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Outer Wilds

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

Rotate and extrude your way out of a room.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

Push boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes within...

Jump your way through another month's worth of clumsy, puzzly platforming.

Your job as an assistant food critic turns into a series of gas-pushing conundrums.

Treat villagers with arcane medical procedures and try surviving 30 days of eldritch threats.

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

Sustain the growth of a forest fungus using clueless zombies as fuel.

Platform:LinuxNintendo SwitchWebWindows

Genre:IPadProgramming

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

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