Human Resource Machine
Update: now includes the official soundtrack
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming… for your job.
Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game for nerds. In each level, your boss gives you a job. Automate it by programming your little office worker. If you succeed, you’ll be promoted up to the next level for another year of work in the vast office building. Congratulations!
Don’t worry if you’ve never programmed before – programming is just puzzle solving. If you strip away all the 1’s and 0’s and scary squiggly brackets, programming is actually really simple, logical, beautiful, and something that anyone can understand and have fun with! Are you already an expert? There will be extra challenges for you.
From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno. Have fun! Management is watching.
Game Discussion
Steam User 9
I got this game to learn the basics in programming.
After playing and 100%ing this game I still don't understand programming BUT it is a great puzzle game.
If you like a game that challenges you and feels rewarding this is your puzzle game.
The funny story kept me engaged when I felt like giving up.
Steam User 6
This is a very great puzzle and thinking game where you code assembly.
It gets pretty hard, ESPECIALLY if you want to do the optimisation challenges!
Would recommend!
Unless you have issues like me, but that is not the games fault. That is the fault of me being born.
Made me quit being a programmer and aware of how much of a pathetic failure i really am at (optimised) coding and at being alive in general.
Steam User 5
A fun programming game that doesn't overstay its welcome. Plus, a realistic depiction of what happens to a programmer's hair over time.
Steam User 5
Human Resource Machine is clever little game that teaches you the fundamentals of programming in a fun and simple way. Just like real programming, it can get pretty frustrating, but once you manage to find a solution that works it's extremely satisfying. Plus there's a cool, creepy little story going on behind it all as well.
Steam User 6
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.
Steam User 3
Basically the opposite of the real world we are living in:
What if humans made all programming instead of the machines?
So yeah, you basically command these little human people to execute some commands.
The game starts off easy and simple to understand, but gets way more complex and tough as you move on to later levels. Luckily, you can literally copy-paste the solutions to the game. Seriously, you can copy a specific text string from a txt file and paste it directly into the game to solve a level. But that's cheating haha, you wouldn't do that, right? Haha.
But yeah, I'll play anything from Tomorrow Corporation. I love their artstyle, and recognised this game as one of theirs just by looking at the store's banner picture. And I love their weird silly stories and worlds :D
Let the humans replace the machines!
Steam User 4
Many people believe this game to be about programming when it in fact is a fully accurate depiction of what it's like working in accounting.