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Best Programming Games

Top 43 of 43 qualifying games — tagged Programming (community voting), 1,000+ reviews · ranked by Wilson lower bound on Steam review score · review data as of 2026-08-06.

1 Baba Is You (2019) Puzzle · Indie · Difficult · $14.99 97.7%24,425 reviews 2 Opus Magnum (2017) Puzzle · Programming · Automation · $19.99 97.3%7,134 reviews 3 TIS-100 (2015) Programming · Puzzle · Indie · $6.99 96.7%4,097 reviews 4 Turing Complete (2021) Programming · Logic · Education · $19.99 96.0%5,509 reviews 5 Godot Engine (2016) Game Development · Utilities · Software · Free 95.7%9,372 reviews 6 Arctic Eggs (2024) Cooking · Physics · Sci-fi · $9.99 95.7%6,004 reviews 7 The Farmer Was Replaced (2025) Programming · Automation · Idler · $9.99 95.6%8,989 reviews 8 SHENZHEN I/O (2016) Programming · Automation · Puzzle · $14.99 94.9%4,494 reviews 9 Infinifactory (2015) Puzzle · Building · Automation · $24.99 95.0%2,481 reviews 10 EXAPUNKS (2018) Programming · Puzzle · Hacking · $19.99 94.8%1,884 reviews 11 Software Inc. (2015) Early Access · Management · Simulation · $22.99 94.2%7,773 reviews 12 Mad Games Tycoon 2 (2023) Management · Economy · Game Development · $24.99 93.8%7,749 reviews 13 Hacknet (2015) Hacking · Simulation · Programming · $9.99 93.5%26,018 reviews 14 Human Resource Machine (2015) Programming · Puzzle · Indie · $14.99 93.9%4,678 reviews 15 7 Billion Humans (2018) Programming · Puzzle · Indie · $14.99 93.5%2,121 reviews 16 Levelhead (2020) Precision Platformer · Difficult · Funny · $4.99 93.8%1,137 reviews 17 I hate this game (2019) Indie · Puzzle · Pixel Graphics · $1.99 93.0%2,625 reviews 18 SpaceChem (2011) Puzzle · Difficult · Programming · $9.99 92.2%5,077 reviews 19 Braid, Anniversary Edition (2024) Puzzle-Platformer · 2D Platformer · Puzzle · $19.99 92.4%1,841 reviews 20 The Magic Circle (2015) Adventure · Puzzle · Indie · $19.99 92.5%1,502 reviews 21 while True: learn() (2019) Programming · Simulation · Education · $12.99 91.3%8,160 reviews 22 City Game Studio: a tycoon about game dev (2021) Management · Simulation · Building · $15.99 91.7%1,875 reviews 23 Stormworks: Build and Rescue (2020) Sandbox · Base-Building · Open World · $24.99 90.5%59,484 reviews 24 Quadrilateral Cowboy (2016) Hacking · Adventure · Cyberpunk · $19.99 92.0%1,009 reviews 25 Mad Games Tycoon (2016) Management · Simulation · Strategy · $14.99 90.8%4,420 reviews 26 Contraption Maker (2014) Puzzle · 2D · Level Editor · $12.99 91.5%1,312 reviews 27 Uplink (2006) Hacking · Indie · Strategy · $11.99 90.8%2,429 reviews 28 Duskers (2016) Exploration · Typing · Real Time Tactics · $19.99 90.3%2,786 reviews 29 Grey Hack (2017) Hacking · Simulation · Programming · $19.99 90.1%1,856 reviews 30 Autonauts (2019) Simulation · Programming · Automation · $19.99 89.6%4,949 reviews 31 Game Dev Story (2022) Management · Building · Real Time Tactics · $8.99 90.0%1,478 reviews 32 Juno: New Origins (2023) Building · Science · Space Sim · $19.99 89.2%3,521 reviews 33 Plasma (2023) Simulation · Sandbox · 3D · Free 90.0%1,129 reviews 34 Drunken Wrestlers 2 (2019) Early Access · Multiplayer · Fighting · $3.99 86.7%18,722 reviews 35 Discord Bot Maker (2017) Utilities · Web Publishing · Software · $9.99 86.4%2,405 reviews 36 Screeps: World (2016) Programming · Strategy · Massively Multiplayer · $19.99 86.4%2,085 reviews 37 Main Assembly (2021) 3D · Online Co-Op · Co-op · $19.99 83.2%1,349 reviews 38 Desynced (2026) Strategy · Automation · Programming · $29.99 79.5%2,019 reviews 39 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor (2020) Strategy · Singleplayer · Adventure · $4.99 78.7%2,164 reviews 40 Hacker Simulator (2021) Hacking · Simulation · Singleplayer · $24.99 74.5%1,273 reviews 41 Crypto Mining Simulator (2021) Simulation · Idler · Life Sim · $4.99 64.2%1,524 reviews 42 hack_me (2017) Simulation · Hacking · Adventure · $5.99 60.1%2,101 reviews 43 Starbase (2021) Open World · Building · Massively Multiplayer · $34.99 55.6%6,750 reviews