Games Like Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

★ VIRTUAL CIRCUIT BOARD ★ ABI-DOS ★ EXAPUNKS ★ LOGIC WORLD ★ ALAN'S AUTOMATON WORKSHOP ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ TURING COMPLETE ★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ QUANTUM ODYSSEY ★ SHENZHEN I/O ★ MOLEK-SYNTEZ ★ TUNNET ★ WE ♥ IT 
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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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ABI-DOS

92% 👍 OF 439
About This Game

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.

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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
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Alan's Automaton Workshop

83% 👍 OF 215
About This Game

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.

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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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Turing Complete

96% 👍 OF 5.7K
About This Game

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a working CPU starting from a single NAND gate.
  • …design your own instruction set, choose the opcodes, and write programs in your own assembly language.
  • …install a keyboard, monitor, sound, network, and a file reader that can pull bytes from your real computer into the simulated machine.
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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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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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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