60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Automation, Singleplayer, Logic.
A tower defense game where you program your turrets instead of upgrading them. Drag and drop visual code blocks to define targeting, conditions, and firing logic. No coding experience needed. Your strategy is your code.
Overhead
Write code to command your defenses. Overhead is a strategy game where your code is your weapon; script turret (or sensor) behavior in JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or any WASM language. Every scenario is seeded and deterministic. Write a better script, get a better score.
Robot Programmer
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Write code to command your defenses. Overhead is a strategy game where your code is your weapon; script turret (or sensor) behavior in JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or any WASM language. Every scenario is seeded and deterministic. Write a better script, get a better score.
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Tower Defense 22.8%, Automation 19.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Logic 5.8%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 44.2% ★, Automation 24.3%, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 6.5%, Strategy 5.6%
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 50.1% ★, Automation 28%, Logic 10.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 1.3%
[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 43% ★, Automation 28.6%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 6.3%, Minimalist 4.8%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.3% ★, Automation 22.3%, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 4.9%, Indie 0.6%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Automation 29.2%, Logic 14.8%, Puzzle 6.5%, Minimalist 4.3%
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 54.7% ★, Automation 29.7%, Strategy 7.2%, Puzzle 6.8%, 2D 1%
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 27.7%, Puzzle 7.4%, Logic 6.3%, Minimalist 4.1%
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 45.1% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 12.7%, Puzzle 6.1%, Strategy 5.8%
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 45.1% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Strategy 6.6%
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 46.9% ★, Automation 24.9%, Logic 13.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Puzzle 4.7%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world, semi-realistic art style with puzzle-solving, programming, and visual novel elements. play as a Soul Seal Master, Craft Soul Seals, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Automation 30.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 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 40.8% ★, Automation 27.2%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 7.1%, Strategy 6%
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 54.2% ★, Logic 14%, Automation 12.4%, Puzzle 6.8%, Strategy 6.2%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 48.8% ★, Automation 17.9%, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 7.9%, Minimalist 4.7%
If your're into logic, problem-solving and building complex systems, then this is a game for you. All the fun of creating systems, using a visual node language, without worring about written syntax of text based programming. Learn real programming skills much faster in a explosions packed battle.
Why similar: Programming 40% ★, Automation 24.3%, Logic 10.8%, Robots 7.4%, Strategy 6.8%
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
Why similar: Programming 27.3% ★, Automation 23.7%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Logic 14.4%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 47.2% ★, Automation 28.6%, Logic 14.7%, Puzzle 6.5%, 2D 1.7%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 26.5%, Logic 14.4%, Robots 8.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 45% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 15.2%, Puzzle 6.9%, Indie 6%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 58.6% ★, Logic 13.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Puzzle 8.9%, Automation 4.7%
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 40.8% ★, Automation 26.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Logic 9.1%, Puzzle 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 73.7% ★, Logic 8.5%, Automation 8.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Indie 1.3%
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Automation 28.9%, Robots 8.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Logic 5.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 62.4% ★, Logic 17.2%, Automation 13%, Puzzle 5.9%, 2D 1%
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 54.5% ★, Automation 15.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Logic 10.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 72.2% ★, Automation 12.7%, Puzzle 8%, Logic 5.1%, Indie 1.4%
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 49.2% ★, Automation 27.4%, Logic 14.3%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 0.7%
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 45.3% ★, Automation 27.6%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 7%, Strategy 5.4%
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 55.2% ★, Automation 15.6%, Puzzle 13.2%, Logic 12.7%, Indie 1.2%
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 46.6% ★, Automation 26.8%, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 7.2%, Top-Down 4.9%
Defend your Nexus by placing mirrors and buildings on the path of your projectiles. Deflect, empower, manage and solve each map using your creative and strategic mind.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.9%, Automation 28.6%, Logic 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Top-Down 6.8%
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 44.7% ★, Automation 19.7%, Logic 13.2%, Robots 8.1%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 41.2% ★, Automation 24.5%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 6.1%, Strategy 5.3%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 26.5%, Logic 13.2%, Puzzle 6.8%, Grid-Based Movement 5.2%
Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35%, Automation 30.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Logic 7%, Tactical 5.4%
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 47% ★, Automation 23.5%, Logic 13.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Puzzle 5.7%
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 42.6% ★, Automation 33.2%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 6.3%, Grid-Based Movement 3.4%
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 78.4% ★, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 6.5%, Automation 6.4%, Indie 0.9%
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 60.5% ★, Automation 21.5%, Logic 10.1%, Puzzle 6.5%, Indie 0.9%
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 48.7% ★, Automation 24.5%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 7.8%, 2D 2.2%
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 40.6% ★, Automation 23.2%, Logic 13.6%, Robots 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%
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 46.8% ★, Automation 19.1%, Logic 14.7%, Robots 8.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 48.2% ★, Automation 30.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 7.1%, Strategy 1.5%
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 46.4% ★, Automation 24.6%, Logic 14.5%, Puzzle 6.3%, Grid-Based Movement 4.9%
A real -time strategy game that can create items to operate logic.No resource collection
Why similar: Programming 31.9% ★, Tower Defense 21.6%, Automation 21%, Logic 11.9%, Strategy 11.8%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 14.1%, Puzzle 6.8%, Minimalist 3.2%
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Why similar: Programming 50% ★, Automation 26.5%, Strategy 7%, Logic 5.1%, Puzzle 4.3%
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 56.9% ★, Automation 16.5%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 7.2%, Minimalist 1.6%
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 45% ★, Automation 27.9%, Robots 9.6%, Logic 7.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Programming 67.2% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Robots 11.8%, Indie 2.9%
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 44.5% ★, Automation 22.8%, Logic 14.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Top-Down 4.7%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 56.9% ★, Automation 25.7%, Puzzle 10.1%, Logic 4.7%, Indie 1.4%
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 54.3% ★, Automation 23.2%, Logic 10.8%, Puzzle 4.4%, Minimalist 3.3%
Skibi’s Castle TD 2 is the sequel to the Warcraft III mod, rebuilt from scratch with a sticker-boardgame vibe and tasty desserts. Maze the path, draft dessert cuisines, and feed hangry invaders with delicious food magic.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Automation 24.2%, Logic 14.1%, Tactical 8.8%, Strategy 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 49.2% ★, Automation 26.7%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 47.8% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 10%, Strategy 7.1%, Puzzle 5.8%
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 51.3% ★, Automation 22.4%, Logic 16%, Strategy 4.9%, Puzzle 3.4%
An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.
Why similar: Programming 46.8% ★, Automation 35.2%, Puzzle 9.5%, Grid-Based Movement 4.6%, 2D 2.5%
