60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.
Write code to command your defenses. Overhead is a strategy game where your code is your weapon; script turret (or sensor) behavior in JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or any WASM language. Every scenario is seeded and deterministic. Write a better script, get a better score.
Tower.defense(): Program The Fight
A tower defense game where you program your turrets instead of upgrading them. Drag and drop visual code blocks to define targeting, conditions, and firing logic. No coding experience needed. Your strategy is your code.
ABI-DOS
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.
A tower defense game where you program your turrets instead of upgrading them. Drag and drop visual code blocks to define targeting, conditions, and firing logic. No coding experience needed. Your strategy is your code.
Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Tower Defense 22.8%, Automation 19.1%, Strategy 7.2%, Logic 5.9%
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 40.1% ★, Automation 18%, Hacking 12.4% ★, Procedural Generation 7.2%, Strategy 5.3%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Automation 22%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Logic 6.5%, Strategy 5.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 67.2% ★, Automation 20%, Logic 5.5%, Education 2.6%, Hacking 2% ★
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Why similar: Programming 60.9% ★, Automation 27%, Strategy 7.1%, Education 3.5%, 2D 1.1%
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% ★, Hacking 17.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Logic 4.6%, Simulation 1.7%
A real -time strategy game that can create items to operate logic.No resource collection
Why similar: Programming 30% ★, Automation 16.1%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 62.5% ★, Automation 10.6%, Hacking 8.6% ★, Logic 8.3%, Education 6.4%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Automation 19.9%, Hacking 18.5% ★, Education 5.2%, Logic 4.8%
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 77.3% ★, Hacking 9.8% ★, Automation 5.2%, Logic 3.4%, Education 1.7%
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Automation 18.4%, Score Attack 10.7%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Logic 5.9%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 56.6% ★, Automation 22%, Hacking 17.8% ★, Simulation 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 53.4% ★, Automation 19.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Education 4.3%, Base Building 4.1%
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 51.5% ★, Automation 13%, Hacking 12.3% ★, Score Attack 11.3%, Logic 5.4%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 44.7% ★, Automation 24.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Logic 7.8%, Strategy 5.8%
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Why similar: Programming 60.1% ★, Automation 17.9%, Hacking 16.3% ★, Strategy 2.1%, Education 1.7%
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 61.2% ★, Automation 27.9%, Logic 6%, Simulation 2.5%, Indie 1.3%
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 52.4% ★, Automation 22.6%, Logic 7.1%, Strategy 5.9%, Education 5.7%
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 53.6% ★, Automation 23.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Logic 7.2%, Education 3.8%
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 61.3% ★, Hacking 17.6% ★, Logic 8.6%, Education 6.2%, Simulation 3.3%
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Automation 25.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Procedural Generation 5.8%
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 77.5% ★, Automation 11.1%, Education 5.1%, Logic 2.6%, Simulation 1.9%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 51.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Logic 7.6%, Strategy 4.3%
Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.
Why similar: Programming 26.4% ★, Tower Defense 19.3%, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Strategy 5.2%
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 80.1% ★, Automation 7.2%, Logic 4.5%, Education 4%, Simulation 2.4%
Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Automation 19%, Hacking 17.3% ★, Education 5.6%, Strategy 5.4%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 52.7% ★, Automation 29.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Logic 4.1%, Resource Management 2.3%
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 59.4% ★, Hacking 14.8% ★, Automation 14.1%, Logic 8%, Simulation 2%
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 54.3% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 8.1%, Futuristic 5.7%, Simulation 1.9%
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 53.9% ★, Automation 26.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Simulation 3%, Resource Management 3%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 51% ★, Automation 20.1%, Hacking 18.8% ★, Logic 4.7%, Simulation 2.9%
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Automation 19.8%, Hacking 12.4% ★, Procedural Generation 10%, Logic 5.5%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Automation 25%, Logic 7.1%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 2.6%
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 62.4% ★, Automation 23.9%, Simulation 4.6%, Education 3.7%, Resource Management 3.6%
SysOps Saga is a simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing the intricate web of software, security, and hardware to keep digital systems running. Developed by a FAANG veteran, this game offers an immersive and educational experience for IT enthusiasts.
Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Automation 26.9%, Hacking 10.2% ★, Logic 6.7%, Education 4%
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 47.5% ★, Automation 23.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Education 6.9%, Strategy 5.7%
If your're into logic, problem-solving and building complex systems, then this is a game for you. All the fun of creating systems, using a visual node language, without worring about written syntax of text based programming. Learn real programming skills much faster in a explosions packed battle.
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Automation 23.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Logic 6.1%
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Why similar: Programming 60.8% ★, Automation 28.5%, Logic 3.8%, Simulation 3.2%, 2D 2.4%
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Automation 22.5%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Logic 8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 54.5% ★, Automation 30.8%, Logic 9.2%, 2D 2.1%, Simulation 2%
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 53.1% ★, Automation 21.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Logic 7.1%, Education 5.2%
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 58.3% ★, Hacking 23.4% ★, Logic 8.5%, Education 7.6%, Indie 1.1%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 59.1% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 6.2%, Education 4.2%, Strategy 3.4%
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 65.6% ★, Automation 12.3%, Logic 8.1%, Strategy 6.6%, Futuristic 2.5%
Program your team of AIs to infiltrate corporation servers and find your brother Hermann. This game is about the fun of coding and optimization. There is always something to improve.
Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Automation 18.2%, Hacking 15.2% ★, Logic 7.2%, Education 4%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Automation 29.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 7%, Resource Management 6.3%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Strategy 5.9%
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 56.3% ★, Automation 25.6%, Logic 7.8%, Education 5.1%, Simulation 4.1%
[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 56.5% ★, Automation 30.8%, Logic 8.8%, 2D 2.5%, Indie 1%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.
Why similar: Programming 67.2% ★, Automation 22.2%, Education 8.1%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 47.7% ★, Automation 17.6%, Hacking 14.1% ★, Logic 6.6%, Education 6.1%
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 57.2% ★, Hacking 22.4% ★, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 5.2%, Education 5%
Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.4%, Automation 28.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 10%, PvE 4.5%
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 59.6% ★, Automation 21%, Logic 5.6%, Education 5.3%, Resource Management 3.2%
In the second episode of Finite State Automation Challenges, you will use finite-state automata to overcome 80 challenges from character string manipulation, computer science, and mathematics.
Why similar: Programming 63.5% ★, Automation 14.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Logic 5.6%, Education 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 44.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Hacking 17.2% ★, Logic 7.3%, Education 5.7%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 65.8% ★, Automation 17.8%, Logic 8.6%, Education 4.3%, Simulation 1.4%
Harvest planets using robots you program yourself. Write real Python to collect every resource and load it into your spaceship, dodging hazards along the way. Sharpen your problem-solving and coding skills one level at a time. No experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 22.4%, Procedural Generation 6.8%, Education 5.9%, Strategy 5.6%
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 69.5% ★, Strategy 10%, Logic 7.7%, Automation 4.6%, 2D 3.3%
