Games like TIS-100
If TIS-100 is your kind of game, the closest matches are SHENZHEN I/O, Escape From Hard Drive and Quantum Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →TIS-100 is an indie simulation game released in 2015 by Zachtronics that tasks players with manipulating assembly programming concepts to solve puzzles under strict resource constraints. The gameplay centers on puzzle-solving and resource management within a programming and logic framework. Players describe the experience as challenging and nostalgic, with tactical positioning matters emerging as a key consideration during gameplay. Reviewers highlight the satisfying nature of these design elements. The game is priced at $6.99 USD, supports solo play only, and is not officially supported on Steam Deck. With 98% positive reviews from 2542 Steam users, the game offers a medium-length experience designed for short, focused sessions despite its demanding difficulty.
About TIS-100: 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!
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SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Top pick for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Escape From Hard Drive
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
EFHD is a game where programs change how game works. Modify and run the source files to create, destroy and move other objects.
Quantum Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Third-strongest match for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, Quantum Odyssey is an open-ended puzzle game where you craft real quantum algorithms. Optimize 500+ challenges, hack other players, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Ranked #4 for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
ChipWits
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving, resource management and a nostalgic mood with TIS-100.
Ranked #5 for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
CODING ROBO
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Learn programming in a fun way! An educational game that teaches the basics of programming and algorithmic logic. No prior knowledge of programming is required to play.
Move Code Lines
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Ranked #7 for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.
EXAPUNKS
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for TIS-100 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
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.
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Human Resource Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Prime Mover
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
ABI-DOS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Baba Is You
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
7 Billion Humans
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Reviewers of TIS-100 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below TIS-100 at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under TIS-100 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with TIS-100.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Zachtronics
Other recommendable Steam games by Zachtronics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
SpaceChem
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Infinifactory
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
EXAPUNKS
WHY THIS
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
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.
Last Call BBS
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with TIS-100.
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
Eliza
WHY THIS
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TIS-100.
Another title from Zachtronics, the studio behind TIS-100. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.
Frequently asked about TIS-100
- Does TIS-100 work on Steam Deck?
- TIS-100 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does TIS-100 cost?
- TIS-100 is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to TIS-100?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside TIS-100 are SHENZHEN I/O, Escape From Hard Drive, Quantum Odyssey.
- Who developed TIS-100?
- TIS-100 was developed by Zachtronics.
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