Games like The Devil's Calculator
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to The Devil's Calculator for fans of strategy, indie, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The Devil's Calculator also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About The Devil's Calculator: The Devil's Calculator is a new, non-profit math game by the creator of Synonymy that proves a sophisticated, challenging and educational indie puzzler for numberphiles and lovers of logic and brain teasers
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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3D Math - Ultra
Top pick for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Mathematic Ultra - is both simple and complex challenges!
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Mystery Boxes
Second-strongest match for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Mystery Boxes is a codebreaking puzzle game. Send 4-digit signals to a mysterious artifact, which will respond with another sequence. Look for patterns in the responses to identify the rules, then use this information to produce the target response.
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Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle
Third-strongest match for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!
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Sketchbots
Ranked #4 for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Hone your programming skills through a series of increasingly complex challenges in which you use a node based language to guide your robot through the required goals.
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The Math Challenge
Ranked #5 for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Embark on a thrilling space adventure as an astronaut, where logic and math are your keys to survival. Navigate through challenges, unravel mysteries, and conquer the cosmos.
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Progress Chess
Ranked #7 for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Progress Chess is the most powerful chess simulator and chess competitions that take place in realistic 3D spaces: from a home apartment to a chess club! Playing in tournaments and analyzing games, go from a beginner to a world champion!
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Freelancer Life Simulator
Ranked #8 for The Devil's Calculator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Devil's Calculator.
Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.
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More from Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis
Other recommendable Steam games by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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Synonymy
Another title from Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis, the studio behind The Devil's Calculator. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Devil's Calculator.
Synonymy is a non-profit, educational word game narrated by Richard Dawkins where players are challenged to find a path between random words through their network of synonyms. By taking the synonym of a word, and then a synonym of that synonym, and so on, you can ultimately arrive at any other word in a language.
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Chameleon Video Player
Another title from Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis, the studio behind The Devil's Calculator.
Chameleon Player is a revolutionary tool to help multitaskers reclaim their computer monitors. Play video files and stream shows fullscreen, transparently atop your desktop with full control of the operating system beneath. Perfect for steam gaming while you twitch, or watching your favorite movies and TV shows simultaneously as you play.
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Lazy Chess
Another title from Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis, the studio behind The Devil's Calculator. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
Frequently asked about The Devil's Calculator
- How much does The Devil's Calculator cost?
- The Devil's Calculator is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Devil's Calculator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Devil's Calculator are 3D Math - Ultra, Mystery Boxes, Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle.
- Who developed The Devil's Calculator?
- The Devil's Calculator was developed by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis and published by Cinq-Mars Media.
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