Best Programming Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated programming games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Programming games on Steam.

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Kaizen: A Factory Story Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Jul 2025
Auto Rogue A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 May 2025
Replicube Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects.  Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Apr 2025
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Price -35% 11.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Jan 2025
Talented Slay waves of spooky enemies for 20 nights to survive 'The Demonic Conveyor Belt'. Talented is an arcade roguelite with randomly generated skill trees. Choose your upgrades and abilities wisely and you might just make it out alive. Are you truly Talented?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Dec 2024
Bioweaver Bioweaver is an RPG game with the main content of treasure hunting and character building. You can use basic programming logic to deeply customize your skill sets, and you can also create organs with different attributes and functions with the special crafting system.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Nov 2024
14 Minesweeper Variants 2 Minesweeper but the rules are changing, again.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jun 2024
Arctic Eggs Eggs: perfection in two parts. The simple whites. The sublime yolk. Each the lesser without its partner. Chorus and verse. A symphony of flavor. The catchy tune reminding us of warm baths and late-night movies. The elevator music to whatever lies beyond.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.3
Release 16 May 2024
Braid, Anniversary Edition Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 May 2024
Rogue Voltage The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions.

Price -20% 12.63€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 May 2024
Anonymous Hacker Simulator Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.

Price -60% 7.80€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Apr 2024
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Feb 2024
TEST TEST TEST Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jan 2024
Tunnet Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Dec 2023
Resonite Enter a novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Oct 2023
Plasma Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Sep 2023
Desynced Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Price -51% 14.43€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Aug 2023
Word Factori Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 2023
Stone Story RPG An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...

Price -50% 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Jul 2023
Bombe Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jun 2023
Mad Games Tycoon 2 Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Price -56% 9.43€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 May 2023
The Farmer Was Replaced 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.

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Feb 2023
Juno: New Origins Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Price -97% 0.59€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jan 2023
Retro Gadgets Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Nov 2022