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Turing Complete

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

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★ QUANTUM ODYSSEY ★ PLASMA ★ VIRTUAL CIRCUIT BOARD ★ INFINIFACTORY ★ EXAPUNKS ★ LOGIC WORLD ★ RETRO GADGETS ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ SHENZHEN I/O ★ SPACECHEM ★ TIS-100 ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Plasma

90% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Working Machines
  • …Build Giant Spiders
  • …Create Arcade Games
Simulation Sandbox 3D Exploration Building
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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.

Programming Education Simulation Automation Minimalist
REL Oct 6, 2023 ★ $14.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Infinifactory

95% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Assemble Alien Products
  • …Build 3D Factories
  • …Optimize Three Metrics
Puzzle Building Automation Indie Programming
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EXAPUNKS

95% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Replicating Agents
  • …Hack Connected Networks
  • …Optimize Code Runs
Programming Puzzle Hacking Automation Indie
REL Oct 22, 2018 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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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
Puzzle Logic Simulation Automation Programming
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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.
Puzzle Programming Automation Indie Simulation
REL Dec 7, 2017 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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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.
Programming Automation Puzzle Logic Simulation
REL Nov 17, 2016 ★ $14.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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SpaceChem

92% 👍 OF 5.1K
About This Game

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …connect multiple reactors so one puzzle becomes an entire production chain with pipes feeding outputs into the next step.
  • …pack a full solution into a tiny reactor by shaving parts, rerouting, and ending on a precise manual switch sequence.
  • …use flip-flops and timing rules to build counters and branching behavior that makes your reactor act like a program.
Puzzle Difficult Programming Indie Logic
REL Mar 2, 2011 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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TIS-100

97% 👍 OF 4.1K
About This Game

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …print out a real reference manual, then use it to solve the menu that turns out to be the first puzzle.
  • …split one problem across 12 nodes running at once, coordinating them until the outputs line up in the right order.
  • …build your own games inside the machine using a visual console sandbox after you repair enough corrupted segments.
Programming Puzzle Indie Simulation Difficult
REL Jul 20, 2015 ★ $6.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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