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Anti-Pattern Games · 2022 · Windows, Linux

Steam: 93 % positive of 263 reviews, as of Oct 28

SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.

24 games that play like SIC-1 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: TIS-100, SHENZHEN I/O and Turing Complete.

Player tags

  • Programming
  • Puzzle
  • Simulation
  • Minimalist
  • Logic
  • 1980s
  • Retro
  • Text-Based
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Best matches

Plays and looks like SIC-1

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like SIC-1

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. MHRD87 % positive of 439Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  2. Alan's Automaton Workshop82 % positive of 197Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  3. Software Inc.94 % positive of 7,625Shared: Programming · Simulation · Automation
  4. The Farmer Was Replaced94 % positive of 9,533Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  5. Nodebuster96 % positive of 13,930Shared: Simulation · Minimalist · Retro
  6. Virtual Circuit Board90 % positive of 307Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  7. 异常 | Exception93 % positive of 566Shared: Programming · Indie
  8. Scratch Inc.89 % positive of 2,259Shared: Simulation · Minimalist · Text-Based
  9. Prime Mover87 % positive of 179Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  10. Kaizen: A Factory Story91 % positive of 702Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  11. SpaceChem94 % positive of 2,635Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation
  12. Infinifactory94 % positive of 1,793Shared: Programming · Puzzle · Simulation

By look

Looks like SIC-1

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Uplink88 % positive of 1,769
  2. Hacker Evolution: Untold64 % positive of 192
  3. PROXIMATE92 % positive of 978
  4. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead85 % positive of 542
  5. Water Womb World97 % positive of 444
  6. Archimedes79 % positive of 178
  7. Buddy Simulator 198493 % positive of 3,800
  8. BYTEPATH92 % positive of 305
  9. hack_me67 % positive of 1,455
  10. Idle Hacking: An Inaction RPG80 % positive of 261
  11. Grey Hack89 % positive of 1,817
  12. GAME.exe83 % positive of 414

At a glance

What games like SIC-1 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with SIC-1: Programming (22 of 24), Simulation (22) and Puzzle (19).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2025, 7 of them after SIC-1 (2022).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Nodebuster (96 % positive of 13,930).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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