60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Programming, Logic, Education.
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.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Education 15%, Logic 11.4%, Hacking 8.9% ★, Automation 7.1%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 53.5% ★, Automation 15.7%, Logic 8.9%, Education 7.4%, Simulation 3.5%
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 23.9% ★, Hacking 13.3% ★, Science 12.5%, Education 11%, Automation 10%
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 13.8% ★, Science 12.9%, Education 10.4%, Automation 9%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 22.2% ★, Education 16.4%, Automation 16%, Hacking 11.3% ★, Building 10.3%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Education 20.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Logic 11.3%
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 47.7% ★, Hacking 19.6% ★, Education 13.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 0.9%
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 34.4% ★, Science 18.5%, Education 13.4%, Logic 10.1%, Simulation 8.9%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 42.1% ★, Science 20.9%, Automation 15.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 46% ★, Education 17.4%, Science 12.2%, Building 5.9%, Sandbox 5.9%
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 11.2%, Education 10.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 34.5% ★, Automation 23.8%, Hacking 14.2% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Logic 8.9%
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 11.5%, Building 10.4%
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 33.4% ★, Science 15.2%, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Science 19.8%, Education 17.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Automation 14.6%, Logic 11.9%
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 13.8% ★, Science 13.6%, Education 10.3%, Automation 10.2%
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% ★, Hacking 14.2% ★, Automation 13.3%, Education 10.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 19.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Puzzle 5.1%, Indie 1.4%
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 32.7% ★, Automation 16.3%, Hacking 12.5% ★, Logic 12.4%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 12.5% ★, Education 10.8%, Science 8.4%, Automation 8.2%
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 33.7% ★, Education 16.4%, Automation 15.2%, Sandbox 9%, Logic 8.9%
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 28.3% ★, Science 17.6%, Automation 13.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.3%
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 16.2%, Automation 14.7%, Education 12.6%, Building 9.4%
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 48.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Logic 9.7%, Puzzle 7.4%, Simulation 5.5%
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 44.6% ★, Automation 15.4%, Education 13.8%, Logic 8.6%, Sandbox 5.5%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Automation 16%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 11.8%, Logic 10.7%
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 39.5% ★, Hacking 38.1% ★, Simulation 7%, Education 6.1%, Sandbox 4.3%
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 30.2% ★, Science 19.9%, Education 13.7%, Automation 12.1%, Building 10.7%
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 11.2%, Education 10.7%, Building 9.8%
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 27.2% ★, Science 15.1%, Hacking 14.2% ★, Automation 14.2%, Education 13.1%
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 90.6%, Indie 9.4%
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 36.1%, Automation 22.2%, Logic 13.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Puzzle 8.5%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Science 32.6%, Education 23.2%, Sandbox 18%, Building 14%, Simulation 5.4%
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 16.5%, Hacking 15.6% ★, Logic 12.2%, Simulation 6.2%
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 36.6% ★, Automation 16.7%, Logic 11.2%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
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 38.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Education 13.3%, Logic 10.6%, Building 7.7%
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 39.5% ★, Automation 24.8%, Building 15%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 4.8%
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 36.4% ★, Automation 18.6%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Puzzle 6.5%
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% ★, Automation 11.4%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Science 8.3%
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%, Education 23.2%, Logic 15%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 6.6%
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 43.6% ★, Automation 22.1%, Logic 14.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Puzzle 5.6%
⚡️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 23.9% ★, Education 18.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 6.6%
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 55.2%, Education 44.8%
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 39.2% ★, Education 19.6%, Hacking 17.8% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Simulation 6.7%
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% ★, Automation 20.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 14%, Simulation 7.4%
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 46% ★, Hacking 21.7% ★, Automation 13.1%, Logic 7.5%, Puzzle 4.1%
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 38.4% ★, Education 19.4%, Automation 18.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Puzzle 4.2%
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 38.4% ★, Automation 20.6%, Logic 11.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 5.6%
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%, Building 19.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Puzzle 4.4%
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.8%, Building 28.1%, Simulation 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 2.1%, 2D 2%
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 16.2%, Simulation 15%, Colorful 5.1%
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 27.5% ★, Automation 23.3%, Logic 14.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Science 9%
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 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.6%
A zen-inducing spirograph-making experience to calm the soul while stimulating the mind.
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Minimalist 6.1%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Automation 24.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8%, Simulation 8%
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 38.5% ★, Automation 15.5%, Logic 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%
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 44.2% ★, Science 24.9%, Logic 15%, Puzzle 5.7%, Education 5%
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Why similar: Science 23.1%, Simulation 17.5%, Programming 16% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Education 11.9%
