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Hard Chip
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)What players say
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“I was too hasty in making my previous review and had not taken the time to submit a bug report or look further into it. this game is enjoyable.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Really enjoyed this one. There’s a lot of satisfaction in figuring things out and finally getting something to work. Easy to lose track of time when playing. Definitely recommend!”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“I went to school for Computer Science, so I have an interest in Electrical Engineering, but absolutely no knowledge of it and no ability to read a schematic. I've played a few other games that have you build increasingly complex logic circuits, starting with like a NOT gate and…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs playedAchievement stats
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Quick Patch Notes v0.1.7.184
SIM Optim pass; UX Live FPS (frames per second) and ticks/s in the benchmark info bar, over a 500ms window; FIX Benchmarks now wait for the ComponentEditorOrchestrator to be loaded and ready before st
Quick Patch Notes v0.1.7.182
NEW Contextual shortcut tips wired across the editor to remind shortcuts (only shortcuts for the moment; will be completed by other contextual tips); NEW Gameplay settings to hide the contextual short
Quick Patch Notes v0.1.7.181
MI Main menu background load the campaign levels before moving to it; SX-DEV New campaign levels CampaignLevelRegistersChip added; SX-DEV Introduced CampaignLevelAirlockPhase2Repair with scripts for t
Quick Patch Notes v0.1.7.180
SX Refactor campaign levels with the uniform CampaignLevelBase loading and lifecycle logic (areas, terminals and scripts) and cleanup. Groundwork to move overworld sections to come. CX Starting Inputs
Quick Patch Notes v0.1.7.179
FIX Levels no longer dispose the shared walking camera on teardown; ThreadDispatcher is shared and no longer per collision model; FIX OffScreenImGuiManagerPool tracks free slots and grows on demand in
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Simulation · Logic · Programming · Puzzle · Difficult · Education · Building · Hacking · Science · 3D · Automation · Colorful (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Russian, German, Spanish - Latin America, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 8 |
| Official site | https://hardchip.io/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 - x64 Processor: 4th Gen i3 / 1th Gen Ryzen3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1050 / Radeon 5500 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space