59%Good matchOpus Magnum
97%5k97% positive reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive across 5k reviews·Puzzle · Programming
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Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Turn on Vinyl Player, Put on your Goggles, Hack an Automaton

Alan's Automaton Workshop is a Steampunk themed puzzle game which mainly focusing on programming challenge. You, as a novice engineer, will join Alan and his new business in town - an automaton workshop. By composing nodes and arrows with various hardware devices, you can create novel automatons to solve problems from clients, such as: improving working conditions, providing entertainments ...... or even change the world?

Find out your own design and build original automatons to solve all kinds of strange cases. Each level has infinite possibilities!
Starts from basic loops and conditional statements, to advanced algorithm topics. You can find satisfaction no matter what your programming skill is.
The real challenge begins after you clear a level! Try to get the best results with minimal instructions or fastest execution time.
With your efforts and the expansion of Alan's business, the more-and-more powerful automatons attract the attention from intelligence agencies ...How would it change the game?
Challenge your friends with level editor, or create your own puzzle in sandbox mode after launch. Let's see what you can build!

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