60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Indie, Singleplayer.
Command six unit types with Python and fight real-time wars against AI large language models. Write code. Build tactics. Control the battlefield. 10 tutorial levels to get you started. 10 AI LLM challenge levels to conquer. Others play with reflexes. You play with algorithms.
Finite State Automaton Challenges
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Robot Programmer
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
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 64% ★, Automation 25.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 56% ★, Automation 22.8%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Indie 1%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 77.9% ★, Automation 21%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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.
Why similar: Programming 55.1% ★, Automation 18.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Wargame 3.6%
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 47.4% ★, Automation 21.3%, RTS 11.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
A real -time strategy game that can create items to operate logic.No resource collection
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, RTS 17.7%, Automation 17%, Strategy 14.9%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 73.8% ★, Strategy 23.1%, Indie 3.2%
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 57.1% ★, Automation 28.8%, Strategy 13%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 61.8% ★, Automation 20.8%, Strategy 16.2%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 62.1% ★, Automation 24.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Why similar: Programming 57.3% ★, Automation 22.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Indie 1.2%
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 69.3% ★, Automation 28.5%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 86.6% ★, Automation 11.1%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Solve puzzles by building different things for your automata! In the end, you will find that it is not just a video game...
Why similar: Programming 62.4% ★, Strategy 33%, Indie 4.5%
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 92.9% ★, Automation 5.7%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 90.5% ★, Automation 7.3%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
An alien voice resonates within your head: IF.PROGRAM.ROBOSNAKE.SMART. KILL.ENEMY.AI.THEN.WIN.AGAINST.FRIENDS. SAVE.HUMANITY.
Why similar: Programming 66% ★, Strategy 29.9%, Indie 4.1%
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Why similar: Programming 58.9% ★, Automation 29.7%, Strategy 11%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 68.7% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Automation 14.4%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 64.5% ★, Automation 25%, Strategy 9.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.5%
Program three distinct towers with readable visual logic, then solve handcrafted tower-defense puzzles where placement, line of sight and every code block matter. No programming experience required.
Why similar: Programming 60.1% ★, Automation 24.9%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 56.4% ★, Automation 23%, Strategy 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Indie 0.7%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Automation 21.1%, RTS 20.2%, Strategy 9.8%, 3D 1.3%
Join Rus the Dinosaur, Hippo the Hedgehog, and Syd the Sloth, to put a stop to whoever's causing the volcano of Pear Island to erupt!
Why similar: Programming 49% ★, Strategy 42.4%, Cartoony 7.4%, Indie 1.2%
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 61.6% ★, Automation 26.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 68.9% ★, Automation 29.3%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 74.6% ★, Automation 22.3%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Write Python-style code to program repair patchers and rescue a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector. Start with four commands; every file you restore unlocks loops, variables, functions and lists, until your programs bring all 1,474,560 bytes back to life. The whole game fits on one floppy.
Why similar: Programming 61.6% ★, Automation 30.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%, Indie 0.6%
A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Automation 23.6%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Indie 1.5%
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 63.6% ★, Automation 24.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.
Why similar: Programming 62.5% ★, Automation 26.1%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.7%
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 75.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Strategy 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%, Indie 0.2%
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic!" Practice witchcraft, summon daemons, harness crystal vibrations, and never EVER let the Magic Smoke escape as you help the villagers, protect the kingdom, and strive to unlock magic's deepest secrets in this cozy, witchy sim!
Why similar: Programming 70% ★, Automation 18.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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 73.2% ★, Automation 25.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 55.3% ★, Automation 21%, Strategy 12.6%, Cartoony 6.7%, 3D 2.2%
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 75.5% ★, Automation 12.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.8%
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 55.4% ★, Automation 21.7%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Strategy 8.8%, 3D 1.5%
A programming puzzle game where you build computation from simple rules. Route numbers through a honeycomb grid, solve puzzles to create new computational building blocks, and work your way from +1 to arithmetic, algorithms, and beyond.
Why similar: Programming 78.6% ★, Strategy 19.9%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 94.9% ★, Indie 5.1%
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 73.8% ★, Automation 25.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 78% ★, Automation 20.3%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation. Connect nodes to build custom algorithms and route endless passenger waves. Clear strict wait time and power targets to upgrade your system. If floors overflow, your hack is detected—game over!
Why similar: Programming 60.9% ★, Automation 25.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
DumbBots: Hello World is the FREE introduction to the world of coding a DumbBot. Learn a new skill in 2020, and pickup the basics of coding with drag-and-drop ease in a fun setting. Or show your coding mettle by competing with other DumbBots.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Automation 15.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Cartoony 8.3%, 3D 2.7%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 89.4% ★, Strategy 8.3%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Why similar: Programming 63.4% ★, Automation 25%, Strategy 10.3%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
Why similar: Programming 65.4% ★, Automation 22.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 1.2%
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 69.7% ★, Automation 23.8%, Strategy 5%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Why similar: Programming 47.6% ★, RTS 20.5%, Automation 11.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
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 78.3% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Automation 4.7%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
[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 65.7% ★, Automation 32.4%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Build a battle top in your garage. Draft cassette tapes and wire them into its brain. Pull the cord, and it fights the tournament on its own. A roguelike strategy game where you win on the workbench, or you learn something and go back to the basement to build again.
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Automation 25.8%, Strategy 17.5%, 3D 1.2%, Indie 1%
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 64.8% ★, Automation 29.1%, Strategy 4.3%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Programming 58.8% ★, Automation 27%, Strategy 10.9%, 3D 1.8%, Indie 0.9%
Kanji Industry is a Kanji production automation game. It is great fun to watch the production line move automatically to assemble complex kanji characters! It is also a great way to study kanji characters.
Why similar: Programming 42.8% ★, Automation 19.1%, RTS 18.8%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Strategy 8.2%
Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.
Why similar: Programming 63% ★, Automation 25%, Strategy 9.9%, 3D 1.2%, Indie 0.9%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 64.9% ★, Automation 33.2%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Why similar: Programming 55.5% ★, Automation 26.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 72.7% ★, Automation 24.4%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
