Human Resource Machine

This is a delightful and addictive game that I already had on PC. Unfortunately, on the mobile version, the tiles are tiny and difficult to read. Also, the size & speed optimization challenges (which account for 90% of the gameplay) are harder to find in this version. Make sure you talk to the boss to see them - without them the biggest challenge is reading the tiny tiles!

5/5 if not for the screen rotation bug. Screen auto-rotation is too sensitive and activates too often, flipping the screen upside-down. Also, there is no setting to turn off music and SFX. A game to teach programming, so it's heavily based in math and logic. Even if you have programming experience, it's still fun to play but will not be as challenging. However, trying to solve the optional optimization challenges (for size and speed) makes it more interesting. You can't backup your progress (I think), so it makes this more re-playable for me.

If programming appeals to you even a little bit, you will like this game. It does not involve learning a long list of instructions - the challenge is accomplishing a task with limited commands. It starts very simple, but by the end you will complete tasks you would think are impossible, and the satisfaction gained from that is unparalleled. Got quickly addicted and completed in 2 days. Enough content for price, but for my love of the game, I wish it were longer. Thanks for increasing my IQ!

Well the game itself is awesome and I think a good way to explain programming or at least the way of thinking. But: In the level three sort where you have to sort three elements by size. For the evaluation of the efficiency of the code there is a too small test set with unequal distributed sorting. Resulting in it only being possible to solve the puzzle if you start with the right order. So it makes a difference in efficiency if you put the first element at first or second position. That's a bug in my opinion. That's not what you would want to teach with this game.

This is actually a 5-star game, it has educational value as it is a fun intro to some coding concepts. I'm giving it 2 stars because I want to attract the developers' attention: your game won't open more than once. I downloaded it yesterday, and every time I try to reopen it, I get a black screen. I can run it again only if I reinstall it. Please fix this bug. If it helps, I don't use Google's gaming account on my phone. And thank you for the nice game!

Great game if you love puzzles and logic. Introduces you to simple programming and then progresses to more advanced concepts. Interesting back story in the coffee break levels adds a bit of humour. Optimization challenges keep it interesting. Something I'd like to see, each level has 2 lights in the rnenu to show optimizations achieved, maybe add a third light to show if they were achieved at the same time. And user submitted challenges would be awesome.

A clever game for beginners to computer science. Also fun for kids! A step up from Robot Turtles, but still not, say, Spacechem. The developers do a fantastic job on their games, and charm oozes out of this like so many Goo Balls sent up pipes. If you're already good at this sort of thing, the Optional Completion Distinctions will give you plenty of challenge. And it's worth it for the ending.

I played 8 levels, and the game is fun. But as others have noted, the controls are broken; it seems like the touch calibration is misaligned or something. I just got a refund. I like the game but if I'm paying that price, I expect the fundamental controls to work properly.

This is a decent game, yet feels a bit unfinished. I am at the next to last level, and it's too messy for my taste. Like a kindergarten pseudo programming language that makes your head spin for no reason whatsoever. It basically teaches you things like how to do division or mod, when you only have addition. Seems nice at first, but gets you that "pointless" feeling quick. 5 stars, mostly because it's quality made. No regrets buying it. Nice little game. Little being a keyword here.

Unresponsive controls makes the game unplayable. Got through the first two levels but got stuck on the third because I couldnt select the boxes, not edit lines I already made or clear the existing code. If it wasnt for the control issues it would probably be a good game, now its unplayable/frustratingly unresponsive. Played on a S8+.

This game presents a series of puzzles you must solve using machine language for a simple machine. (If you're familiar with programming the machine has serial input and output, one register, typed memory, indirect addressing and simple arithmetic and conditional jumps.) You program the machine by dragging instructions around. Unlike Scratch, the control flow is jumps so you have to manage your traces and branches. Speed and size challenges keep it interesting.

Great fun if you're into this sort of thing! Concur with other's opinions on the coolness of it. BUT my 5 star rating is reduced to 3 because of simple interface issues that make it incredibly frustrating: lock screen takes over while you're thinking, auto rotates to be upside down at the slightest jiggle, the buttons at the bottom hardly ever respond, trying to scroll the code inevitably leads to modifying it. Grrr! These little annoyances add up over repeated exposure. At this price... no dice

No settings to be adjusted. Refunded after second level as unable to play in bed cause the game has auto rotation so even if you have screen rotation off, the game will keep rotating when you lay down or play on the moving bus or doing anything but holding still and straight. I really don't think they thought this platform through...

Love this game. It's really fun trying to complete all the challenges, especially with contradictory goals. -1 star because I keep getting a black screen on launch. Sometimes force stopping and clearing cache help. But 4 stars for a paid game that I can't run is a sign how much I enjoy this game.

Assembly programming essentially. This game is great way to get your brain working on assembly programming like problems like taking numbers from inbox then doing math or comparisons with them and outputting a result to the outbox. Great game. Once you merely solve all the puzzles you may not necessarily have them all optimized for most efficient solution. I cannot recommend this game enough. I wish there was a sequel or other games like this on Android. Awesome!!!

Absolutely amazing game. Nice visual style design, no ads, no in-game pay-to-win mechanic. Great to spend time for those, who are not terrified of thinking. As a coder myself, highly approve!

This is a fun and good-naturedly infuriating little game, even for, perhaps especially, professional programmers. One puzzle took me days to solve its optimization challenge, and once I did I felt like a king. This is one of my favorite games

Game is great. But I've changed phone recently and found that I cannot sign into Play Games anymore in the latest version, which makes it impossible to get back my progress from cloud, or get any new achievements. That's quite a bummer for me😕. And that auto rotation is still annoying at worst, a single disable button would be hugely appreciated. Also, hope the humble dev people can add cloud functionalities back.

Really fun, and a good learning curve. Gets pretty challenging by the end, especially if you want to solve the optimisation challenges. But the most difficult puzzles are off on side branches, not blocking you from completing the story.

Good game, very silly and dystopian at the same time. However, it is too easy to rotate the screen accidentally. Might be hard to implement, but the devs should consider adding a button for screen rotation.

No options at all. Eg: for sound control (can't have your own music in the background) or screen lock. Screen rotation is incredibly touchy and severely hampers playing on the bus. Overstays it's welcome. Not updated in forever so don't expect it to be fixed or even work on new operating systems eventually. My 3 star review disappeared, not sure how but that's fishy, so have 1 star instead.

I like this game, BUT inbox show you not all letters or numbers!!! Only 7 out of 8. Lasts useen! And apeards in last moment when you push button play. Thats make planning impossible. When everething going alright til last simbol you dont know appear and ruined all its very disapoint. It is a bug? I think to planing your steps you should see every simbol from inbox. On level 9 zeros. Be 5 stars if fixed. Thanks.

This game can teach you how to program and it's silly, dark sense of humor makes it fun. You're rewarded almost as much for your mistakes as your successes. Tomorrowland makes awesome puzzle games with simultaneously dark and uplifting storylines in which the art style meshes perfectly. Most of their games are PC only.

This game allows a person to be introduced to base level programming and concepts. It also encourages outside learning and using your personal opinion and resources to find appropriate ways to work through problems. Excellent!

Well designed puzzles, but experience is severely diminished by the lack of a settings menu - ingame mute button doesn't silence sfx, and there's a loud cheer every time you beat the level. This makes it very unpleasant to play while listening to music from my phone.

This game is SO much fun!!! I love the coding twist on a puzzle game. It can be pretty challenging so far and beating a level feels so satisfying! I'm going to cry when I beat this game, I don't want it to end! It's a perfect game. Please make more games like this!

Major issue with sound, does not turn off, always on, even the speaker icon only partial mutes sound, I used to like this game but this lack of ability to disable sound wrecks this game, the developers should be very ashamed of the incompetence.

Making learning an assembly-like language a game is no easy feat. Making it fun, doubly so. Interface may be a little difficult on smaller phones. Graphics are cute and whimsical.