60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Programming, Simulation, Automation.
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.
CHR$(143)
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
The Signal State
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.
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: Automation 32.1%, Programming 32% ★, Building 15.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Grid-Based Movement 5.5%
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 35.1% ★, Automation 27.8%, Moddable 14.8% ★, Puzzle 11.1%, Simulation 7.6%
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 40.3% ★, Automation 29.1%, Building 12.6%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 6.1%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 26.9%, Building 10.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 7.2%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 43.8% ★, Automation 25.6%, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 14%, Indie 1.6%
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 59.7% ★, Automation 17.4%, Puzzle 13.3%, Simulation 4.2%, 2D 3.2%
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 34.5% ★, Automation 28.4%, Building 15.4%, Puzzle 13.6%, Simulation 6.1%
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 66.1% ★, Puzzle 16.2%, Simulation 14%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 19.3%, Building 12.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 7.6%
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 42.6% ★, Automation 30.7%, Puzzle 14.2%, Simulation 6.1%, Building 3.6%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 56.4% ★, Automation 26.5%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 4.7%, Building 2.9%
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 41.2% ★, Automation 33.4%, Puzzle 11.7%, Simulation 7%, Building 4.7%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 54.4% ★, Automation 26.6%, Puzzle 15.4%, 2D 1.7%, Indie 1.3%
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 71.6% ★, Puzzle 15.3%, Simulation 13%
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 34.1% ★, Automation 22.6%, Building 13.6%, Moddable 11.2% ★, Puzzle 7.8%
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 61.3% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Puzzle 13.8%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 38.5% ★, Automation 30.4%, Building 15.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 3.9%
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 33.5% ★, Automation 25.3%, Moddable 20.8% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 7.1%
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 28.8%, Building 13.9%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 5%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 38.9%, Programming 25.8% ★, Puzzle 14.9%, Building 14.1%, 2D 5.1%
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 56.1% ★, Automation 25.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 1.2%
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 40.5% ★, Automation 28.2%, Building 13%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 7.9%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Programming 28% ★, Building 16.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 7.7%
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 36.6% ★, Automation 28%, Building 12.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 6.7%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Building 19.4%, Moddable 18% ★, Puzzle 12.7%, Simulation 10.7%
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% ★, Puzzle 11.1%, Automation 7.8%, Simulation 5.4%, Indie 1.1%
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 65.8% ★, Puzzle 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Indie 1.1%
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 30.3% ★, Automation 26%, Moddable 17% ★, Building 14.1%, Simulation 7.4%
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 42.6% ★, Automation 36.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 1.4%
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 68.1% ★, Puzzle 12.7%, Automation 9.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 1.7%
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 66.3% ★, Simulation 18%, Puzzle 12.3%, Indie 3.4%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 33.1%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Programming 28.3% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 8.4%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Automation 31.5%, Building 15.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 44.3% ★, Automation 33.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 5.9%, 2D 3.3%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 41.4% ★, Automation 30%, Building 17.5%, Simulation 11.2%
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.
Why similar: Programming 64.3% ★, Puzzle 17.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 35.9% ★, Automation 26.5%, Building 12.4%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 6.7%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 45.6%, Building 20.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Puzzle 15.3%, Singleplayer 2%
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Why similar: Programming 62% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 58.5% ★, Building 19%, Puzzle 14.2%, Simulation 4.6%, 2D 3.7%
Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.
Why similar: Programming 79.8% ★, Puzzle 17.2%, Indie 3%
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 57.4% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Puzzle 16.4%, Indie 3.6%, 2D 2.6%
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 36.3% ★, Automation 24.7%, Building 10.2%, Puzzle 9%, Grid-Based Movement 8.2%
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 54.7% ★, Automation 22.6%, Building 20.5%, Indie 2.2%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 41.5% ★, Automation 19.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 7.1%
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 50.8% ★, Automation 35.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, 2D 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 35.9% ★, Automation 28.2%, Building 14.3%, Puzzle 10%, Simulation 7.3%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Automation 27.7%, Building 11.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Grid-Based Movement 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 52.3% ★, Puzzle 22.5%, Automation 19.1%, Indie 1.6%, Simulation 1.5%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Automation 24.2%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 8%
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Automation 31.6%, Building 16.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 6.3%
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 38.6% ★, Automation 28.5%, Building 14.5%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 7.6%
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 39.6% ★, Automation 29.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 6.7%
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 56.6% ★, Automation 21.1%, Puzzle 12.9%, Simulation 6.6%, 2D 1.8%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Automation 30.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Simulation 9.7%, 2D 3.3%
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
Why similar: Programming 59.9% ★, Automation 23.9%, Puzzle 7.7%, Family Friendly 6.1%, 2D 1.7%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Automation 35.1%, Simulation 16.9%, 2D 4.9%, Indie 1.2%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 49.7% ★, Automation 37.2%, Puzzle 12.1%, Singleplayer 1%
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Why similar: Programming 82.8% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Indie 2.8%
