60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation.
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.
TIS-100
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!
OCTOPTICOM
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.
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 69.9% ★, Difficult 8.8%, Puzzle 7%, Logic 6.5%, Education 3.8%
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 43.1% ★, Logic 13%, Education 12.2%, Difficult 12%, Puzzle 8.2%
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 52.7% ★, Robots 21.1%, Education 9.3%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 6.9%
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 58.6% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Difficult 8.1%, Education 7.8%, Simulation 5.3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 64.1% ★, Logic 11%, Difficult 8.3%, Education 6.4%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 52.4% ★, Logic 16.5%, Difficult 15.8%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 2.9%
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 61.5% ★, Puzzle 13.6%, Logic 12.7%, Difficult 4.6%, Simulation 3.7%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Logic 17.6%, Education 12.5%, Difficult 7.5%, Puzzle 5.5%
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 33.4% ★, Difficult 21.3%, Puzzle 16.6%, Logic 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
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 64.9% ★, Education 17.9%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 4.4%, Logic 3.9%
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 48.5% ★, Robots 19.4%, Logic 16.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 3.5%
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 73.7% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, Retro 4.8%
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 66.4% ★, Education 10.9%, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 4.8%, Difficult 4%
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 55.2% ★, Difficult 12.7%, Education 11.3%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 7.8%
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 47% ★, Education 12%, Difficult 11.2%, Logic 8.6%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 60.7% ★, Education 14%, Difficult 7.8%, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 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 48.7% ★, Difficult 16.9%, Puzzle 13.9%, Logic 11.3%, Sci-fi 3.7%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 58.1% ★, Education 17.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Linear 5.6%, Logic 4.6%
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Education 17.5%, Robots 14.8%, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 50% ★, Education 15.1%, Difficult 12.8%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 68.9% ★, Education 8.6%, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 8.1%, Simulation 3.1%
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 48.4% ★, Logic 18.8%, Robots 10.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 4.5%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Robots 12.2%, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%
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 39.3% ★, Robots 15.7%, Logic 13.7%, Education 13.6%, Difficult 8.2%
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 52.5% ★, Education 18.6%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 3.4%
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 47.3% ★, Robots 17.6%, Education 17.4%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 2.7%
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 48.6% ★, Logic 12.8%, Education 10.9%, Difficult 9.9%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 55.8% ★, Difficult 18.9%, Logic 14.8%, Puzzle 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 57.4% ★, Logic 22.4%, Puzzle 14.6%, Indie 5.6%
[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 53.2% ★, Logic 17.5%, Difficult 14.4%, Puzzle 9.4%, 2D 3.1%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 66.4% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Logic 5.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.
Why similar: Programming 66.3% ★, Education 20.3%, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 64.2% ★, Education 17.8%, Logic 13.9%, 2D 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 61.3% ★, Robots 14.2%, Logic 13.6%, Puzzle 5.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%
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 53.8% ★, Puzzle 14%, Difficult 11%, Logic 8.1%, Sci-fi 5.3%
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 64% ★, Education 14.4%, Logic 12.2%, Puzzle 6.1%, Simulation 2.4%
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 45.5% ★, Logic 12.7%, Difficult 11.6%, Education 11.2%, 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 44% ★, Difficult 14.2%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 8.1%, Sci-fi 5.1%
A laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.
Why similar: Logic 25.9%, Robots 25.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Education 21.4%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 4.7%
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 41.4% ★, Logic 14.3%, Difficult 13.7%, Education 13.4%, Puzzle 6.9%
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 55.8% ★, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 9.9%, Retro 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
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 46.1% ★, Education 15.8%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 6.7%, Retro 4.7%
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 55.8% ★, Education 14.5%, Logic 11.8%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 4.8%
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Why similar: Puzzle 21.3%, Robots 19.1%, Linear 18.7%, Retro 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%
Robo Do It is a funny game to learn logic programming without writing code by building scripts to program robots in each level. The goal is to find the best solution to create an algorithm that takes these robots into victory capsules.
Why similar: Puzzle 42.5%, Simulation 39.1%, Indie 18.4%
Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.
Why similar: Difficult 42%, Puzzle 30.4%, Education 22.8%, Indie 4.8%
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 70.5% ★, Puzzle 12.2%, Logic 7.4%, Retro 3.4%, Sci-fi 2.8%
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 53.6% ★, Logic 15.7%, Education 12.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 5.9%
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 49.9% ★, Logic 14%, Education 13.4%, Puzzle 6%, Difficult 5.4%
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 40.5% ★, Education 13.9%, Logic 13.8%, Difficult 13.5%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 37.4%, Logic 31.8%, Puzzle 23.6%, Indie 4.3%, 2D 2%
Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Logic 18.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Linear 6.9%, Education 4.3%
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Education 55.5%, Puzzle 22.7%, Simulation 11.3%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 2.6%
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 37.9% ★, Robots 20.5%, Logic 15.2%, Education 13.1%, Puzzle 7.3%
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Why similar: Difficult 44.7%, Puzzle 29.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, 2D 8.9%, Indie 7.7%
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
Why similar: Robots 32.2%, Logic 20.9%, Puzzle 14.5%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Linear 8.6%
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 48.6% ★, Logic 17.6%, Difficult 14.8%, Puzzle 8%, Sci-fi 4.4%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 71.7% ★, Robots 24%, Indie 4.3%
Welcome to a realm of pure logic, where rules are rules and the next step can always be deduced.
Why similar: Logic 33.1%, Difficult 23.8%, Puzzle 14.6%, Retro 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
