Obscure

Silicon Zeroes

88% positive of 248 Steam reviews

Released: 2017
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, itch.io

Made by PleasingFungus Games.

About the game

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Tagged by players

Programming
Hacking
Simulation
Puzzle
Difficult

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Obscure

Silicon Zeroes

88% positive of 248 Steam reviews

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Released: 2017
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, itch.io

Made by PleasingFungus Games.

About the game

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Tagged by players

Programming
Hacking
Simulation
Puzzle
Difficult

What players say

Recommended
Should have played earlier, very good CPU puzzle game. Quite different than Turing Complete and I like it takes a different approach: you don't build boolean tables or elementary structures, but instead it focuses next on latency and teaches you how/why pipelining works. Components are pre-made for you. Neat. I.e. I thought I knew in abstract what pipeline does in the CPU, yes. But it hits that sweet spot of "ah,…
12 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
This is, to date, the least enjoyable entry in this sub-genre for me, with several major issues that prevent me from actually having a good time with it. First off, the cycle count requirements for completion are excessively strict. The designer has a very specific solution in mind for each puzzle (which is generally an optimal or near-optimal solution), and all but the smallest deviations will be met with failure.…
4.6 h played when written. 149 found it helpful.
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