60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Simulation, Singleplayer.
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.
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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.
Pragma Twice
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...
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 40.5% ★, Hacking 24.1% ★, Automation 13%, Puzzle 4.9%, Cyberpunk 4.6%
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 40.4% ★, Hacking 24.1% ★, Automation 16.9%, Sokoban 7.1% ★, 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 39.9% ★, Hacking 18.9% ★, Automation 10.2%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 5.7%
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 44.7% ★, Hacking 15% ★, 1980s 10.9%, Simulation 7.7%, Sandbox 6.7%
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 37% ★, Hacking 18.6% ★, Automation 10.8%, Puzzle 5.3%, Retro 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 38% ★, Hacking 28.3% ★, Automation 17.3%, Logic 5.2%, Puzzle 4.3%
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 40% ★, Hacking 29.8% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Logic 6.8%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 43.4% ★, Hacking 28.9% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Puzzle 5.2%, 1980s 4.8%
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 62.3% ★, Hacking 14.8% ★, Puzzle 5.8%, Automation 4.4%, Logic 3.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 57.3% ★, Automation 18.4%, Logic 6.3%, Puzzle 5.1%, Simulation 3.5%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 51.1% ★, Hacking 13.8% ★, Automation 9.7%, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 5.5%
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 46.1% ★, Hacking 25.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Cyberpunk 5.3%, 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 47.9% ★, Automation 23.7%, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 6.4%, Simulation 5.2%
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 37.1% ★, Hacking 21.8% ★, Automation 18%, Simulation 5.6%, Puzzle 5.1%
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 31.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Hacking 15.1% ★, Logic 8%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 48.5% ★, Hacking 26.5% ★, Logic 9.3%, Simulation 6.8%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 36.9% ★, Automation 13.2%, Hacking 12.1% ★, 1980s 9.1%, Logic 7%
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 47.3% ★, Hacking 24.2% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 6.6%, Indie 4.8%
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 40% ★, Automation 17.6%, 1980s 8.8%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 5.4%
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 33.3% ★, Hacking 24.4% ★, Automation 14%, Logic 7.4%, Simulation 5.2%
Enter the world of "Monster Logic", the monstrous programming game! In this hand-drawn puzzle game, you'll have to use each monster's unique ability to progress through the 40+ levels and the multiple biomes!
Why similar: Programming 35.3% ★, Hacking 27.1% ★, Automation 16.9%, Logic 5.4%, Difficult 4.6%
Program your team of AIs to infiltrate corporation servers and find your brother Hermann. This game is about the fun of coding and optimization. There is always something to improve.
Why similar: Programming 39.1% ★, Hacking 22.3% ★, Automation 15.2%, Logic 7.6%, Robots 6.6%
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 29.3% ★, Hacking 22.3% ★, Automation 14.5%, Logic 6.4%, Cyberpunk 5.7%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 7.3%, Difficult 4.3%
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 41.1% ★, Automation 23%, Puzzle 10%, Sandbox 6.8%, Simulation 5.5%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 47% ★, Hacking 27% ★, Simulation 8.6%, Puzzle 6.6%, Sandbox 6.3%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 46.3% ★, Automation 22.5%, Logic 8.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Puzzle 7.7%
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 43.1% ★, Programming 25.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 10%, Logic 8.2%, Puzzle 4.7%
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 46.2% ★, Hacking 35.1% ★, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 6.3%, Indie 2.6%
Mnemonimov is an assembly-based fantasy console with a retro monochrome screen. Experience the challenge and the fun of old-school game development without the headaches of real hardware.
Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Hacking 19.8% ★, Automation 13.6%, Logic 7.1%, Simulation 5.1%
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 37.3% ★, Hacking 21.1% ★, Automation 14.9%, Logic 7%, Sandbox 6.1%
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 46.3% ★, Programming 37.2% ★, Simulation 6.3%, Cyberpunk 2.8%, Logic 2.7%
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 38.8% ★, Automation 23.3%, Hacking 15.5% ★, Logic 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Automation 18.4%, Hacking 16% ★, Logic 7.4%, Robots 5.4%
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 42.4% ★, Hacking 36.7% ★, Cyberpunk 7.6%, Simulation 5.5%, Puzzle 4.7%
Markov Alg is a puzzle game where you can change the game field according to instructions that are written on the game field
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Hacking 28.1% ★, Sokoban 11.9% ★, Logic 5.3%, Simulation 5%
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 35.5% ★, Automation 20.8%, Cyberpunk 9.3%, Robots 7.4%, Logic 7%
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 45% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 9.1%, Puzzle 7%, Sandbox 6%
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Connect, test, assemble and fail in spectacular ways. This cozy simulator lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved!
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Hacking 20.4% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 41.4% ★, Automation 22.3%, Puzzle 7.2%, Logic 6.7%, Simulation 6.3%
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 51% ★, Puzzle 13.7%, Automation 12.8%, Difficult 7.7%, Logic 7.7%
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 66.8% ★, Automation 10.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 4.4%, Indie 3.3%
Help Debugger 3.16 to find and delete all bugs in the game worlds of the developer. Learn and use program code in this award-winning puzzle platformer to program you very own game at the end!
Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Hacking 36.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.7%, Indie 8.9%
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 66.5% ★, Hacking 20.3% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Indie 4.3%
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 42.4% ★, Automation 14.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Indie 10.3%, Logic 8%
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 46.5% ★, Automation 21.6%, Logic 8.5%, Puzzle 7.1%, Simulation 6.4%
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 50.6% ★, Automation 25.6%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 7%, Logic 4.3%
[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 46.2% ★, Automation 27.1%, Logic 9.8%, Puzzle 7.7%, Difficult 5.5%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 20.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Puzzle 10%, Indie 3.2%
Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Hacking 28.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Logic 5.9%, Puzzle 4.7%
EFHD is a game where programs change how game works. Modify and run the source files to create, destroy and move other objects.
Why similar: Programming 31.2% ★, Hacking 20.8% ★, Automation 17%, Sokoban 13% ★, Retro 4.8%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 48.8% ★, Automation 15.8%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 8.9%, Sandbox 7.4%
An immersive indie hacking simulation game. Help the Project Daybreak team expose a secret government program.
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, Hacking 36.1% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 5.6%, Cyberpunk 4.9%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Automation 18.9%, Hacking 15.1% ★, 1980s 6.6%, Puzzle 5.5%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 20.7%, Logic 8.4%, Puzzle 7%, Sandbox 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 69.7% ★, Puzzle 8.4%, Automation 7.1%, Simulation 5.8%, Logic 5.3%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 55.3% ★, Hacking 34.9% ★, Cyberpunk 5.9%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Trapped inside a living database, use real SQL to unlock regions and challenge the system that watches every query. Use SELECT to investigate, UPDATE to repair and remember: DROP NOT ALLOWED. It doesn’t matter if you’re a SQL noob or a veteran; the game teaches you everything you need as you play.
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Automation 11.6%, Cyberpunk 9.2%, Puzzle 7%, Logic 6.4%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 36.8% ★, Hacking 26.1% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 8.9%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 39.9% ★, Hacking 19.7% ★, Automation 16.6%, Simulation 7.1%, Sandbox 6.8%
