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
Games like EXAPUNKS
Did EXAPUNKS leave you in a replayable and minimalist frame of mind? You might settle into these games easily.
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.
Replayable, Minimalist
97% of 3,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$6.99Cyber Sentinel
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.
Minimalist, Retro
82% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Hack 'n' Slash
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!
Retro, Mysterious, Funny
57% of 538 Steam reviews are positive$13.37Silicon Zeroes
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Replayable, Minimalist, Retro
88% of 249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Human 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, Funny
94% of 3,295 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99You 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!
Replayable, Minimalist
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Alan'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
82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Bitburner
A cyberpunk idle game where the way you play is writing JavaScript. Hack servers for cash, automate everything that bores you, trade stocks with your own bots and grow a character with 100+ augmentations. Some programming background helps, but the guide and the game teach as you go.
Replayable, Minimalist, Mysterious
94% of 7,470 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMu Complex
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
Retro, Mysterious, Funny
79% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Quadrilateral Cowboy
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.
Minimalist, Retro, Mysterious
92% of 897 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Hacknet
Hacknet is a terminal-based hacking sim with a mystery at its heart. A hacker named Bit is dead, his automated failsafe has contacted you, and the media reports do not add up. Type real commands, break into systems, read other people's mail and find out what really happened.
Replayable, Retro, Mysterious
93% of 16,978 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$9.99Comet 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
Cheaper than EXAPUNKS
SHENZHEN I/O
Design electronics on a budget, write the assembly to run them, and unwind with a round of solitaire when the specs bite back.
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$14.99
Cyber Sentinel
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel!
82% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hack 'n' Slash
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even…
57% of 538 Steam reviews are positive$13.37
Silicon Zeroes
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
88% of 249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Opus Magnum
Program alchemical arms on a hex grid and build machines that work any way you like.
97% of 6,100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$9.99
Human Resource Machine
Guide a small office worker through inbox and outbox by building little programs, one level at a time.
94% of 3,295 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99
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!
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Alan's Automaton Workshop
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game.
82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Mu Complex
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets.
79% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Hacknet
Follow a dead hacker's trail through other people's systems, one typed command at a time.
93% of 16,978 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$9.99
SpaceChem
Program two little robotic arms to bond atoms into molecules, one elegant machine at a time.
95% of 2,635 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
Hidden gems like EXAPUNKS
868-BACK
868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time!
98% of 135 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
Kaizen: A Factory Story
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan.
91% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
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.
88% of 226 Steam reviews are positive$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.
84% of 381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99
ABI-DOS
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine?
92% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
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…
99% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms.
80% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
Last Call BBS
Log into a 90s bulletin board and fill it with factories, circuits, dungeons and card games, one download at a time.
94% of 1,226 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
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
High Entropy: Challenges
Clear 15 levels of robots, locks and hidden objectives, using stealth, gunfire or a command line, and chase a secret ending.
95% of 1,279 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Signal State
Fix a post-apocalyptic farm by wiring modular synthesizer modules, one puzzle at a time.
86% of 655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Bitburner
You play an unknown hacker in a dystopian net, automating your way to power one script at a time.
94% of 7,470 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest games like EXAPUNKS
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
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them.
86% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
868-BACK
868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time!
98% of 135 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
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.
88% of 226 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms.
80% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
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!
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
Kaizen: A Factory Story
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan.
91% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
ABI-DOS
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine?
92% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
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…
99% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Last Call BBS
Log into a 90s bulletin board and fill it with factories, circuits, dungeons and card games, one download at a time.
94% of 1,226 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
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