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As of Jul 4, 2026stale (74d)Rating 4.45
Ratings 415
Price $4.99
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Released Jun 1, 2016
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Current rank by country × genre, shown as color bands 1–3 4–10 11–50 51–100 100+
| 🇹🇲TM | 🇨🇻CV | 🇷🇺RU | |
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| Games · Puzzle | 94▼1 | 79 | 86▲8 |
| Games (all) | 25▼6 |
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Versions observed at capture, newest firstv1.0.9Dec 11, 2018
Updated for devices with wider aspect ratios.
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Positive, neutral, and negative share by month, week, or versionPlayer reviews
Recent store reviews · rule-based labelsSampled 50
Positive 28 (56%)
Negative 10 (20%)
Mentions pricing 8 (16%)
5★18 (36%)
4★10 (20%)
3★12 (24%)
2★3 (6%)
1★7 (14%)
★★★★★positiveMentions pricingsodacrackerrs · 2026-06-30 · v1.0.9
good but a bit confusing
it was very fun but for every level above ten I would spend minutes thinking and my head always felt like it would explode afterwards in conclusion i think it’s a very entertaining game but it’s also realllllllly hard to solve each floor
★★★★★positivealphadelion · 2026-05-08 · v1.0.9
Really Enjoyable game that teaches you the basics of coding algorithms.
I really enjoyed this game when it first came out. It looks like it hasn’t been updated in a few years, hopefully the developer hasn’t given up on this game.
★★★★★neutralMentions pricingAli Osman332 · 2026-03-08 · v1.0.9
Amazing game! But…
I love this game! Played it a lot when I was younger. However, I had it in my macbook all fine but now coming back years later it is asking me that I need to pay $15 on the mac appstore. I thought I had owned it previously? Why do I need to pay again?
★★★★★positivesodacrackerss · 2025-11-17 · v1.0.9
pfft
the game is really fun but seriously not much levels so hard to figure out what to do instructions kind of hard to understand NO
UPDATES WHAT THE WHAT
★★★★★positiveananas_2342 · 2025-01-25 · v1.0.9
Awesome
Best ios game to me in many years. If you are a coder there's no reason you will not be interested in it.
★★★★★neutralClew37281 · 2024-02-08 · v1.0.9
Fun but lack of iCloud saves is a disappointing omission.
For a company that so clearly cares about engineering it’s disappointing to see them omit such an obvious function
★★★★★positiveKutakanii · 2023-07-08 · v1.0.9
Where’s the soundtrack?
Got this game years ago aspiring but got stuck. I remember the soundtrack being incredible and now I can’t seem to get it to play in game. Either way I learned that zero has a value.
★★★★★negativeum Fish I guess · 2022-12-31 · v1.0.9
I’m confused
These puzzles are way too smart for me
★★★★★positivemalonefibers · 2022-12-27 · v1.0.9
You're paying for a puzzle game
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. I basically have to go look up the answers on youtube and pick apart the explanation so I can understand what it is I'm doing in the game.
Although, my 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.
★★★★★neutralIcithis · 2022-09-28 · v1.0.9
No Save File export
Looking to upgrade your phone? Goodbye save data. This application doesn’t integrate its save with iCloud backup or Game Center. Probably won’t play it until this is fixed.
★★★★★negative好的id都被注册了 · 2022-09-26 · v1.0.9
i feel humiliated…
I'm stuck at level 9 because I've been looking for the relationship between input and output. I thought it was an arithmetic sequence or a proportional sequence relationship, or something like that. But after I checked the strategy, I realized that it turned out to be a simple relationship like A-B and B-A. I feel like my 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.
★★★★★positiveCHICKEN 2639378 · 2022-06-23 · v1.0.9
Good game but some problems
Whenever I restart cause my code didn’t work the numbers always restart and it makes me very mad so can y’all update it so it doesn’t do it cause it makes me restart a whole level. The game is still worth it it’s just that it gets me annoyed a little and pretty frustrated cause it’s hard.
★★★★★neutraldustinmyglass · 2021-02-07 · v1.0.9
somewhat fun, but loses data
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.
★★★★★neutralBetterScott2025 · 2021-01-27 · v1.0.9
Unfortunately lacking
I wish this game would let me stop the numbers from changing at each attempt
Programming is already abstract enough, please allow for static numbers!
★★★★★positiveiPhone 14 gamer · 2020-09-23 · v1.0.9
Interesting game but device orientation lock causes my brain to melt
I want to play this game when I go to bed. I sleep on my side. But the game flips over and doesn’t respect iOS orientation lock. It’s a good game but this ruins the fun when you can’t play it sideways.
★★★★★positiveKesaGatame · 2020-07-29 · v1.0.9
Rare Game with Non-Trivial Puzzles & Character
Wonderful game. Great way tonelagem procedure thinking too. (I’ve even assigned it as HW as a way to build familiarity with procedural thinking and implication. Most programming tools just teach you commands and don’t help people develop thinking habits they need to program.)
Great game if you like logic puzzles and games with character.
★★★★★positiveMentions pricingel sly · 2020-06-26 · v1.0.9
Possibly the best five dollars I have ever spent
-good puzzles addressing real fundamental programming tasks and logic
-compelling visual design, really smooth graphics and game dynamics
-recursive hilarity
I would much rather support these guys than buy that $7 latte.
★★★★★positiveAlmoral777 · 2020-05-22 · v1.0.9
No Sound
Update:
Within 10 minutes of my last post I figured out that the sound ONLY works with wired headphones or Bluetooth speakers and headphones. Minor annoyance but livable.
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5/21/2020
Just downloaded and I was excited to play, but there’s no sound. I couldn’t find any settings menu within the game, and I made sure that my phone’s volume was on and working with music and other apps, and that Bluetooth was off. I’m using an iPhone XR.
This could be a one-off issue since I can’t find it referenced anywhere else online, but I 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 it’s the same scenario with Human Resource Machine on iOS, but this is just annoying, since you would think that including sound on a game wouldn’t be so complex.
★★★★★neutralRichNix936 · 2020-01-18 · v1.0.9
On your own
This game challenges you more than it teaches you. It gives a task and doesn’t assist in the solution at all. If you’re 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.
★★★★★neutralphr0ze · 2019-08-31 · v1.0.9
This game loses progress
This game is great but progress is not saved in phone backups. Every time I get a new phone I have to start over. It’s so annoying and I hate playing the same levels.
★★★★★positiveCabe999 · 2019-08-30 · v1.0.9
It's great but....
I was able to progress through the levels, but I still felt like I was at a low level the entire time.
★★★★★positiveCLBisme · 2019-08-01 · v1.0.9
he not busy being born is busy dying
I share the developers' cynicism. We are in a mindless bureaucratic march toward nothing. But if I'm going to waste my 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 built—if I am to be boxed in by machines that quantify my every move—it's at least nice when the pointless puzzles are challenging. So thanks. Maybe I should go outside and play now.
★★★★★neutralInes Intvel · 2019-07-26 · v1.0.9
Year 20 is glitched
I 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. I am stuck.
★★★★★neutral08247178495 · 2019-07-14 · v1.0.9
hey i like it so far but can i change the language?
I love the game itself. But i would love to change the language from the English to Korean a lot if possible. I bought this outside Korea.
★★★★★neutralMentions pricingmushy215 · 2019-07-14 · v1.0.9
Not amazing but decent
They need to have locking screen orientation. The minimal basic options are poor.
The game itself is decent. It’s polished and I 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.