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EXAPUNKS

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.

★ TURING COMPLETE ★ TIS-100 ★ THE SIGNAL STATE ★ LOGIC WORLD ★ RETRO GADGETS ★ SHENZHEN I/O ★ OPUS MAGNUM ★ VIRTUAL CIRCUIT BOARD ★ COMET 64 ★ 7 BILLION HUMANS ★ [THE SEQUENCE] ★ HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Turing Complete

96% 👍 OF 5.4K
About This Game

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

In this game, 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.
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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!

In this game, 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.
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The Signal State

87% 👍 OF 679
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.

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SHENZHEN I/O

95% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

In this game, 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.
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Opus Magnum

97% 👍 OF 4.4K
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!

In this game, 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.
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Virtual Circuit Board

92% 👍 OF 313
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.

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[the Sequence]

90% 👍 OF 178
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!

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Human Resource Machine

94% 👍 OF 4.7K
About This Game

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

In this game, you can…

  • …get rewarded for triggering "wrong" computer behaviors like out-of-bounds memory access or numeric overflow and still clearing the level.
  • …create multiplication from scratch using only addition and subtraction, then reuse that homemade multiply in later puzzles.
  • …calculate memory addresses and use them to fetch and store data, instead of only manipulating the values directly.