Human Resource Machine is an indie developed by Tomorrow Corporation, released 15 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Android and iOS. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Human Resource Machine is
Human Resource Machine is an indie game developed by Tomorrow Corporation and released in 2015. It was published by Experimental Gameplay Group. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Human Resource Machine is a visual programming-based puzzle video game developed by Tomorrow Corporation. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Wii U in 2015, being additionally released for Linux in March 2016, for iOS in June 2016, for Android in December 2016 and for the Nintendo Switch in March 2017. Human Resource Machine uses the concept of a corporate office worker assigned to perform tasks that involve moving objects between an inbox, an outbox, and to and from storage areas as a metaphor for assembly language concepts. The player works through some forty puzzles in constructing a program to complete a specific task.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 16 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Human Resource Machine holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 60 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.5Ghz CPU, 1 GB RAM and graphics card that supports Shader Model 2.0 or greater. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Human Resource Machine launched on 15 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Human Resource Machine yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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