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Help DadHog bring his hedgehog children home by sticking together (literally) and rotating through grid-based puzzles.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.

Build and optimize complex circuits to fix corrupted files and recover lost images.

Explore a world of mystery, color, energy, and movement with knowledge-based progression.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

The rooms are items and the items are rooms in this recursive platformer.

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

Battle monsters and level up your dicey heroes in this roguelike strategy game.

Set sail on an adventure through Escher-like perspective puzzles and optical illusions.

Platform:

Linux

PlayStation 5

Windows

iPad

iPhone

Genre:

Programming

A=B
A programming game with only one instruction.
ABI-DOS
Build and optimize complex circuits to fix corrupted files and recover lost images.
Craftomation 101
Automate your survival on a frozen planet with visual programming.
EXAPUNKS
Read hacking zines and code viruses to infiltrate banks, universities, and even your own body.
Hexahedra
Program box-building machinary to assemble, rotate, and paint the galaxy's most important commodity.
Human Resource Machine
Program office workers to solve algorithmic puzzles.
Last Call BBS
Boot up a retro computer and explore a compilation of 8 strange puzzle games.
Rodocodo: Code Hour
Guide the cat to the finish line in this gentle introduction to programming.
SHENZHEN I/O
Build circuits and write assembly code in this open-ended programming game.
Silicon Zeroes
Build complex electronics from simple components at Silicon Valley's first start-up.
Star Stuff
Code and work alongside helpful bots to bring power back to their star factory.
TIS-100
Study the TIS-100 technical manual and write assembly programs for its a highly-parallel CPU architecture.

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