Games Like Opus Magnum

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 57.8% ★, Automation 20.1%, Puzzle 7.6%, Logic 6.9%, Simulation 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential Zachtronics experience that challenges you to build circuits and write assembly code to solve complex engineering problems.

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 40.6% ★, Automation 24.9%, Puzzle 14.6%, Logic 4.3%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D puzzle game captures the same assembly-line automation feel as Opus Magnum but adds a spatial dimension to your factory designs.

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 49.1% ★, Puzzle 19.3%, Automation 13.3%, Logic 8%, Difficult 4%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational chemistry-based automation game that established the challenging, open-ended puzzle design seen in Opus Magnum.

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 72.7% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, Automation 5.7%, Logic 4.7%, Simulation 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore programming puzzle game that strips away the visuals to focus entirely on the logic and optimization of assembly code.

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 55.8% ★, Automation 18.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Logic 6.5%, Simulation 3%

Why You'll Like It: A hacking-themed programming game that shares the same satisfying 'write-and-test' loop found in Zachtronics titles.

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 21.5%, Puzzle 14.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Logic 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Another Zachtronics gem that focuses on molecular synthesis and logic, mirroring the alchemical theme of the seed game.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Automation 26.5%, Logic 11.1%, Puzzle 6.9%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An educational yet deeply complex game that tasks you with building a functional computer from basic logic gates.

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 65.6% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Automation 10.9%, Logic 3.3%, Simulation 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A visual programming game that uses simple office tasks to teach the fundamentals of assembly-like logic.

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 46.9%, Puzzle 20.4%, Logic 16.8%, Simulation 5.1%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A collection of retro-styled puzzle games that includes several deep automation and engineering challenges in the signature Zachtronics style.

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 11.4%, Automation 7%, Logic 5.5%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to Human Resource Machine, introducing parallel processing and more complex logic puzzles for multiple workers.

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 41.8% ★, Automation 24.6%, Puzzle 12.1%, Logic 11.4%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game inspired by modular synthesizers that requires you to route signals and automate processes to solve logic challenges.

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 49.5%, Puzzle 15.3%, Logic 14.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that focuses on the logistics of processing and combining geometric shapes in a vast, infinite space.

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 65.6% ★, Puzzle 13.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Indie 5.3%, Difficult 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game focused on building hardware and logic gates to solve increasingly difficult computational tasks.

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 42.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Logic 10.1%, Simulation 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: An automation game where you build machines to assemble letters into words, echoing the mechanical assembly feel of Opus Magnum.

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 67.8% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 7.5%, Indie 4.1%, Great Soundtrack 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A circuit-design puzzle game where you must optimize the movement of data through increasingly complex mechanical systems.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 82.7%, Sandbox 6%, Simulation 4%, Building 3.9%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for industrial automation, offering a massive scale for building and optimizing complex production chains.

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 42.3% ★, Automation 24.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Logic 7.4%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-based automation game that requires careful planning and optimization of mechanical components to solve puzzles.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 83.6%, Building 6.6%, Sandbox 5.4%, Indie 2.3%, 2D 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of automation and tower defense that requires you to manage supply chains to fuel your defensive structures.

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 45.1% ★, Automation 22.2%, Logic 10.1%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that allows you to build complex digital circuits and logic systems in a 3D environment.

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 42.3% ★, Automation 22.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Steampunk 8.5% ★, Logic 8%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed programming game that directly mirrors the aesthetic and mechanical puzzle style of Opus Magnum.

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 55.3% ★, Automation 32.1%, Simulation 5.7%, Indie 2.7%, Building 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming game that uses a visual programming language to automate a colony of robots to perform repetitive tasks.

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 44.1% ★, Automation 26.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, Logic 10.6%, Simulation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy puzzle game where you build conveyor-belt systems to sort and process robots based on their properties.

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 42.1% ★, Puzzle 28.6%, Logic 13.4%, Difficult 6.3%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant logic puzzle game where you manipulate the rules of the game itself to reach your goal.

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 73% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 6%, Logic 3.1%, Building 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A programming-themed puzzle game that introduces machine learning concepts through intuitive visual automation tasks.

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: Automation 34.4%, Programming 31.7% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management puzzle game where you must design automated kitchens to fulfill complex food orders.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Puzzle 45.4%, Simulation 23.4%, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that challenges you to construct mechanical war machines to complete specific objectives.

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Programming 69.3% ★, Automation 9.8%, Logic 9.6%, Simulation 4.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you program the AI of your robots before the battle, focusing on logic flow and automation.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 76.1%, Simulation 9%, Building 7.5%, Sandbox 5%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale automation game that challenges you to build a galaxy-spanning logistics network to power a Dyson sphere.

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 45.9% ★, Automation 21.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 9%, Simulation 4.2%

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Puzzle 33.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Building 14.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.4%, Difficult 10%

Why You'll Like It: An engineering puzzle game that focuses on structural integrity and physics-based optimization to solve transport challenges.

Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

Why similar: Puzzle 41.6%, Logic 27.9%, Difficult 14.7%, Indie 5.9%, Great Soundtrack 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist chemistry-themed puzzle game that requires logical thinking and spatial awareness to bond atoms together.

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 61%, Puzzle 10.9%, Logic 9.2%, Sandbox 5.6%, Building 4.6%

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 59.4% ★, Automation 12.8%, Puzzle 12.1%, Logic 10.7%, Simulation 2.2%

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 74.9% ★, Puzzle 14.6%, Simulation 7.2%, Sandbox 3.3%

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: Automation 58.8%, Logic 15.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 5.9%

Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.2%, Logic 26.1%, Indie 5.9%, Hex Grid 4.2% ★, Difficult 2.8%

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 54.9% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Logic 11.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 4.8%

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 42% ★, Automation 31.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 8.1%, Building 3.8%

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 42.6% ★, Automation 23.3%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 4.4%

Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.2%, Logic 18.1%, Indie 8%, Difficult 3.3%, Hex Grid 2.7% ★

Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 61.5%, Logic 21.7%, Indie 6.2%, Great Soundtrack 3.7%, Hex Grid 3.2% ★

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 45.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Puzzle 12.5%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 6.2%

An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 57%, Puzzle 17.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Sandbox 5.6%, Hex Grid 5.1% ★

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% ★, Automation 23.2%, Puzzle 10.6%, Logic 9.4%, Difficult 3.1%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 71.7%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Logic 4.1%

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 46.8% ★, Automation 24.6%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 6.9%, Simulation 5%

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 45.8% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 4.7%

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 43.5% ★, Automation 27.6%, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 4.2%

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 49.7% ★, Automation 29.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Building 3.8%, Sandbox 3%

A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.

Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 27.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 5.1%, Building 3.6%

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 65.3% ★, Puzzle 13.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 4%, Sandbox 3.6%

Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.

Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Puzzle 18.3%, Logic 12%, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 5.7%

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 43.3% ★, Automation 24.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, Logic 11.6%, Simulation 4.8%

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Programming 36% ★, Automation 30.8%, Puzzle 12.2%, Logic 7%, Simulation 5.2%

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 70.8% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Indie 5%, Difficult 2.2%

The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.

Why similar: Programming 59.7% ★, Puzzle 19%, Simulation 6.8%, Building 4.9%, Sandbox 4.9%

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: Puzzle 32.8%, Logic 30.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 73.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Difficult 4.1%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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 45.1% ★, Automation 20.6%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 5%

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 56.8% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 7.7%, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 2.6%