Casual · October 15, 2015

Human Resource Machine (2015)

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Update: now includes the official soundtrack Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game for nerds. In each level, your boss gives you a job. Automate it by programming your little office worker. If you succeed, you'll be promoted up to the next level for another year of work in the vast office building. Congratulations! Don't worry if you've never programmed before - programming is just puzzle solving . If you strip away all the 1's and 0's and scary squiggly brackets, programming is actually really simple, logical, beautiful, and something that anyone can understand and have fun with! Are you already an expert? There will be extra challenges for you. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno . Have fun! Management is watching.

Casual releases from 2015

24 Casual titles launched in 2015 — top 6 by review volume.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Programming · 183
  • Puzzle · 145
  • Indie · 129
  • Casual · 101
  • Education · 89
  • Simulation · 81
  • Singleplayer · 70
  • Automation · 55
  • Touch-Friendly · 50
  • Logic · 39
  • Comedy · 37
  • Difficult · 33
  • Satire · 29
  • Funny · 27
  • Great Soundtrack · 26

Position in Casual

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume4.4k Steam reviewsTop 54% in Casual
Positive rating94% positiveGenre average: 88% — this title sits in top 41%
Metacritic78/100Genre average 76 — top 53% of Casual titles
Engagement hours4 h averageTop 72% for session depth among Casual

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Czech

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Traditional Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

94%Very Positive · 4.4k reviews

4.1k positive · 264 negative

Metacritic

78/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.9/10

Curator recommendations

3.2k

Release & Availability

Release dateOct 15, 2015
DeveloperTomorrow Corporation
Base price$4.94 -67%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

4h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

Achievements

16

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

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Editions & Packages

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