Games like 1-DC

Chasing that minimalist and dark feeling you got from 1-DC? Browse these games for your next favorite.

SIC-1
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.
Minimalist, Retro
94% of 263 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Human Resource Machine
Program a little office worker to sort, add and shuffle boxes, one level at a time. It looks like a cute puzzle game about corporate life, and then you notice you have been writing assembly logic for an hour. Genuinely funny, deceptively deep, and the moment your little worker finally runs your plan without a hitch is a real payoff.
Minimalist
94% of 3,297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99
Comet 64
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.
Minimalist, Retro
74% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
TIS-100
A broken computer from the 1980s lands on your desk, and the only way to fix it is to write assembly code by hand. TIS-100 turns real low-level programming into puzzles: a dozen instructions, tiny memory, and over 45 challenges that are solvable, just not easily. When your program finally runs clean, the satisfaction is enormous.
Minimalist, Replayable
97% of 3,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$6.99
You Are The Code
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!
Minimalist, Replayable
100% of 42 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.39
A=B
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Minimalist
94% of 919 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
1000-BIT
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Minimalist, Retro, Mysterious
67% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
SHENZHEN I/O
Build circuits from microcontrollers, memory and logic gates, then program them in a tiny assembly language to meet real spec sheets. A demanding puzzle game about doing more with less, set at an electronics company in Shenzhen. When the code fights back, there is always solitaire.
Minimalist, Retro, Replayable
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$14.99
Robo Instructus
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Minimalist, Retro
82% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
QuantumPulse 2A
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.
Minimalist, Retro
94% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Selfless Heroes
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Minimalist, Retro
78% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Code: Terraform
A frozen planet, a silent ship, and one tool: real code. Write scripts in a Python-like language to run rovers, power grids and drone fleets, then watch them work while you plan the next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet answers back. No drag and drop, no hand holding, just engineering.
Minimalist, Replayable
84% of 388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99

Cheaper than 1-DC

You Are The Code

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!

$4.39

异常 | Exception

You play an operator in a virtual world, writing simple AI for robot units and debugging your way to victory.

$3.99

Debugger 3.16: Hack'n'Run

Help Debugger 3.16 to find and delete all bugs in the game worlds of the developer.

$2.99

Brainfuck Challenge

A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck.

$2.99

Interplayer

Pick up the tokens, write the source code, and repair the data that your doctor has deleted!

$2.99

Dear My Bot - Programming Game

Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.

$2.99

OS:Path

Small but tricky indie game to spend your evening on playing.

$3.99

Drag Engineer

If you are interested in programming, you will like the game.

$0.99

Programming Factory

What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!!

$1.99

Code Has Price

Collect and buy commands. Construct program from them. Run code to get more coins and commands. Repeat.

$3.99

I hate this game

Escape a computer by solving 100 puzzle rooms, where each level invents its own mechanic and nothing on screen is off limits.

$1.99

Crayon Computer

Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)

$3.99

Hidden gems like 1-DC

Code: Terraform

Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.

$14.99

ABI-DOS

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine?

Free

Star Stuff

Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task…

$14.99

The Farmer Was Replaced

Teach a small drone to plant and harvest for you, then sit back and refine your program at your own pace.

$6.99

SIC-1

SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security!

Free

A=B

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

$4.99

JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate…

$17.99

One Dreamer

Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong…

$15.99

Turing Complete

Wire up gates, memory and assembly until a machine you designed runs your own code, then keep building in the sandbox.

$19.99

异常 | Exception

You play an operator in a virtual world, writing simple AI for robot units and debugging your way to victory.

$3.99

Alan's Automaton Workshop

Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game.

$14.99

Bots Are Stupid

An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them.

$12.99

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