60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Logic.
Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 36.7% ★, Education 13.6%, Logic 11.6%, Hacking 10.7% ★, Automation 7.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Automation 17.2%, Logic 9%, Education 6.6%, Difficult 6.4%
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 54.5% ★, Hacking 14.5% ★, Difficult 7.3%, Logic 5.8%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 24.2%, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 4.5%
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 39.5% ★, Hacking 22.5% ★, Education 11.6%, Difficult 9.6%, Simulation 9.5%
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 38% ★, Difficult 14%, Puzzle 11.2%, Automation 11%, Logic 10%
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 24.1% ★, Automation 15.3%, Level Editor 12.8%, Hacking 12.7% ★, Logic 10.6%
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 30.5% ★, Automation 19.8%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
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 31.4% ★, Automation 16%, Education 11.2%, Logic 10%, Difficult 8.5%
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 41.8% ★, Education 16.5%, Science 13.1%, Building 5.8%, Sandbox 5.5%
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: Programming 19.6% ★, Hacking 15% ★, Science 12.1%, Automation 10.4%, Education 9.4%
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 49.7% ★, Science 11.6%, Education 9.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%
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 19.5% ★, Hacking 15.9% ★, Science 12.6%, Automation 9.5%, Education 9.1%
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 31.7% ★, Science 20.1%, Education 12.9%, Logic 10.9%, Difficult 9.4%
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 22.1% ★, Hacking 13.8% ★, Science 13.6%, Education 10.3%, Automation 10.2%
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 17.9% ★, Automation 15.4%, Education 10.1%, Sandbox 6.9%
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 21.1% ★, Hacking 15.2% ★, Automation 14%, Science 13.8%, Education 10.6%
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 29.9% ★, Science 16%, Education 12.4%, Logic 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 17.9%, Education 15.8%, Logic 9.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
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% ★, Automation 12.7%, Cyberpunk 8.2%, Logic 6.7%
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 55.8% ★, Level Editor 15.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%
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 19.5%, Automation 17.3%, Logic 12.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
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 43.8% ★, Programming 32.9% ★, Simulation 5.4%, Education 5.3%, Cyberpunk 4.7%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 19.7% ★, Automation 18.1%, Education 15.2%, Hacking 13.9% ★, Building 9.7%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.7%, Sci-fi 8.2%
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 22.2%, Philosophical 18.3%, Education 17.8%, Difficult 12.1%, Logic 11.9%
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 26.9%, Hacking 17.5% ★, Logic 9.2%, Simulation 7.4%
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 32.6% ★, Automation 26%, Building 13.1%, Logic 10.2%, Level Editor 9%
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 23% ★, Asynchronous Multiplayer 22.5% ★, Cyberpunk 13%, Sandbox 7.2%
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 60.6% ★, Education 10.9%, Logic 8.2%, Puzzle 7.8%, Automation 6.8%
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: Hacking 71% ★, Programming 10.4% ★, Cyberpunk 4.3%, Education 4.1%, Logic 3.2%
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 46.8% ★, Sandbox 13%, Education 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 10.6%
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 17.9%, Automation 17.4%, Education 12.3%, Building 9.3%
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 20.4%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Logic 10.3%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 43.6% ★, Automation 19.1%, Education 14%, Logic 9.8%, Sandbox 5.6%
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 55.8% ★, Education 18.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Difficult 7.6%, Puzzle 7%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 37.9% ★, Science 22.2%, Automation 17.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 32.5% ★, Hacking 26.9% ★, Education 10.4%, Logic 9.7%, Simulation 7.7%
Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
Why similar: Philosophical 51.3%, Logic 30.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Singleplayer 3.8%
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 26.3% ★, Hacking 14.7% ★, Education 9.6%, Automation 8.9%, Science 8.5%
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 18.7% ★, Science 16%, Automation 11.8%, Level Editor 10.9%, Education 9.2%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Transhumanism 72.1% ★, Difficult 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
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 36.7% ★, Hacking 21.6% ★, Education 14.8%, Level Editor 12.6%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 49.2%, Difficult 27.3%, Puzzle 20.3%, Singleplayer 3.2%
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 67.3% ★, Hacking 22.8% ★, Puzzle 9.9%
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 39% ★, Hacking 18.8% ★, Education 15%, Logic 12.4%, Simulation 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 55.3% ★, Education 13.1%, Automation 9.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 4.4%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 30.4% ★, Automation 17.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.8%, Logic 10.8%
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 41.1% ★, Logic 13.7%, Education 13.5%, Difficult 13.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 38.8% ★, Hacking 19.9% ★, Logic 15.9%, Difficult 12.5%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 28.7% ★, Automation 17.9%, Level Editor 11%, Difficult 9.8%, Building 9.6%
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 33.8%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 16.3%, Logic 13.4%, Simulation 8.2%
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 39.3% ★, Cyberpunk 20.1%, Logic 17.3%, Difficult 13%, Puzzle 8.8%
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 27.9% ★, Hacking 22.5% ★, Automation 15.7%, Education 12%, Difficult 7.6%
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 45.7% ★, Logic 17.6%, Difficult 14.7%, Automation 11.7%, Puzzle 8.9%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 33.6% ★, Automation 17.2%, Logic 12.8%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 25.8% ★, Science 18.8%, Automation 15.3%, Logic 9.6%, Building 9%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Programming 24.3% ★, Science 18.9%, Level Editor 13%, Automation 12.3%, Education 11.4%
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Hacking 28% ★, Education 13.2%, Cyberpunk 11.1%, Logic 6.6%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 7.3%, Stylized 5.8%
