Games Like Prime Mover

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 75.7% ★, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 5%, Difficult 4.3%, Education 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential engineering puzzle game that requires you to design circuit boards and write assembly code to meet specific hardware constraints.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 69.9% ★, Education 10.1%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 7.3%, Difficult 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides the most direct experience to Prime Mover by tasking you with building a functional computer from basic logic gates.

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 78.4% ★, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 4.6%, Difficult 4.3%, Education 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game strips programming down to its absolute core, forcing you to optimize assembly code within a limited, retro-styled environment.

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 57.5% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Education 6.6%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the architecture of digital logic and circuit design, mirroring the core loop of Prime Mover.

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 62.8% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Education 7.7%, Puzzle 7.3%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: An educational and challenging game where you design a hardware description language to build a computer from the ground up.

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 67.7% ★, Puzzle 15%, Simulation 7.8%, Indie 4.2%, Great Soundtrack 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterpiece of optimization puzzles that shares the same satisfying 'build, test, and refine' loop found in Prime Mover.

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 56.7% ★, Science 11.3% ★, Education 10.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Puzzle 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox environment for designing complex digital circuits, perfect for those who enjoyed the creative freedom of Prime Mover.

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 59.9% ★, Puzzle 15.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Difficult 5.3%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the logic-based puzzle design into a 3D space, focusing on automation and spatial assembly.

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 58.1% ★, Puzzle 16.5%, Difficult 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 3.9%, Science 3.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic automation puzzle game that requires complex logic and timing to move elements through chemical reactors.

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 74.2% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 6.1%, Great Soundtrack 3.4%, Difficult 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines hacking themes with assembly programming, offering deep, logic-heavy puzzles that reward efficient code.

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 50.5% ★, Science 10.5% ★, Education 9.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of circuit design and logic gate puzzles that feels very similar to the technical challenges in Prime Mover.

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 71.9% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Education 5.3%, Great Soundtrack 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a visual programming language to solve puzzles, emphasizing parallel processing and logic flow.

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 71.1% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Education 6.7%, Simulation 4.9%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet difficult introduction to assembly-style programming through visual puzzle-solving.

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 26.3% ★, Education 24.1%, Puzzle 19.2%, Difficult 15.7%, Simulation 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for the creation of massive, functional digital circuits in a 3D sandbox, emphasizing pure logic and signal flow.

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 58.7% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Difficult 8.2%, Sci-fi 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building automation pipelines using logic blocks, requiring careful planning and optimization.

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 66.7% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Indie 4.4%, Sci-fi 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular synthesis and signal processing, requiring you to patch together logic to solve complex audio-visual puzzles.

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 65.3% ★, Education 10.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Science 6.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Teaches the fundamentals of machine learning through visual logic puzzles that require efficient system design.

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

Why similar: Programming 57.3% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Puzzle 12.1%, Science 11.1% ★, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Another Zachtronics title that focuses on chemical engineering and logic, requiring precise timing and resource management.

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 48.6% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Science 9.9% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Education 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logic and optimization in a minimalist, simulation-heavy environment.

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 59.1% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Difficult 7.8%, Education 7.6%, Simulation 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A programming-centric puzzle game where you must guide a robot through obstacles using a limited command set.

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: Puzzle 54.6%, Simulation 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A collection of engineering-focused puzzles that capture the retro aesthetic and technical depth of the genre.

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 63.8% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Puzzle 9.3%, Education 6.3%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines robot building with logic circuit design, allowing you to create autonomous machines to solve puzzles.

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 57.8% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Puzzle 8%, Education 7.2%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on programming where you manipulate the game's own memory and logic to progress through levels.

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 62.8% ★, Puzzle 9%, Education 8.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Difficult 7%

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 58.8% ★, Puzzle 9%, Education 8.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Difficult 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled programming puzzle game that forces you to work within the constraints of a limited virtual computer.

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: Puzzle 42.8%, Simulation 35.6%, Indie 14.1%, Singleplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that requires scaling complex logic systems to process and combine geometric shapes.

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 85.1% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Puzzle 4.4%, Education 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based programming game that allows you to automate a massive hacking network, perfect for those who enjoy the 'hacker' side of logic games.

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 66.5% ★, Education 13.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 8%, Indie 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and programming automata, blending steampunk aesthetics with technical puzzle solving.

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 72.8% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 3%

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 61.4% ★, Science 12.8% ★, Education 10.7%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy game that requires careful planning of systems and logic to manage pressure and flow.

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 47.3% ★, Puzzle 23.2%, Difficult 12.9%, Indie 6.6%, Great Soundtrack 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 52.6% ★, Education 10.2%, Science 9.3% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 7.9%

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 80.2% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Simulation 2.7%, Sci-fi 1.9%, Pixel Graphics 1%

Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).

Why similar: Puzzle 31.8%, Difficult 27%, Sci-fi 17.9%, Indie 12.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%

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 66.8% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Difficult 8.8%, Indie 4.4%, Great Soundtrack 4.1%

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 65.9% ★, Education 9.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Difficult 3.1%

A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.2%, Difficult 23.9%, Indie 17.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

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 66.9% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Education 9.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 2.2%

Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.2%, Difficult 25.7%, Education 18.5%, Indie 12.6%

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

Why similar: Science 30.5% ★, Education 20.8%, Puzzle 20.1%, Difficult 18%, Indie 5.1%

Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!

Why similar: Science 28.4% ★, Education 23.7%, Puzzle 22.1%, Difficult 18.5%, Indie 5.2%

Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.

Why similar: Programming 69.9% ★, Puzzle 17.7%, Indie 12.4%

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 74.1% ★, Puzzle 13.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%, Indie 2.6%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 75.1%, Indie 13.5%, Difficult 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Programming 56.6% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Education 8.9%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%, Difficult 6.6%

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 29.9%, Puzzle 14.4%, Science 14.1% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Education 10.6%

Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong dream.

Why similar: Programming 81.1% ★, Puzzle 7.2%, Indie 5.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Singleplayer 1%

Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.

Why similar: Science 21.3% ★, Education 20.8%, Puzzle 17.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Difficult 14.8%

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

Why similar: Programming 65.1% ★, Education 13.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Indie 0.9%

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 59.8% ★, Science 10.6% ★, Education 9.8%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Why similar: Simulation 53%, Indie 26.1%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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 67.2% ★, Puzzle 12%, Difficult 8.8%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 4.6%

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.

Why similar: Puzzle 63.5%, Indie 36.5%

Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator

Why similar: Programming 67.4% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Education 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!

Why similar: Programming 60.7% ★, Education 14.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Puzzle 11%, Indie 2.1%

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 48.2%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Difficult 6.7%, Indie 4%

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 64.6% ★, Education 10.9%, Simulation 8.2%, Difficult 7.2%, Puzzle 6.2%

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 66.7% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Indie 3.2%

Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

Why similar: Programming 56.6% ★, Education 11.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Difficult 8.7%, Puzzle 8.6%