The Best Programming Games

Update : QuantumPulse 2A added at rank #41.
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Opus Magnum (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

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!


  • programming
  • puzzle
  • automation

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TIS-100 (2015)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows

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!


  • programming
  • puzzle

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Retro Gadgets (2022)

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early access PC Windows

Retro Gadgets is a gadget creation station where you invent, build, solder, code and customise your own electrifying gadgets then share them with the world.


  • development
  • hacking
  • 1990s
  • coding
  • 1980s
  • programming
  • sandbox
  • building
  • classic-looking
  • old-school
  • drag-and-drop
  • 2d
  • simulation
  • rouge
  • relaxing

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Main Assembly (2020)

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PC Windows

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.


  • programming
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • automation
  • cooperative
  • science
  • building
  • immersive
  • 3d
  • logic
  • robots
  • crafting
  • character
  • simulation
  • sandbox

5

EXAPUNKS (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

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.


  • programming
  • hacking
  • automation
  • cyberpunk
  • logic
  • in-world
  • puzzle

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Bitburner (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

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  • programming
  • idler
  • automation
  • dystopian
  • cyberpunk
  • text
  • incremental

7

Human Resource Machine (2015)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

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.


  • programming
  • puzzle

8

One Dreamer: Prologue (2020)

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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.

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  • development
  • logic
  • programming
  • soundtrack
  • emotional
  • linear
  • 2.5d
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • story
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • narrative

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Turing Complete (2021)

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early access PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Build a functional computer through challenging logic puzzles


  • programming
  • hacking
  • logic
  • education
  • simulation
  • automation
  • puzzle
  • building

10

SOLAS 128 (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Explore SOLAS, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine.


  • soundtrack
  • logic
  • puzzle
  • programming
  • psychological
  • hacking
  • stage
  • retro
  • grid
  • 2d
  • multi-room
  • mirror
  • horizontal
  • puzzley
  • controller-support

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