The Farmer Was Replaced is a fresh twist on farming sims: instead of manually planting, watering, and harvesting, you program a drone (using a Python-style scripting system) to take over those tasks.
As you unlock technologies, you expand your code logic, optimize automation, and step back to watch your mechanized farm hum along.
If you’ve configured your last loop and feel that itch for more logic puzzles, procedural automation, and engineering code combinations, here are games alternatives – where your programming is the controller, and the world is your sandbox.
Opus Magnum
Release Date: December 07, 2017
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Indie
EXAPUNKS
Release Date: August 09, 2018
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Indie
SHENZHEN I/O
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Indie
Factorio
Release Date: August 14, 2020
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Mindustry
Release Date: September 26, 2019
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Indie
Satisfactory
Release Date: June 08, 2020
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Automachef
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
SpaceChem
Release Date: March 02, 2011
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Infinifactory
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Indie
Rail Route
Release Date: June 23, 2021
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Kaizen a Factory Story
Release Date: June 14, 2025
Genres: Puzzle, Automation