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Games like Prime Mover

2018PC87 % positive12.49 €

An open-ended puzzle game where you design circuit boards from single transistors up to a processor, then compare the speed and efficiency of your solutions with other players.

  • Building and crafting
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Deep systems to master

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In short: Games like Prime Mover

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

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Turing Complete

95 %Match

2021PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positive20.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Prime Mover: building and crafting, puzzles to figure out as well as complex systems to tinker with.

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.

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Shenzhen I/O

Deep systems to master

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.

Infinifactory

Challenging difficulty

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.

Retro Gadgets

Sandbox with your own goals

A creative retro-styled sandbox where you design, wire and program your own gadgets using Lua, then share them with the community. Ideal for tinkerers who like to experiment at their own pace.

Poly Bridge 2

Calm and deliberate

A physics-based bridge-building puzzler where you design structures on a budget so vehicles can make it safely across. Tinkering, failing and retrying is the heart of it, backed by a relaxing soundtrack and lots of room for creative solutions.

Poly Bridge

Sandbox with your own goals

A physics-based bridge-building puzzler where you design structures on a budget so vehicles can cross safely. The sandbox and Steam Workshop support offer nearly endless levels and room to experiment.

SpaceChem

Deep systems to master

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.

LogicBots

Calm and deliberate

A logic puzzle game where you design, build and wire your own robots to solve levels. Some bots you control directly, while others run on their own thanks to the logic you wire into them.

Poly Bridge 3

Calm and deliberate

A physics-based puzzle game where you engineer bridges to carry vehicles safely across gaps. The campaign, sandbox mode and mod support encourage plenty of tinkering and creative, often hilarious solutions.

Simple Rockets

Sandbox with your own goals

A simplified 2D rocket-building sandbox in the spirit of Kerbal Space Program, where you design your own rockets and explore space using realistic orbital mechanics.

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