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 33.1%, Programming 31.6% ★, Building 15.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, 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 34.6% ★, Automation 28.8%, Moddable 14.6% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 7.7%
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 39.8% ★, Automation 30%, Building 12.4%, Puzzle 9%, 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 41.6% ★, Automation 27.8%, Building 10.4%, Puzzle 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 26.4%, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 13.7%, Indie 1.5%
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 42.1% ★, Automation 31.6%, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 6.1%, Building 3.5%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Automation 27.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 4.7%, Building 2.9%
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 34.3% ★, Automation 23.8%, Building 13.7%, Moddable 10% ★, 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%, Simulation 14.1%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 34.3% ★, Automation 29.2%, Building 15.1%, Puzzle 13.3%, Simulation 6.2%
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 41.9% ★, Automation 25.4%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 9%, Puzzle 7%
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% ★, Automation 18.2%, Puzzle 13.2%, Simulation 4.2%, 2D 3.2%
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 40.7% ★, Automation 34.4%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 6.9%, Building 4.6%
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Why similar: Programming 53.8% ★, Automation 27.5%, Puzzle 15.1%, 2D 1.7%, Indie 1.3%
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 38.1% ★, Automation 31.3%, Building 15.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 3.9%
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 20.3%, Puzzle 13.6%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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%
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 55.6% ★, Automation 26.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 1.2%
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 39.1% ★, Automation 29.7%, Building 13.7%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 5%
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 33.2% ★, Automation 26.1%, Moddable 20.5% ★, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 7.1%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 57.7% ★, Automation 16.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 6.7%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Programming 25.4% ★, Puzzle 14.5%, Building 13.8%, 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% ★, Automation 20%, Building 12.5%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 7.6%
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 36.2% ★, Automation 28.9%, Building 12.1%, Puzzle 9.6%, Simulation 6.6%
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 73.8% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Automation 8.1%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 1.1%
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 67.7% ★, Puzzle 12.6%, Automation 10%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 1.7%
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 65.9% ★, Puzzle 11.7%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Indie 1.1%
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% ★, Automation 37.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 1.4%
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 18.2%, Puzzle 12.1%, 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 41.9% ★, Automation 34%, Building 15.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 29.9% ★, Automation 26.8%, Moddable 16.7% ★, Building 13.9%, Simulation 7.4%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Programming 27.7% ★, Building 16.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 7.7%
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 43.7% ★, Automation 34.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 5.9%, 2D 3.3%
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 36.9% ★, Automation 32.5%, Building 15.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, Simulation 6.2%
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%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 40.7% ★, Automation 30.8%, Building 17.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 20.1%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 35.5% ★, Automation 27.4%, Building 12.2%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 6.6%
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 43.2%, Building 17.8%, Moddable 17.4% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 8.6%
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 80% ★, Puzzle 17%, Indie 3%
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%, Simulation 4.7%, 2D 3.8%
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 38.1% ★, Automation 29.4%, Building 14.4%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 7.6%
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 59.4% ★, Automation 24.7%, Puzzle 7.6%, Family Friendly 6%, 2D 1.7%
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 18.9%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 3.6%, 2D 2.6%
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 15.9%, Puzzle 15%, Singleplayer 2%
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 35.8% ★, Automation 32.5%, Building 17.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Family Friendly 6.5%
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 54.2% ★, Automation 23.3%, Building 20.2%, Indie 2.2%
Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.
Why similar: Programming 48.1% ★, Automation 35.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Puzzle 7%, Indie 0.9%
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 64.4% ★, Puzzle 17.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 35.9% ★, Automation 25.5%, Building 10.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Grid-Based Movement 8.1%
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.
Why similar: Programming 34.3% ★, Automation 28.6%, Building 11.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Grid-Based Movement 8.9%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 41.2% ★, Automation 20.4%, Puzzle 11.9%, Building 11.2%, 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 50.1% ★, Automation 36.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 45.7% ★, Automation 25%, Building 10.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 8%
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Automation 43.6%, Simulation 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 35.5% ★, Automation 29.1%, Building 14%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 7.3%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 49% ★, Automation 38.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Automation 31.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 9.7%, 2D 3.3%
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 35.5% ★, Automation 34.4%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 10.1%, 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 39.1% ★, Automation 30%, Puzzle 11.5%, Building 9%, Simulation 6.7%
