Games Like Alan's Automaton Workshop

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.

★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ VIRTUAL CIRCUIT BOARD ★ RETRO GADGETS ★ MOLEK-SYNTEZ ★ TUNNET ★ LOGICBOTS ★ SHENZHEN I/O ★ LOGIC WORLD ★ HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE ★ [THE SEQUENCE] ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ 7 BILLION HUMANS ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Opus Magnum

97% 👍 OF 7.3K
About This Game

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …place your inputs and outputs anywhere, then build across an effectively unlimited grid with the full toolset from the start.
  • …export your working solution as an animated GIF that loops forever and share the machine in motion.
  • …turn raw materials into stranger products by bonding, unbonding, and transforming them in long repeating chains of steps.
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Virtual Circuit Board

92% 👍 OF 323
About This Game

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

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MOLEK-SYNTEZ

89% 👍 OF 691
About This Game

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

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Molecular Cursors
  • …Assemble Drug Molecules
  • …Optimize Synthesis Runs
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SHENZHEN I/O

95% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …cram a working gadget into absurdly tight code limits, like 9 or 14 instructions, until every single word matters.
  • …build your own devices in the sandbox, including full games people recreate inside it, like in-game Tetris.
  • …wire up microcontrollers, memory, logic chips, and LCDs, then write tiny assembly programs where each instruction can run conditionally.
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Human Resource Machine

94% 👍 OF 4.7K
About This Game

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …get rewarded for triggering "wrong" computer behaviors like out-of-bounds memory access or numeric overflow and still clearing the level.
  • …create multiplication from scratch using only addition and subtraction, then reuse that homemade multiply in later puzzles.
  • …calculate memory addresses and use them to fetch and store data, instead of only manipulating the values directly.
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[the Sequence]

89% 👍 OF 180
About This Game

[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!

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The Signal State

87% 👍 OF 700
About This Game

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Patch Synth Modules
  • …Match Target Signals
  • …Repair Farm Machinery
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7 Billion Humans

94% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Workers Together
  • …Sort Objects With Code
  • …Optimize Code Runs