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SAYONARA++

Tokyo holds the last remnants of human life. All our pilots are dead; you are our sole surviving AI. Commandeer a fleet of dormant mechas via an ancient backup protocol. Inject assembly code, optimize sparse memory, and achieve absolute annihilation. Never forget that The Core is observing you.

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★ SIC-1 ★ A=B ★ THE MESSAGE FROM DEEP SPACE ★ DATABASE DETECTIVE: MINOR CRIMES DIVISION ★ HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE ★ TIS-100 ★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ KAIZEN: A FACTORY STORY ★ INFINIFACTORY ★ WHILE TRUE: LEARN() ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ THE FARMER WAS REPLACED ★ WE ♥ IT 
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SIC-1

95% 👍 OF 260
About This Game

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.

Programming Puzzle Simulation Minimalist Logic
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The Message from Deep Space

97% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build your own alien dictionary from scratch, with your own definitions, notes, and aliases
  • …watch isolated call-and-response puzzles turn into full sentences you can read using only the vocabulary you assembled
  • …answer a meteorite's radio transmissions correctly to make the alien message continue evolving
Science Puzzle Aliens Sci-fi Retro
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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 →
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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.
Programming Puzzle Indie Casual Education
REL Oct 15, 2015 ★ $14.99 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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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
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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
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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
REL Jun 30, 2015 ★ $24.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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while True: learn()

91% 👍 OF 8.2K
About This Game

You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a cat-to-human translation system so you can understand your cat.
  • …build a self-driving car and make your cat the pilot.
  • …launch startups that can make you millions in shares or wipe you out with bankruptcy and a full restart.
Programming Education Simulation Puzzle Indie
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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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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
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