Games Like The Devil's Calculator

Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.6%, Logic 36.2%, Casual 7.4%, Indie 6.1%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the gold standard for pure logic deduction, it offers a clean, satisfying puzzle experience similar to the logic-heavy nature of the seed game.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Education 36.8%, Logic 33.4%, Hacking 14.9% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep dive into computational logic and hardware design, perfect for players who enjoy the technical challenge of The Devil's Calculator.

Synonymy is a non-profit, educational word game narrated by Richard Dawkins where players are challenged to find a path between random words through their network of synonyms. By taking the synonym of a word, and then a synonym of that synonym, and so on, you can ultimately arrive at any other word in a language.

Why similar: Education 52.7%, Puzzle 23.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Casual 8.2%, Multiplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, this game shares the experimental, educational, and minimalist design philosophy of The Devil's Calculator.

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: Puzzle 46.5%, Logic 35.9%, Indie 6.9%, Education 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A complex, math-adjacent puzzle game that requires intense logical planning and optimization to solve intricate engineering problems.

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

Why similar: Experimental 49.1%, Logic 27.8%, Puzzle 14%, Education 5.4%, Indie 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, rule-deduction puzzle game that forces players to learn and apply logic through experimentation and observation.

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: Hacking 28.3% ★, Puzzle 26%, Logic 23.2%, Education 16%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on low-level assembly logic and math-heavy programming, mirroring the sophisticated, brain-teasing nature of the seed game.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Puzzle 45.7%, Logic 39.6%, Indie 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Strategy 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterpiece of rule-based logic where manipulating the game's own code is the primary mechanic for solving puzzles.

Calculator: The Game is an adorable puzzle game where you save the world with your calculator and Clicky, the chatty assistant. Solve the mystery of Clicky through 200 hand crafted puzzles by adding, subtracting, deleting, and reversing numbers. Oh, and portals, did I mention there are portals?

Why similar: Education 42.4%, Logic 29.9%, Puzzle 19.3%, Casual 7.3%, Indie 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct math-based puzzle game that uses calculator operations as the core mechanic for solving increasingly difficult challenges.

Minesweeper but the rules are changing.

Why similar: Experimental 44%, Logic 27.5%, Puzzle 16.6%, Strategy 4.6%, Casual 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure logic experience that expands on classic deduction mechanics, perfect for fans of number-based puzzles.

The next generation of puzzle games is here! Combining simple arithmetic with colorful cages and logical problem solving, this new puzzle game makes sure you never have to guess—and you don’t have to be a math wiz!

Why similar: Puzzle 38.4%, Logic 33.9%, Casual 10.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: A collection of math-based logic grid puzzles that test your ability to solve equations through deduction.

In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles.

Why similar: Logic 29.4%, Puzzle 26%, Strategy 23.3%, Casual 14.8%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: An advanced, logic-based number puzzle that requires more mathematical deduction than standard Sudoku.

Polimines is a challenging logic game that brings together mechanics from Nonograms and Minesweeper. Solve increasingly difficult hand-designed levels in this puzzle game where guessing is never required.

Why similar: Logic 47.6%, Puzzle 26.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Casual 6.5%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist logic puzzle game that combines strategy and deduction in a way that feels both challenging and rewarding.

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: Education 33.7%, Puzzle 29.8%, Logic 26.9%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses algorithmic and logic-based puzzles to teach programming concepts in a fun, accessible way.

Dissembler is a subtle puzzle game about unraveling playful, abstract designs one color at a time.

Why similar: Logic 53.2%, Puzzle 27%, Indie 9.6%, Casual 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, logic-driven puzzle game that requires careful planning and pattern recognition to clear the board.

Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 49.5%, Logic 25.6%, Indie 8.5%, Casual 7.7%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic logic-deduction game that provides a steady, satisfying progression of difficulty similar to the seed game.

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: Experimental 38.2%, Education 23%, Hacking 17.4% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Strategy 3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, logic-heavy puzzle game that uses regular expressions to solve language-based challenges.

In S.U.M. you'll put your Quick-Math skills to test! Fight very Uncool Monsters using Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division. Level up and progress in the Campaign(s), or show your prowess in Endless Mode with Leaderboards.

Why similar: Education 44%, Logic 31.2%, Puzzle 16.6%, Casual 4.3%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: This game integrates math-based arithmetic into a combat system, making it a great choice for those who enjoy educational math puzzles.

Add up, multiply, clone, and divide your party members to beat the monsters on your path!

Why similar: Logic 41.2%, Education 38.9%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical combat game where math skills and algebraic manipulation are the keys to winning battles.

Pythagoria is a brain-teasing number puzzle game.

Why similar: Education 41.3%, Logic 32.1%, Puzzle 18.8%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A geometry-focused puzzle game that uses math and logic to teach spatial reasoning in a minimalist environment.

A revolutionary puzzle game combining box-pushing and math operations! Slide number crates, merge targets with +-×÷, and challenge your logic & arithmetic skills

Why similar: Logic 46.5%, Puzzle 31.8%, Casual 14.3%, Indie 5.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, math-focused logic puzzle game that provides a straightforward and satisfying arithmetic challenge.

Odd||Even is a math and logic based, integer placement puzzle game.

Why similar: Experimental 39.7%, Education 24%, Logic 18.7%, Puzzle 10.1%, Strategy 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, logic-heavy puzzle game that challenges players to think outside the box with number-based mechanics.

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: Education 36.7%, Puzzle 26%, Logic 13.2%, Experimental 9.6%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy programming puzzle game that uses simple, visual instructions to solve complex tasks.

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies. Everyone likes this game so you must too, right?

Why similar: Education 41.8%, Logic 34.7%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Indie 5.6%, Multiplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-based trivia game that focuses on identifying reasoning errors, appealing to the analytical mind.

YANKAI'S TRIANGLE is a love letter to TRIANGLES. A puzzling puzzle game about the beauty and joy of infinitely tapping on TRIANGLES for some reason.

Why similar: Experimental 54.7%, Puzzle 22.8%, Indie 11.8%, Casual 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, logic-driven geometric puzzle game that emphasizes pattern matching and spatial reasoning.

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: Puzzle 43%, Education 39.4%, Indie 16%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A circuit-design puzzle game that requires logical thinking and optimization to build functional hardware.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Logic 38.9%, Education 26.9%, Puzzle 22.8%, Hacking 6% ★, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A complex, math-based programming game that requires building circuits and writing code to solve engineering puzzles.

Push, slice, ingest, flip, and squish worms in this puzzle game in which you play as a little sentient tin can.

Why similar: Logic 47.1%, Puzzle 34.2%, Indie 12.1%, Casual 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, rule-based logic puzzle game that rewards players for testing hypotheses and deducing mechanics.

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: Puzzle 47%, Logic 41.7%, Indie 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A logic and optimization-based puzzle game where you build machines to perform complex chemical reactions.

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: Education 57.2%, Puzzle 27%, Indie 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardware-level logic and math design game that is perfect for those who want to understand the building blocks of computing.

Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 47.2%, Logic 31%, Casual 7.9%, Indie 6.6%, Strategy 6.2%

Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.

Why similar: Education 48.6%, Puzzle 36.1%, Indie 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: A logic and engineering-based puzzle game that allows players to build and program robots to solve complex tasks.

Mathematic Ultra - is both simple and complex challenges!

Why similar: Experimental 34.6%, Education 22.1%, Logic 19.5%, Puzzle 9.9%, Strategy 6.1%

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Logic 49%, Puzzle 32.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Indie 5.4%, Casual 4.4%

WORDLE for math fans. The perfect daily warm-up routine for your brain.

Why similar: Education 34.4%, Logic 30.4%, Puzzle 17.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Casual 5.2%

Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!

Why similar: Education 37.8%, Logic 36%, Puzzle 17.7%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 3.2%

Welcome to Depixtion, a relaxing puzzle game where you create beautiful works of art using logic. Depixtion blends color mixing mechanics with the rules of nonograms to create a uniquely colorful experience.

Why similar: Education 45.4%, Logic 30.1%, Puzzle 18.7%, Casual 5.7%

We've made a calculator roguelike! Yes, it's not a joke. A boring device has turned into an interesting strategy, where each calculator you collect sets its own style of play. Can you count all the numbers and prove who's the king of calculations here?

Why similar: Logic 52.7%, Puzzle 40.8%, Strategy 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Killer Sudoku (Sumdoku/Mathdoku/Addoku) puzzles include all the rules of regular Sudoku, but add in dashed-line 'cages', which must sum to given values. This great brain exerciser will provide you many hours of new Sudoku experience and be nice addition to your puzzle collection.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.3%, Strategy 30.1%, Casual 19.6%, Indie 17%

A puzzle for math lovers with matchsticks that won't burn you, but will light up your mind Challenge your mind moving, adding and removing matchsticks until you find the correct solution. How many tries do you need to solve each level?

Why similar: Logic 42%, Strategy 19.8%, Puzzle 19.7%, Indie 9.7%, Casual 8.1%

A arithmetic game, let you play at the same time exercise arithmetic reaction ability. Just put the arithmetic symbol under the two numbers to calculate the result. You need to quickly and cleverly place the arithmetic symbols according to the scene.

Why similar: Logic 38.8%, Education 38.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Puzzle 6.2%, Casual 5.1%

Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

Why similar: Education 38.4%, Logic 23.3%, Puzzle 18.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Casual 5.1%

A puzzle game that combines nonogram and genetics rules.

Why similar: Education 46%, Logic 20.9%, Puzzle 17.3%, Casual 7.3%, Strategy 5%

Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!

Why similar: Education 49.1%, Logic 22.2%, Puzzle 20.5%, Casual 8%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Math Fun is amazing fun loving app for everyone. This app will let you learn math in an fun and easy manner while playing.

Why similar: Education 86%, Strategy 7%, Casual 3.5%, Indie 3.5%

Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.

Why similar: Puzzle 48.5%, Education 40.7%, Indie 10.8%

This is an action-puzzle game. Find your way to pass the levels. A lot of mathematical elements are integrated in the puzzles.

Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 27.6%, Casual 27%

Curated Sudoku puzzles from YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking the Cryptic!

Why similar: Logic 30.9%, Puzzle 24.4%, Strategy 23.7%, Casual 15%, Indie 4.9%

"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.

Why similar: Logic 52.7%, Puzzle 33.5%, Casual 6.5%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 1%

SpellKeeper is a unique logic game with dozens of challenging puzzles and beautifully hand-drawn graphics. Take on the role of the Chosen One and save butterflies trapped in magic cocoons. Challenge your brain and free all the butterflies!

Why similar: Logic 31.6%, Strategy 21.8%, Puzzle 20.1%, Casual 13.3%, Indie 13.2%

This is a puzzle game like a mathematical book, based on logic and deduction. In this game, you don't need to beat the level, but need to prove it is beatable. Your goal is not to win, but to prove you can win.

Why similar: Logic 58.6%, Puzzle 34%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

A lovely logical puzzle game about the many-worlds interpretation and quantum mechanics.

Why similar: Logic 50.5%, Puzzle 29.8%, Casual 6.5%, Indie 5.9%, Strategy 5.8%

A unique abstract puzzle game with an emphasis on lateral thinking. Use catalysts to build compounds and manipulate cell structures. 100 puzzle levels and a level editor to create your own custom puzzle designs.

Why similar: Puzzle 68.7%, Indie 27.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Why similar: Hacking 33% ★, Education 32.8%, Puzzle 21.2%, Indie 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%

DemonCrawl is a puzzle roguelite that combines the addicting gameplay of Minesweeper with hundreds of unique items, stages, and abilities!

Why similar: Puzzle 43.9%, Strategy 27.9%, Indie 15.8%, Casual 9%, Singleplayer 3.4%

A puzzle game about capturing a creature. Learn to guide it and hide from it in simple yet surprisingly deep and satisfying ways.

Why similar: Logic 38.6%, Puzzle 22.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Indie 6.8%

A new puzzle game of wits and recognition.

Why similar: Casual 50.3%, Indie 49.7%

Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel, here is the brand new "Sandwich Sudoku" game that has become an internet sensation!

Why similar: Strategy 47.5%, Casual 26.4%, Indie 26.1%

Sudoku Zenkai is a game for everyone, from beginning to advanced players. It brings a new dimension to sudoku - you can solve puzzles with your friends, wherever they are! You can start a new puzzle with a friend or call one over to help when you get stuck.

Why similar: Education 41.4%, Logic 41.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Casual 6.7%

Solve challenging nonograms (also known as picross, griddlers, etc.) to decipher a message from a distant planet!

Why similar: Logic 34.8%, Puzzle 19.3%, Education 19%, Strategy 12.2%, Casual 7.2%

「Archipel Logic Infinite」 is a challenging puzzle game inspired by the popular Nurikabe. Explore legendary archipelagos by marking cells as land or sea to unchart maps. Enjoy challenging puzzles and endless procedurally generated content for limitless exploration.

Why similar: Logic 43.9%, Puzzle 28%, Strategy 11.4%, Casual 8.4%, Indie 7%