60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Indie, Logic.
Reverse-engineer a private 1990s BBS. Read disassembly, patch broken checks, optimize a nine-core rack, and write assembly firmware that locks onto live scope traces. With 200+ puzzles, full controller support and offline play, you can refine your assembly skills on all your devices!
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.
Virtual Circuit Board
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.
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 49.8% ★, Hacking 26.9% ★, Logic 8.6%, Puzzle 5%, Cyberpunk 4.4%
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 32.6% ★, Hacking 20.7% ★, Logic 10%, Science 8.8%, 1990's 6.8%
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 49.8% ★, Hacking 25% ★, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 5.3%, Simulation 4.2%
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 45% ★, Hacking 31.5% ★, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 5.1%, Science 3.2%
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: Hacking 41.2% ★, Programming 38.1% ★, Logic 4.4%, Simulation 3.8%, Detective 3%
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 44.6% ★, Hacking 30.5% ★, Logic 12.1%, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 4.9%
An action hacking simulator set in a fully simulated world. Choose your path, craft your own tools, exploit vulnerabilities, and build your reputation. Every company, hacker, and law enforcement agency operates independently — nothing happens by chance. Every playthrough is unique.
Why similar: Programming 31.9% ★, Hacking 25% ★, Logic 9.9%, Detective 7.5%, Sandbox 6.6%
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 52.6% ★, Hacking 16.2% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Logic 7.5%, Simulation 5.5%
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.
Why similar: Programming 48.3% ★, Hacking 21% ★, Logic 14%, Puzzle 5.7%, Text-Based 3.5%
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 34.7% ★, Hacking 28.3% ★, Logic 10.8%, Detective 9.2%, Investigation 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 69.6% ★, Hacking 15.3% ★, Logic 6.7%, Puzzle 5.4%, Simulation 2.3%
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 40.5% ★, Hacking 21.9% ★, Logic 8.8%, Abstract 8.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
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 49.2% ★, Hacking 30.1% ★, Logic 7.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 43.1% ★, Hacking 19.9% ★, Logic 8.1%, Science 6.7%, Sandbox 6.2%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Hacking 21.8% ★, Logic 15.5%, Minimalist 7.5%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 48.9% ★, Hacking 10.1% ★, 1990's 9%, Text-Based 8.3%, Puzzle 7.5%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Logic 15.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Abstract 8.8%, Minimalist 7.4%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 49.2% ★, Hacking 25.9% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Puzzle 5.8%, Simulation 5.5%
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 54.7% ★, Logic 13.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Strategy 6.2%
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 42.8% ★, Hacking 27.5% ★, Logic 8.5%, Puzzle 5.1%, Sandbox 4.8%
Mnemonimov is a fantasy console where you program in ASSEMBLY like in the 80s. Build anything from games to operating systems and understand how computers work at a low level.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Hacking 20.5% ★, Logic 10.4%, Science 8.9%, 1990's 7.5%
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 49.8% ★, Logic 14.9%, Science 9.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 55.3% ★, Hacking 26.2% ★, Text-Based 5.7%, Cyberpunk 4.6%, Sandbox 2.5%
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 44.8% ★, Hacking 30.7% ★, Logic 9.8%, Text-Based 6.9%, Puzzle 4.3%
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 63.8% ★, Logic 17.8%, Puzzle 7.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 3.5%
In the second episode of Finite State Automation Challenges, you will use finite-state automata to overcome 80 challenges from character string manipulation, computer science, and mathematics.
Why similar: Programming 52.2% ★, Detective 11.2%, Science 11.1%, Logic 10%, Strategy 7%
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Programming 22.9% ★, Hacking 21.6% ★, Abstract 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Logic 9.2%
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 44.6% ★, Hacking 35.5% ★, Cyberpunk 6.1%, Text-Based 5%, Puzzle 4.1%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language: probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. The better your code, the better you hack.
Why similar: Programming 38.8% ★, Hacking 32.3% ★, Logic 6.8%, Text-Based 5%, Cyberpunk 5%
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
Why similar: Programming 36% ★, Hacking 32.2% ★, Logic 6.3%, Text-Based 5.8%, Puzzle 5.1%
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 56% ★, Logic 14.8%, Abstract 9.3%, Puzzle 6.5%, Minimalist 5%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 51% ★, Abstract 13.9%, Logic 11.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Text-Based 5.7%
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 42% ★, Logic 13%, Science 12.9%, Abstract 11%, Minimalist 7.2%
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 37.2% ★, Hacking 24.9% ★, Logic 13.2%, Science 11.7%, Puzzle 4.8%
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Why similar: Programming 42.4% ★, Logic 14.3%, Science 11%, Sandbox 8.7%, Investigation 7.7%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Programming 45.1% ★, Logic 14.7%, Science 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Abstract 8.6%
Regular Expressions (Regex) are a powerful text pattern-matching tool used for searching, replacing, and validating strings. The game wraps Regex into text-based puzzle, allowing players to gradually master regular expressions as they progress through levels.
Why similar: Programming 42.1% ★, Logic 19.5%, Detective 12.8%, Puzzle 6.5%, Strategy 5.5%
Experience hacking and uncover hidden secrets. Type commands to decode messages, navigate systems, and gain remote access to devices.
Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Hacking 28.4% ★, Detective 9%, Investigation 8.2%, Logic 7.4%
Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes. If you think you're smart enough, give this puzzle a try.
Why similar: Programming 44.5% ★, Logic 16.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Science 7.4%, Puzzle 6.6%
Enter the world of hackers where Hiro and Misa must uncover the circumstances behind a mystery arson attack on a company that may be tied to the legendary hacker "Warlock". What will they uncover in their pursuit of the truth? A visual novel that brings the world of hackers to life!
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Hacking 30.2% ★, Investigation 11%, Cyberpunk 7.3%, Casual 2.3%
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Hacking 29.7% ★, Detective 7.8%, Logic 7.7%, Investigation 6.2%
Play as the ghost in the machine and hack your way through the 48 levels of the puzzle-platformer H4CT0PL45M! Use your ability to possess hardware to make your way to the end of each level and complete your infiltration.
Why similar: Hacking 44.2% ★, Programming 28.2% ★, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 4.4%, Strategy 3.2%
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 70.8% ★, Hacking 19.8% ★, Puzzle 7.9%, Indie 1.5%
Your life depends on a machine that struggles to count higher than 256. But with a little bit of BASIC and a lot of cunning, you may just live long enough to escape a dying spaceship with a mind of its own. Let's hope eight bits are enough.
Why similar: Programming 39.6% ★, Hacking 29.3% ★, Logic 11.9%, Detective 6.8%, Puzzle 5.3%
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 56.7% ★, Hacking 31% ★, Puzzle 6.5%, Simulation 4.6%, Pixel Graphics 1.2%
"Prime Prism" is a pure logic puzzle game themed around prime numbers and factorization. Construct circuits of light using optical tools like "Prisms" and "Lenses" to decompose and synthesize numbers. Over 140 stages across 11 worlds await your challenge.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Logic 19.2%, Abstract 16.3%, Minimalist 8%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 56.6% ★, Hacking 26.6% ★, Simulation 8.4%, Puzzle 6.6%, Indie 1.8%
A programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Hacking 30.4% ★, Logic 10.9%, Text-Based 7.1%, Puzzle 5.8%
DECODE is a minimalist logic puzzle game inspired by classic deduction systems. Analyse clues, break digital locks, and uncover hidden rules through text-based challenges. Every move matters. Think carefully.
Why similar: Hacking 35.6% ★, Logic 19.2%, Abstract 11.8%, Detective 8.8%, Minimalist 8.5%
Become a young programmer diving into the dangerous world of cybercrime. When the elite hacking collective Dark Shadows challenges you with a series of ruthless trials, you must push your genius to the limit. Will you prove your worth or become another digital casualty?
Why similar: Programming 36.8% ★, Hacking 29.3% ★, Science 10.8%, Logic 8.5%, Investigation 4.6%
Tired of boring network diagrams? Network & Cyber Security Simulator takes networking and cybersecurity into an interactive first-person (FPS) simulation game! Learn by doing, configure realistic CLI terminals from scratch, solve technical puzzles, and become the digital architect!
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Hacking 35.5% ★, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 6.8%, Cyberpunk 5.6%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 59.5% ★, Hacking 34.5% ★, Cyberpunk 4.9%, Indie 1.1%
Push and pop your way through Stack Machines - an open-ended puzzle programming game. Use a variety of modules to read, transform and output different input sequences. Optimize your solutions for size, module count, speed and cost-effectiveness.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Abstract 16.3%, Logic 12.7%, Science 10.6%, Minimalist 8.9%
Build circuits and manage heat as you complete tasks in this surprisingly intuitive puzzle game unlike anything you've ever played before.
Why similar: Programming 41.9% ★, Logic 16.9%, Abstract 14%, Puzzle 8%, Minimalist 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 37.9% ★, Hacking 23.6% ★, Logic 12.4%, Science 11%, Sandbox 7.4%
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 45.1% ★, Hacking 13.6% ★, Logic 13.6%, Minimalist 7.7%, Text-Based 6.3%
A story-rich hacking sim played inside a real Linux desktop. Recon networks, break web apps, crack crypto, and extract hidden data with tools that behave like the real thing, while an autonomous AI watches the network, learns, and hacks back. The commands are real. So are the consequences.
Why similar: Programming 41.7% ★, Hacking 36.2% ★, Simulation 6%, Puzzle 5.1%, Text-Based 5.1%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Hacking 19.6% ★, Science 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Puzzle 5.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 72.7% ★, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 5.4%, Hacking 3.7% ★, Simulation 2.7%
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 66.7% ★, Science 10.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Sandbox 5.9%, Simulation 4.7%
