
Instruct a robot to resolve hostage situations in this tactical programming puzzle game. Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment to save every hostage. No prior programming knowledge required.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Logic.

Instruct a robot to resolve hostage situations in this tactical programming puzzle game. Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment to save every hostage. No prior programming knowledge required.

7 Billion Humans
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!

Drag Engineer
If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.
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 74.4% ★, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 8%, Simulation 7%, Indie 1.4%
If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.
Why similar: Programming 61.9% ★, Logic 15.4%, Simulation 13.9%, Puzzle 7.3%, Indie 0.8%
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 79.3% ★, Puzzle 7.2%, Logic 6.8%, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 0.9%
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 61.5% ★, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 4.1%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 72.4% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Puzzle 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%
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 77.3% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 5.8%, Logic 5.1%, Indie 1.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 74.9% ★, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 6.5%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 0.8%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Simulation 19.3%, Logic 12.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Puzzle 6.8%
Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.
Why similar: Programming 62.7% ★, Logic 21.4%, Puzzle 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%, Indie 1.1%
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 62.9% ★, Logic 17%, Simulation 10.4%, Puzzle 7.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 72.5% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Puzzle 10.8%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1%
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 58.6% ★, Logic 15.6%, Simulation 14.6%, Puzzle 10.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 60.2% ★, Logic 21.4%, Puzzle 14%, Indie 4.4%
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 64.3% ★, Puzzle 13%, Logic 12.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Indie 1.6%
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 75.9% ★, Puzzle 12%, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 2.9%, Strategy 1.5%
Program potato workers to process numbers with simple punch-in instructions at a factory that mimics a processor. Optimize solutions to solve challenging open-ended puzzles. Punch, observe, learn, repeat.
Why similar: Programming 75.2% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Logic 5.3%, Indie 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 77.6% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Puzzle 10%
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 66% ★, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 4%, Strategy 3%
Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?
Why similar: Programming 81.6% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Indie 4.5%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 58.5% ★, Logic 15%, Simulation 11.7%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 3%
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 72.1% ★, Simulation 17.2%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 2.7%
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 64.8% ★, Logic 16.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
You don't steer the chicken. You program it. Write real scripts in a fake desktop OS and send your bird into fields that reseed every run, so hardcoded coordinates work exactly once. Upgrades aren't +1% damage: they're if statements, for loops, and the memory to hold a list.
Why similar: Programming 63.8% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Logic 8%, Puzzle 7.1%, Strategy 5.5%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 62.3% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Puzzle 12%, Logic 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
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 60% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Logic 12.5%, Puzzle 7.5%, Indie 2.6%
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.
Why similar: Programming 71% ★, Puzzle 11.7%, Simulation 11%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Venture forth through this puzzle game across space. Use your command terminal to guide the Onlooker interstellar probe through treacherous galaxies to explore the farthest reaches of the universe. Avoid asteroids, perform research tasks, and weave through the stars!
Why similar: Programming 57.8% ★, Logic 17.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Puzzle 10%, Singleplayer 1.7%
From collecting buttons to solving tangled mazes, automate KnotBot on a quest of handcrafted puzzles. Solve the problems your own way, it's simple to understand but still deep and challenging.
Why similar: Programming 52.8% ★, Simulation 19.2%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 5.3%
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 58.1% ★, Simulation 16.4%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 2.6%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 60.7% ★, Logic 17.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Singleplayer 1%
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 71.9% ★, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 11.5%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%
A programming puzzle game where you step into the role of a gameplay programmer, write code to build the core mechanics of a wide variety of games, and solve increasingly challenging development problems.
Why similar: Programming 63.2% ★, Logic 17.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Indie 1.5%
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 64.7% ★, Puzzle 16.9%, Logic 13.7%, Simulation 1.6%, Indie 1.4%
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 75.9% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 4.2%, Indie 0.9%
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 69.5% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Cal & Bomba is a programmatic puzzle game. Program short sequences to navigate the playfield, aim your cannon using potions, and take down your enemies with various explosives. Turn your enemies against each other, and create explosive chain reactions. 150+ puzzles sure to melt your brain!
Why similar: Programming 64.4% ★, Logic 19.5%, Puzzle 10.6%, Strategy 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 58.7% ★, Logic 15.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 0.8%
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 67.1% ★, Simulation 19.4%, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%
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 84.9% ★, Simulation 13%, Indie 2.1%
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 60.2% ★, Logic 15.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Puzzle 9%, Strategy 3.1%
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 72% ★, Logic 11%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 1.2%
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 66% ★, Logic 17.1%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 0.6%
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
Why similar: Programming 64.3% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 7.6%, Strategy 4.5%
Solve logic puzzles and obstacle courses in this robot simulation game! Immerse yourself in the exciting world of robotics and programming! Create your own robot, connect logic blocks and teach it to solve challenging tasks!
Why similar: Programming 57.5% ★, Logic 19.2%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.
Why similar: Programming 86.4% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Indie 2.3%
The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Programming 59.1% ★, Logic 17%, Simulation 11.1%, Puzzle 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 59.5% ★, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 3.6%
Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.
Why similar: Programming 83.3% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 3.7%
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 67.5% ★, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 11%, Logic 8.1%, Indie 1.3%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 76.1% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
An open-ended programming game in which you optimise 4-core assembly code to maintain a 1990s alt-history dystopian megacity's infrastructure. Take jobs from middlemen with hidden agendas and uncover the chilling consequences of your "routine" fixes in this assembly language puzzle thriller.
Why similar: Programming 66.2% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Logic 5.7%, Singleplayer 1%
A logic puzzle game where you write code to guide a bot through hex grid levels. Use a simple built-in programming language, think algorithmically, and find elegant solutions to increasingly complex challenges.
Why similar: Programming 61.7% ★, Logic 18.4%, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 7.4%, Indie 1.3%
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 64.1% ★, Logic 17.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
A single player graphics-coding puzzle game for creative coders and coding creatives. Built for people who like their graphics coding low level and retro styled.
Why similar: Programming 67.8% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A cozy puzzle game about helping pirate ships do pirate things. Set up the simulations. Watch how the ships behave. Explore how the systems interact.
Why similar: Programming 61.6% ★, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 4.2%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 61.1% ★, Logic 19.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 1.4%
Learn programming by implementing an elevator through a guided tour
Why similar: Programming 63.1% ★, Logic 14.8%, Simulation 14.4%, Puzzle 5.6%, Indie 1.4%
Logic Car is a coding-based puzzle game in which you program cars to achieve goals. Check the conditions given in each unique stage and take advantage of the various functions installed in the vehicle. Sometimes the laws of physics can be the solution. Now is the time to unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Simulation 21.9%, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 70.3% ★, Logic 18.3%, Puzzle 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%, Indie 0.7%