60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation.
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.
EXAPUNKS
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.
Prime Mover
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.
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 49.4% ★, Hacking 19.9% ★, Automation 9.5%, Logic 7.9%, Puzzle 5.9%
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 71.5% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Difficult 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%, Indie 1.6%
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 53.8% ★, Hacking 18.6% ★, Difficult 10.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Puzzle 7.4%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Logic 14.8%, Hacking 10.1% ★, Automation 6.3%, Puzzle 5.9%
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 51.8% ★, Automation 17.3%, Logic 16.9%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 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 41.7% ★, Hacking 14.2% ★, Difficult 8.4%, Automation 7.3%, Logic 7.2%
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 65.3% ★, Hacking 10.5% ★, Difficult 7%, Puzzle 6%, Logic 5.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.1% ★, Automation 11.8%, Logic 9.9%, Difficult 6.7%, Puzzle 5.4%
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 44.7% ★, Logic 12%, Automation 11.9%, Difficult 9.8%, 1980s 7%
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 42.6% ★, Logic 15.8%, Automation 14%, Hacking 13.6% ★, Puzzle 8.2%
Cyber Warrior is a hacking simulator where you play as an ex retired bureau agent recruited back to take on a powerful criminal organization. Explore dozens of interactive desktops, navigate 200+ in-game websites, solve puzzles, customize your setup and make decisions that will shape a new cyber age
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Hacking 28.7% ★, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 5.2%, Simulation 3.3%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Hacking 21.4% ★, Automation 11.7%, Logic 8.6%, Text-Based 6.6%
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 44.8% ★, Hacking 22.6% ★, Logic 11.2%, Difficult 7.7%, Simulation 6.3%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 59.1% ★, Automation 14.5%, Puzzle 11.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Logic 4.8%
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 53.9% ★, Automation 16%, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 10.6%, Simulation 3.4%
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 52.6% ★, Automation 18.5%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 4.2%
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 50.8% ★, Logic 14.6%, Difficult 12%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 56.2% ★, Automation 11.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Text-Based 7.9%, Hacking 7.6% ★
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
Why similar: Programming 52.4% ★, Hacking 30.7% ★, Text-Based 6%, Puzzle 5.7%, Simulation 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 73.7% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 8.3%, Automation 4.5%, Simulation 3.6%
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 73.6% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Difficult 8.1%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 1.9%
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 47.1% ★, Logic 16.2%, Hacking 14.7% ★, Difficult 12.1%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 46.2% ★, Hacking 17.7% ★, Logic 12.7%, Automation 11.1%, Puzzle 4.8%
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 56.9% ★, Automation 13.7%, Logic 11.8%, Text-Based 6.6%, Puzzle 5.6%
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: Programming 46.9% ★, Hacking 39.4% ★, Logic 5.1%, Simulation 4.7%, Text-Based 2.7%
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 55.9% ★, Automation 16.6%, Logic 14.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 3.7%
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 75.6% ★, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 7.1%, Retro 4.1%, Pixel Graphics 1.8%
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 46.2% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 12.2%, Puzzle 7.6%, 1980s 6.2%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 51.1% ★, Logic 16.3%, Automation 16.1%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 4.1%
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Hacking 20.9% ★, Logic 14.2%, Difficult 13.7%, 2D 1.1%
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 80.2% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 5.6%, Logic 4.6%, Indie 0.7%
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 38% ★, Hacking 19.6% ★, Logic 12.2%, Automation 11.3%, Difficult 8.5%
Tametsi is a difficult logic game played on a set of tiles, in which you must use the clues provided to discover and mark hidden mines.
Why similar: Difficult 35.5%, Logic 33.5%, Puzzle 24.8%, Indie 2.6%, Minimalist 2.3%
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 59% ★, Automation 19.3%, Puzzle 9%, Alternate History 6.9%, Simulation 2.6%
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Hacking 21.8% ★, Logic 15%, Automation 11.7%, Puzzle 5.6%
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Hacking 23.1% ★, Automation 13.7%, Difficult 11.7%, Simulation 3.4%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Hacking 18.9% ★, Automation 10.2%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 5.7%
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 50.8% ★, Difficult 14.9%, Puzzle 13.4%, Logic 11.2%, Automation 7.6%
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 48.7% ★, Logic 17.7%, Automation 15.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 4.5%
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.
Why similar: Programming 38.3% ★, Logic 10.6%, Hacking 8.5% ★, Automation 8.2%, Difficult 6.8%
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Why similar: Programming 57.7% ★, Hacking 35.8% ★, Puzzle 5.3%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 77.3% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Simulation 6%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 52.9% ★, Hacking 19.5% ★, Logic 14.8%, Puzzle 6.7%, Simulation 4.4%
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 71.6% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Automation 6.8%, Logic 4.9%, Difficult 3.8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 44.7% ★, Automation 16.4%, Logic 15%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
[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 45.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, Logic 14.3%, Difficult 10.6%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 50.5% ★, Hacking 22.8% ★, Logic 7.2%, Puzzle 6%, Simulation 4.9%
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 54.9% ★, Hacking 12.4% ★, 1980s 9.5%, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 5.5%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Hacking 16.3% ★, Difficult 14.6%, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 37.6% ★, Hacking 18.6% ★, Logic 12.3%, Difficult 10.5%, Automation 9.5%
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 52.8% ★, Hacking 21.3% ★, Automation 13.3%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 4.1%
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 50.3% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Text-Based 8.6%, Alternate History 8.2%, Hacking 7.2% ★
SysOps Saga is a simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing the intricate web of software, security, and hardware to keep digital systems running. Developed by a FAANG veteran, this game offers an immersive and educational experience for IT enthusiasts.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 15.4%, Logic 11.9%, Hacking 11.5% ★, Difficult 8.1%
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 56.3% ★, Hacking 20.9% ★, Automation 11.6%, Text-Based 6.2%, Puzzle 2.7%
Enter the world of "Monster Logic", the monstrous programming game! In this hand-drawn puzzle game, you'll have to use each monster's unique ability to progress through the 40+ levels and the multiple biomes!
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Hacking 20.6% ★, Automation 11.4%, Difficult 10.1%, Logic 8.9%
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Hacking 26.1% ★, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 0.8%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 16.8%, Puzzle 12.1%, Difficult 8.6%, Logic 7.1%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 14.4%, Difficult 12.2%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 55.9% ★, Hacking 20% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 6.1%, Text-Based 5.3%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 55.1% ★, Hacking 21.4% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Text-Based 5.1%
