60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Singleplayer.
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.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 83.4% ★, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 5.6%, Sandbox 3.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 79.6% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 2.8%
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 72.8% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 3%
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 86.3% ★, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 5.1%
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 64.1% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 11%, Puzzle 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 1%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 63.6% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 9.4%, Retro 3.1%
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 71.8% ★, Puzzle 16.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 3.8%
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 57% ★, Puzzle 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Level Editor 5.6%, Retro 1%
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 70.8% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Puzzle 10.5%
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 73.6% ★, Simulation 9.3%, Puzzle 8.8%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 68.9% ★, Simulation 18%, Puzzle 13.1%
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 73.8% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Puzzle 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%, Retro 3.3%
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 69.2% ★, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 6%, Retro 5.1%
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 61.4% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Puzzle 9%
SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!
Why similar: Programming 65.9% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Puzzle 11.8%, Simulation 6.7%
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 63.6% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Level Editor 11.5%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 62.1% ★, Level Editor 13.2%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Retro 4.3%
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 64% ★, Puzzle 11.4%, Level Editor 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, Simulation 5.3%
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 49.2% ★, Level Editor 17.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 8.3%
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 71% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Retro 5.1%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 62.2% ★, Sandbox 24%, Simulation 13.8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 67.8% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Puzzle 14.4%
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 65.8% ★, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 9.6%
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 63.9% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Retro 5.9%
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 81.2% ★, Puzzle 11%, Simulation 5.7%, Sandbox 2.1%
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 72.6% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, Level Editor 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%
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 65.3% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 10%
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Level Editor 19.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 7.9%
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 64.1% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 9.4%
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 87.5% ★, Puzzle 12.5%
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 71.2% ★, Simulation 19.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 48.3% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Level Editor 14.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Puzzle 9.3%
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 75.2% ★, Simulation 16%, Puzzle 8.8%
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 66.4% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 8.1%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Sandbox 52.5%, Simulation 29.5%, Pixel Graphics 18%
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: Sandbox 47.6%, Puzzle 29.4%, Simulation 22.9%
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 74.9% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 12.4%
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 79.2% ★, Puzzle 13.7%, Simulation 2.7%, Retro 2.6%, Pixel Graphics 1.8%
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 47.7%, Simulation 38.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%
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 76.5% ★, Puzzle 21.8%, Simulation 1.7%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 61.1%, Simulation 21.2%, Level Editor 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Sandbox 53.6%, Simulation 26.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Level Editor 25.8%, Puzzle 24.3%, Simulation 24.1%
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Programming 57.8% ★, Sandbox 22.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.
Why similar: Level Editor 36.2%, Sandbox 33.6%, Simulation 15.2%, Puzzle 15%
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 82.2% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 7.3%
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 78.4% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 6.5%, Sandbox 4.9%
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
Why similar: Sandbox 47.4%, Puzzle 28%, Simulation 24.6%
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 75.6% ★, Puzzle 14.2%, Simulation 10.3%
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 58.4% ★, Level Editor 11.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
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 71% ★, Sandbox 17%, Puzzle 12.1%
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 59.9% ★, Sandbox 16%, Puzzle 15.6%, Simulation 8.6%
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 65.2% ★, Level Editor 18.5%, Sandbox 16.2%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 62.8% ★, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 17.5%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Sandbox 45.2%, Simulation 30.5%, Puzzle 24.3%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 69.7% ★, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 11.1%
Explore real digital life in The Bibites! Play god by guiding your bibites on their evolutionary journey or engineer your own. Analyze their Neural Network brains and genetic information as they adapt to their environments. Save your favorites and test their strength in Challenge Mode!
Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Level Editor 14.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
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 70.9% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 9.7%
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Why similar: Programming 76.1% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 10.7%
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 68.9% ★, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 11.3%
