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2026PC, Steam Deck playable88 % positive15.49 €

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.

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

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In short: Games like U.V.S. Nirmana

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Infinifactory

90 %Match

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

Brings what grabs you about U.V.S. Nirmana: building and crafting, puzzles to figure out as well as a sci-fi setting.

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.

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Exapunks

Challenging difficulty

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.

The Turing Test

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter's moon Europa, where you play engineer Ava Turing solving chambers built on energy and physics puzzles. Along the way it reflects on artificial intelligence, morality and what consciousness really means.

Trans Neuronica

Puzzles and brain teasers

A logic puzzle game where you play an AI linking nodes, untangling paths and rebuilding memories while judging which humans deserve your trust. Seems a quiet, cerebral sci-fi indie puzzler.

Viewfinder

Puzzles and brain teasers

You snap photos with an instant camera and then place them in the world, turning the images into real paths, bridges and platforms. The result is a series of inventive perspective puzzles in a stylish sci-fi setting.

Bridge Constructor Portal

Building and crafting

A clever blend of bridge-building physics puzzles and the Portal universe: you build structures so vehicles can cross Aperture Science test chambers, using portals, gels and turrets along the way. GLaDOS adds her signature dry humor.

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.

Hadean Lands

Challenging difficulty

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.

Causal Loop

Puzzles and brain teasers

A story-driven puzzler where you record your own past actions as up to three echoes and replay them to solve brain-bending puzzles. The sci-fi tale revolves around time, consequence and survival.

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