异常 | Exception
You play an operator in a virtual world, writing simple AI for robot units and debugging your way to victory.
97% of 1,520 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Games like SAYONARA++
Hooked on the retro and minimalist side of SAYONARA++? These games could fill that gap nicely.
异常 | Exception
A puzzle game where you program robots instead of steering them. You write simple instructions for each unit, hit run, and watch whether your plan holds. Thirty story levels, player-made puzzles to follow, and a mystery about a system that just asked you for something. Easy to start, hard to put down.
Retro, Minimalist
97% of 1,520 Steam reviews are positive$3.99SIC-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 positiveFreeCode: 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$14.99RE_ALLOC
Master the machine. In RE_ALLOC, you are the architect of execution. Design intricate hardware circuits, write custom assembly code, and optimize data flow across memory nodes. Efficiency is your only metric. Can you reach the kernel, or will your logic fail?
Minimalist, Dark
25% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.49SHENZHEN 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
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$14.99Pragma Twice
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Minimalist
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$9.99TIS-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.
Minimalist
97% of 3,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$6.99Rogue Bit
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Retro, Minimalist, Mysterious
88% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Human 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
94% of 3,295 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99Robo 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.
Retro, Minimalist
82% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Selfless Heroes
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Retro, Minimalist
78% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Comet 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.
Retro, Minimalist
74% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cheaper than SAYONARA++
RE_ALLOC
Master the machine. In RE_ALLOC, you are the architect of execution.
25% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.49
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
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$4.39
Agents! Please?
The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie.
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.04
OS:Path
Small but tricky indie game to spend your evening on playing.
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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
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
Mechanica
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming.
62% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Jump, Step, Step
Jump Step Step is a gorgeous and funny programming game with bonsai trees, a crazy robot and a broken rocket. Bob is short-circuited and goes mental.
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Brainfuck Challenge
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck.
98% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Robots: create AI
《Robots: create AI》is a puzzle programming game.
94% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like SAYONARA++
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: 4$19.99
Heart of the Machine
Play the first sentient AI in a dying cyberpunk city, building your power and rewriting timelines one choice at a time.
90% of 2,108 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$29.99
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
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$11.24
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
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: 1$7.99
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
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
异常 | Exception
You play an operator in a virtual world, writing simple AI for robot units and debugging your way to victory.
97% of 1,520 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Retro Machina
Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe.
87% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Newest games like SAYONARA++
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
Brave New Wonders
A factory builder with no conveyor belts. You mine ore and crystal, smelt and craft parts, then tell mover robots what to haul in plain words and…
78% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$21.24
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$11.24
Agents! Please?
The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie.
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.04
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 positive$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
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: 4$19.99
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: 1$7.99
Heart of the Machine
Play the first sentient AI in a dying cyberpunk city, building your power and rewriting timelines one choice at a time.
90% of 2,108 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$29.99
TAU-09
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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$4.39