- #1 Turing Complete
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,345 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Education 15.1%, Logic 11.5%, Hacking 8.8% ★, Automation 7%
- #2 SHENZHEN I/O
96% matchVery Positive95% of 4,484 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Automation 15.5%, Logic 9%, Education 7.4%, Puzzle 3.5%
- #3 Logic World
96% matchVery Positive94% of 357 reviews2021
Dev: Mouse Hat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.1% ★, Hacking 13% ★, Science 12.3%, Education 11.1%, Automation 9.8%
- #4 Hard Chip
95% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Elorth
Windows
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 23.5% ★, Hacking 13.6% ★, Science 13%, Education 10.5%, Automation 8.9%
- #5 Retro Gadgets
94% matchVery Positive90% of 512 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 62.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 22.2% ★, Education 16.5%, Automation 15.8%, Hacking 11.2% ★, Building 10.3%
- #6 CRUMB Circuit Simulator
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 751 reviews2022
Dev: Mike Bushell
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Education 20.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Logic 11.3%
- #7 Upload Labs
92% matchVery Positive92% of 7,876 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.5%, Hacking 14% ★, Simulation 9%, Logic 8.8%
- #8 Silicon Zeroes
93% matchVery Positive87% of 282 reviews2017
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 47.8% ★, Hacking 19.5% ★, Education 13.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Puzzle 4.9%
- #9 Replicube
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 694 reviews2025
Dev: Walaber Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 67.1% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Simulation 10%, Puzzle 6.7%, Pixel Graphics 0.9%
- #10 OCTOPTICOM
91% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD.
Windows · Linux
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 34.3% ★, Science 18.5%, Education 13.5%, Logic 10.1%, Simulation 8.9%
- #11 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
90% matchVery Positive89% of 687 reviews2019
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Science 21%, Automation 15.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 6.2%
- #12 LogicBots
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 185 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 47.8% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Education 11.6%, Building 10.3%
- #13 while True: learn()
88% matchVery Positive91% of 8,141 reviews2019
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 45.9% ★, Education 17.5%, Science 12.2%, Building 5.9%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #14 Prime Mover
89% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 56.8% ★, Science 11.3%, Education 10.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Puzzle 6.4%
- #15 Quantum Odyssey
86% matchVery Positive93% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: Quarks Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22.1% ★, Hacking 13.7% ★, Science 13.6%, Education 10.3%, Automation 10.1%
- #16 Infinite Turtles
86% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 33.3% ★, Science 15.2%, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #17 The Qubit Factory
85% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Logical Basis
Windows · Mac
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 37.1% ★, Automation 16.4%, Education 11.7%, Science 11%, Logic 10.6%
- #18 Sand:box
84% matchVery Positive94% of 1,644 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Science 19.9%, Education 18.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Automation 14.4%, Logic 12%
- #19 ABI-DOS
83% matchVery Positive93% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: ABI.DOS.SOFTWARE
Windows
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 30.1% ★, Hacking 14.1% ★, Automation 13.1%, Education 10.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #20 MHRD
84% matchVery Positive89% of 445 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 61% ★, Education 19.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 5.2%, Indie 1.4%
- #21 Comet 64
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 187 reviews2021
Dev: Onur AyasPub: what sorceress this
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 30.9% ★, Hacking 12.4% ★, Education 10.9%, Science 8.5%, Automation 8.1%
- #22 The Signal State
81% matchVery Positive87% of 679 reviews2021
Dev: Reckoner IndustriesPub: iterco
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 33% ★, Automation 16.1%, Logic 12.5%, Hacking 12.3% ★, Sandbox 9.4%
- #23 ComPressure
82% matchVery Positive86% of 66 reviews2021
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 29.7% ★, Science 16.3%, Automation 14.4%, Education 12.7%, Building 9.4%
- #24 Alan's Automaton Workshop
81% matchVery Positive83% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Laputa Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 33.8% ★, Education 16.5%, Automation 15%, Sandbox 9%, Logic 9%
- #25 Main Assembly
80% matchVery Positive83% of 1,346 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 28.4% ★, Science 17.6%, Automation 13.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.3%
- #26 Opus Magnum
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,034 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 48.4% ★, Automation 21.5%, Logic 9.8%, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 5.5%
- #27 Plasma
78% matchVery Positive90% of 1,119 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 35.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.7%, Logic 10.8%
- #28 The Farmer Was Replaced
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,788 reviews2025
Dev: Timon HerzogPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 44.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Education 13.8%, Logic 8.7%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #29 Grey Hack
79% matchVery Positive90% of 1,843 reviews2017
Dev: Loading Home
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Why similar: Programming 40% ★, Hacking 37.6% ★, Simulation 7%, Education 6.1%, Sandbox 4.3%
- #30 Juno: New Origins
77% matchVery Positive89% of 3,486 reviews2023
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Programming 30.3% ★, Science 20%, Education 13.8%, Automation 11.9%, Building 10.7%
- #31 World of Contraptions
78% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
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 22.5% ★, Science 16.4%, Automation 11%, Education 10.7%, Building 9.7%
- #32 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 385 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 27.5% ★, Science 15.1%, Hacking 14% ★, Automation 13.9%, Education 13.2%
- #33 Short Circuit VR
77% matchVery Positive82% of 133 reviews2018
Dev: Stefan BauwensPub: N/A
Windows
Short Circuit VR is an electronics lab simulator in Virtual Reality. You can build your own electronic circuits with the components provided, learn basic electronics by completing challenges and just have fun while experimenting and making awesome projects!
Why similar: Simulation 90.4%, Indie 9.6%
- #34 Sandboxels
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,035 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Science 32.6%, Education 23.4%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 14%, Simulation 5.4%
- #35 Electronics Puzzle Lab
75% matchVery Positive86% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Sagitta Studios
Windows
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: Education 36.3%, Automation 21.9%, Logic 13.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #36 EmuDevz
73% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: [r]labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 44.8% ★, Education 16.6%, Hacking 15.5% ★, Logic 12.3%, Simulation 6.2%
- #37 SpaceChem
75% matchVery Positive92% of 5,076 reviews2011
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 49.9% ★, Logic 11.3%, Automation 11.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Science 8.3%
- #38 SOKOBOT
74% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Alexander Taylor
Windows
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 36.7% ★, Automation 16.5%, Logic 11.3%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #39 Manufactoria 2022
73% matchVery Positive96% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac
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 43.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Logic 14.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Puzzle 5.7%
- #40 ElectricVLab
74% matchVery Positive88% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: Q1TEK LLC
Windows
ElectricVLab employs the technology of video games to explore the fascinating world of electricity and electronics. It allows you to build a wide variety of analog and digital electronic circuits, and observe their behavior in a visually rich, informative, fun environment.
Why similar: Simulation 54.9%, Education 45.1%
- #41 Kaizen: A Factory Story
69% matchVery Positive93% of 705 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 38.8% ★, Automation 15.3%, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Building 7.6%
- #42 Data Center
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 808 reviews2026
Dev: Waseku
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.
Why similar: Programming 24.5% ★, Automation 18.8%, Science 18%, Logic 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #43 CHR$(143)
72% matchVery Positive96% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Nicolas Jean
Windows · Linux
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 39.7% ★, Automation 24.5%, Building 15%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 4.9%
- #44 Project Chemistry
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 221 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Science 33.2%, Education 23.3%, Logic 14.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 6.5%
- #45 Neon Noodles
71% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Vivid Helix
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 38.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Logic 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 5.6%
- #46 ServiceIT: You can do IT
70% matchMixed58% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: picture4uPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Hacking 23.7% ★, Education 18.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 6.6%
- #47 PC Building Simulator
69% matchVery Positive94% of 52,639 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Why similar: Education 43.2%, Building 19.7%, Simulation 16%, Sandbox 15.3%, Puzzle 4.4%
- #48 Purplis Sandbox
71% matchMixed66% of 211 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGOLITEPub: DRAGOLITE STUDIO
Windows
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.9%, Building 28.1%, Simulation 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 2.1%, 2D 2%
- #49 ACTION SANDBOX
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,008 reviews2022
Dev: Vona Soft
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.9%, Building 27.7%, Logic 16.3%, Simulation 15%, Colorful 5.1%
- #50 PC Creator - PC Building Simulator
71% matchMixed65% of 218 reviews2021
Dev: CREATY
Windows
Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Science 18.2%, Education 12%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.5%
- #51 Infinifactory
70% matchVery Positive95% of 2,472 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.5% ★, Automation 18.4%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Puzzle 6.5%
- #52 IT Specialist Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 393 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel Team RED
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Why similar: Programming 39.1% ★, Education 19.8%, Hacking 17.7% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Simulation 6.6%
- #53 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
68% matchVery Positive85% of 630 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 38.5% ★, Education 19.5%, Automation 18.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Puzzle 4.3%
- #54 EXAPUNKS
68% matchVery Positive95% of 1,878 reviews2018
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 46.2% ★, Hacking 21.6% ★, Automation 12.9%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 4.1%
- #55 Linkito
67% matchVery Positive87% of 165 reviews2024
Dev: KalinarmPub: Playdigious Originals
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 37% ★, Automation 17.2%, Logic 13.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Minimalist 6.3%
- #56 Zen Trails
67% matchVery Positive100% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Universe Juice
Windows
A zen-inducing spirograph-making experience to calm the soul while stimulating the mind.
Why similar: Programming 38.2% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Minimalist 6.1%
- #57 PixPhys
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 215 reviews2021
Dev: Red Starship
Windows · Linux
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 14%, Simulation 7.4%
- #58 Logicats
66% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
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 44.1% ★, Science 25%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 5.7%, Education 5%
- #59 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,154 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 38.6% ★, Automation 15.3%, Logic 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%