Games like Prime Mover

If Prime Mover left you wanting something minimalist and retro, you have options. Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Silicon Zeroes
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Minimalist, Retro, Relaxing
88% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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, Relaxing
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$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. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.
Minimalist, Retro, Relaxing
88% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$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, Relaxing, Replayable
97% of 6,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$19.99
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
Infinite Turtles
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Minimalist, Retro, Relaxing
98% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Signal State
A post-apocalyptic farm needs its machines fixed, and only you can patch the cables. The Signal State is a puzzle game built on modular synthesizer logic: drag modules into a rack, wire them up, and turn raw signals into working outputs. Over 40 puzzles, a sandbox, and leaderboards for when one solution is never enough.
Minimalist, Retro, Relaxing
87% of 655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
ABI-DOS
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Minimalist, Relaxing, Replayable
92% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Turing Complete
Start with a single logic gate and puzzle your way up to a working CPU. Turing Complete walks you from NAND gates through arithmetic, memory and assembly until a computer you built from scratch runs code you wrote for it. Then the sandbox opens and you can build whatever you like, screens, sound and all.
Minimalist, Retro, Relaxing
95% of 5,777 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$19.99
OCTOPTICOM
OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.
Minimalist, Relaxing
95% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Minimalist, Retro, Relaxing
89% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
[the Sequence]
[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!
Minimalist, Relaxing
88% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than Prime Mover

Infinite Turtles

Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle.

$9.99

OCTOPTICOM

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices.

$9.99

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…

$6.99

[the Sequence]

[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you…

$4.99

SpaceChem

Program two little robotic arms to bond atoms into molecules, one elegant machine at a time.

$9.99

CHR$(143)

A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game!

$7.99

ComPressure

Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam.

$4.99

Charge!

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

$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

Circuit Dude

Circuit Dude is a top-down, tile-based puzzler with 120 levels.

$5.99

Boolean

Everything is either ON or OFF. Boolean is an open-ended problem solving game where you build circuits and send signals!

$6.99

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!

$5.99

Hidden gems like Prime Mover

Kaizen: A Factory Story

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan.

$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.

$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

Virtual Circuit Board

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

$14.99

Linkito

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

$14.99

A=B

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

$4.99

ElecHead

Guide a little robot whose detachable, electricity-conducting head is the key to every puzzle.

$9.99

Logic World

Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic.

$25

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

MOLEK-SYNTEZ

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

$9.99

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