60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Automation, Singleplayer.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic!" Practice witchcraft, summon daemons, harness crystal vibrations, and never EVER let the Magic Smoke escape as you help the villagers, protect the kingdom, and strive to unlock magic's deepest secrets in this cozy, witchy sim!
Fractal Foundry
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 41.7% ★, Automation 16.5%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Crafting 6.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 72.3% ★, Automation 16.4%, Simulation 5.4%, Logic 3.7%, Building 1.4%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 13.4%, City Builder 11%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 6.6%
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 74.2% ★, Magic 12.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 1.5%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Automation 18%, Simulation 7.7%, Management 6.2%, Strategy 4.8%
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
Why similar: Programming 55.6% ★, Automation 18.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 6.1%, Management 5.5%
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Why similar: Programming 56.8% ★, Automation 20.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 7.5%, Casual 2.7%
A magical automation puzzle game where you program a little shikigami automaton using visual spell blocks - explore, harvest energy, and cleanse corrupted sigils in a cozy fantasy world.
Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Simulation 20.4%, Automation 16.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Magic 11.5%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Automation 21.2%, Simulation 19%, Casual 7.2%, Indie 0.9%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, Automation 19.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Crafting 5.5%, Management 4.1%
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 62.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Logic 3.9%, Building 2%
Instruct a robot to resolve hostage situations in this tactical programming puzzle game. Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment to save every hostage. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 73.2% ★, Simulation 15.7%, Logic 6%, Strategy 3.7%, Indie 0.8%
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Why similar: Programming 67.7% ★, Automation 22.9%, Strategy 5.7%, Casual 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Design, build, and code a factory within the magical world of Runeline! Work on producing increasingly complex products, which will require you to write not just functional but optimized code, all within the simple instructions of the machine core.
Why similar: Programming 52.5% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Building 6.9%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 61.8% ★, Automation 15.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 5.3%, Crafting 4%
[点金方块]BricksPhilosophorum is an automated game that uses an assembly line to study alchemy. The game starts with collecting minerals, purchasing land, unlocking technology, and building automated production lines.
Why similar: Programming 30.5% ★, Automation 21.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Voxel 9.5% ★, Building 8.1%
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 79.3% ★, Automation 8.6%, Simulation 6.1%, Casual 2.7%, Logic 1.7%
Glintland is a magical factory-building card puzzler. Place tiles from a deck to build enchanting production chains, light up the land, and discover a cozy world full of secrets. Each Glint is a short, satisfying journey of automation and alchemy.
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Automation 16.2%, City Builder 9.3%, Magic 8.3%, Fantasy 6.1%
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 82.1% ★, Simulation 7.9%, Automation 5.6%, Logic 2.9%, Indie 1.2%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 57.7% ★, Automation 19.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Logic 4.9%, Strategy 4.7%
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 86.4% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Automation 4.4%, Logic 2.4%, Indie 0.8%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 59.6% ★, Automation 16.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 8.6%, 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 61.6% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Automation 17.3%, Logic 1.6%, Indie 1.3%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 46.8% ★, Automation 18.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%
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 56.7% ★, Automation 19.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Logic 5%, Crafting 4.6%
Run your own game development company, creating hit games for over 60 years worth of console releases
Why similar: Programming 55.5% ★, Simulation 17.4%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Casual 6.6%
A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.
Why similar: Programming 65.2% ★, Automation 19%, Simulation 15.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 52.5% ★, Automation 19.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 8%, Strategy 4%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 80.9% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!
Why similar: Programming 58.1% ★, Automation 19.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Logic 5%, Strategy 4.8%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Automation 16.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Management 7.4%, Simulation 7.4%
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 54.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Logic 2.5%
VELONE is a creative automation game in which you assemble and program mechanisms to solve logic puzzles. Both relaxing and highly replayable, you save the planet VELONE by creating automated constructs that move and assemble according to your masterplan.
Why similar: Programming 58.8% ★, Automation 22.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Logic 5.6%, Casual 2.6%
An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.
Why similar: Programming 52.5% ★, Automation 24.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 9%, Indie 0.8%
The whole game fits on one floppy disk. Write Python-style code to program repair patchers, reclaim a corrupting 1.44MB floppy sector by sector, and watch your programs bring 1,474,560 bytes back to life. Automation, unlocks, chiptunes — every byte hand-counted.
Why similar: Programming 57% ★, Automation 23.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 4.2%, Strategy 3.5%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 68.1% ★, Automation 14%, Casual 5.8%, Logic 5.7%, Simulation 4.7%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Programming 30.6% ★, Automation 18.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Crafting 9%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Automation 25.1%, Simulation 6.7%, Logic 6.3%, Casual 2.2%
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 49.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 8.1%, Building 6.3%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 62.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 6.5%, Logic 6%
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 56.6% ★, Automation 17.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Building 5.4%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 71.9% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Logic 5.1%, Automation 3.6%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Programming 56.9% ★, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Logic 4.6%, Indie 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 50.9% ★, Automation 24.7%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 5.2%, Simulation 4.7%
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 68.3% ★, Automation 20.2%, Simulation 11%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 54.4% ★, Automation 18.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 6.2%, Strategy 5.2%
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 72.5% ★, Automation 15.9%, Simulation 6.7%, Logic 3.7%, Indie 1%
Craftica is an elegant block-based sandbox game with ultra high degrees of freedom for creative building. Here you can build smooth and beautiful architectures, or construct advanced devices and machineries such as computers, vehicles and robots. Try it out and start exploring your imaginations!
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Automation 14.5%, City Builder 11.5%, Voxel 11.1% ★, Crafting 9.7%
ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.
Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Automation 18.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 6%, Logic 5.3%
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 72% ★, Automation 10.1%, Logic 5.6%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 4.5%
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
Why similar: Programming 50.3% ★, Automation 21.6%, Building 6.9%, Simulation 5.9%, City Builder 5.5%
From collecting buttons to solving tangled mazes, automate KnotBot on a quest of handcrafted puzzles. Solve the problems your own way, it's simple to understand but still deep and challenging.
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Simulation 20.8%, Automation 13.5%, Logic 4.9%, Indie 4.7%
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 85.9% ★, Simulation 14.1%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 54% ★, Automation 22.4%, Building 8.8%, Logic 6%, Strategy 5.1%
Bridge2Code is a bridge-building game where you can code a bridge using a simple programming language. Your goal is to create a bridge that can support a car going from the start to the end.
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Building 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
An incremental hardware engineering game with a Windows XP themed UI. Configure and optimize processor components, build your own CPU, and run automated benchmarks. Harvest telemetry and gather research funding to unlock new hardware, and scale your processing power.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 17.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Management 7.1%
Build working digital computers in a 3D voxel sandbox. Design logic circuits, CPUs, memory, and programmable machines using switches, wires, gates, LEDs, and reusable components, limited only by your imagination.
Why similar: Programming 61.3% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Voxel 12.1% ★, Building 8.4%, Logic 5.8%
If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.
Why similar: Programming 75.4% ★, Simulation 17.4%, Logic 6.2%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 81.9% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
