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Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
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Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
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[the Sequence]
[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!

Opus Magnum
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!
[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 33.4% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 13.2%, Minimalist 9%, Difficult 7%
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 42.8% ★, Automation 27.5%, Puzzle 11%, Logic 10.6%, Simulation 2.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 52.6% ★, Automation 22.2%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 5.8%, Difficult 5.2%
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 40.7% ★, Automation 27%, Puzzle 8.7%, Minimalist 8.3%, Logic 6.4%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 39.2% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 7%, Minimalist 6.7%
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 43.8% ★, Puzzle 14.4%, Automation 14.4%, Logic 12.2%, Difficult 11.6%
Circuitra is a challenging visual logic puzzle game about building increasingly complex circuit boards. Limited inputs, tight board space and changing contract constraints force you to debug and rethink your designs in order to grow your circuit-design business.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 24.7%, Logic 15.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 4.8%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 41.5% ★, Automation 17.7%, Logic 15.9%, Minimalist 9.6%, Puzzle 9.3%
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 39.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Logic 13.6%, Puzzle 7.5%, Minimalist 7.1%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 41.9% ★, Automation 26.6%, Logic 14.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 4.4%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 45.9% ★, Automation 17.6%, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Minimalist 4%
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 35.9% ★, Automation 23.5%, Logic 13.6%, Difficult 8.3%, Puzzle 7.4%
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Automation 26.6%, Logic 8.4%, Puzzle 6.5%, Difficult 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 43.1% ★, Automation 22.9%, Logic 11.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Minimalist 7%
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 37.3% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 11.3%, Difficult 9.2%, Puzzle 8%
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 48.1% ★, Logic 14.9%, Automation 12.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Minimalist 6.4%
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 41% ★, Automation 28.8%, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 2.4%
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 45% ★, Logic 15.3%, Automation 15.1%, Difficult 9.3%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 40% ★, Automation 26.4%, Logic 13.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 3.2%
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 39.3% ★, Automation 22.6%, Logic 13.2%, Difficult 7.7%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 38.8% ★, Automation 25.8%, Logic 12.5%, Difficult 8.7%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 53.4% ★, Automation 33.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Casual 2.2%, 2D 1.3%
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 39.6% ★, Automation 29.3%, Puzzle 11.9%, Logic 7.2%, Difficult 6.2%
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 37% ★, Automation 29.2%, Logic 13.1%, Difficult 6.4%, Minimalist 5.5%
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 42% ★, Automation 27.1%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 5.1%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 37.3% ★, Automation 28.8%, Logic 16.5%, Puzzle 9%, Minimalist 4%
Direct your secret guild of tiny gnomes, hidden somewhere out in the forest, to manufacture products as efficiently as possible in this optimization-based puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 39.2% ★, Automation 27.1%, Logic 16.1%, Indie 9.2%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 37.6% ★, Automation 17.6%, Logic 13.3%, Minimalist 9.6%, Puzzle 7%
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Programming 38.3% ★, Automation 27.4%, Logic 12.2%, Difficult 9.9%, Puzzle 6.4%
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 62.8% ★, Automation 12.6%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 5.4%, Difficult 2.9%
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 12.8%, Difficult 5%, Simulation 4.8%
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 52.2% ★, Automation 21.3%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 7.7%, Difficult 4.1%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Logic 15.8%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 4.2%
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Why similar: Programming 67.7% ★, Puzzle 7.8%, Logic 7.6%, Difficult 6.5%, Automation 6.4%
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 37.8% ★, Automation 27.5%, Logic 15.7%, Puzzle 8.2%, Stylized 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 40.7% ★, Automation 22.2%, Logic 15.6%, Minimalist 6.3%, Puzzle 5.4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 25.1%, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 7.2%, Logic 4.8%
"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 42% ★, Logic 19.8%, Difficult 12.2%, Minimalist 10.6%, Puzzle 10.3%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 37% ★, Automation 27.6%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, Difficult 7.3%
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 66.7% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 9.5%, Automation 8.4%, Simulation 3.3%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 60.9% ★, Logic 19.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 1.4%
Program three distinct towers with readable visual logic, then solve handcrafted tower-defense puzzles where placement, line of sight and every code block matter. No programming experience required.
Why similar: Programming 42.8% ★, Automation 27.7%, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 6.7%, Minimalist 4.4%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Automation 27.6%, Logic 14.4%, Puzzle 8.4%, Minimalist 7.4%
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 33.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 7.3%, Simulation 3%
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 52.7% ★, Logic 23.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, 2D 4.6%, Casual 2.4%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 25.4%, Logic 15.7%, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 4.1%
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 35.1% ★, Automation 19.3%, Logic 14.6%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 6.7%
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Why similar: Programming 37.9% ★, Automation 28.5%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Minimalist 6.6%
Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.
Why similar: Programming 44.7% ★, Automation 29.2%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 9.8%, 2D 1.9%
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 38.8% ★, Automation 35%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 8%, 2D 2.1%
Program potato workers to process numbers with simple punch-in instructions at a factory that mimics a processor. Optimize solutions to solve challenging open-ended puzzles. Punch, observe, learn, repeat.
Why similar: Programming 52.6% ★, Logic 19.2%, Difficult 11.5%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 3.6%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Automation 35.6%, Logic 8.9%, Puzzle 7.1%, 2D 1.9%
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 43.2% ★, Automation 27.1%, Logic 17%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 3.1%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 45.2% ★, Automation 34.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Casual 5.1%, 2D 4%
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 49.2% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 11.3%, Minimalist 6.7%, Puzzle 5.4%
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 42.4% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 14.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 43.1% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 7.6%, Difficult 4.6%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Logic 23.8%, Puzzle 14.9%, Indie 6.4%, Casual 4.2%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 15.6%, Puzzle 8%, Minimalist 5%
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 45.3% ★, Automation 21.2%, Minimalist 14.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 8.1%