Games like CHR$(143)

Chasing that retro and minimalist feeling you got from CHR$(143)? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

SpaceChem
A puzzle game about building chemical factories from little instruction tracks and a pair of robotic arms called waldos. Feed atoms in, bond them into molecules, hit your quota. It starts gentle and ends up genuinely hard, but every working design is one you built yourself, and watching it hum is the whole reward.
Minimalist, Relaxing
95% of 2,635 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99
Alan's Automaton Workshop
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.
Minimalist, Relaxing
82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Opus Magnum
Build alchemical machines that turn raw elements into potions, gemstones and deadlier things. Opus Magnum gives you a hex grid, programmable arms and total freedom: any machine that works counts, and the elegant ones are yours to chase. A story of scheming noble Houses runs underneath.
Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
97% of 6,119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 125$19.99
Great Permutator
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.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
89% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
U.V.S. Nirmana
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.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
88% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Crazy Machines
Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.
Retro, Replayable, Chaotic
82% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Silicon Zeroes
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
88% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
LogicBots
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.
Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Prime Mover
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.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
87% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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, Relaxing, Funny
94% of 3,297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Warp Factory
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.
Minimalist, Relaxing
94% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Charge!
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.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

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Great Permutator

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$6.99

[the Sequence]

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Charge!

Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board.

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ComPressure

Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam.

$4.99

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!

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Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory

An automation puzzle game in the spirit of The Incredible Machine to stretch your brain without the stress.

$2.49

Art Of Gravity

Art Of Gravity is a voxel/physics based puzzle game, revolving around the theme of destroying abstract figures, which results in mesmerizing…

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Mars Power Industries Deluxe

Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface!

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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

TIS-100

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

$6.99

Crayon Computer

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

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Blocks That Matter

When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.

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U.V.S. Nirmana

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.

$14.99

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?

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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 Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator

Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game!

$8.99

Linkito

Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic.

$14.99

The Signal State

Fix a post-apocalyptic farm by wiring modular synthesizer modules, one puzzle at a time.

$19.99

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

Alan's Automaton Workshop

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

$14.99

Mars Power Industries Deluxe

Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface!

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EXAPUNKS

Write little programs that slip into networks, do the job and get out, one puzzle at a time.

$19.99

PixPhys

PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space…

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