Best Games to Teach you - HOW TO CODE

One word - “factorio”…

you shouldve mentioned Uplink its not entirely code based but it teaches you linux commands

which language is the mostly used? For someone who has never coded or understands it which one would you recommend?

I needed this.
I'm 64, and annoyed that the world doesn't make sense anymore.

gladiabots is also a super useful one. it will teach you how to think like a programmer and was my personal entry into programming.

Space Engineers has a programmable block

Lee Wars is a turn based combat arena where you develop a team of IA using pseudo code resembling python. It poses both algorithmic and strategical challenges while pushing you to optimize your code to contend with the ressources limits.

Pretty cool and there is a very active community of core players.

colobot is a great one, although its on the older side it still is very good

Garry's Mod

code camp is amazing if you want to pay $99.99 a year.......

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Opus Magnum is the game that got me through my University level computer science "Hardware" course. It's like a visual representation of assembly language to me. While I didn't necessarily learn any practical knowledge about assembly language from Opus Magnum, I did learn to see the "fun" in programming in such a low level language.

MSN taught me how to code emojis at one point .

Greycode is a hacking game that lets you script your hacking tools, it has a self discovered story that requires creative thinking and study and has a multiplayer mode where you can learn from other people.

shenzhen IO is a game with levels and challenges that lets you build little electronic devices, it is in a low level language close to assembly and you can compare how fast or how efficient your design was compared to other players, it has a realistic manual as if you would design it in real life, it also has a cool unique solitaire kinda game

Kudos for the variety !

Bitburner is missing! This game is super nice for learning Javascript

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Made with HARPA AI

Gonna include TIS 100 but not SHENZHEN I/O??? Seems sus.

DUSKERS, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GAME FOR SO LONG!!! thank you.

I can't recommend Screeps enough. It's an incredible game for learning code, getting better at it, and having a blast

the what?

Great content. Your voice is hella annoyying. Please talk like a normal person. stop being so high pitched and trying to make every syllable incredibly emotional.

I wonder what the world would be like if we all knew how to code XD.

i played long ago a programming game named Colobot! ^^

Final Fantasy XI will get you deep into C++ Lua

I play Roblox 😂

Ylands dominates all of these because it is a REAL game not just a boring nerd puzzle. Adventure for 100's of hours, but also in the editor you can create any crazy adventure you like. Assemble visual scripting tiles, create terrain, waterfalls, planets, caves, then test the game and upload and let others play it. Buildings, trees, wildlife, pirates, monsters, traps, locked chests, flying submarines, scuba diving, magic wands that do anything you can think of. It's free to play the basic game, but the purchased version allows much more. Look at some of the tutorials for Ylands.

i would mention a mod rather than a game, Kerboscript of Kerbal Space Program. It's a comprehensive programming language to fly the rockets in a rocket simulation that you build the rocket from scratch. Visual Stuido Code has an extension to highlight the language.

This list is incomplete without Colobot, free download...

Gregtech: New Horizons.

CodeCombat! <3

Are they playable on linux?

TIS-100 is seriously a very hard game, as a CSE student i know this, a had a subject COA in which we have to learn and write codes for the 8086 Assembly Program, man that was hard, seeing this here is like a nightmare, i'm glad that semester ended well man.

Whats the best game for a 9 year old kid

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Don't forget Shenzhen I/O

Colobot. How could you miss COLOBOT???

the game is called being poor

Stationeers, you can learn low level mips assembly to automate systems in your station.

You forgot ALAN-13 reformation.

Stonestoryrpg encourages you to code a simplified lua to complete quests

Imagine developing a game, and then, halfway, being like "Screw it, we'll just say it's a programming game."

I think games that teach skills are awesome!!
Historical ones are good too (looking at you Total War and Assassin's Creed).

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Loved this gonna try out two of them!

May I add "Autonauts" to your list?
I love this game for the way it visualises the effect of your (simple, scratch-like) code.
Cute li'l bots execute your scripts slow enough for you to observe and understand the effect of each command line under varying circumstances.
And you can play it like a farming game, then slowly offload more and more of the tedious work to the bots as you get more comfortable with coding.
The game doesn't teach any classic coding language. Instead, you learn concepts and good practices.

Damn, you left hackmud off.

TIS-100, best game to learn how to code ? Are you kidding me ? There is not a single thing related to code. It's just a sophisticated puzzle who looks like coding.
Human Ressource Machine is useless for you, because nobody code in assembly anymore.

If you're going to include Human Resource Machine, you definitely should have included Autonauts