Hard Chip

Well dang... It's not just a chip fabricator game, but it's a really good, well made chip fabricator game. You have two MOSFETs, and get to make all the gates and logic units based upon those. It has blueprinting, a neat chip editor, scoreboards, a basic plot, and it runs fine on my Ryzen integrated graphics. Documentation feels a bit light in parts. For example, I've unlocked probes but haven't yet been given any...

5 found this helpful, 2025-10-27

Pros: It's a great game that's very ambitious in it concept. It teaches you how to build circuits out of transistors and wires in a very realistic way. The game's 3 state wire system (positive, negative, floating with capacitance and propagation delay) is uniquely realistic in a way I've never seen before. It has a believable, in universe way to explain why the puzzle solving mechanics exist within it's campaign. It...

3 found this helpful, 2026-06-18

just finished my first hour or so tinkering around. if this keeps up and we get to a full CPU it will be up there with turing complete as one of the best logic chip / ic design games.

2 found this helpful, 2025-10-03