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.
U.V.S. Nirmana
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.
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.
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 61.9% ★, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 8.7%, Automation 6.8%, Minimalist 2.3%
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 50% ★, Hacking 19.8% ★, Automation 8.6%, Logic 8%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 42.9% ★, Hacking 21.6% ★, Automation 10.8%, Logic 8.8%, Text-Based 6.6%
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 8.8%, Logic 7.3%, Automation 6.7%
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 53.5% ★, Hacking 18.5% ★, Difficult 10.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 7.6%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.3% ★, Automation 10.8%, Logic 10.1%, Difficult 7%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 52.3% ★, Logic 17.3%, Automation 16%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 3.8%
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 45% ★, Logic 12%, Automation 10.9%, Difficult 10.2%, 1980s 7.1%
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 71.1% ★, Puzzle 11%, Difficult 8.6%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 1.6%
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 43% ★, Logic 16.1%, Hacking 13.7% ★, Automation 12.8%, Puzzle 8.6%
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 65% ★, Hacking 10.5% ★, Difficult 7.2%, Puzzle 6.2%, Logic 5.8%
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 47.6% ★, Hacking 28.6% ★, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 5.4%, Simulation 3.2%
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 44.5% ★, Hacking 22.4% ★, Logic 11.3%, Difficult 8%, Simulation 6.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 59.9% ★, Automation 13.2%, Puzzle 12.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Logic 4.8%
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 74.3% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 8.4%, Automation 3.9%, Simulation 3.4%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 56.9% ★, Automation 10.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Text-Based 7.8%, Hacking 7.6% ★
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 50.4% ★, Logic 14.6%, Difficult 12.4%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 7.1%
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 78% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 6.1%, Retro 3.8%, Pixel Graphics 1.6%
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 39.2% ★, Hacking 18.2% ★, Logic 11.2%, Automation 10.3%, Puzzle 5.4%
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 48.1% ★, Hacking 38.3% ★, Logic 5.3%, Simulation 4.6%, Text-Based 2.6%
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 53.1% ★, Automation 17.2%, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 4.2%
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 5.9%, Puzzle 5.9%, Simulation 4%
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 46.7% ★, Logic 16.3%, Hacking 14.5% ★, Difficult 12.5%, Puzzle 7.3%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Hacking 16.2% ★, Logic 15%, Automation 13%, Difficult 5.8%
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 72.8% ★, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Difficult 8.3%, Indie 1.9%
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 54.5% ★, Automation 14.7%, Puzzle 11.6%, Logic 10.8%, Difficult 3.6%
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 56.5% ★, Automation 15.4%, Logic 14.8%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 3.7%
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 55.1% ★, Hacking 16.9% ★, Logic 11.7%, Automation 8.3%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 51.5% ★, Logic 16.8%, Automation 14.9%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 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 46.7% ★, Automation 17.7%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 7.9%, 1980s 6.5%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 43.9% ★, Hacking 21% ★, Logic 15.7%, Automation 12.4%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 43.1% ★, Hacking 22% ★, Logic 14.3%, Automation 11.6%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 49.1% ★, Logic 18.1%, Automation 14%, Puzzle 9.1%, 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 80.1% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 5.4%, Logic 4.6%, Indie 0.7%
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 47.1% ★, Hacking 25% ★, Logic 14.5%, Difficult 13.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 36.1%, Logic 33.4%, Puzzle 24.7%, Indie 2.4%, Minimalist 2.2%
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 38.2% ★, Logic 10.8%, Hacking 8.5% ★, Automation 7.5%, Difficult 7.1%
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 40% ★, Hacking 18.9% ★, Automation 9.4%, Logic 7.4%, Puzzle 5.9%
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 50.6% ★, Difficult 15.5%, Puzzle 13.8%, Logic 11.3%, Automation 7%
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 52.8% ★, Hacking 19.5% ★, Logic 15%, Puzzle 6.9%, Simulation 4.3%
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 72.2% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Automation 6.1%, Logic 5%, Difficult 3.8%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Logic 15.3%, Automation 15.1%, Difficult 9.3%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 53.3% ★, Hacking 21.5% ★, Automation 12.3%, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 4.1%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Hacking 16.2% ★, Difficult 15%, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 6.9%
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 50.4% ★, Hacking 22.7% ★, Logic 7.2%, Puzzle 6.1%, Simulation 4.8%
[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 46.1% ★, Automation 14.9%, Logic 14.6%, Difficult 11.1%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 54.6% ★, Hacking 12.3% ★, 1980s 9.7%, Logic 7.3%, Simulation 5.4%
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 49.7% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Text-Based 8.4%, Alternate History 8.1%, Hacking 7.6% ★
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 65.8% ★, Logic 17.2%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 0.6%
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 45.7% ★, Hacking 23.1% ★, Automation 12.6%, Difficult 12.2%, Simulation 3.3%
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 56% ★, Logic 16.3%, Difficult 14.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 3.5%
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 40% ★, Hacking 20.7% ★, Difficult 10.6%, Automation 10.5%, Logic 9.1%
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 37.7% ★, Hacking 18.5% ★, Logic 12.5%, Difficult 11%, Automation 8.7%
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 57.1% ★, Logic 20.5%, Puzzle 12.8%, Retro 5.2%, 2D 2.2%
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 43% ★, Automation 14.2%, Logic 12.1%, Hacking 11.6% ★, Difficult 8.5%
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.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Hacking 19.8% ★, Logic 12.1%, Difficult 11%, Automation 10.4%
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 58.2% ★, Hacking 20.6% ★, Automation 10.3%, Text-Based 5.9%, Puzzle 2.8%
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 60.2% ★, Logic 13.1%, Difficult 8.7%, Simulation 8%, Puzzle 7.9%
CRACKME.EXE is a hard hacking puzzle game where you use real tools to mess with the game's files and programs. You'll have to leave the game window to work out what's stopping you, then find a way around it.
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Hacking 30.1% ★, Difficult 14.1%, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 8%
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 50.6% ★, Hacking 26% ★, Logic 15%, Puzzle 7%, Indie 0.8%
