Bots Are Stupid
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them.
76% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$1.29
Games like 异常 | Exception
If 异常 | Exception left you wanting something surreal and minimalist, you have options. These games could fill that gap nicely.
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$11.99A=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$4.99Code: 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
84% of 381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99Selfless 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, Cute
78% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Algo Bot
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.
Minimalist, Cute
82% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Bots Are Stupid
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
Minimalist, Retro, Cute
76% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$1.29You 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
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Human 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, Cute
94% of 3,295 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99JOY 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 logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Minimalist
76% of 384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$17.99GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
87% of 851 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99The Farmer Was Replaced
Program a little drone to run your farm for you. Write code in a simple, Python-like language, press execute, and watch it plant, harvest and sort while you plan the next upgrade. A calm, clever puzzle box that sneaks real programming thinking in under the cover of crops.
Minimalist, Cute
95% of 9,673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,597$6.99Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of tiny robots to thaw a frozen planet and turn it into a living world. You snap together visual code blocks, automate gathering and crafting, then fix the routine when the cold finds its flaws. Cute, calm, and quietly clever about teaching real programming logic.
Cute
83% of 698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Cheaper than 异常 | Exception
Robots: create AI
《Robots: create AI》is a puzzle programming game.
94% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Debugger 3.16: Hack'n'Run
Help Debugger 3.16 to find and delete all bugs in the game worlds of the developer.
77% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
DumbBots
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
70% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Tactic Code - 战术代码
This is an indie game that combines "visual programming" with "battle." If you love programming games, don't miss it.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Interplayer
Pick up the tokens, write the source code, and repair the data that your doctor has deleted!
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Rogue Bit
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world.
88% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$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
Brainfuck Challenge
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck.
98% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Mechanica
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming.
62% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Rogue AI Simulator
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times!
82% of 366 Steam reviews are positive$2.39
NetDive
NetDive is a short, experimental incremental game about an AI learning what makes a human human.
94% of 87 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like 异常 | Exception
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
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of tiny robots to thaw a frozen planet and turn it into a living world.
83% of 698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$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 155 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
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
Screeps: Arena
You write JavaScript, your units follow it, and the arena decides whose logic was better.
82% of 107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$13.39
Stone Story RPG
Equip your hero, brew potions at the right moment, and watch a dark adventure unfold one symbol at a time.
90% of 898 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
SIC-1
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security!
94% of 263 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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
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
Alan's Automaton Workshop
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game.
82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Newest games like 异常 | Exception
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
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of tiny robots to thaw a frozen planet and turn it into a living world.
83% of 698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$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
Pragma Twice
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories.
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)
Yet Another Incremental Game (But This Time About Coding) is an idle clicker about... coding (thanks, Captain Obvious).
73% of 40 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
Code, Solve, Revolt!
"Code, Solve, Revolt!" is a puzzle game where you solve factory tasks through intuitive drag-and-drop programming.
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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
Screeps: Arena
You write JavaScript, your units follow it, and the arena decides whose logic was better.
82% of 107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$13.39
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
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
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
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