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2015PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Steam Deck playable95 % positive17.75 €

A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.

  • Building and crafting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty

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In short: Games like Infinifactory

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Infinifactory special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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2016PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positive10.75 €

Brings what grabs you about Infinifactory: puzzles to figure out, a demanding difficulty and a calm pace.

A Zachtronics programming puzzler where you build circuits and write code in a compact assembly language. The authentic-feeling manual and demanding optimization challenges make it a true tinkerer's test.

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Turing Complete

Building and crafting

You build a computer from the ground up, from basic logic gates to your own CPU and assembly programming. A cleverly structured puzzle game that teaches computing one layer of abstraction at a time.

TIS-100

Puzzles and brain teasers

A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.

SpaceChem

Puzzles and brain teasers

A demanding programming puzzler where you lay out waldo paths and instructions to build reactors that break apart and assemble molecules. Open-ended solutions and optimization histograms reward creative, engineer-style thinking.

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

Building and crafting

A real-time strategy game where you push back a spreading fluid menace called the Creeper using defensive towers and terraforming. Huge maps and scripting tools make it a demanding, puzzle-like challenge for tacticians.

Creeper World 4

Building and crafting

A real-time strategy game where you build towers, weapons and energy networks to contain and push back a spreading fluid-like menace. The fluid dynamics turn each map into a tactical puzzle.

Exapunks

Puzzles and brain teasers

A programming puzzle game set in a 1990s hacker world, where you write assembly-like scripts for tiny spider-bots that crawl through other people's networks. It pairs a grim cyberpunk story about a deadly virus with a charming zine-style manual.

Rymdkapsel

Building and crafting

In Rymdkapsel you build a space station from modules and set the overall direction while your minions do the legwork. It is calm and meditative, and the challenge lies in clever layout rather than fast reflexes.

U.V.S. Nirmana

Building and crafting

An engineering puzzle game where you travel aboard an ancient void ship, visiting distant worlds and civilizations and helping them with clever builds. From the makers of Kaizen, in the Zach-like tradition.

Hadean Lands

Calm and deliberate

A pure text adventure about alchemy aboard a crashed starship. You solve intricate, interlocking puzzles by planning rituals and typing commands, making for a demanding and rewarding experience.

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