Last updated on June 12th, 2023 at 03:25 pm
Human Resource Machine
Human Resource Machine is one of the best $4.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Experimental Gameplay Group, Human Resource Machine is a Education game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 1st June 2016 with the latest update 11th December 2018
Whether you are a fan of Education, Puzzle, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
378 people have rated 1.0.9
You can download the game Human Resource Machine from APP STORE.
Description
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming… for your job.
- Included in the ‘App Store Best of 2016’.
- A worldwide App Store Editors’ Choice.
- Winner of Excellence in Innovation by the International Mobile Gaming Awards.
Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game for nerds. In each level, your boss gives you a job. Automate it by programming your little office worker. If you succeed, you’ll be promoted up to the next level for another year of work in the vast office building. Congratulations!
Don’t worry if you’ve never programmed before – programming is just puzzle solving. If you strip away all the 1’s and 0’s and scary squiggly brackets, programming is simple, logical, beautiful, and something that anyone can understand and have fun with! Are you already an expert? There will be extra challenges for you.
From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno. Have fun! Management is watching.
REVIEWS:
“Amidst the trend of instant gratification that the internet and gaming as a whole has perpetuated, having a game that both excels in its puzzles and also challenges your wider perception of it is commendable, and makes Human Resource Machine exponentially essential.”
- Touch Arcade 5/5
“Sometimes a game catches you by surprise. Be it with its ingenuity, its style, or its sense of humor. Other times a game catches you with all three, like Human Resource Machine.”
- Gamezebo 9/10
"Human Resource Machine Could Be The App Of The Year”
- Mobile n’ Apps
Updated on 11th December 2018
Updated for devices with wider aspect ratios.
Human Resource Machine Reviews
This game is pretty awesome, if we do say myself. Having prior knowledge to coding helped us with the first few levels, but had to look for help after a few levels. We recommend having a small amount of coding knowledge before playing so you wont get completely stuck. And like the app says, because of it difficulty, its better if you play this ages 9 and over. Soy out.
We’re totally frustrated but delighted to be challenged, so we send this message to the developers with a grin: F-you, you evil, sadistic, geniuses! Well done! This kind of logical, linear thinking makes our brain sweat. How awesome that playing can teach a new way of thinking — kind of empowering, lots of fun. We can see how this can be applied to communication.
We share the developers’ cynicism. We are in a mindless bureaucratic march toward nothing. But if we’re going to waste our life staring at screens, solving meaningless puzzles that have already been solved by someone else and are solvable much more easily by computer programs that have already been builtif we are to be boxed in by machines that quantify our every moveit’s at least nice when the pointless puzzles are challenging. So thanks. Maybe we should go outside and play now.
Whenever we restart cause our code didnt work the numbers always restart and it makes us very mad so can yall update it so it doesnt do it cause it makes us restart a whole level. The game is still worth it its just that it gets us annoyed a little and pretty frustrated cause its hard.
-good puzzles addressing real fundamental programming tasks and logic -compelling visual design, really smooth graphics and game dynamics -recursive hilarity we would much rather support these guys than buy that $7 latte.
Wonderful game. Great way tonelagem procedure thinking too. (Ive even assigned it as HW as a way to build familiarity with procedural thinking and implication. Most programming tools just teach you commands and dont help people develop thinking habits they need to program.) Great game if you like logic puzzles and games with character.
We were able to progress through the levels, but we still felt like we were at a low level the entire time.
Lying on our side causes the game to rotate (even with rotation lock enabled in the control center).
We want to play this game when we go to bed. We sleep on our side. But the game flips over and doesnt respect iOS orientation lock. Its a good game but this ruins the fun when you cant play it sideways.
Fun puzzle game for exercising coding knowledge, but doesn’t offer a lot of help to actually teach you how to code. Once you get a problem that is too difficult to figure out alone there isn’t any help for the user to learn. We basically have to go look up the answers on youtube and pick apart the explanation so we can understand what it is we’re doing in the game. Although, our understanding from impressions left on the internet by professional coders, looking up your coding needs on github and other sources is a totally normal thing to do no matter how far along in your career you are. So maybe the true lesson here is that a successful coder is resourceful and adaptable. Review coming from someone whose entire coding experience is playing a few levels of swift on the ipad and an obsessively decorated myspace profile in 2005.
Update: Within 10 minutes of our last post we figured out that the sound ONLY works with wired headphones or Bluetooth speakers and headphones. Minor annoyance but livable. 5/21/2020 Just downloaded and we were excited to play, but theres no sound. We couldnt find any settings menu within the game, and we made sure that our phones volume was on and working with music and other apps, and that Bluetooth was off. Im using an iPhone XR. This could be a one-off issue since we cant find it referenced anywhere else online, but we do remember that the sequel, 7 Billion Humans, had the same issue on Steam. For 7 Billion Humans after a few days to a week the sound started working on that one, not sure why or how. Hopefully its the same scenario with Human Resource Machine on iOS, but this is just annoying, since you would think that including sound on a game wouldnt be so complex.
We made a script which multiplies two inputs, the way the level tells you to. The script gives the correct output, but the manager requests a zero on the last pair, regardless of what said pair is. We are stuck.
This game challenges you more than it teaches you. It gives a task and doesnt assist in the solution at all. If youre wanting to learn programming for the first time, this game discourages you more than it assists your growth. It seems this game is for programmers that want small challenges.
This simulates a simple CPU. There is only one register and no subroutine calls. The worst feature is if you write a partial program and did not run it, you could lose the program if this app gets deactivated by ios when sitting in the background.
They need to have locking screen orientation. The minimal basic options are poor. The game itself is decent. Its polished and we appreciate the hard work designing a friendly debugger. The optimizations are the main fun of the game, the levels and instructions themselves are reasonable. Polish and design 5/5. Basic quality of life features 3/5. Puzzles and gameplay 4/5. Price and platform implementation 3/5. Story 4/5.
We wish this game would let us stop the numbers from changing at each attempt Programming is already abstract enough, please allow for static numbers!
This game is great but progress is not saved in phone backups. Every time we get a new phone we have to start over. Its so annoying and we hate playing the same levels.
We were looking for a game that would help with coding. This game helps with some weird slantwise stuff that might help with logical thinking sometimes, but otherwise its no good. The way the screen is set up, its frustrating trying to look at your program or make changes; we try scrolling and we’ve selected something, now its out of place and we have to figure out where it came from before trying to scroll through the obnoxiously long line of code necessary because we cant use normal if-then sorts of statements. As a game, its mildly funny too, so thats cool.
We love the game itself. But we would love to change the language from the English to Korean a lot if possible. We bought this outside Korea.
Looking to upgrade your phone? Goodbye save data. This application doesnt integrate its save with iCloud backup or Game Center. Probably wont play it until this is fixed.
The game is great but please make it support iCloud sync between multiple iOS devices.
We would give this game 8 stars if only it would allow us to continue our progress on a new phone. Instead we have to re-solve all of the challenge problems, which just kills our motivation to pick it back up. WHY doesnt this sync to iCloud for saves, or at the very least why arent the save games included in our iTunes backup?
We’re stuck at level 9 because we’ve been looking for the relationship between input and output. We thought it was an arithmetic sequence or a proportional sequence relationship, or something like that. But after we checked the strategy, we realized that it turned out to be a simple relationship like A-B and B-A. We feel like our IQ has been insulted. Telling the player directly what the relationship between input and output is is much better than telling the player a test case and letting him guess.
These puzzles are way too smart for me.
We are a non-coder that enjoys the idea of coding. This is a fantastic game. Very hard to get the optimum score on each level (i.e., the most efficient / effective program) so even after you win theres very often more to do if you choose to go for a gold standard.
This is an amazing game and spend the money if you will only play it on the iPad. If you try to use an iPhone, theres an annoying bug where is nags you constantly to rotate away from landscape mode. Also, the support link has no support contact that we could read on the iPhone. Lots of FAQ about steam but no iOS support from the support link. Bad on Apple for approving that metadata. Ill give the developer a pass and 5 stars since the app is good and maybe they didnt realize their support link was supposed to help people get support.
This is a decent game to understand the procedural way machine language works as well as the most rudimentary programming. Sorely needs more levels and functions would be a great addition. But 2 years and the only update was for the new iPhone X line of phones. Very disappointed, so we updated our review from 4 to 2 stars.
Our big complaint is that we cant listen to apple music or audiobook while playing. Sound is not needed for this game. Id like to play the game and listen to what we want.
We can’t say enough good things about this game. Really hoping they release a sequel or more levels via iap.
This app is the exception to our rule. Challenging and fun. Just to show how challenging it is, we worked on Level 21 for about 5 days and was convinced that there was a bug in the game that needed to be fixed. This seems to be a common misconception among many reviewers, and we also fell for it. But NO! Level 21 is not flawed, we just wasn’t paying attention and thinking it through. This app is awesome. We just completed level 21, and now we can’t wait to get to move on. We’re almost 50, by the way, with a graduate degree heavy in maths. Thank you for such a great app. We would give it 10 stars, if possible.
We love this on the PC and when we saw it on iOS we had to pick it up. Hope to see a sequel or new challenges in the future.
We have experience in Matlab and a little of Arduino but find this to still be a great and fun challenge. It teaches the basics of programming in a very intriguing way.
Wanna talk about a puzzle game? Do you enjoy using your brain? Look no further. A lot of "puzzle" games these days are just button pressers where the challenge comes from connecting all the same shapes in a line so that they can disappear. Not much challenge to that besides deciding whether it not you should spend money to turn off the annoying ads. We were lucky enough to buy this game on sale for $1 and we are very happy with that decision. Not only do we love this game… We also hate if for how much it pushes you to think outside of the box. At one point, we found myself doing a google search on mathematical theory. Not our proudest moment at age 26… If you a looking for a challenge that will keep you up at night thinking about possible solutions, then buy this game. If you get frustrated easily and rage quit (or dont feel like shelling out the $5) then maybe go back to the dot connectors. Also, don’t worry about spending $5 and the game ending too soon. There are like 40+ levels and they start getting pretty hard by 15. Im still stuck on level 23 and to be honest we stumbled through the previous 2. This game will take a lot of thinking time (unless you are a genius or something).
This is the funnest game we have ever gotten from the app store. The programing is easy to get the hang do to the simple commands. The step back and debug feature is by far one of the best featured. It helps us through every level. One problem (and one nitpick) TL DR version level broken On the level zero terminated sum you get a zero terminated string ( a bunch of numbers ended with a zero) and you have to add all of those numbers up then give them the result we have a program that worked before no problem but now when we run the same program on the same level it dose not work. The last string always says it should add up to 0 but it never dose in real life (i.e. 1 3 -5 0) added up equals -1 but it says our answer should be zero every time even though the numbers never equal zero. Minor nitpick The game is meant for large screens play on tablet if possible but still works on phone.
The graphics are simple and cute. The problems are all nicely paced to each get harder but never with too big of a jump in difficulty from one level to the next. We started playing it with our 7 year old and, with only a little help reading the instructions, he has been able to figure out what to do and really likes the game as well.
It’s a great game, just wish you could turn sound and music off so you can listen to your own music.
We have seriously never, ever felt prouder to finish a game in our life!!! Some levels felt like torture, yet we cant help myself but to dive right back in to complete all the optimization challenges. Cant wait to see what these guys will come up with next.
Game is a great introduction to assembly.
Guys please make it iPhone X compatible!!
We really love how challenging this game is. The backstory is a very funny spoof of the corporate world and there is great satisfaction in being able to solve the higher levels. It is really well designed with entertaining graphics and sound effects. We highly recommend this.
This game got us so jacked up on math and puzzle solving! We recommended it to all of our friends. Fun story line and great art. Forever. We will be sad when we have completed all the levels.
This game is amazing. Faintly cute and extremely clever and witty, this game is a mind-boosting treat. Though challenging, once you solve a puzzle, you feel so satisfied with yourself! We highly recommend this game.
Only item we would like to see improved is the comments. We like the ability to draw in the comments but maybe you could also make an option to type? Im not really able to be as detailed as I’d would like to be. We can barely draw one 4 letter word. Absolutely amazing game though!
What a wonderful gem. In 5 years of having an iPhone, this is hands down the most satisfying game we’ve played. We paid the full $4.99 for it we feel it is worth every penny. Buy this game if you like to be challenged and learn while playing without feeling frustrated. Kudos development team, hopefully other developers follow your lead.
This game lives up to it’s campaign promise to Make Programming Great Again.
We love this game. Instantly addicted. BUT, now that we got to the multiply level, we can’t get a multiplier command to appear on the list. edit OMG. That’s the puzzle. Well done.
If you like logic games and have fun writing codes, you will love love love this game! Hours of fun and brain exercise.
We downloaded and played straight through all weekend, Im straight addicted to this game.
This game is great for puzzle lovers and is a good intro to code. We agree with others saying more feedback or hints would be useful in case people get stuck. It would also benefit from being able to copy and paste sections of code into other sections rather than the current all-or-nothing approach. Overall adorable and enjoyable to play.
If you like to code you will love this game. When can we have some new levels?