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shapez 2
A 3D factory-building puzzle: mine geometric shapes, carry them on belts, and combine cutting, rotating, stacking and painting until they match the order. No enemies, no time limits and no building costs — just platforms scattered across three layers of space, in tobspr Games' sequel to shapez.
puzzleautomationsandboxBombe
A logic puzzle where you do not clear the Minesweeper board yourself: you write rules that act on the numbered regions, and a checker verifies them. Rules that pass are applied automatically to every board from then on, leaving only the situations no rule has reached. A solo project by Charlie Brej.
puzzlelogicautomationAutonauts
An automation puzzle in which you land on an empty planet, chop and quarry by hand, and then teach robots the steps you just performed so they can do them for you. With short Scratch-style scripts and one small memory allowance per bot, you grow a production line from farming to industry. Made by Denki, in Scotland.
puzzleprogrammingautomationshapez
A 2D automation puzzler where you mine simple shapes, carry them on belts, and combine cutting, rotating, stacking and painting to build whatever each level orders, growing a factory across an endlessly expanding blank map. tobspr Games' Steam build of what began as a free browser game.
puzzleautomationsandboxKaizen: A Factory Story
A 2D automation puzzle set in 1986 Japan: lay arms and tracks across a green workbench, program a timeline of commands, and build assembly lines for calculators, camcorders and arcade cabinets. Made by the original Zachtronics team under their new studio Coincidence, with a pachinko-flavoured solitaire on the side.
puzzleautomationprogrammingLast Call BBS
Boot a fictional '90s PC, dial into a BBS, and download eight thinking puzzles one at a time - the last game from Zachtronics. From the logic puzzle Dungeons & Diagrams to circuit design in ChipWizard and the falling-block HACK*MATCH, it is a catalogue of small games with very different verbs on a single retro machine.
puzzleautomationlogicInfinifactory
A first-person 3D puzzle where you build factories from blocks and conveyors to assemble whatever your alien captors order. SpaceChem made three-dimensional: a tiny verb set opening onto bottomless optimisation, from Zachtronics.
puzzleautomationprogrammingOpus Magnum
A 2D puzzle where, in an alchemist's workshop, you combine rotating and extending arms with tracks to ferry and bond atoms into potions and metals. The board and part count are unlimited, so the contest is less about clearing than about how elegantly, quickly, and compactly you build — Zachtronics' signature work.
puzzleprogrammingautomationSpaceChem
A 2D puzzle where you program two 'waldos' to grab, carry, and bond atoms, building factories that turn raw molecules into products. You don't find a solution — you build one. The design-based puzzle that launched Zachtronics.
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