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Comet 64

3.575 22

Release date: 5 Feb, 2021

Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.

Developer: Onur Ayas, Publisher: what sorceress this, Game website

Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Steam Leaderboards

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable GPU.
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 100 MB available space

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Block motion is a puzzle / design game where you place functional blocks to design a working factory. Build your design, press play and watch your factory in action. You have the freedom to solve the challenges any way you want; The only limit is your imagination.

Developer: Daniel Willett, Publisher: Daniel Willett

Windows | Steam Achievements | Steam Workshop

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: i3 6100
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: gtx 1050
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: The oldest computer I had available to test on.

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Opus Magnum

7.93289 78

Release date: 7 Dec, 2017

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!

Developer: Zachtronics, Publisher: Zachtronics, Game website

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1366 x 768
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 600 MB available space

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Charge!

1.44 0

Release date: 19 Nov, 2020

Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.

Developer: Hidden Depths Games, Publisher: Hidden Depths Games

Windows | Steam Achievements | Steam Workshop

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280 x 768
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 128 MB available space

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Senalux

2.918 0

Release date: 16 Oct, 2017

Senalux is a hex-based puzzle game about optics where you solve challenging puzzles with colorful lasers. Use the red, green and blue lasers, combine them to the right color and illuminate the target.

Developer: Pixel with Hat, Publisher: Pixel with Hat, Game website

Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Steam Workshop

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0
Storage: 100 MB available space

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Cadence

0.0

Release date: 2021

Relax. Solve Problems. Make Music. Feel Nourished. Beautifully simple, devilishly clever - Cadence is the experimental sandbox game that uses problem-solving to create music.

Developer: Made With Monster Love, Publisher: Made With Monster Love

Windows | Mac | Steam Achievements | Steam Workshop

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2 Graphics Card
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 80 MB available space
Sound Card: On board

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Alan's Automaton Workshop

0.0

Release date: 2021

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.

Developer: Laputa Labs, Publisher: Laputa Labs

Windows | Mac | Steam Achievements | Steam Workshop

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7 SP1
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 2 GB available space

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Infinifactory

7.01415 72

Release date: 30 Jun, 2015

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.

Developer: Zachtronics, Publisher: Zachtronics, Game website

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 1500 MB available space

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Cyborg Earthworm

0.0

Release date: 16 Oct, 2020

Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.

Developer: Anton Swifton, Publisher: Anton Swifton, Game website

Windows

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7
Processor: 1.7 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM

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Neon Noodles

2.412 1

Release date: 29 Nov, 2019

You are in charge of a futuristic kitchen operating in a mysterious cyberpunk world. Automate your robot chefs to cook recipes in perfectly elegant loops to create well oiled machines that churn out dish after dish. It's a zach-like!

Developer: Vivid Helix, Publisher: Vivid Helix, Game website

Windows | Linux | Full controller support

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7/8/10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

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SpaceChem

7.32065 94

Release date: 2 Mar, 2011

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!

Developer: Zachtronics, Publisher: Zachtronics, Game website

Sytem requirements

OS: Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz Processor
Memory: 1GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 300MB
Graphics: frame buffer support recommended

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SHENZHEN I/O

7.52361 98

Release date: 17 Nov, 2016

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Developer: Zachtronics, Publisher: Zachtronics, Game website

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1366 x 768
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 450 MB available space

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God is a Cube: Programming Robot Cubes

0.94 6

Release date: 11 Oct, 2018

An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.

Developer: Marc Kruzik, Publisher: Dimensional Studio, Game website

Windows | Mac | Linux

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP SP3
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: a 2008 graphics card will be fine (256 Mb RAM)
Storage: 600 MB available space

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CHR$(143)

0.0

Release date: Aug 2021

Discover the physics of a mysterious 2D tile-based universe, including ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions. Use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!

Developer: Nicolas Jean, Publisher: Nicolas Jean

Windows

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Memory: 4 GB RAM

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Programmer Dungeon

0.0

Release date: Q3 2021 - Wishlist and follow!

In this tactical game, use logic programming to solve puzzles and beat each level. Gather unique skills, use visual programming, automate your character and defeat your enemies! Choose wisely and enjoy this adventure!

Developer: Dragon Lord Studio, Publisher: Dragon Lord Studio, Game website

Windows | Steam Achievements

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows® 7 / Windows Vista® / Windows® 8 /
Processor: 2.16 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: any 500mb
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 100 MB available space
Sound Card: any

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OCTOPTICOM

3.539 3

Release date: 3 Oct, 2018

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

Developer: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD., Publisher: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD., Game website

Windows | Linux | Steam Achievements

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 100 MB available space

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0.0

Release date: Summer 2021

A puzzle game about living structures that evolve every time you move.

Developer: Et Al Games, Publisher: Et Al Games, Game website

Windows | Full controller support

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7
Processor: 2.70 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia 600 or Radeon 6000 series
Storage: 2 GB available space

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Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2

2.412 1

Release date: 10 Aug, 2020

The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!

Developer: Northway Games, Publisher: Northway Games, Game website

Windows

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP +
Processor: 1.6Ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 200 MB available space

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Rail Route

5.0191 13

Release date: 23 Jun, 2021

Rail Route is a tycoon/management game based on railroad dispatching. Control the traffic, build out your own network, then optimize and expand. Unlock new technologies, upgrade the infrastructure, and automate operations! Design and share your own maps with the in-game editor.

Developer: Bitrich.info, Publisher: Bitrich.info, Game website

Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Workshop

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: On board
Storage: 500 MB available space

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The Ultra Code

1.810 5

Release date: 7 Aug, 2019

Build machines... break codes... win the war! It's 1942 and the world is engulfed in war. Meanwhile, in a country mansion in South East England, a group of expert mathematicians are fighting a war of their own, breaking an unbreakable Nazi code... Enigma!

Developer: Jack Gloyens, Publisher: Flying Interactive

Windows | Mac | Steam Achievements

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP
Processor: Intel Pentium / AMD A4
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated
Storage: 60 MB available space
Sound Card: N/A

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Markov Alg

2.310 0

Release date: 26 Nov, 2019

Markov Alg is a puzzle game where you can change the game field according to instructions that are written on the game field

Developer: Fewjix, Publisher: Fewjix

Windows

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7
Memory: 50 MB RAM
Storage: 10 MB available space

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Monster Logic

1.86 0

Release date: 5 Jul, 2020

Enter the world of "Monster Logic", the monstrous programming game! In this hand-drawn puzzle game, you'll have to use each monster's unique ability to progress through the 40+ levels and the multiple biomes!

Developer: Blorp Company, Publisher: Blorp Company, Game website

Windows | Linux | Steam Achievements | Full controller support | Steam Leaderboards

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: 2.0Ghz CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1
Storage: 150 MB available space
Additional Notes: Runs with pretty much anything

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Human Resource Machine

7.32028 111

Release date: 15 Oct, 2015

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.

Developer: Tomorrow Corporation, Publisher: Tomorrow Corporation, Game website

Windows | Mac | Linux | Steam Achievements | Steam Trading Cards

Sytem requirements

Minimum:

OS: XP or later
Processor: 1.5Ghz CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: graphics card that supports Shader Model 2.0 or greater
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 200 MB available space

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