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 4,305 reviews of which 4,044 were positive and 261 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. šŸ˜

The game is currently priced at 14.79ā‚¬ on Steam.

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

Programming Puzzle Indie Casual Education Simulation Singleplayer Automation Touch-Friendly Logic Comedy Difficult Satire Funny Great Soundtrack 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

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Dec. 2024
One of the best programming games in my opinion, it has it all : a fun & witty underlying story, a cool interface and a nice design, interesting puzzles with increasing difficulty, and a super nice achievement system that will entice you to optimize your solution
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Dec. 2024
Human Resource Machine is an amazing and fun game for those who enjoy logical challenges. The mechanics are simple, but the puzzles get increasingly complex, making you think hard. The game combines programming logic with a fun narrative, where you'll "program" your employees to solve ever more complicated tasks. It's a game that keeps you hooked with its rising difficulty, and the satisfaction of solving the puzzles is immense. If you enjoy logic, Human Resource Machine is an excellent choice!
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Dec. 2024
A very interesting programming puzzle game, the game content is different from general programming languages, using more basic instructions and involving the field of assembly. The challenges inside are quite demanding, requiring you to significantly reduce program length or improve efficiency, which is often rare in real life. Therefore, even when solving simple problems, achieving "perfectionism" will require a lot of effort. Overall, this is a mini game with excellent gameplay and art, recommended for purchase.
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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.
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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.
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Human Resource Machine
14.79ā‚¬
9.0
4,044
261
Online players
48
Developer
Tomorrow Corporation
Publisher
Tomorrow Corporation
Release 15 Oct 2015
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