, Science 23.1% ★, Logic 14.1%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 4.3%
A unique abstract puzzle game with an emphasis on lateral thinking. Use catalysts to build compounds and manipulate cell structures. 100 puzzle levels and a level editor to create your own custom puzzle designs.
Why similar: Science 29.9% ★, Abstract 19.7%, Difficult 13.8%, Puzzle 13.5%, Minimalist 12.7%
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 40.7% ★, Simulation 16%, Logic 10.9%, Education 10.9%, Difficult 7.3%
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 38.1% ★, Science 18.3% ★, Education 13.4%, Logic 11.4%, Simulation 6.7%
Dissembler is a subtle puzzle game about unraveling playful, abstract designs one color at a time.
Why similar: Abstract 25.2%, Logic 22%, Minimalist 16.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Difficult 8.8%
Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.
Why similar: Indie 23.8%, Science 21% ★, Education 12.4%, Logic 11.1%, Difficult 10.4%
Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!
Why similar: Science 27.1% ★, Education 17.8%, Logic 17%, Difficult 13.1%, Minimalist 10.5%
A game of strange jigsaws.
Why similar: Abstract 29.6%, Puzzle 19%, Logic 17.9%, Minimalist 15.2%, Colorful 7.9%
Guess the rules, divide shapes, solve puzzles. 49 variants with consistent rulessets.
Why similar: Abstract 32.9%, Logic 23.4%, Minimalist 21.3%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 5.2%
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: Science 29.8% ★, Education 21.4%, Difficult 13.2%, Logic 12.6%, Simulation 9.5%
Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Education 20.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Puzzle 9%, Logic 9%
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 48.9% ★, Logic 19.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 4.7%
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 49.9% ★, Education 14.4%, Logic 11%, Minimalist 8.4%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 50.2% ★, Logic 17.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Colorful 5.3%
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 44.4% ★, Logic 15.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Abstract 9.6%, Puzzle 9.2%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Programming 23.8% ★, Abstract 20%, Minimalist 13.4%, Education 12%, Puzzle 10.6%
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 58.3% ★, Logic 16.4%, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 7.4%, Indie 2.9%
Tandis is a puzzle game where you discover mind-bending geometric shapes.
Why similar: Abstract 21%, Education 19.1%, Logic 17.4%, Science 12.2% ★, Puzzle 10%
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 47.5% ★, Education 15.2%, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 10.1%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 31.7% ★, Science 23.8% ★, Education 13.1%, Logic 12.9%, Simulation 9.8%
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Why similar: Minimalist 20.6%, Simulation 20.5%, Logic 17%, Puzzle 15.6%, Difficult 12.5%
