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Bots Are Stupid

An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.

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★ SPACECHEM ★ DATABASE DETECTIVE: MINOR CRIMES DIVISION ★ TUNNET ★ NET.ATTACK() - CODE OR DIE! ★ SHENZHEN I/O ★ ONE DREAMER: PROLOGUE ★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ KAIZEN: A FACTORY STORY ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ THE FARMER WAS REPLACED ★ WE ♥ IT 
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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 →
2

Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division

98% 👍 OF 708
About This Game

Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Query Crime Databases
  • …Search 40+ Websites
  • …Connect Clues Online
Programming Puzzle Indie Education Investigation
REL Jul 17, 2026 ★ $14.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
4

Net.Attack() - Code or Die!

80% 👍 OF 556
About This Game

CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Projectile Chains
  • …Rewire Attacks Mid-Run
  • …Redirect Enemy Fire
Programming Hacking Logic Difficult Strategy
REL Mar 12, 2026 ★ $7.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
5

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 →
6

One Dreamer: Prologue

96% 👍 OF 794
About This Game

Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rewrite Object Code
  • …Solve Code Puzzles
  • …Explore Blended Realities
Free to Play Programming Logic Story Rich Indie
REL May 7, 2020 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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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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Kaizen: A Factory Story

92% 👍 OF 721
About This Game

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …pause, rewind, and jump into the middle of a run to change your factory while watching the timeline update instantly.
  • …stay on a single step, move an arm, and see the future path change as if you edited time.
  • …watch parts get carved, glued, welded, riveted, drilled, and assembled into recognizable 1980s products like calculators and camcorders.
Programming Strategy Puzzle Simulation Automation
REL Jul 14, 2025 ★ $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
REL Sep 23, 2021 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Farmer Was Replaced

96% 👍 OF 9.7K
About This Game

Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …write code that unlocks upgrades, uses them to unlock more upgrades, and keeps going until it finishes the entire game by itself.
  • …restart from scratch and race for world-best times with a program that speedruns the full game automatically from the beginning.
  • …merge harvested pumpkins into one massive pumpkin that fills the entire field.
Programming Automation Education Idler Logic
REL Oct 10, 2025 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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