Best Programming Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated programming games.

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A=B A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2022
Game Dev Story Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Mar 2022
Bitburner 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.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Dec 2021
Stuck In Time A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Dec 2021
Open Hexagon Four buttons, one goal: survive. Are you ready for a real challenge? -- Become the best and climb the leaderboards in Open Hexagon, a fast-paced adrenalinic arcade game that's easy to learn but hard to master!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Nov 2021
Logic World Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!

Price 24.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Oct 2021
Hacker Simulator Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Oct 2021
Midnight Protocol Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2021
Turing Complete Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Oct 2021
The Signal State Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Price -33% 11.46€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Price -53% 8.69€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Aug 2021
Crypto Mining Simulator Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 24 Apr 2021
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 The Caregiver | 終焉介護 is a psychological Japanese horror adventure game about a caregiver.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Apr 2021
Main Assembly You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Price -95% 1.16€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Jan 2021
Space Travel Idle If you ever dreamed of exploring space at a relaxed pace, here's a journey designed for you.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Sep 2020
Stormworks: Build and Rescue Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Sep 2020
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Jul 2020
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Price -60% 7.80€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 May 2020
Bot Studio for Discord The easiest way to make Discord bots. A drag and drop editor makes it simple to create the perfect bot for your servers, no coding required!

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2020
Levelhead Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Precision platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and a galaxy full of jokes await you in Levelhead!

Price -90% 0.54€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Apr 2020
Mechanica Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Feb 2020
MOLEK-SYNTEZ Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Price -94% 0.66€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Nov 2019
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -98% 0.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019
Automachef Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Price -95% 0.84€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jul 2019
异常 | Exception Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.

Price 3.29€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 Jul 2019
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 May 2019
Drunken Wrestlers 2 Drunken Wrestlers 2 is a funny physics-based multiplayer fighting game. Features include character customization and a powerful mod editor integrated with Steam Workshop.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Apr 2019
Baba Is You Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.6
Release 13 Mar 2019
I hate this game I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Price 1.60€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Mar 2019
while True: learn() You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Price -72% 3.04€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
EXAPUNKS The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Oct 2018
7 Billion Humans Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Price -93% 1.12€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Aug 2018
Planetoid Pioneers Explore deep circular worlds in this Physicsvania with couch Co-Op combat, crafting, and ridiculous physics fails! Also bring your own game ideas to life with the powerful engine and integrated game development tools. Each Planetoid is a whole separate game mode that you can fully edit and easily share!

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Feb 2018
Total Miner Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Dec 2017
Grey Hack Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Dec 2017
Opus Magnum Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Price -48% 10.18€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Dec 2017

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