60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Simulation, Programming, Logic.
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!
Quantum Odyssey
Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.
OCTOPTICOM
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.
Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.
Why similar: Programming 33.5% ★, Automation 18.8%, Science 11.7%, Logic 11.2%, Education 11%
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 36.9% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Science 11.3%, Logic 11%, Education 10.2%
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 37.1% ★, Automation 16.4%, Education 11.7%, Science 11%, Logic 10.6%
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 59.4% ★, Simulation 12%, Puzzle 11.8%, Education 7.7%, Science 6.7%
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 44.5% ★, Logic 14.3%, Education 12.5%, Science 11.5%, Puzzle 8.7%
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 35% ★, Automation 16.3%, Logic 11.9%, Education 11%, Science 10.9%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 50.1% ★, Logic 13.7%, Education 12.6%, Automation 10.2%, Puzzle 6.9%
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 39% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 9.8%, Logic 8.1%, Simulation 7.5%
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 57% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Education 11.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 2.6%
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 35.8% ★, Automation 18%, Education 11.6%, Logic 11.3%, Science 10.3%
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 39.8% ★, Automation 21.8%, Education 13.7%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 7.4%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 20.4%, Logic 11.6%, Education 10.1%, Puzzle 7.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Automation 19.4%, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 6.3%, Education 5.3%
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: Programming 59.5% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Puzzle 10.6%, Education 10.2%, Indie 2.1%
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 45.7% ★, Automation 24.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Logic 9.3%, Simulation 6.2%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 35.8% ★, Automation 21.4%, Science 11.1%, Education 10.8%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 48.9% ★, Puzzle 17%, Automation 13.5%, Logic 11.2%, Science 4.6%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 41.4%, Simulation 18.2%, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 14.8%, Crafting 7.4%
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Why similar: Programming 28.6% ★, Automation 17.3%, Science 11.8%, Logic 11.3%, Education 9.6%
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 73.8% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 12.9%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 5.4%
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 37.5% ★, Automation 28.6%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Physics 7.7%
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: Automation 26.4%, Education 25%, Simulation 15.8%, Puzzle 14.8%, Logic 13.6%
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 38.6% ★, Education 15.9%, Automation 15.4%, Logic 12.1%, Simulation 8.6%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 30.3% ★, Automation 18.8%, Logic 10.4%, Education 10.3%, Science 9.5%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 43.8% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Crafting 4%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 30.7% ★, Automation 26.8%, Education 16%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 8.5%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 39.3% ★, Automation 32.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Logic 10.1%, Immersive Sim 5.6%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 26.9%, Puzzle 13.7%, Simulation 7.4%, Logic 6.5%
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 40.4% ★, Automation 23.4%, Logic 13.4%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 7%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 47.4%, Logic 17.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%
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 43.6% ★, Automation 26%, Logic 10.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 8.5%
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Programming 36.7% ★, Automation 21%, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 7.4%
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 49.6% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Logic 12.9%, Education 10.8%, Puzzle 8.4%
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: Programming 59.8% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Education 13.4%, Puzzle 8.9%, Indie 2.4%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Automation 25.8%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 6.8%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 32% ★, Automation 18.1%, Science 11.3%, Logic 10.4%, Education 6.4%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Automation 23.4%, Education 14.5%, Science 13.6%, Simulation 6.9%
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 55.9% ★, Education 15%, Science 8.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Puzzle 8.1%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 41.4% ★, Automation 18.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Science 11.7%, Puzzle 10.7%
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 69.7% ★, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 6.4%, Automation 5.6%, Simulation 4.9%
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Programming 53.5% ★, Logic 14.8%, Education 14%, Simulation 8.9%, Puzzle 7.8%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 50% ★, Automation 28.6%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 0.8%
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 40.2% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 8.4%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Education 16.7%, Logic 15.9%, Science 14.8%, Simulation 11.7%
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Simulation 25.6%, Logic 20.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 3.8%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 56.4% ★, Logic 21.7%, Puzzle 17.5%, Indie 4.4%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Education 17.4%, Abstract 12.1%, Simulation 11%, Crafting 9%
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 54% ★, Logic 15.7%, Education 12.1%, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 6%
Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!
Why similar: Programming 47.6% ★, Logic 16.4%, Science 15.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 4%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 42.1% ★, Automation 20.5%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 8.7%, Crafting 6.8%
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 48.6% ★, Automation 20.5%, Education 10.6%, Logic 9.6%, Puzzle 5.8%
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 43.7% ★, Automation 14.1%, Education 10.9%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 7.9%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Education 15.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Logic 12.4%, Immersive Sim 6.9%
A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Logic 15.4%, Education 13.6%, Puzzle 12%, Physics 10.9%
A minimalist game about connecting circuits, solving jigsaw puzzles and mind-bending recursive circuits.
Why similar: Education 29.2%, Logic 26.5%, Puzzle 21.6%, Abstract 19.8%, Indie 2.2%
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Simulation 26.8%, Logic 15.5%, Abstract 12.7%, Puzzle 9.6%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Automation 23.8%, Education 14.6%, Puzzle 8.1%, Crafting 5.9%
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: Science 35.3%, Puzzle 30.4%, Abstract 26.8%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
