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 32.7%, Programming 31.7% ★, Building 15.2%, Puzzle 8.5%, Grid-Based Movement 5.4%
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 34.9% ★, Automation 28.3%, Moddable 14.7%, Puzzle 11%, 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% ★, Automation 29.6%, Building 12.5%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 6.1%
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% ★, Automation 23.1%, Building 13.5%, Moddable 11.1%, Puzzle 7.7%
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 66.2% ★, Puzzle 16.1%, Simulation 14%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Automation 26%, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 13.8%, Indie 1.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 56% ★, Automation 27%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 4.7%, Building 2.9%
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 59.1% ★, Automation 17.9%, Puzzle 13.3%, Simulation 4.2%, 2D 3.3%
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 28.8%, Building 15.2%, Puzzle 13.4%, Simulation 6.2%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 54.1% ★, Automation 27.1%, Puzzle 15.2%, 2D 1.7%, Indie 1.3%
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 40.9% ★, Automation 34%, Puzzle 11.5%, Simulation 6.9%, Building 4.6%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 25.2%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 9%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 42.3% ★, Automation 31.2%, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 6.1%, Building 3.6%
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 20.2%, Puzzle 13.7%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 33.3% ★, Automation 25.8%, Moddable 20.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 7.1%
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 38.3% ★, Automation 31%, Building 15.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 3.9%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Programming 25.6% ★, Puzzle 14.7%, Building 13.9%, 2D 5.1%
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 45.2% ★, Automation 19.7%, Building 12.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Simulation 7.6%
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 71.2% ★, Puzzle 15.3%, Simulation 13.5%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 57.9% ★, Automation 15.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 6.8%
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 41.8% ★, Automation 27.4%, Building 10.4%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 7.2%
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 55.8% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 1.2%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Programming 27.8% ★, Building 16.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, 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 36.4% ★, Automation 28.5%, Building 12.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Simulation 6.7%
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 18.1%, Puzzle 12.1%, Indie 3.4%
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 39.3% ★, Automation 29.3%, Building 13.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 5%
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 67.8% ★, Puzzle 12.7%, Automation 9.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 1.7%
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 39.9%, Building 19.1%, Moddable 17.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Simulation 10.7%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 37.1%, Puzzle 9.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 1.4%
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 73.9% ★, Puzzle 11%, Automation 8%, Simulation 5.5%, 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 11.7%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 10.4%, 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 30.1% ★, Automation 26.5%, Moddable 16.8%, Building 14%, Simulation 7.4%
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 37.1% ★, Automation 32.2%, Building 16%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 6.3%
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 42.2% ★, Automation 33.6%, Building 15.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 52.1% ★, Puzzle 22.3%, Automation 19.5%, Indie 1.6%, Simulation 1.5%
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 44.9% ★, Automation 35.5%, Building 9%, Simulation 8.9%, Indie 1.6%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 30.4%, Building 17.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 64.4% ★, Automation 14.9%, Puzzle 12.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Indie 1.8%
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 43.9% ★, Automation 34.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 5.9%, 2D 3.3%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Programming 28.2% ★, Puzzle 13.6%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 8.4%
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 82.7% ★, Simulation 14.5%, Indie 2.8%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Building 17.9%, Moddable 17.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 8.6%
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 35.7% ★, Automation 27.1%, Building 12.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 6.6%
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 54.8% ★, Automation 31.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Simulation 4.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 59.6% ★, Automation 24.4%, Puzzle 7.6%, Family Friendly 6.1%, 2D 1.7%
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 20%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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: Automation 44.8%, Programming 39.9% ★, Simulation 13.1%, 2D 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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 58.6% ★, Building 18.9%, Puzzle 14.1%, Simulation 4.6%, 2D 3.8%
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 46.2%, Building 19.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Puzzle 15%, Singleplayer 2%
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 79.9% ★, Puzzle 17.1%, 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 18.8%, Puzzle 16.3%, Indie 3.6%, 2D 2.6%
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 54.5% ★, Automation 23%, Building 20.3%, Indie 2.2%
A vehicle building game. Put your engineering, design and creativity skills to the test as you combine simple elements into complex contraptions. Jump around your vehicle to keep it moving and overcome challenges in the campaign, or just relax and build your dream machine in the cozy mode!
Why similar: Programming 36.4% ★, Automation 33.8%, Building 18.5%, Simulation 7.9%, 2D 2.6%
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 38.4% ★, Automation 29%, Building 14.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 7.6%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Programming 36% ★, Automation 32.1%, Building 18%, Simulation 7.4%, Family Friendly 6.6%
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 36.1% ★, Automation 25.2%, Building 10.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Grid-Based Movement 8.1%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 41.4% ★, Automation 20.1%, Puzzle 12%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 7.1%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 34.4% ★, Automation 28.2%, Building 11.2%, Puzzle 9.8%, Grid-Based Movement 9%
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 50.4% ★, Automation 36.1%, Puzzle 11.3%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 49.3% ★, Automation 37.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Singleplayer 1%
