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Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines. You are handed one machine on a dead rock and a text editor. The machine can move, dig, sense the ground under it and read the colony's energy. Around lesson four it learns to do… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FORK BOMB: A Programming Game.

A Fictional Operating System Sandbox 5YN-OS is a fully simulated fictional operating system you can live inside. Boot it up, explore the desktop, open apps, dig through the file system, browse the simulated web, customise the interface, run strange commands, break things, fix them again, and uncover secrets buried throughout the system. It is designed as a sandbox first: a desktop world … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 5YN-OS.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, music

95% User Score Based on 5,846 reviews

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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bitburner.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story

97% User Score Based on 3,518 reviews

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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Farmer Was Replaced.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, replayability

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

67% User Score Based on 45 reviews

In Homicide Desk you work a homicide the way a real detective's desk works: a case file lands, a short list of suspects, and a screen full of tools. No waypoints, no glowing clues, no cutscenes telling you what to think. Read the evidence, run the lab, and question your suspects in your own words — then decide who you're willing to charge. Get it right and the case closes. Get it wrong and Intern… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Homicide Desk.

56%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

92% User Score Based on 12 reviews

You're a hacker with a terminal, four terrible scripts, and an anonymous contact who needs files from places they really shouldn't be. The scripts were free, and you can tell. Your port scanner checks all 65,535 ports, which is thorough and also going to take longer than you have patience for. Your password cracker just brute-forces everything and wakes up the intrusion detection system doing i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blackdoor.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, graphics

78% User Score Based on 125 reviews

Start your path as a simple human — and build your own story of becoming a true mage. Plan your daily routines, manage carefully crafted lists of actions, and steadily improve every aspect of your magical life. Explore a rich and expanding world full of opportunities. Unlock new actions, resources, and systems at your own pace — and discover how much there is to unfold. Every hour brings somethin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Idle Awakening: Mages Path.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

89% User Score Based on 1,694 reviews

Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you want on a vast network of computers procedurally created. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Grey Hack.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

81% User Score Based on 1,248 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

h a c k m u d is a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator for intel-compatible personal home computers. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to hackmud.

War Table Arena is a real-time collectible card battler. A real-time card battler where the deck you built is only the deck you started with. Energy pours in continuously and both commanders deploy onto a three-lane tabletop, where units march, clash and lay siege to the enemy citadel while you are still deciding what to play next. There is no turn to wait for. There is only the field, and what y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to War Table Arena.

You don't steer the chicken. There is no movement key. There is a terminal, a text editor, and a bird standing in a field waiting to be told what to do. You write a script, you press run, and you watch it work, or watch it walk into a hedge forty times while you read your own logic back and realise what you actually said. var loot = Scanner.get_visible_drops() if loot.size() > 0: Chic… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ChickenScratch: Cluck & Code.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, music

93% User Score Based on 548 reviews

Make a Wizard's journey to find the Philosopher's Stone in an Incremental RPG! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Magic Research 2.

LexiFront is an educational strategy tower defense game powered by English syntax. Deploy words onto sentence slots to construct your defenses: nouns provide firepower, verbs activate the line, and adjectives and adverbs enhance its performance. Through combat, review sessions, and story-driven reading, you will build familiarity with word meanings, parts of speech, and fundamental sentence struc… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 句构远征-Lexifront.

You don't manage a data center from a spreadsheet. You walk it.Uptime drops you onto the floor of your own cloud provider - first person, hands on the hardware. You buy the servers, carry them to the rack, and seat them with a satisfying click. You run the cable yourself: pull it off the spool, find the port, watch it lay across the floor with real sag. Power it on. Bring it online. Sign your firs… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

91% User Score Based on 74 reviews

Run a Galactic Empire From the Command LineBegin with a single base and gradually transform it into an interstellar power. Colonize new worlds, construct fleets, organize supply lines, manipulate markets, train spies, raid rivals and build influence across a galaxy that continues developing in real time. Riftborne is a slow-burn sci-fi grand strategy game built around long term planning. Campaig… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Riftborne.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

98% User Score Based on 2,667 reviews

A turn-based roguelike with an emphasis on hero customization and powerful items. Fight through the dangerous lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Path of Achra.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, replayability

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, gameplay

79% User Score Based on 215 reviews

JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator is an immersive 3D programming puzzle game about automating and controlling realistic machines, robots, drones and more using real Python code. Build actual coding skills while playing, solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges and progress to unlock new programming features and improved machinery. Prior programming knowledge recommended. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding

79% User Score Based on 1,810 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

"Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine. You type messages into a computer, and Kaizen answers. As in any relationship, you experience gratitude, disappointment, and sometimes jealousy. It is by working through fears and anxieties of your virtual companion that you will find your way back to Earth." If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Event[0].

57%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

51% User Score Based on 760 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 4 reviews

Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking — reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play... by the rules! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hack n Slash.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 1,480 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 6 reviews

A thrilling followup to Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 7 Billion Humans.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

94% User Score Based on 126 reviews

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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SIC-1.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

86% User Score Based on 3,160 reviews

The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town and explore a variety of regions to unlock different mini-games and tons of upgrades. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Perfect Tower II.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 2,910 reviews

In this challenging puzzle game, you build a computer from scratch and program it. It is a journey through the layers of abstractions of the computer. The game begins when you are abducted by aliens who are testing your intelligence, and from here a lighthearted sci-fi plot evolves. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Turing Complete.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

80% User Score Based on 216 reviews

Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mu Complex.

67%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

67% User Score Based on 572 reviews

The concept behind Hacker Evolution is to create a game that challenges the gamer's intelligence, attention and focus, creating a captivating mind game. Solve puzzles, examine code and bits of information, to help you achieve your objectives. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hacker Evolution.

AN IDLE RPG THAT RUNS LIKE AN OPERATING SYSTEM AFK does not ask for your attention. It gives you a desktop. Your battle plays out live in a 990x76 strip inside the taskbar while you keep windows open, compare gear and plan the next build. Click the strip and the fight goes fullscreen. Close it and your army keeps going. BUILD AN ARMY, NOT AN APM SCORE Nine heroes, three on the field. Weapons, o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AFK - Army For Keyboard.

THE VALLEY HAS GONE SILENT. For three weeks, the watch at Cindermoor has failed to send its scheduled signal. No distress call. No warning. No survivors returning down the road. You volunteered to investigate because nobody else was going to. The Watch Post is an atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure presented through a fully realized analog CRT television. Type commands, examine abandoned p… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Watch Post.

Two cats sit side by side. The left one is correct.The one on the right is not. His head is swollen. His ears went somewhere and did not come back. He swears his paws were longer this morning, and he has been stretched along a line nobody remembers drawing. The file simply calls him the specimen, and now he is your problem. You fix him with glass. Under the panels lies a tray of lenses — magni… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Catoscope.

Set sail into the OtherworldsIf you can tell someone what you want, you can play IMMRAMA. It's an interactive story you play by having a conversation. Say what you'd like to do: "ask the fisherman about the storm," "look inside the old chest," "take the coast road." The story answers you, out loud or in text, like a book being written around your choices. There's not… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to IMMRAMA: Voyages of the Otherworlds.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

75% User Score Based on 1,773 reviews

Upgrade a factory in an extraordinary world. Progress to unlock new resources and machines, leading to new ways to expand and grow. ❒ From Foundation to Complexity Begin your journey with a simple machine generating distinct cubes. Use combinations of cubes to unlock advanced machinery and new gameplay elements. ❒ An Evolving Factory Adventure Your factory is not just a collection of idle mach… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sixty Four.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

74% User Score Based on 149 reviews

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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Comet 64.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

84% User Score Based on 300 reviews

Brew magical mixtures for the local adventurers - and get them hooked! Team up with a mushroom-loving witch to restore her run-down shop. Build automated production lines, experiment with exotic ingredients, explore a cozy world - and try not to blow everything up. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Magical Mixture Mill.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

73% User Score Based on 123 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 2 reviews

Make words come to life in this action adventure unlike any other! Haimrik blends gameplay with the narrative of its story set in medieval times. Combined with crisp humor and rare visual style, Haimrik’s journey is sure to entertain. Word’s the word! Fortunately, Haimrik commands the Power of the Words! These are the stones in the path Haimrik walks, and he brings them to life as he steps on eac… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Haimrik.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

81% User Score Based on 1,361 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

In Blueprint Tycoon you are tasked with running a settlement by gathering raw materials and crafting them into complex goods to be supplied to your contractor for a profit. Create your own Blueprints for each Crafter/Harvester using multiple Workers with a multitude of Tools and try to create the most productive Blueprints. Profit margins are razor thin so you must focus on ensuring peak efficie… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blueprint Tycoon.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding

96% User Score Based on 3,648 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

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! Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceChem.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

97% User Score Based on 4,686 reviews

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game 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! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TIS-100.

58%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

58% User Score Based on 288 reviews

Idle Wasteland is an Incremental Idle RPG in a post-apocalyptic world. Level up skills, refine your salvaged materials and hunt mutant creatures to survive! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Idle Atomic.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

97% User Score Based on 125 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

The Remainder is a dark fantasy story made of psychological puzzles, romance, and the unexpected. The Complete Edition contains acts 1 to 4! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

95% User Score Based on 116 reviews

Type your way through absurd encounters and mysterious puzzles in this old-school typing dungeon crawler. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backspace Bouken.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

75% User Score Based on 406 reviews

Potion Tycoon - Supporter Pack The supporter pack contains a selection of goodies for Potion Tycoon, for all those who want to go the extra mile to support the developer of the game. Contents Unique Worker Skin More Varied Container Options Expanded Room Style Contents Game Soundtrack: Assorted music tracks used in the EA release version of the game (to be further extended) Digital Artbook: A fine… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Potion Tycoon.

Can you and your party find the AI hiding among you before it's too late? Turing Heads is a social deduction party game where one of the players in your group isn't human — and it's very good at pretending otherwise. Every round, everyone answers the same prompt. Best pizza topping. Perfect Saturday. The one thing you'd change about the world. Nothing complicated — just enough for the group … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Turing Heads.

A shot that has not reflected cannot kill anything.That single rule is the whole game. Sentries fire on their own, one round each, and those rounds pass through everything without leaving a scratch. Bend a shot off a mirror and it turns lethal. That is the only weapon you have, and you get four mirrors at most. Every bounce escalates it. One reflection destroys a target and stops. Two reflections… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MirrorBullet.

MegaCorp has 42 floors, one understaffed help desk, and a brand-new AI that is absolutely, definitely not after your job. You are Analyst #15. Your monitor is your world: a ticket queue that never stops, an inbox full of escalating passive aggression, and a corporate news ticker that knows too much. Welcome to SERVICE DESK SIM — a retro-terminal IT helpdesk simulator about triage, time pressure, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Service Desk Sim.

The hacking runs itself. You just watch.quietd is a «watch-only» game where hacking unfolds automatically in a terminal and clears itself to the very end while you do nothing but let it run. You operate nothing. A dark room, a single terminal. All there is is total silence and time, as monospaced characters stream by without a single hand to guide them — and you simply witness it.Leave it running,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to quietd.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

87% User Score Based on 52 reviews

A zero-player idle RPG in the spirit of Progress Quest, told in a Win9x chronicle. Shape a 2,108-skill tree, face 179 illustrated monsters, earn 100 achievements and find tens of thousands of equipment combinations in two adventures. Watch it run or close the window. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lowmoor Idle RPG: An Adventurer's Chronicle.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding

96% User Score Based on 234 reviews

Disclaimer: Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times is designed for 4:3 to relive the 2003 GameCube nostalgia, but play however feels right to you! Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times is a semi-open world puzzle adventure where you play as a loud-mouthed, hot-headed mage trying to figure out why everyone has disappeared. With 40 magical runes to combine however you want, every challenge is an oppo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times.

57%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

57% User Score Based on 53 reviews

Defrag Incremental is a retro incremental game about doing one very specific job on an increasingly overworked 90s PC: defragmenting disks for money. At first, the job is simple. Pick a disk, choose an algorithm and get it done before the workday ends. Then the disks get bigger. Some arrive damaged. Some run hot. Some are worth a lot more than they have any right to be. Your computer gets fas… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Defrag Incremental.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

69% User Score Based on 58 reviews

Kill the Lich is a minimalist incremental game centered around time compression and resource propagation. Your resources build automatically over time, but their growth accelerates when you optimize their downstream flow ratios, and you can manually push them along to go even faster. Each action grants attributes that reduce the requirements of other actions, allowing you to push further. Eventual… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kill the Lich Idle.

THE CITY IS FULL OF LIARS. CAN YOU FIND THE TRUTH?Welcome to Micro Mystery Investigator, the ultimate deduction challenge for fans of logic puzzles and classic detective fiction. Put away your revolver—your sharpest weapon here is your mind. Forget scripted stories that you play once and forget. MMI is an engine of infinite mystery. Every time you hit "Start Investigation," the game pro… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Micro Mystery Investigator: Noir Edition.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:replayability, stability

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

90% User Score Based on 50 reviews

Golemworks is an experimental fusion of tower defense and factory builder. You must assemble a factory that generates an army of automatons. These automatons automatically fight and defend your golem foundry from waves of encroaching shadows. Molds activate on a cooldown, and generate a golem core - the 'recipe' for an automaton. Catalysts are the production infrastructure. They can ad… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Golemworks.