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Hard Chip

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.

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★ QUANTUM ODYSSEY ★ TIS-100 ★ SPACECHEM ★ [THE SEQUENCE] ★ 7 BILLION HUMANS ★ EXAPUNKS ★ TURING COMPLETE ★ SOLAS 128 ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ VIRTUAL CIRCUIT BOARD ★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ SHENZHEN I/O ★ WE ♥ IT 
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TIS-100

97% 👍 OF 4.1K
About This Game

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …print out a real reference manual, then use it to solve the menu that turns out to be the first puzzle.
  • …split one problem across 12 nodes running at once, coordinating them until the outputs line up in the right order.
  • …build your own games inside the machine using a visual console sandbox after you repair enough corrupted segments.
Programming Puzzle Indie Simulation Difficult
REL Jul 20, 2015 ★ $6.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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SpaceChem

92% 👍 OF 5.1K
About This Game

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …connect multiple reactors so one puzzle becomes an entire production chain with pipes feeding outputs into the next step.
  • …pack a full solution into a tiny reactor by shaving parts, rerouting, and ending on a precise manual switch sequence.
  • …use flip-flops and timing rules to build counters and branching behavior that makes your reactor act like a program.
Puzzle Difficult Programming Indie Logic
REL Mar 2, 2011 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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[the Sequence]

89% 👍 OF 180
About This Game

[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!

Automation Puzzle Programming Logic Minimalist
REL Mar 30, 2016 ★ $4.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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7 Billion Humans

94% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Workers Together
  • …Sort Objects With Code
  • …Optimize Code Runs
Programming Puzzle Indie Simulation Education
REL Aug 23, 2018 ★ $14.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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EXAPUNKS

95% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Program Replicating Agents
  • …Hack Connected Networks
  • …Optimize Code Runs
Programming Puzzle Hacking Automation Indie
REL Oct 22, 2018 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Turing Complete

96% 👍 OF 5.7K
About This Game

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a working CPU starting from a single NAND gate.
  • …design your own instruction set, choose the opcodes, and write programs in your own assembly language.
  • …install a keyboard, monitor, sound, network, and a file reader that can pull bytes from your real computer into the simulated machine.
Hardware Logic Automation Base Building Simulation
REL Oct 2, 2021 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Signal State

87% 👍 OF 700
About This Game

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Patch Synth Modules
  • …Match Target Signals
  • …Repair Farm Machinery
Puzzle Logic Simulation Automation Programming
REL Sep 23, 2021 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Virtual Circuit Board

92% 👍 OF 323
About This Game

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

Programming Education Simulation Automation Minimalist
REL Oct 6, 2023 ★ $14.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Opus Magnum

97% 👍 OF 7.3K
About This Game

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …place your inputs and outputs anywhere, then build across an effectively unlimited grid with the full toolset from the start.
  • …export your working solution as an animated GIF that loops forever and share the machine in motion.
  • …turn raw materials into stranger products by bonding, unbonding, and transforming them in long repeating chains of steps.
Puzzle Programming Automation Indie Simulation
REL Dec 7, 2017 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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SHENZHEN I/O

95% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …cram a working gadget into absurdly tight code limits, like 9 or 14 instructions, until every single word matters.
  • …build your own devices in the sandbox, including full games people recreate inside it, like in-game Tetris.
  • …wire up microcontrollers, memory, logic chips, and LCDs, then write tiny assembly programs where each instruction can run conditionally.
Programming Automation Puzzle Logic Simulation
REL Nov 17, 2016 ★ $14.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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