Games like Algorithms

Looking for that same minimalist spark as Algorithms? These games could fill that gap nicely.

Cheaper than Algorithms

Elevator Programmer

Elevator Programmer

Learn programming by implementing an elevator through a guided tour

67% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Move Code Lines

Move Code Lines

Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output.

82% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
A=B

A=B

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

94% of 919 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Algotica Iterations

Algotica Iterations

Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics.

51% of 137 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator

MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator

The programming simulator. MatchMaker95 is a cozy(ish) coding tycoon where you write real C++, grow a chaotic dating app startup, unlock…

94% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.29
TIS-100

TIS-100

Repair a fictional 1980s machine by writing tiny assembly programs, one puzzle at a time, at whatever pace you like.

97% of 3,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$6.99
Selfless Heroes

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!

78% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Coding Learn

Coding Learn

Coding Learn is a game that will help you master real programming!

43% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
See

See

See is a logic puzzle game based on the C programming language.

$1.99
Rogue Bit

Rogue Bit

A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world.

89% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Hidden gems like Algorithms

Replicube

Replicube

Replicube hands you a blank editor and a voxel sculpture to copy, and asks you to write the code that builds it.

96% of 722 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Code: Terraform

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.

84% of 381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99
Virtual Circuit Board

Virtual Circuit Board

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple…

91% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
SIC-1

SIC-1

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

94% of 263 Steam reviews are positiveFree
A=B

A=B

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

94% of 919 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

88% of 480 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

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…

76% of 384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$17.99
Turing Complete

Turing Complete

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

95% of 5,762 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$19.99
Squally

Squally

Squally is a 2D puzzle RPG programming game that teaches you how to hack. Control the world by rewriting it in x86/x64 assembly language!

76% of 106 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Alan's Automaton Workshop

Alan's Automaton Workshop

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

82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Rogue Bit

Rogue Bit

A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world.

89% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Comet 64

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.

74% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Newest games like Algorithms

MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator

MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator

The programming simulator. MatchMaker95 is a cozy(ish) coding tycoon where you write real C++, grow a chaotic dating app startup, unlock…

94% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.29
FORK BOMB: A Programming Game

FORK BOMB: A Programming Game

Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world.

100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Agents! Please?

Agents! Please?

The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie.

100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.04
Code: Terraform

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.

84% of 381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99
Blackdoor

Blackdoor

You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them.

86% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Code Tycoon

Code Tycoon

Start in 1980 in your garage and build your software empire.

80% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Mnemonimov

Mnemonimov

Mnemonimov is a fantasy console where you program in ASSEMBLY like in the 80s.

100% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
EmuDevz

EmuDevz

A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in…

89% of 79 Steam reviews are positiveFree
programming-factory-2

programming-factory-2

Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game!

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.75
The Farmer Was Replaced

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.

95% of 9,673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,597$6.99
You Are The Code

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!

100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
QuantumPulse 2A

QuantumPulse 2A

Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations.

94% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$11.99