Human Resource Machine on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 4,362 reviews of which 4,097 were positive and 265 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ 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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System requirements

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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

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

I really wish I played this game when I was younger. Heck, I wish I heard about this game during the earlier years at launch and decided to open a Steam account earlier to play it during my undergrad years. This game really is interesting, and honestly it's potentially something that'll inspire kids today to be part of the next generation really into tech! For that, and in spirit of me being a teacher right now- I can appreciate a good tool that does well in inspiring kids to learn - I wholeheartedly recommend it. Still gotta get back to those optimization challenges though. 😂 NOTE: "Your Five Year Plan" is possibly the best piece of music I've heard from this game. Really invokes a dystopian feel for getting players to think like a programmer. It's going in my music library when I get around to it. 🤣

March 2025

Fantastic game. I think it works well for both total newcomers and people who know some programming. Your dog can solve the first few levels, but the difficulty curve ramps up quickly, and my low-level programming skills were definitely not enough for the higher levels to not be wildly challenging. And if you get all the optimization challenges without cheating, you're probably a certified genius. The creepy-cute visuals and dystopian story make the hardcore programming logic puzzles all the more enjoyable. An absolute gem.

Feb. 2025

Loop unrolling for fun and profit. This is a pretty good "computer assembly language programming game". *Most* of the optimization challenges (either for program space or runtime) are enjoyable. Some are a bit tedious. Towards the end I found my enjoyment waning a bit because unlike in some other games of this genre I've played, you never really develop any abstractions that you can leverage later. Many times one level will teach you something and then the following level will ask you to "use" what you learned previously. But by use, I mean literally go back and copy paste your solution (which granted, is implemented) or reimplement it in a slightly more specialized manner. As an example, in the early/mid-game you are asked to implement multiplication using only addition and subtraction. This isn't too bad! Then, in the next four levels you'll have to use multiplication to solve various problems and you'll be reimplementing multiplication from addition and subtraction every time. It would have been better in my opinion to just give you a Mult operator once you've proven you can implement it. This is not that kind of game, though. As a result, toward the end I found myself not caring as much about the optimization challenges and writing my code in a more readable/developer friendly way. Duplicating memory reads if it meant that "subroutine" preconditions could be more easily reasoned through, that sort of thing. I think that the game is a fun challenge for hobbyist and professional programmers, but if I am honest I think that *most* non-programmers are going to hit a wall at some point.

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

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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14.79€

9.0

4,097

265

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Developer

Tomorrow Corporation

Publisher

Tomorrow Corporation

Release 15 Oct 2015

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