Games like CodeSpells
If CodeSpells is your kind of game, the closest matches are Modbox, Clank-Robotics and Insect Worlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its near infinite magical possibilities, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About CodeSpells: Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Players who liked CodeSpells also play
Steam players who put hours into CodeSpells also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Clank-Robotics
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Second-strongest match for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with CodeSpells.
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Insect Worlds
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Third-strongest match for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
Immerse yourself in the world of insects. Explore fascinating forests and learn about their way of life. Complete quests and mini-games, fight or collect resources and cards. Admire the microcosm from a completely different perspective and learn new facts about plants and insects.
Grey Hack
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Ranked #4 for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CodeSpells.
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Starbase
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Ranked #5 for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with CodeSpells.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Dark and Light
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Ranked #6 for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CodeSpells.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
World Wide Hack
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Shares a contemplative mood with CodeSpells.
Ranked #7 for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CodeSpells.
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
Hacknet
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Shares an atmospheric mood with CodeSpells.
Ranked #8 for CodeSpells fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CodeSpells.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
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TIS-100
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Reviewers of CodeSpells cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with CodeSpells.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
SHENZHEN I/O
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Shares a contemplative mood with CodeSpells.
Reviewers of CodeSpells cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with CodeSpells.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Rocket League®
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Reviewers of CodeSpells cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
EXAPUNKS
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Shares an atmospheric mood with CodeSpells.
Reviewers of CodeSpells cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with CodeSpells.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CodeSpells at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CodeSpells.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CodeSpells.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with CodeSpells.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with CodeSpells.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Action with CodeSpells.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CodeSpells.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under CodeSpells on Steam right now. Shares Action with CodeSpells.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CodeSpells.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with CodeSpells.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CodeSpells.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with CodeSpells.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about CodeSpells
- How much does CodeSpells cost?
- CodeSpells is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does CodeSpells have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — CodeSpells supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to CodeSpells?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CodeSpells are Modbox, Clank-Robotics, Insect Worlds.
- Who developed CodeSpells?
- CodeSpells was developed by ThoughtSTEM, LLC.
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