Design the chip that powers AI. Start with a single logic gate and build a computer: wire circuits, cast designs into reusable chips, program tiny kernels, and scale your architecture into a working GPU.

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Planned Release Date: Nov 10, 2026

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About This Game

From one logic gate to a computer.


IT THINKS! is a hands-on hardware puzzle game about discovering how computers grow. Place parts, draw wires, watch signals move, and prove each design on a live test bench. Your first component is NAND: a tiny logic gate with two inputs and one decision. From there, your designs grow into arithmetic, memory, a programmable processor, parallel cores, matrix multiplication, and finally a chip that recognizes your handwritten digits.

Build it. Test it. Ship it.


  • Complete 36 handcrafted contracts across six eras, from a small workshop to an AI lab.
  • Turn working circuits into reusable chips and build a catalogue of components you designed yourself.
  • Program the hardware you built with a compact assembly language and run the same kernel across many cores.
  • Balance real architectural trade-offs such as area, ticks, memory bandwidth, power, and parallel efficiency.
  • Learn at your own pace with optional hints, the Master's Notebook, and skip tests for concepts you already know.
  • Make every solution yours with exportable die views and looping GIF captures.

No electrical-engineering background is required. Build by doing, inspect what happened, and improve the machine one clear step at a time.

Language support at launch: The interface, tutorials, and all in-game text will be available in all 15 languages listed on the store page.

We taught sand to think.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

i used some AI made images along with human made art. i may remove them before the full release.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7
    • Processor: Intel i5
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: AMD Radeon Vega 8
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: High Sierra 10.13+
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
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