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Human Resource Machine
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“Its basically Assembly Language class. Ive read a few other reviews here, and the negatives bring up a couple valid points. There is very little handholding. They expect you to google to learn the concepts, then do the exercise in all but the most simple puzzles at the start.…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“It must the Year of the Indie Programming Sims, because there sure are alot in that category, or at least in fringe group categories. The devs that did this also did World of Goo and Little Inferno, which were incredibly endearing games with storylines that emotionally moved me.…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“This game teaches you assembly language without telling you it's teaching you assembly language.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Programming · Puzzle · Indie · Casual · Education · Simulation · Singleplayer · Automation · Touch-Friendly · Logic · Comedy · Difficult (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Official site | http://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: XP or later Processor: 1.5Ghz CPU Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: graphics card that supports Shader Model 2.0 or greater DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 200 MB available space