Interesting idea. I enjoyed 70% of the game, then if became too complicated and was not fun anymore.
Only recommended if you get a good price deal, otherwise I would not buy it again.

I've been wanting to learn to code for a long time and never got around to it due to the fear and bias most people deal with.

With this game I felt engaged, I felt accomplished at every optimization I achieved, I felt like I was learning without the headache.

This is a must have for anyone starting out in coding, or simply enjoys a good puzzle game.
100% satisfied with purchase.

Great game!
It's really fun to solve the puzzles. If you like logic mind games or ever had fun programming stuff, then this is the game for you!

Unfortunately it falls a bit short, took me 4 hours to make 3/4th of the game and now it gets a little harder.
A DLC with new puzzles or maybe a content creater and Workshop Support would be reeeaally great!

This is a probably well-meaning game that fails to deliver to the audience most interested: the newbie programmer. The game has a charming premise, which is underdeveloped. Although your character is moving upward through a dystopian corporation, this is less fleshed-out than the world map in early Mario games. The sound design is suitable and unintrusive, but nothing to write home about. More importantly, the game design suffers from expert myopia. It's essentially a teaching game (or to use the 90s buzzword, an edutainment game). While it could be a fun way to learn visual programing, in reality the teaching game genre is merely used as a framework, and is entirely neglected. There are no actual hints for a stumped player. The coding language the player uses is artifically hobbled by a lack of the most basic functions fundamental to languages handling maths. The player must execute relatively simple programming tasks with elaborate contortions of unsuitable functions, like determining if numbers are equal without an actual comparison function of any sort. The newbie codemonkey will feel it is cheating to look up answers or even hints, likely unaware that porgrammers pull code from documentation and github all the time.

For experienced coders, this will be a fun puzzling romp with a robot apocalypse skin. For aspiring programmers and those with less than perfect math scores, it will quickly devolve into an exercise in frustration.

*I have not reviewed it for accessibility. This is a single-mouse-click based game. Keyboard controls are not available. Audio is not required to play. Color is not required for understanding and playing - it is mostly sepia with some arbitrarily red or green items.

Human Resource Machine is a puzzle/programming game by the devs behind World of Goo and Little Inferno.
It makes you code not with the fancy sophisticated constructs of programming languages, but with a very limited set of instructions the likes of which your processor really understands. It is basically a very cute, very graphical introduction to assembler languages and to programming in general.
The game starts with simplistic problems and an extremely limited set of instructions, but the difficulty ramps up quite a bit until you finally tackle typical programming problems like Fibonnacci and prime numbers, sorting and so on.
Besides all the programming puzzles, the game also tells you a story that I will not dare spoil here, even though it is not, by any means, a story-driven game.

• Amazingly cute graphics (who woulda thunk assembler code could be so pretty???)
  
• Balanced difficulty curve (aside from optional problems and some optimization goals)
  
• Good amount of content for the price (unless you are a computing genius... or a cheater)

• Interface gets frustrating at times
  
• Coding complex programs with so few instructions is hard (and now you know why programming languages were invented in the first place ;) )

If ever a programming game could be accessible to non-coders, this would be it. At the same time, behind its cute graphics and visual gimmicks, it really is a programming game.
If you're a coder, you should give this one a try, if only to afterwards go back to your favorite language and sigh in contentment for all the syntactic sugar making your coding experience so much more comfortable.
If you've ever wondered how computer actually compute data, this is the game for you.
If you're a big fan of puzzles and brain teasers, this will probably give you a headache in a good way.
If you fit in none of those categories, I would only advise getting this game on sale, as you might go into anaphylactic shock ;)

Good game especially if you want to learn programming the fun way.

Bad programming. Wannabe realistic game.

Assembly language programming simulator 2015. Hopefully nobody ever sees the awful hacky garbage I used to solve the harder problems.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game! I don't think it's a spoiler to say that gameplay is basically writting simple programs for a basic computer. There's not much plot.

I susspect that there are a lot of people out there who like puzzel games, but who would not like this game. Here's a quick checklist to help you decide if you might like this game:

You might like this game if...
1. you like computer programming in simple languages like C, Basic, or assebly.
2. you love math, in particular algorithms and proofs.
3. you care about the process more than the answer.

Lastly you may find this game very hard if you're not familliar with a few algorithms like the division algorithm and a simple sorting algorithm like bubble sort.

♥♥♥♥ this game for trying to teach me how to do a "bubble sort". Other than that, delightful.