Games like Silicon Zeroes
If Silicon Zeroes is your kind of game, the closest matches are SHENZHEN I/O, TIS-100 and Comet 64 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Silicon Zeroes: Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Players who liked Silicon Zeroes also play
Steam players who put hours into Silicon Zeroes 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.
SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Top pick for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
TIS-100
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Second-strongest match for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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!
Comet 64
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Third-strongest match for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
Turing Complete
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Ranked #4 for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Rogue Bit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Ranked #5 for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
MHRD
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Ranked #6 for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
Quantum Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Ranked #7 for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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.
Prime Mover
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Ranked #8 for Silicon Zeroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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.
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Manufactoria 2022
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Turing Complete
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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!
MHRD
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
Virtual Circuit Board
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Snakebird
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon Zeroes.
Reviewers of Silicon Zeroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Silicon Zeroes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Silicon Zeroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Silicon Zeroes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
TrackMania Nations Forever
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively challenging tracks.
Toribash
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
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Frequently asked about Silicon Zeroes
- How much does Silicon Zeroes cost?
- Silicon Zeroes is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Silicon Zeroes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Silicon Zeroes are SHENZHEN I/O, TIS-100, Comet 64.
- Who developed Silicon Zeroes?
- Silicon Zeroes was developed by PleasingFungus Games.
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