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OfflineFreeest. 2022★4.7 (121)A single-instruction computer where every program is built from nothing but "subtract and branch". Free, brutal, addictive.

Battlecode
OnlineFreeest. 2024★4.7 (156)MIT’s annual AI programming competition. Command an army of bots with distributed strategy and battle other teams for the title.

Stone Story RPG
OfflinePaidest. 2020★4.7 (168)A hypnotic ASCII auto-RPG where you write StoneScript to automate your character’s combat, looting and exploration.

Bitburner
OnlineFreeest. 2021★4.6 (489)A programming-based incremental: script your way through a cyberpunk net, automate hacking with a NetScript API, and break the simulation.

CodinGame
OnlineFreeest. 2014★4.6 (1204)Solve puzzles and fight other players’ bots in real-time arenas. Write in 25+ languages and watch your code play out as an animated game.

Human Resource Machine
OfflinePaidest. 2015★4.6 (712)Drag visual instructions to automate your white-collar job. A gentle, beautifully made intro to assembly thinking — no syntax required.

SpaceChem
OfflinePaidest. 2011★4.6 (297)Program pairs of waldos to build molecules on an assembly line. The original Zachtronics visual-programming puzzler.

Infinifactory
OfflinePaidest. 2015★4.6 (256)Aliens abduct you to build factories in 3D. Lay out blocks and conveyors to assemble products under their watchful eye.

Robo Instructus
OfflinePaidest. 2019★4.6 (87)Guide a robot through alien ruins by writing instructions in a clean, purpose-built language — no prior coding needed.