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 QuantumPulse 2A
Remember how retro and minimalist QuantumPulse 2A felt at its best? These games make natural next picks for you.
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.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
74% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$14.99SHENZHEN 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.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$14.99EXAPUNKS
It is 1997, you have the phage, and the deal is one hack per dose of medicine. Program little robots called EXAs to slip into networks, trash files and vanish. A puzzle game about writing code, wrapped in a warm, funny 90s hacker world that is easy to lose whole evenings to.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
96% of 1,381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99Silicon 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, Relaxing
88% of 249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99ABI-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
92% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeAlan'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$14.99Prime 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, Relaxing
87% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$14.99A=B
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
Minimalist, Relaxing
94% of 919 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99Turing 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.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
95% of 5,762 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$19.99SIC-1
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.
Retro, Minimalist
94% of 263 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHuman 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
94% of 3,295 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99Quantum Odyssey
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike simulator. Solve 500+ visual puzzles and hack other players’ creations. No coding or physics background required.
Minimalist, Relaxing
92% of 149 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Cheaper than QuantumPulse 2A
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
OCTOPTICOM
OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices.
95% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
Cyber Sentinel
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel!
82% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
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$5.99
CHR$(143)
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game!
96% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Infinite Turtles
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle.
98% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
OS:Path
Small but tricky indie game to spend your evening on playing.
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Algo 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.
82% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
Hidden gems like QuantumPulse 2A
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 155 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Quantum Odyssey
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike simulator.
92% of 149 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
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
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
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
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
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
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
Newest games like QuantumPulse 2A
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
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
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
The Qubit Factory
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing.
98% of 56 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Quantum Odyssey
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike simulator.
92% of 149 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
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
Hard Chip
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism.
91% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$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
ProxOS
Step into a time portal to 1993. While your friends are battling it out in the latest FPS adventures, you got the opportunity to learn the newest…
94% of 17 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Crayon Computer
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
70% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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