60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.
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.
Comet 64
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.
A=B
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
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 38.2% ★, Automation 9.3%, Hacking 9% ★, Logic 6.9%, Retro 6.3%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 49.1% ★, Automation 13.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Puzzle 9.1%, Hacking 4.6% ★
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 45.3% ★, Automation 18.4%, Hacking 12.5% ★, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 37.7% ★, Automation 15.2%, Hacking 12.8% ★, Text-Based 10.3%, Logic 8.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Automation 15.7%, Logic 9.8%, Puzzle 5.4%, Difficult 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 67.8% ★, Puzzle 9%, Automation 9%, Logic 4.8%, Simulation 4.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 54.2% ★, Logic 15%, Automation 8.6%, Hacking 6.8% ★, Puzzle 6.1%
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 50.5% ★, Automation 14.5%, Hacking 12.9% ★, Text-Based 10.7%, Dystopian 5%
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 35.2% ★, Automation 12.3%, Hacking 12.1% ★, Logic 11.9%, Difficult 7.7%
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 66.2% ★, Hacking 7.4% ★, Puzzle 6.4%, Logic 6%, Difficult 5.5%
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 52.7% ★, Logic 15.2%, Difficult 10.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Retro 6.8%
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 46.9% ★, Automation 15.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Logic 10.1%, Minimalist 7.8%
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 49.9% ★, Hacking 13.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Logic 8.3%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 53% ★, Logic 14.6%, Hacking 10.8% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 45.1% ★, Logic 13.4%, Minimalist 11.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 38.4% ★, Automation 14.2%, 1980s 11.1%, Logic 10.7%, Difficult 6.5%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Automation 18%, 1980s 9.9%, Hacking 8% ★, Logic 7.5%
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 41.6% ★, Automation 26.8%, Logic 11.2%, Hacking 10.7% ★, Simulation 9.8%
Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 50.6%, Text-Based 20.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Minimalist 10.7%, Singleplayer 3.8%
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 50.8% ★, Hacking 12.6% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Text-Based 9.3%, Simulation 8.8%
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% ★, Hacking 13.2% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Difficult 8.3%, Puzzle 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 69.8% ★, Puzzle 11.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Difficult 6.4%, Indie 1.5%
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 49.9% ★, Puzzle 13.9%, Difficult 11.4%, Logic 11.4%, Automation 10.4%
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 71.6% ★, Puzzle 11.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Retro 6.3%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 17.3%, Logic 12.7%, Hacking 11% ★, Puzzle 6%
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 70% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 8.1%, Automation 5.9%, Simulation 5.4%
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 73% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Logic 7.5%, Retro 4.2%, Simulation 2.2%
Immerse yourself in the strange world of CipherCraft: CGI, where you'll perform repairs, network infiltration, programming, server management, active server administration, and meticulous assembly and cleaning of computer components. Win against an Anonymous hacker who keeps sabotaging the company.
Why similar: Programming 61.1% ★, Hacking 26% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Casual 0.9%
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 42.9% ★, Automation 14.4%, Logic 12.2%, Hacking 11.4% ★, Minimalist 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 71% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 8.1%, Difficult 6.1%, Indie 1.7%
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 46.3% ★, Hacking 16.1% ★, Logic 12%, Simulation 10.3%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 17.3%, Logic 14.6%, Hacking 8.4% ★, Puzzle 7.8%
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 40.1% ★, Automation 23.1%, Logic 10.9%, 1980s 10%, Puzzle 7%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Programming 46% ★, Hacking 23.2% ★, Logic 12.3%, Dystopian 9.9%, Simulation 6%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 65.8% ★, Text-Based 17.6%, Logic 13.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%, Casual 1%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Automation 17.9%, Simulation 11.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Logic 4.4%
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 47% ★, Automation 23.1%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 6.8%, Simulation 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 44.8% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 15.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 5.3%
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 44.5% ★, Automation 19.5%, Logic 14.7%, Puzzle 7.8%, Minimalist 6%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Programming 61.6% ★, Automation 25.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Indie 1.4%
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 77.1% ★, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 8.5%, Logic 4.6%, Indie 0.6%
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 28.2% ★, Logic 25.6%, Minimalist 15.3%, Puzzle 14.3%, Difficult 13.8%
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Why similar: Programming 77.5% ★, Retro 10.1%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Casual 1.3%
A casual and relaxing game about sorting various items. Join Sorting Inc and climb up through the departments to become the absolute expert in the field of sorting.
Why similar: Logic 52.7%, Simulation 23.5%, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Why similar: Programming 62.6% ★, Difficult 14.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Puzzle 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
An experimental work simulator where all you do is type simple data into spreadsheet
Why similar: Minimalist 37.8%, Text-Based 20.6%, Simulation 19.4%, Retro 18.1%, Casual 2.4%
[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 40.2% ★, Automation 19.8%, Logic 13%, Minimalist 11.1%, Difficult 7.2%
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 41.8% ★, Automation 18.8%, Logic 10.3%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.
Why similar: Programming 60.2% ★, Hacking 22.6% ★, Simulation 9.2%, Puzzle 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Greetings, valued employee. You have been tasked with sorting the Ringo CorpoNation's genetic samples. With the credits that you earn, you can shop, game and pay your bills on time. Rogue workers may try to entice you into betraying your beloved employer, but we know you'll give 110%.
Why similar: Dystopian 41.6%, Retro 30.8%, Simulation 22.3%, Singleplayer 5.3%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top by discovering a simplified and enjoyable version of real-life hacking methods. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Hacking 30.1% ★, Simulation 22.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%, Casual 1.7%
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 50.3% ★, Logic 15.7%, Automation 15.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 8.2%
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 54.6% ★, Logic 16.2%, Hacking 15.9% ★, Difficult 11.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Combine, automate and upgrade programs to amass a fortune! Infiniclick is a relaxing (or not, it's up to you) incremental game in which your goal is to pay an unfair debt with Fun Corp.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Hacking 37.4% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Casual 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Who says that work and play don’t mix? Not us! Play Pocket Boss, the game where you handle lots of fun data and one not-so-fun boss.
Why similar: Parody 29.2% ★, Minimalist 25.3%, Text-Based 22.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, Simulation 6.8%
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 37% ★, Automation 15.3%, Hacking 13.2% ★, Logic 12.3%, Difficult 6.4%
Upload Simulator Silicon is an incremental game about uploading, making money, hacking, and ascending as a powerful entity that controls the very laws of the universe using powerful technologies you discover throught your journey.
Why similar: Simulation 65.6%, Casual 22.1%, Singleplayer 12.3%
A Point and Click work simulator where you juggle 7 jobs to pay your debt. Start by doing simple spreadsheet and progress to more important job like overseeing a nuclear bomb.
Why similar: Dystopian 44.3%, Simulation 35.9%, Minimalist 11.1%, Singleplayer 5%, Casual 2%
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Programming 39.6% ★, Hacking 31.7% ★, Text-Based 12.9%, Puzzle 6.7%, Simulation 6.2%
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 54.8% ★, Automation 24.9%, Puzzle 8.9%, Minimalist 6.9%, Simulation 3.9%
