60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Puzzle, Indie, Logic.
A programming puzzle game where you build computation from simple rules. Route numbers through a honeycomb grid, solve puzzles to create new computational building blocks, and work your way from +1 to arithmetic, algorithms, and beyond.
Programmed To Execute
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.
TIS-100
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!
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 72.1% ★, Logic 19.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 85.6% ★, Logic 8.1%, Difficult 5%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Strategy 21.1%, Logic 14.2%, Difficult 6.6%, Indie 3.2%
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 66.5% ★, Logic 15.6%, Strategy 12%, 2D 4%, Indie 1.1%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 79.9% ★, Logic 13.8%, Difficult 4.8%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Solve puzzles by building different things for your automata! In the end, you will find that it is not just a video game...
Why similar: Programming 60.5% ★, Strategy 30.4%, Cute 4.7%, Indie 4.4%
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 66.8% ★, Logic 17.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Sci-fi 3.4%, 2D 2.5%
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 67.3% ★, Logic 25.3%, 2D 5.4%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
"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 54.8% ★, Logic 21.6%, Difficult 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.5%, 2D 3.4%
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 74.6% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Indie 3.2%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 72.2% ★, Logic 13.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 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 67.1% ★, Logic 20.5%, Difficult 8.9%, 2D 1.6%, Indie 1.1%
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 87.5% ★, Logic 10.4%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 60.6% ★, Logic 18%, Difficult 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.9%, 2D 2.9%
Cal & Bomba is a programmatic puzzle game. Program short sequences to navigate the playfield, aim your cannon using potions, and take down your enemies with various explosives. Turn your enemies against each other, and create explosive chain reactions. 150+ puzzles sure to melt your brain!
Why similar: Programming 64.1% ★, Logic 21.4%, Strategy 11.8%, 2D 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 65.1% ★, Logic 15.2%, Difficult 10.5%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Indie 1.4%
You are a malfunctioning AI. Find ways to kill your master while respecting your laws. Craft commands word by word, and outsmart Alice by finding loopholes.
Why similar: Programming 50% ★, Logic 19.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Difficult 8.9%, Sci-fi 6.1%
Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.
Why similar: Programming 81.2% ★, Difficult 11%, 2D 4.2%, Indie 3.5%
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 82.9% ★, Logic 8.7%, Strategy 4.5%, Sci-fi 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 63% ★, Logic 17.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Cute 5.1%, 2D 3.3%
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 88.8% ★, Logic 6.4%, Difficult 2.5%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
An alien voice resonates within your head: IF.PROGRAM.ROBOSNAKE.SMART. KILL.ENEMY.AI.THEN.WIN.AGAINST.FRIENDS. SAVE.HUMANITY.
Why similar: Programming 67% ★, Strategy 28.9%, Indie 4.2%
Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 71.3% ★, Logic 21.8%, Sci-fi 4.3%, 2D 1.8%, Indie 0.5%
If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.
Why similar: Programming 75.3% ★, Logic 20.6%, 2D 2.6%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 61.3% ★, Logic 15.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Difficult 4.4%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 68.3% ★, Logic 26.9%, Indie 4.8%
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 68.8% ★, Strategy 14.7%, Logic 13%, 2D 2%, Indie 0.8%
You don't steer the chicken. You program it. Write real scripts in a fake desktop OS and send your bird into fields that reseed every run, so hardcoded coordinates work exactly once. Upgrades aren't +1% damage: they're if statements, for loops, and the memory to hold a list.
Why similar: Programming 70.1% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Logic 9.7%, 2D 2.7%, Indie 0.8%
Develop magical programming abilities while building spells. Lambda Spellcrafting Academy is a card-based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. If you've ever wanted to dabble in spellcraft (programming) here is a fun way to get started.
Why similar: Programming 61.3% ★, Logic 19.4%, Strategy 8%, Cute 4.7%, 2D 3.7%
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 57.3% ★, Logic 14.5%, Difficult 8.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Sci-fi 7.2%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 79% ★, Logic 17.2%, 2D 2.2%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Why similar: Programming 65.3% ★, Logic 18.6%, Strategy 8.9%, 2D 3%, Cute 2.9%
Drag & Drop Various Action Blocks to Guide The Robot to The End of The Level!
Why similar: Programming 64.1% ★, Logic 23.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%, 2D 2.5%, Indie 0.8%
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 69.2% ★, Logic 19.7%, Difficult 8.7%, 2D 1.5%, Indie 0.6%
Drag nodes, code logic, build voxels! A node-programming puzzle game. Receive task emails, write programs with visual nodes, build 3D voxel worlds, and even make a complete game with nodes.
Why similar: Programming 76.6% ★, Logic 22.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 84.5% ★, Sci-fi 6.9%, Difficult 5.4%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 73.8% ★, Logic 22%, 2D 2.7%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.
Why similar: Programming 54.7% ★, Logic 20%, Difficult 7.8%, Strategy 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.4%
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 68.7% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Logic 11.1%, Difficult 4.8%, 2D 1.1%
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 60.9% ★, Logic 17.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Difficult 7.3%, 2D 2.2%
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 73% ★, Logic 20.3%, Cute 4.2%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
A cozy puzzle game about helping pirate ships do pirate things. Set up the simulations. Watch how the ships behave. Explore how the systems interact.
Why similar: Programming 63.8% ★, Logic 16.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Cute 3.3%, 2D 2.9%
you are a game developer who writes game code according to the tasks assigned by the company. You need to drag and drop nodes and connect them to build a complete behavioral logic!
Why similar: Programming 67.8% ★, Logic 19.4%, Strategy 9.3%, 2D 1.6%, 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 64.9% ★, Logic 21.5%, Difficult 8.2%, 2D 3.6%, Indie 1.3%
A programming puzzle game where you step into the role of a gameplay programmer, write code to build the core mechanics of a wide variety of games, and solve increasingly challenging development problems.
Why similar: Programming 70.7% ★, Logic 21.3%, Strategy 4.3%, 2D 1.8%, Indie 1.6%
Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?
Why similar: Programming 94.9% ★, Indie 5.1%
The fear of artificial intelligence is nothing new, but will it always be for the bad? Solve puzzles and follow the creator's and creator's conversation during the testing phase, until the moment they are interrupted by external matters.
Why similar: Programming 57.4% ★, Logic 20.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%, 2D 3.6%
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 77.6% ★, Logic 16.2%, Difficult 2.7%, Indie 1.9%, 2D 1.1%
She kept the machine that holds the city up. It ran correctly for eleven years, and last night it killed her. Step through her rune-tape, watch the registers, rewind the trace, and name the line that did it. You never write a program. You read one, and you convict it.
Why similar: Programming 73.2% ★, Logic 17.8%, Difficult 5.1%, Indie 1.8%, 2D 1.4%
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 59.5% ★, Logic 15.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Difficult 9.4%, Cute 3.2%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 68.6% ★, Logic 15.7%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Difficult 5.2%, Indie 2.8%
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 64.5% ★, Logic 18.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Difficult 2.7%, 2D 2.3%
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 66.3% ★, Logic 19%, Strategy 9.4%, Cute 2%, Indie 1.6%
Venture forth through this puzzle game across space. Use your command terminal to guide the Onlooker interstellar probe through treacherous galaxies to explore the farthest reaches of the universe. Avoid asteroids, perform research tasks, and weave through the stars!
Why similar: Programming 66.6% ★, Logic 21.9%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.9%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 64.7% ★, Logic 23.1%, Difficult 7.1%, 2D 3.2%, 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 63.6% ★, Logic 19%, Strategy 13.8%, 2D 2.3%, Indie 0.8%
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 85.1% ★, Strategy 12.4%, 2D 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 80.8% ★, Logic 13.6%, Difficult 3.8%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 72.6% ★, Logic 16.3%, Strategy 4.9%, 2D 4.6%, Indie 0.9%
