
Your life depends on a machine that struggles to count higher than 256. But with a little bit of BASIC and a lot of cunning, you may just live long enough to escape a dying spaceship with a mind of its own. Let's hope eight bits are enough.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Hacking, Puzzle, Logic.

Your life depends on a machine that struggles to count higher than 256. But with a little bit of BASIC and a lot of cunning, you may just live long enough to escape a dying spaceship with a mind of its own. Let's hope eight bits are enough.

Lo-Res Shaders: The Game
A single player graphics-coding puzzle game for creative coders and coding creatives. Built for people who like their graphics coding low level and retro styled.

Software Engineering Course / Informatyka - zrozum i zaprogramuj komputer
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
A single player graphics-coding puzzle game for creative coders and coding creatives. Built for people who like their graphics coding low level and retro styled.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Hacking 32.8% ★, Logic 6.2%, Puzzle 5.7%, 1980s 5.7%
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
Why similar: Programming 42.9% ★, Hacking 37.6% ★, Logic 13%, Puzzle 6.6%
Solve puzzles and learn how to code in this unique and gripping sci-fi adventure!
Why similar: Programming 35.8% ★, Hacking 31.4% ★, Logic 7.9%, Futuristic 7.6%, Puzzle 6.2%
DA-VI-NC1 is a Turing-machine-based coding puzzle game. You must complete the puzzles, pass the Turing test, and discover the philosophical world of DA-VI-NC1 with the Mona Lisa.
Why similar: Programming 48.5% ★, Hacking 30.5% ★, Logic 14%, Puzzle 7%
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Why similar: Programming 32.9% ★, Hacking 31.6% ★, Detective 7.5%, Logic 6.2%, Realistic 5.9%
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 45.8% ★, Hacking 24.9% ★, Logic 12.7%, Puzzle 7.3%, 1980s 7.2%
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 60.7% ★, Hacking 21.3% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Adventure 4.6%, First-Person 4.2%
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 50.3% ★, Hacking 34.5% ★, Logic 8.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 39.3% ★, Hacking 31.7% ★, 1980s 8.8%, Logic 7.4%, Puzzle 6.4%
Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Hacking 19.6% ★, 1980s 14.8%, Logic 6.9%, Puzzle 4.6%
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: Hacking 52.2% ★, Programming 36.5% ★, Logic 4.1%, Detective 3.5%, Realistic 2.9%
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 68.1% ★, Hacking 18.6% ★, Puzzle 7.1%, Logic 6.2%
Cyber Warrior is a hacking simulator where you play as an ex retired bureau agent recruited back to take on a powerful criminal organization. Explore dozens of interactive desktops, navigate 200+ in-game websites, solve puzzles, customize your setup and make decisions that will shape a new cyber age
Why similar: Hacking 35% ★, Programming 34.2% ★, Detective 10.3%, Logic 10.2%, Investigation 6%
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 44.2% ★, Hacking 37.9% ★, Logic 11.4%, Puzzle 6.5%
Type to guess the words used to create machine-made artworks, while slowly uncovering the algorithm's reflections on its own work. Come investigate more than 1,500 generated artworks across 7 carefully curated galleries.
Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Hacking 24.8% ★, Detective 10.3%, Logic 7.8%, Investigation 7.1%
Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you
Why similar: Programming 49.9% ★, Hacking 27.4% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Adventure 7.1%, Family Friendly 3.3%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 56.6% ★, Hacking 17.5% ★, Logic 15.6%, Puzzle 6.9%, Sci-fi 3.3%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Hacking 28.3% ★, Logic 12.7%, Exploration 6%, Puzzle 5.9%
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!
Why similar: Hacking 48.6% ★, Programming 36.9% ★, Puzzle 8.4%, Adventure 6%
Play as the ghost in the machine and hack your way through the 48 levels of the puzzle-platformer H4CT0PL45M! Use your ability to possess hardware to make your way to the end of each level and complete your infiltration.
Why similar: Hacking 51% ★, Programming 26% ★, Logic 12.9%, Puzzle 5.4%, Sci-fi 4.7%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 53.7% ★, Hacking 39% ★, Adventure 4.7%, Atmospheric 2.5%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Hacking 46.6% ★, Programming 27.9% ★, Detective 8.5%, Realistic 8.4%, First-Person 3.5%
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 35.5% ★, Hacking 29.9% ★, Logic 12%, Puzzle 6.2%, Sci-fi 6%
A puzzle adventure set in a digital world where hacking digital entities isn’t just about solving puzzles, but also turning heartbreaking life events into moments of joy, even if only for a moment.
Why similar: Hacking 37.5% ★, Programming 20.1% ★, Logic 11.9%, Futuristic 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Tactical puzzle game where you need to program your robots to finish the task.
Why similar: Programming 39.4% ★, Hacking 26.2% ★, Logic 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Puzzle 6.7%
In this first-person puzzle exploration game, walk the liminal spaces of a long-abandoned service station. Reprogram aging computers, physically reroute damaged and fading connections and restore fragments of their waning memory.
Why similar: Hacking 41.8% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Futuristic 7.5%, Exploration 6.8%
A programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
Why similar: Programming 39.6% ★, Hacking 35.8% ★, Logic 9.8%, Puzzle 7.4%, Exploration 7.3%
Enter the world of hackers where Hiro and Misa must uncover the circumstances behind a mystery arson attack on a company that may be tied to the legendary hacker "Warlock". What will they uncover in their pursuit of the truth? A visual novel that brings the world of hackers to life!
Why similar: Programming 46.7% ★, Hacking 36% ★, Investigation 9.3%, Sci-fi 8%
Freelancer Life Simulator: Prologue - a free game that contains events before Freelancer Life Simulator. In this story, you play as the uncle of the protagonist. You will find out why uncle left the city.
Why similar: Hacking 36.6% ★, Programming 35.4% ★, Logic 7.5%, Realistic 5.6%, First-Person 4.5%
Guide your signal to the target while hacking into the grid puzzle network. Craft your own challenges in the level editor to share with friends.
Why similar: Hacking 35% ★, Programming 27.2% ★, Logic 13.7%, Futuristic 8.6%, Puzzle 7%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 58.4% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Logic 10.7%, Dark Humor 6.6%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Hacking 28.1% ★, Logic 15.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Family Friendly 4.9%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Hacking 37.3% ★, Puzzle 8.4%
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 66.7% ★, Puzzle 12.2%, Logic 6.8%, Detective 5.8%, Sci-fi 3.6%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 51.2% ★, Programming 46.9% ★, Adventure 2%
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Why similar: Hacking 38.8% ★, Programming 36.8% ★, Sci-fi 6.7%, First-Person 5.3%, Adventure 3.8%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 45.6% ★, Hacking 39.1% ★, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 5.8%
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Why similar: Hacking 79.2% ★, Programming 11% ★, Logic 3%, Detective 3%, Sci-fi 2%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 53.7% ★, Hacking 35.4% ★, Puzzle 8.5%, Retro 2.4%
Maze is a short psychedelic experience. Run and fight enemies in randomly generated levels.
Why similar: Hacking 35.7% ★, Programming 32% ★, 1980s 16.4%, FPS 10.2%, First-Person 3.5%
Void Observation is a suspense-thriller set in a remote Soviet facility. Manage unstable systems, solve puzzles, operate machinery, and uncover buried secrets as you face a growing, otherworldly phenomenon. Unravel a reality-altering truth—can you survive the unknown and escape?
Why similar: Hacking 28.5% ★, 1980s 14.5%, FPS 13.1%, Logic 8.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 45.4% ★, Hacking 30.7% ★, Logic 9.4%, Futuristic 7.6%, Puzzle 6.9%
Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.
Why similar: Hacking 40.4% ★, Programming 36.1% ★, Logic 8.3%, Realistic 6.2%, First-Person 4.6%
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 47.6% ★, Hacking 27.6% ★, Logic 8.5%, Puzzle 7.7%, 1980s 4.9%
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
Why similar: Programming 47.1% ★, Hacking 47% ★, Puzzle 5.8%
Artificial Fright is a tense horror survival game where you play as an assistant robot in an old, abandoned warehouse. Explore your surroundings, conserve your battery power, and manage your systems using a Unix-like terminal.
Why similar: Hacking 34.4% ★, FPS 15.1%, Walking Simulator 11.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Exploration 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 57.3% ★, Hacking 33.8% ★, Puzzle 9%
GRIDHACK is a sci-fi puzzle RPG where you fight nonogram battles to hack your way on an intergalactic quest as you try to find out what happened to a planet called Earth!
Why similar: Hacking 43.6% ★, Logic 16.7%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Futuristic 5.5%
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 43% ★, Hacking 28% ★, Logic 12.2%, Sci-fi 6.2%, Futuristic 5.5%
Project: Centurion is a narrative-driven adventure puzzle game built around real-world Linux skills. Players must use actual Linux commands and systems knowledge to interact with the ship, parse logs, repair services, and uncover what happened to the crew—and whether escape is still possible.
Why similar: Programming 55.3% ★, 1980s 12.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Realistic 10.3%, Retro 4.3%
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
Why similar: Hacking 61.2% ★, Programming 27.6% ★, Puzzle 5.9%, Adventure 5.3%
You find yourself in a pitch-dark world. Avoid dangerous events, restore memory, and escape from the “Mystery Zone”.
Why similar: Programming 51.4% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Walking Simulator 9.3%, Exploration 8%, Adventure 7.8%
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.
Why similar: Programming 45.4% ★, Hacking 17.1% ★, 1980s 13.3%, Logic 13%, Puzzle 7.7%
Breadbox is a retro computer simulator that lets you relive the magic of 70s and 80s machines. Explore a visual environment where you can interact with classic hardware and media as if they were real.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Hacking 25.9% ★, 1980s 10.9%, Logic 8.7%, Realistic 8.2%
In Void Future: Hacking Protocol, you play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations. Hack, solve puzzles, and uncover a global conspiracy. Hunted by a system that never sleeps, you’ll need to stay hidden, outsmart surveillance, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Hacking 44.2% ★, Programming 25.5% ★, Futuristic 8.6%, Puzzle 7.4%, Investigation 5.5%
Bug Catcher is a lost Creature Collector where you solve bugs and catch Buggies. Rearrange the game's code to fix and catch over 100 Buggies, and explore the hidden secrets of an unreleased game. No programming knowledge required!
Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Hacking 29% ★, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 8.3%, Adventure 4%
Move and rotate pieces to get the laser to hit the goal. Colored lasers, gates, and activators add additional challenge to this relatively simple concept. Can you complete all of the levels?
Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Logic 20.3%, Puzzle 16.5%, Sci-fi 11.7%, 3D 8.3%
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.
Why similar: Programming 44.9% ★, Hacking 23.8% ★, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 7.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%
Drag & Drop Various Action Blocks to Guide The Robot to The End of The Level!
Why similar: Programming 53.2% ★, Logic 19%, Puzzle 11.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Futuristic 5.7%
HELLO HACKER features a realistic terminal. Use real Linux commands, network scanning, password cracking, and cryptography to infiltrate 10 interconnected servers and expose a deadly government surveillance program. Your colleague is missing. You're next. Are you ready to be a hacker?
Why similar: Programming 43.5% ★, Hacking 38.4% ★, Puzzle 7%, Logic 5.9%, Investigation 3%