60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Automation, Singleplayer.
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.
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!
SHENZHEN I/O
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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 45.1% ★, Automation 27.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Logic 9.8%, Simulation 3%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 56.5% ★, Automation 22.3%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 5.4%, Simulation 2.2%
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 38.2% ★, Automation 26.2%, Puzzle 10%, Sandbox 9.5%, Logic 6%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 17%, Logic 14.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 37.5% ★, Automation 21.5%, Logic 12.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Puzzle 6.2%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 40.4% ★, Automation 30.2%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 2.4%
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 41.6% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 12.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 28.2%, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 6.3%, Simulation 3.9%
[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 42.1% ★, Automation 30.3%, Logic 14.5%, Puzzle 7.5%, 2D 2.3%
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% ★, Automation 31.2%, Puzzle 8%, Relaxing 3%, Casual 2.6%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Automation 26.3%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 4.6%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 22.8%, Logic 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 25.6%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 3.3%
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 51.4% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 9.5%, Automation 4.5%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Automation 24.8%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 7.1%, Relaxing 5.6%
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 37.1% ★, Automation 29.1%, Sandbox 11%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 4.9%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 55.3% ★, Logic 16.2%, Automation 12.5%, Puzzle 6.3%, Simulation 3.3%
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 44.4% ★, Automation 25.6%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 5.4%, Sandbox 4.8%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 19.9%, Logic 14%, Sandbox 5.5%, Relaxing 4.4%
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 42.4% ★, Automation 23.1%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 4.2%
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 38.6% ★, Automation 27.9%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 8.2%, Sandbox 4.3%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 26.5%, Logic 13.6%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 5.2%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 26.7% ★, Automation 25.4%, Logic 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Futuristic 6.5%
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 51.8% ★, Logic 14.3%, Automation 12.9%, Puzzle 7.9%, Relaxing 2.5%
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 36.9% ★, Automation 25.8%, Logic 10.6%, Sandbox 9%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 39.5% ★, Automation 24.2%, Logic 13.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 65.9% ★, Automation 12.5%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 4.9%, Simulation 2.6%
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 40.7% ★, Automation 26.9%, Logic 10.8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Simulation 3.9%
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 34.8% ★, Automation 23.3%, Logic 14.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Puzzle 7.4%
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 37.2% ★, Automation 23.9%, Logic 13.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Puzzle 6.7%
In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!
Why similar: Programming 36% ★, Automation 25.9%, Logic 11.5%, Sandbox 6.8%, Futuristic 5.9%
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 50.9% ★, Automation 15.6%, Puzzle 14.7%, Logic 12.4%, Sci-fi 2.6%
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 41% ★, Automation 24.9%, Logic 11.8%, Sandbox 9%, Puzzle 6.3%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 24.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Logic 4.4%
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 55.1% ★, Automation 21%, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 7.1%, Sandbox 3.2%
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 69.2% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Logic 8.7%, Automation 8.2%, Simulation 3.5%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!
Why similar: Programming 28.6% ★, Automation 25.7%, Logic 13.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Relaxing 9%
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 44.3% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 13.1%, Puzzle 6.4%, Simulation 3.6%
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 39.2% ★, Automation 33.1%, Logic 11.5%, Puzzle 7%, Building 3.1%
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 44% ★, Automation 25.9%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 3.1%
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 43.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Logic 13.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 34.8% ★, Automation 32.2%, Logic 9.7%, Incremental 5.9%, Simulation 5.3%
Tapeheads is an atmospheric retro-futuristic simulation. Use a one-of-a-kind computer and its unusual programming language to solve puzzles about manipulating data.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 20.8%, Logic 14.2%, Puzzle 6.5%, Relaxing 4.3%
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 39.9% ★, Automation 19.5%, Logic 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 55.6% ★, Logic 21.8%, Puzzle 13.1%, 2D 4.3%, Casual 2.9%
A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.
Why similar: Programming 53.8% ★, Automation 27.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 6.6%, 2D 1.3%
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 52.6% ★, Automation 16%, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 8%, Relaxing 7.9%
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 42.4% ★, Automation 34.6%, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 5.3%, Building 3.1%
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 44.9% ★, Automation 28%, Logic 12.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 3.9%
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 39.9% ★, Automation 28%, Logic 9.4%, Puzzle 8.6%, Futuristic 4.1%
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 74.7% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 7.4%, Automation 6.6%, Simulation 2.6%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Automation 24.4%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 4.5%, Casual 2.8%
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 47.3% ★, Logic 17%, Automation 12.8%, Puzzle 9%, Relaxing 6.8%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 26.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Puzzle 6.8%, Simulation 2.6%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 28.8%, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 3.3%
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 47.5% ★, Automation 35%, Logic 8.1%, Puzzle 6.5%, 2D 1.8%
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 44.7% ★, Automation 29%, Logic 16.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 1.9%
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 45.3% ★, Automation 23.7%, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 7%, Sandbox 6%
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 54% ★, Automation 17%, Logic 16.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 2.9%
