Human Resource Machine

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.

Human Resource Machine is a programming, puzzle and indie game developed and published by Tomorrow Corporation.
Released on October 15th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 19 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 4,254 reviews of which 4,000 were positive and 254 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 5.02€ on Steam and has a 66% discount.

The Steam community has classified Human Resource Machine into these genres:

Programming Puzzle Indie Casual Education Simulation Singleplayer Automation Touch-Friendly Logic Comedy Difficult Funny Great Soundtrack Satire Sandbox Experimental 2D Resource Management

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: XP or later
Processor: 1.5Ghz CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: graphics card that supports Shader Model 2.0 or greater
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 200 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.7 or later (Compatible with macOS Catalina)
Processor: 1.5Ghz CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1
Storage: 200 MB available space

Linux

Processor: 1.5Ghz CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1
Storage: 200 MB available space

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

9/10 Very niche game. If you like programming puzzles, this is for you. The learning curve is much easier than other programming puzzle games, so it may be more accommodating, but it does have its fair share of difficult levels. I recommend it if you are into programming puzzles, otherwise you should stay far away. My only real complaint is the UI. Some key suggestions: - Able to debug the program faster (Just default fastest speed. Sometimes the speed goes back to slowest for some reason?) - Use left and right arrow keys to step forwards and backwards through the debugger. - The use of labels is kind of annoying. I would like the UI to show label jumps in between lines instead of having their own line. - Allow text comments as well as the drawn comments. Also I would like if they were the same size as the instructions.

Aug. 2024

It was recommended by my college professor. Great game. Fun. Actually feel like I'm learning something.

Aug. 2024

Wow this game was ahead of it's time, in the ending the upper managers replaced me with A.I and fired me. 10/10 for realism.

Jan. 2024

What a fantastic game! I give it a 9/10. If you feel like playing a programming game, this one is a must. The programming language used has no more than 11 different commands at any point of the game. And in this game genre, less is more, because a very simple task becomes a challenge due to the language limits. It all starts with easy levels (in game, levels are "floors" of an office building). They pretty much act as a tutorial. As you progress, some floors are not required to move to the top. They are considered a bit tougher, it's up to you to decide if you do them or not. All in all, roughly 35 puzzle floors. Some I did beat in 1 minute, the toughest took me maybe an hour. If simply beating a floor is not satisfying enough for you, you can get awards (and achievements) for beating them in a very efficient way. Two ways in fact: using very few commands in total, or solving it in very few steps. Sometimes both ways can be achieved with the same program. At other times, you'll need a specific program for each way. There's an in game copy/paste feature that lets you copy regular text from out of the game and paste it in game as code. Or the other way around. This is great. If you ever get stuck on a floor, you can find the solution in the guides section of Steam then copy paste it in game in 2 seconds. You skip the satisfaction of beating it yourself, but at least if some floors are still locked behind that one, you'll now have access to them. You do not need to be a programmer in real life to enjoy this game. I am not a programmer. I still managed to beat every floor challenges. That took me near 30 hours. If I did not care about challenges, I suppose that time would have been cut in half, at least. And I also suppose a programmer would do it a lot faster. But I had fun taking the time needed to figure things out. It was very rewarding to find many of the solutions, totally worth it. To me this is a 9/10 game. Not a 10 only because of the lack of control on the sound settings (the only option is music on/off, that's it). Else, the UI is clean, pleasant to look at, even for hours.

Dec. 2023

Prerequisites: * You love logic. * You find programming interesting. * You like quirky office humor. if all of the above checks, you will love this game.

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Steam price	23 December 2024 12:47
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-66% 14.79€ 5.02€

9.1

4,000

254

Online players

Developer

Tomorrow Corporation

Publisher

Tomorrow Corporation

Release 15 Oct 2015

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