Games Like SIC-1

SIC-1

SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.

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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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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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.