60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Singleplayer, Logic.
Tapeheads is an atmospheric retro-futuristic simulation. Use a one-of-a-kind computer and its unusual programming language to solve puzzles about manipulating data.
Kaizen: A Factory Story
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.
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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 36% ★, Automation 15%, 1980s 11.9%, Logic 11.1%, Education 8.3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 56.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Logic 10.8%, Education 5.3%, Puzzle 5.3%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Logic 15.6%, Education 12.2%, Automation 8.9%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 44.3% ★, Logic 13.8%, Automation 10.8%, 1980s 8.9%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 40.9% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 14.2%, Puzzle 6.5%, Relaxing 4.3%
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 48.6% ★, Automation 22.7%, Logic 11.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 5.6%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 19.4%, Logic 13.4%, Education 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%
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 41.8% ★, Automation 18.5%, Logic 13.1%, Education 10.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 61.5% ★, Education 9.5%, Automation 9%, Puzzle 7.9%, Logic 4.8%
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 50.2% ★, 1980s 18.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Logic 7.7%, Retro 7.2%
The Pixotron 49 is a retro-inspired puzzle game where you craft pixel art by wiring together visual logic nodes. Interact with eclectic characters, solve creative challenges, and bring their requests to life - hopefully not one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Automation 17.2%, Logic 14.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 7%
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 53.5% ★, Automation 24.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Education 7.2%, Casual 2.8%
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 64% ★, Logic 8.4%, Puzzle 7.8%, Education 7.5%, Automation 5.9%
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 39% ★, Automation 17.3%, Logic 13.6%, Education 8.6%, Simulation 6.7%
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 52.8% ★, Logic 15.8%, Education 11.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Logic 20.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Retro 8%, 2D 4.5%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 14%, Simulation 8.2%, Puzzle 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 41.1% ★, Automation 11.4%, Education 9.7%, Logic 8.3%, Retro 7.3%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Automation 19.7%, Logic 13.9%, Simulation 8.1%, Education 7.5%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 42.4% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 16.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 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 36.9% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 11.3%, 1980s 10.6%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 40.1% ★, Education 15.7%, Logic 14.1%, Automation 13.7%, Simulation 7.5%
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 33.4% ★, Automation 15.4%, Logic 10.6%, Education 10.4%, 1980s 9.6%
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 39.2% ★, 1980s 14.6%, Automation 13.3%, Logic 12.7%, Retro 6.6%
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 43.3% ★, Automation 20.7%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 5.9%
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 48.3% ★, Automation 23.3%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Logic 7%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Automation 17.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Hand-drawn 6.9%, Puzzle 6.4%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 25.2% ★, Automation 18.9%, Education 12.6%, 1980s 10.5%, Logic 7.8%
Robot Unlock is an open-ended puzzle game with 75+ levels. Design your own solutions and optimize them for speed, instructions or space and compare with other players. Create your own levels, challenge other players and solve community made ones.
Why similar: Programming 41.9% ★, Automation 20.2%, Logic 12.4%, Education 9.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 15.2%, Education 10.1%, Puzzle 7.4%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Programming 27.8% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 15.5%, Education 15.4%, Simulation 10.5%
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 52.4% ★, Logic 17.1%, Education 12.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Puzzle 6.9%
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 62.3% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Alternate History 8%, Logic 7.2%, Lore-Rich 4.7%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 17%, 1980s 11.9%, Logic 8.9%, Simulation 6.7%
[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 44.9% ★, Automation 25.1%, Logic 16.3%, Puzzle 7.7%, 2D 2.8%
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 54.5% ★, Automation 18.4%, Education 15.4%, Puzzle 7.2%, Casual 3.4%
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 41.7% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Automation 13.6%, Logic 13.3%, Education 10.2%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 16.3%, Logic 15.5%, Simulation 6.2%, Education 5.7%
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 39% ★, Automation 23.6%, Education 11.4%, Logic 10.4%, Simulation 8.8%
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 41.6% ★, Automation 19.2%, Education 10%, Logic 9.7%, Simulation 6.7%
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 72% ★, Logic 7.4%, Puzzle 7%, Automation 5%, Simulation 4.3%
An atmospheric horror, exploration and automation game all set in the dim halls of an apartment building
Why similar: Programming 40.1% ★, Automation 20.6%, Logic 15.3%, Retro 7.2%, Old School 7%
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 41.4% ★, Automation 19.4%, Education 13.6%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 21.6%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 6.9%
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 55.2% ★, Logic 15.9%, Automation 10.6%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 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 50.8% ★, Automation 19.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 4.7%
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 44.7% ★, Automation 19.4%, Education 11.7%, Logic 10.5%, Simulation 5.4%
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 51.3% ★, Old School 9.8%, Simulation 9.2%, 1980s 8.6%, Logic 8.5%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 49.1% ★, Logic 17.2%, Automation 15.1%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 6.7%
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 49.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Logic 11%, Education 10.4%, Puzzle 4.7%
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Automation 18%, Logic 14%, Education 10.1%, Retro 7.1%
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 51.3% ★, Logic 16.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Education 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%
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 52.8% ★, Automation 12.5%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 7.7%, Relaxing 5.7%
Join SirKwitz on another coding adventure in this edutainment puzzle game. Manage instructions, execute functions and loops, and navigate Booleans as you code this quirky robot through each challenge.
Why similar: Programming 41.5% ★, Automation 21.6%, Education 14.9%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 7.3%
SysOps Saga is a simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing the intricate web of software, security, and hardware to keep digital systems running. Developed by a FAANG veteran, this game offers an immersive and educational experience for IT enthusiasts.
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Education 8.2%
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 49.8% ★, Logic 16.2%, Education 10.6%, Puzzle 7.7%, Retro 6.9%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!
Why similar: Programming 29.5% ★, Automation 20.5%, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 7%
Project: Centurion is a narrative-driven adventure puzzle game built around real-world Linux skills. Players must use actual Linux commands and systems knowledge to interact with the ship, parse logs, repair services, and uncover what happened to the crew—and whether escape is still possible.
Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, 1980s 14.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Retro 8.9%, Education 7.6%
Write real Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that don't end well. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie however you like.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 18.1%, Logic 13.2%, Education 12.2%, Puzzle 6.4%
