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Top Programming Games

60+ programming games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Indie, Simulation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.

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  1. #1 The Farmer Was Replaced
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,430 reviews2025
    Developer: Timon HerzogPublisher: Metaroot
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.8hMean: 11.3h≥1hr: 75%

    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.

  2. #2 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
    98% matchVery Positive90% of 58,404 reviews2020
    Developer: Geometa
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 17.3hMean: 112.7h≥1hr: 91%

    Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

  3. #3 Baba Is You
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,029 reviews2019
    Developer: Hempuli Oy
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.2hMean: 13.5h≥1hr: 86%

    Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

  4. #4 Bitburner
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,237 reviews2021
    Developer: Fulcrum Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

  5. #5 Turing Complete
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,204 reviews2021
    Developer: LevelHead
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 12.1h≥1hr: 78%

    Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

  6. #6 Opus Magnum
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,887 reviews2017
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.7hMean: 13.3h≥1hr: 77%

    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!

  7. #7 while True: learn()
    98% matchVery Positive91% of 8,107 reviews2019
    Developer: Luden.io
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 80%

    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!

  8. #8 SHENZHEN I/O
    98% matchVery Positive95% of 4,452 reviews2016
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.1hMean: 11.5h≥1hr: 61%

    BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

  9. #9 TIS-100
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,067 reviews2015
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.2hMean: 6.2h≥1hr: 52%

    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!

  10. #10 Human Resource Machine
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 4,642 reviews2015
    Developer: Tomorrow Corporation
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 6.2h≥1hr: 84%

    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.

  11. #11 7 Billion Humans
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 2,104 reviews2018
    Developer: Tomorrow Corporation
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.4hMean: 11.6h≥1hr: 83%

    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!

  12. #12 SpaceChem
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 5,063 reviews2011
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.8hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 66%

    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!

  13. #13 EXAPUNKS
    98% matchVery Positive95% of 1,867 reviews2018
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.1hMean: 11.9h≥1hr: 58%

    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.

  14. #14 Autonauts
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
    Developer: DenkiPublisher: Curve Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 13.9h≥1hr: 86%

    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.

  15. #15 Replicube
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 683 reviews2025
    Developer: Walaber Entertainment LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.5hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 69%

    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.

  16. #16 Hacknet
    95% matchVery Positive94% of 25,910 reviews2015
    Developer: Team Fractal AlligatorPublisher: Fellow Traveller
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 13.2h≥1hr: 79%

    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.

  17. #17 异常 | Exception
    94% matchVery Positive95% of 614 reviews2019
    Developer: Kunpo Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 7.1h≥1hr: 78%

    Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.

  18. #18 Upload Labs
    93% matchVery Positive92% of 7,397 reviews2025
    Developer: EnigmaDev Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 5.2hMean: 21.2h≥1hr: 79%

    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

  19. #19 Infinifactory
    90% matchVery Positive95% of 2,465 reviews2015
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.7hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 87%

    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.

  20. #20 Grey Hack
    89% matchVery Positive90% of 1,825 reviews2017
    Developer: Loading Home
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.1hMean: 12.5h≥1hr: 83%

    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.

  21. #21 Else Heart.Break()
    88% matchMixed67% of 835 reviews2015
    Developer: Erik SvedängPublisher: Erik Svedäng AB
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 36mMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 37%

    A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.

  22. #22 Glitchspace
    88% matchMostly Positive73% of 376 reviews2016
    Developer: Space Budgie
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 48mMean: 20.0h≥1hr: 46%

    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.

  23. #23 MHRD
    87% matchVery Positive89% of 439 reviews2017
    Developer: Funghisoft
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.6hMean: 5.2h≥1hr: 76%

    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.

  24. #24 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
    87% matchVery Positive89% of 682 reviews2019
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.2hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 52%

    Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

  25. #25 hackmud
    86% matchMostly Positive77% of 842 reviews2016
    Developer: ComCODE
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.7hMean: 70.0h≥1hr: 83%

    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.

  26. #26 A=B
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 899 reviews2022
    Developer: Artless Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.5hMean: 9.7h≥1hr: 66%

    A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

  27. #27 Juno: New Origins
    81% matchVery Positive89% of 3,441 reviews2023
    Developer: Jundroo, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.0hMean: 13.1h≥1hr: 50%

    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.

  28. #28 CRUMB Circuit Simulator
    79% matchMostly Positive78% of 742 reviews2022
    Developer: Mike Bushell
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 36mMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 39%

    Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator

  29. #29 Stone Story RPG
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 989 reviews2023
    Developer: Rex Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.3hMean: 57.4h≥1hr: 86%

    An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...

  30. #30 Duskers
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 2,761 reviews2016
    Developer: Misfits Attic
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.5hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 59%

    Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

  31. #31 Desynced
    76% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,936 reviews2026
    Developer: Stage Games Inc.Publisher: Forklift Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 19.3h≥1hr: 77%

    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.

  32. #32 CodeSpells
    79% matchMostly Negative39% of 265 reviews2015
    Developer: ThoughtSTEM, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    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.

  33. #33 Hack 'n' Slash
    79% matchMixed52% of 925 reviews2014
    Developer: Double Fine Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 24mMean: 3.1h≥1hr: 35%

    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!

  34. #34 Mechanica
    77% matchMixed63% of 635 reviews2020
    Developer: Deimos Interactive
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  35. #35 Bioprototype
    75% matchVery Positive92% of 1,423 reviews2025
    Developer: Emprom Game
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.0hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 49%

    Bioprototype, a Roguelike & Skill Customizing Rhapsody! This is an auto-bomber with programming elements. Customize your character skills with visual programming, utilize enemy organs to finish the mutation, and construct the ultimate prototype, one can survive in the endless wave of flesh.

  36. #36 Silicon Zeroes
    76% matchVery Positive88% of 281 reviews2017
    Developer: PleasingFungus Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 75%

    Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

  37. #37 Prime Mover
    76% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
    Developer: 4Bit Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.5hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 87%

    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.

  38. #38 hack_me
    76% matchMixed60% of 2,102 reviews2017
    Developer: Egor MagurinPublisher: Indovers Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 24.8h≥1hr: 86%

    Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.

  39. #39 Screeps: World
    75% matchVery Positive87% of 2,073 reviews2016
    Developer: Screeps, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.7hMean: 52.4h≥1hr: 75%

    Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.

  40. #40 Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG
    74% matchVery Positive83% of 139 reviews2019
    Developer: Kaan Soral
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Adventure Land is an experimental Indie MMORPG. ANYONE can Code not just one, but up to 4 characters! You can play manually, use the given default Javascript Code, or learn programming to do more! Going open-source at 10,000 installs!

  41. #41 Kaizen: A Factory Story
    72% matchVery Positive93% of 689 reviews2025
    Developer: CoincidencePublisher: Astra Logical
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.2hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 88%

    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.

  42. #42 City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
    73% matchVery Positive92% of 1,809 reviews2021
    Developer: Binogure Studio 🐺
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.0hMean: 14.9h≥1hr: 87%

    Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

  43. #43 Quadrilateral Cowboy
    73% matchVery Positive92% of 994 reviews2016
    Developer: Blendo Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.3hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 55%

    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.

  44. #44 Game Dev Story
    72% matchVery Positive91% of 1,391 reviews2022
    Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 22.5h≥1hr: 73%

    Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!

  45. #45 Hacker Simulator
    72% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,265 reviews2021
    Developer: Save All Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 10.6h≥1hr: 55%

    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.

  46. #46 Algo Bot
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 188 reviews2018
    Developer: Fishing CactusPublisher: Plug In Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.7hMean: 4.8h≥1hr: 92%

    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.

  47. #47 Plasma
    71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,093 reviews2023
    Developer: Dry CactusPublisher: Dry Licorice
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 5.3h≥1hr: 37%

    Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

  48. #48 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
    72% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,148 reviews2020
    Developer: Stray Fawn StudioPublisher: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.1hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 84%

    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.

  49. #49 Auto Rogue
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 712 reviews2025
    Developer: 定期的な宝物
    Platforms: Windows

    A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!

  50. #50 Main Assembly
    70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
    Developer: Bad Yolk GamesPublisher: Team17
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 50%

    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.

  51. #51 LogicBots
    71% matchMostly Positive79% of 184 reviews2017
    Developer: Incandescent Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.5hMean: 4.7h≥1hr: 86%

    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.

  52. #52 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    69% matchVery Positive85% of 624 reviews2024
    Developer: Luden.io
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.3hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 64%

    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.

  53. #53 Bioweaver
    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 683 reviews2024
    Developer: Emprom Game
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.8hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 71%

    Bioweaver is an RPG game with the main content of treasure hunting and character building. You can use basic programming logic to deeply customize your skill sets, and you can also create organs with different attributes and functions with the special crafting system.

  54. #54 Tunnet
    68% matchVery Positive95% of 704 reviews2023
    Developer: puzzled_squid
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.3hMean: 8.2h≥1hr: 73%

    Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

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