60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Puzzle, Logic.
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ visual puzzles and hack other players’ creations. No coding or physics background required.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Hardware 36.3% ★, Programming 14.4% ★, Hacking 9.5% ★, Automation 9.1%, Logic 6.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 46.2% ★, Automation 16.3%, Logic 9.1%, Education 6.9%, Difficult 6.6%
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 54.2% ★, Hacking 14.5% ★, Difficult 7.5%, Logic 5.9%, Puzzle 5.7%
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 39% ★, Hacking 22.4% ★, Education 11.9%, Difficult 9.8%, Simulation 9.4%
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 42.6% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 4.4%
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Education 17.7%, Science 13.7%, Building 6%, Sandbox 5.8%
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 24.2% ★, Automation 14.4%, Level Editor 13.1%, Hacking 12.7% ★, Logic 10.9%
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 33.4% ★, Automation 18%, Science 11.8%, Education 11.4%, Logic 11.3%
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 21.3% ★, Hacking 16.4% ★, Science 12.1%, Automation 11.1%, Education 10.9%
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 19.4% ★, Hacking 15.8% ★, Science 12.8%, Education 9.4%, Automation 8.9%
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: Hardware 30.4% ★, Programming 13.7% ★, Hacking 11.6% ★, Science 9.5%, Automation 7.4%
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 31.3% ★, Science 20.1%, Education 13.2%, Logic 10.9%, Difficult 9.5%
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 49.2% ★, Science 11.7%, Education 9.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 7.6%
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 37.7% ★, Difficult 14.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, Automation 10.3%, Logic 10.1%
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 31.4% ★, Automation 15.1%, Education 11.5%, Logic 10.1%, Difficult 8.8%
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 30.4% ★, Automation 18.8%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 56.2% ★, Level Editor 15%, Sandbox 12.9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 7.5%
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 35.2% ★, Hacking 23.1% ★, Automation 12%, Cyberpunk 8.3%, Logic 6.8%
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 27.4% ★, Hacking 18.1% ★, Automation 14.6%, Education 10.5%, Building 6.9%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 30.7% ★, Automation 26.1%, Hacking 17.8% ★, Logic 9%, Simulation 7.4%
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Why similar: Programming 29.5% ★, Science 16%, Education 12.7%, Logic 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 20.2% ★, Automation 17.1%, Education 15.6%, Hacking 13.7% ★, Building 9.8%
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 21.2% ★, Hacking 15.1% ★, Science 13.9%, Automation 13.1%, Education 11%
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 31.1% ★, Automation 16.8%, Education 16.4%, Logic 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 28.8% ★, Level Editor 20%, Automation 16.3%, Logic 12.7%, Sandbox 10.7%
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Why similar: Hacking 43.3% ★, Programming 32.8% ★, Education 5.4%, Simulation 5.4%, Cyberpunk 4.7%
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 21.9%, Philosophical 18.4%, Education 18.1%, Difficult 12.2%, Logic 11.8%
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 55.1% ★, Education 18.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Difficult 7.8%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 22.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 12%, Sci-fi 8.3%
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: Hacking 70.8% ★, Programming 10.3% ★, Cyberpunk 4.4%, Education 4.2%, Logic 3.3%
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
Why similar: Hacking 25.6% ★, Programming 22.8% ★, Asynchronous Multiplayer 22.4% ★, Cyberpunk 13.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
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 32.8% ★, Automation 24.7%, Building 13.4%, Logic 10.5%, Level Editor 9.3%
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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 13%, Education 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 10.5%
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: Hardware 34.1% ★, Programming 20.6% ★, Hacking 12.9% ★, Education 11.2%, Difficult 7.8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Science 22.6%, Automation 16.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Puzzle 8.7%
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 26.1% ★, Hacking 14.7% ★, Education 10%, Science 8.6%, Automation 8.4%
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 32.1% ★, Hacking 26.8% ★, Education 10.7%, Logic 9.8%, Simulation 7.5%
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Why similar: Programming 18.5% ★, Science 16.2%, Level Editor 11.1%, Automation 11.1%, Education 9.5%
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 60.5% ★, Education 11.2%, Logic 8.2%, Puzzle 8%, Automation 6.4%
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 27.7% ★, Science 18.1%, Automation 16.4%, Education 12.8%, Building 9.5%
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 29.9% ★, Automation 19.2%, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Logic 10.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
Why similar: Philosophical 51.6%, Logic 30.2%, Puzzle 14.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%
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 55.2% ★, Education 13.5%, Automation 9.3%, Puzzle 7.7%, Logic 4.6%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 30.8% ★, Automation 16.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.1%, Logic 11.1%
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 33.1% ★, Difficult 23.1%, Logic 17.6%, Puzzle 17.5%, Level Editor 6.6%
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 38.5% ★, Hacking 18.7% ★, Education 15.4%, Logic 12.5%, Puzzle 4.9%
Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!
Why similar: Programming 36.2% ★, Hacking 21.5% ★, Education 15.2%, Level Editor 12.8%, Puzzle 7.3%
Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.
Why similar: Hardware 38.4% ★, Programming 13.6% ★, Automation 10.6%, Science 10.5%, Logic 6.9%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 35.4% ★, Automation 20.3%, Education 19.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 67% ★, Hacking 22.9% ★, Puzzle 10.1%
Become an expert hacker by using your raw brainpower! Learn how to get ahead in your new job at a cybersecurity company. Analyze servers for weaknesses, and hack them using their own subroutines to access the data they protect.
Why similar: Hacking 38.9% ★, Cyberpunk 20.1%, Logic 17.3%, Difficult 13.2%, Puzzle 8.9%
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Why similar: Philosophical 49.1%, Difficult 27.3%, Puzzle 20.4%, Singleplayer 3.1%
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 40.5% ★, Education 13.9%, Logic 13.8%, Difficult 13.5%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 32.5%, Building 19%, Sandbox 16.6%, Logic 13.8%, Simulation 8.2%
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 38.4% ★, Hacking 19.8% ★, Logic 16.1%, Difficult 12.8%, Puzzle 6.7%
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Science 39%, Education 21.8%, Sandbox 18.7%, Logic 7.8%, Simulation 7.4%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 25.1% ★, Science 18.3%, Automation 12.7%, Education 11.3%, Building 9.3%
Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!
Why similar: Science 31.7%, Education 22.3%, Logic 19.5%, Difficult 16.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 28.6% ★, Automation 16.9%, Level Editor 11.3%, Difficult 10.1%, Building 9.7%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Hacking 31% ★, Programming 25.7% ★, Education 14.7%, Cyberpunk 11.6%, Logic 8%
