Games Like The Lilliput Workshop

The Lilliput Workshop

A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.

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Isle of Ewe

86% 👍 OF 691
About This Game

Embark on an adventure and command your flock to bring your fluffy friends back home. The mysterious disappearance of Ramsey sparks your journey as you must collect, throw and bounce from sheep to sheep to bring him back home safely.

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Time on Frog Island

69% 👍 OF 367
About This Game

Cast away on an island paradise complete with a cast of friendly frogs. Enjoy sandbox island life and explore at your own pace, solving sticky situations for your new friends and trading your way to fixing your ship!

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Arise: A Simple Story

92% 👍 OF 3.1K
About This Game

Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

In this game, you can…

  • …scale your time control from a single day to climate change over millennia, then all the way out to continental drift over eons.
  • …platform through a womb-and-sperm sequence where his own sperm become the surfaces you jump across.
  • …scrub time forward and backward with the right stick to reshape the world, opening paths and changing obstacles instead of just moving a camera.
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Opus Magnum

97% 👍 OF 7.2K
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!

In this game, 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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SpaceChem

92% 👍 OF 5.1K
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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!

In this game, 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.
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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.

In this game, 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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TIS-100

97% 👍 OF 4.1K
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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!

In this game, 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.
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Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft

85% 👍 OF 637
About This Game

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

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Kaizen: A Factory Story

92% 👍 OF 715
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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.

In this game, 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.