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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

76% positive of 383 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Prof. Scherer. Published by PlayWay S.A..

About the game

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Tagged by players

  • Programming
  • Automation
  • Hacking
  • Science
  • Robots
  • Logic
  • Immersive Sim
  • Physics
  • Tutorial
  • Puzzle
  • Level Editor
  • Difficult

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Since graduated from CS and became jobless. This game make me re-think my life, maybe I don't really wasted those 4 years in my university for nothing.

    2 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    It's a very fun, but imperfect game. Despite its flaws, I had a lot of fun with this game and ended up beating most of the puzzles - it covers some challenging and relevant topics, it's pretty damn cool that you can leverage OpenCV / SciPy in your programs, and there's generally many ways to solve each problem. I'm recommending the game because of this - it's a solid programming game and there aren't many other…

    43 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I want to like this game but it is buggy as hell. Command count bug that was known back in 2024 still exists in 2026. Finding the exact float value that won't make the physics object fly off the screen when you touch it takes longer that figuring out the proper code to finish the level.

    7.2 h played when written. 31 found it helpful.

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