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MHRD
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“A Minimalist Puzzle Game That Makes You Feel Smarter Than You Are I went into MHRD not really knowing what to expect, and it ended up being one of those games that quietly pulls you in without doing anything flashy. At first glance, it looks super simple, almost too simple, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“building logic gates from scratch was pretty fun”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“♥♥♥♥ makes no sense, i love it”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 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 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Introducing Steam Trading Cards, NAND-Count and Leaderboards integration!
After having introduced achievements recently, the game now features trading cards. Furthermore the game keeps track of the efficiency of your designs by telling you your design's overall NAND-Count a
Introducing Steam Trading Cards, NAND-Count and Leaderboards integration!
After having introduced achievements recently, the game now features trading cards. Furthermore the game keeps track of the efficiency of your designs by telling you your design's overall NAND-Count a
Update available - Achievements added!
Thank you all for reporting all the typos and bugs you found! By now most of them should be fixed and a new update for the game is out, introducing achievements: - Achievements added - Fixed auto-comp
Update available - Achievements added!
Thank you all for reporting all the typos and bugs you found! By now most of them should be fixed and a new update for the game is out, introducing achievements: - Achievements added - Fixed auto-comp
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Simulation · Indie · Programming · Puzzle · Education · Typing · Difficult (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 7 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 Processor: x86 (64-bit) Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics Storage: 150 MB available space