The Signal State
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About the Game
Keep the signal alive
Manipulate inputs by using unique modules and patching cables via a simple drag-and-drop system.
Make your mark
Prove yourself as the best machine whisperer by completing more than 40 puzzles and competing in our leaderboards.
Control the interface
Customize it to your preference with color palettes for cables and 3 different cable rendering styles.
Let it synth in
Take immersion to the next level with designs by Papernoise, who has designed modules for Mutable Instruments, Hexinverter, WMD, etc.
Experiment in sandbox mode
A free-for-all playground without any constraint. Let your imagination go wild.
Create your own puzzles
Try out our puzzle designer or access other players’ creations via Steam Workshop.
Game Discussion
Steam User 12
RIP Zachtronics.
Hail the Zach-like!
Steam User 12
this game makes me feel like an idiot.
Steam User 4
Entertaining game. The puzzles are pretty engaging. My main critique is that in sandbox mode, there are some missing modules such as an Envelope.
Steam User 4
This is great. Challenging, but doable. I assumed at first this would be a cheap rip-off of another Zachtronics game but it's full featured and interesting puzzles. (Last Call BBS has a very similar interface but actually came out a year after this.)
The interface really makes or breaks games like these and this could have been done so much sloppier. A lot of nice features like you can set breakpoints in the timeline. Music and art is good. Writing is okay but doesn't get in the way.
About half way through the game so far and for nearly every puzzle I try: at first "this is impossible", then after five minutes of thinking "oh, I think I see a way" then after five minutes of fiddling with wires and dragging modules around "that wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be". I keep expecting to get stuck but keep making steady progress.
Steam User 3
Solid Zach-like foundation of puzzles and tools, all themed around modular synthesis. UI is very expressive for learning and debugging, though it's missing some niceties I've come to expect from Zachtronics. (e.g., Max simulation speed is too slow, no infinite undo, and uneven difficulty progression.) Later modules like the Sequencer are *very* complicated and underdocumented. Overall 8/10.
Steam User 3
Maybe the best Zach-like that's not by Zachtronics
Steam User 2
It's a bit short, and devolves from analog logic into binary logic a little too much. But good fun for what it is, and would want to encourage more like it.