7 Billion Humans 9+

Incredibly fun, and gives a real sense of accomplishment when you figure out a particularly hard puzzle. This game is a spiritual successor to “Human Resource Machine”, but I felt it was a little easier than its predecessor (I’m also not THAT far in yet, so we’ll see how the difficulty curve goes). As far as criticism goes, this is probably the only time I’ll ever say this for a video game: it could use a longer tutorial. There were some puzzles I just felt stuck on. The “If” command can be daunting to learn, and I’ve unknowingly stumbled into a few solutions rather than precisely planned them. This may be what they were going for (more freedom to think outside the box), but the feeling of successfully planning put a long string of commands is way greater than realizing that the mess you made somehow worked out.
This is definitely a “sit down and work on it” type game, not a “sit on the toilet for five minutes and make decent progress” one. I look forward to making progress, and it stands up to the standards and quality of their previous games.

That said... PLEASE RELEASE LITTLE INFERNO 2 NEXT!

I enjoy playing Human Resource Machine on the pc so I wanted to download this one on my phone however there’s one problem I encountered that makes it difficult to play. I play on an iPhone 6s and it’s probably not a problem with many other people who downloaded this but I can’t read the data blocks sometimes because my screen is too small. I hope you really incorporate a zoom mechanic so that the game can be more enjoyable for those who don’t have a better iPhone (or even a plus screen). Please respond so I can know if this is something I won’t have to worry about in the future. Thank you.

As much as I enjoy playing this game and working out the programming puzzles (5 stars for gameplay otherwise), I find it very frustrating when there is no way to turn off the sound effects for the game.

There are a couple of settings that will turn off some music and sounds, but not everything. So if you want to play without disturbing your friends or sleeping spouse, you have to switch to silent mode every time you play and hope you remember to switch back when you’re done.

The game is so polished and well done that I have to assume that this lack of sound control is intentional by the developers, but to what end I don’t understand. The sounds are not required for the game and can even become monotonous at low volumes when playing, so providing an ability to turn off all sounds without changing my other phone settings would be very welcomed. Come on developers, how about helping us out with this option????