Silicon Zeroes

Silicon Zeroes is a programming themed block connecting puzzle game that has you drag and drop different puzzle components and connect them together. This won't teach you anything about basic computational science, it's just a veneer on a basic arithmetic puzzle game. The problems with the game are more just to do with the minimalist, mobile app/browser tier presentation, as we all recall this has perhaps incorrectly been published on Steam instead of on mobile app stores or as a web browser game as this seems to have been intended. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2023 (and this was released not so far back in 2017), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Silicon Zeroes has the laughable price of $15 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. That's right, this might as well be a Flash game, but the developer thinks it's better than the entire Mass Effect Trilogy pack, and priced the game higher. What a joke. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

I love the idea of this game, and I think it starts off great. However, it quickly snowballs into something of extreme frusteration. There's no tutorials and you're often left wondering what to do and how to do it. The process is also tedious and management becomes a nightmare that simply makes 100%ing this feel like a chore. I really like the concept and I really did enjoy this game at the beginning, but over time it turned from something fun into something that felt like it hated you. I know it's supposed to represent the beginning of computers and that that process was tedious like this, but the evolution this game expects ebbs and flows in such an unnatural way that it just doesn't feel rewarding. This is like a 5/10, and I hate that I have to say it's that low, but I think the direction this takes just won't be for a LOT of people unless you know this is specifically what you want to do.

3/10 remember when games were fun?

Experience a mere glimpse of the madness inside of a hardware engineer's mind.

编程解谜游戏，虽然没中文，但英文也能看，问题就是太难了，感觉只适合专业人士，我玩到乘法就放弃了。

-80%入的，一天半通关第四章，实际游戏时间15h，[spoiler]最终关是一个带条件跳转的三级流水[/spoiler] 下面说说优缺点 优点： 跟Turing Complete比，Turing Complete更倾向汇编及指令硬件实现，这个更倾向架构，少有的能流水的(当然Turing Complete也可以)，而且有传播延迟/稳态延迟/竞争/路径分析的 缺点： UI：太难受了，尤其是高分辨率，选关界面就一个小框框 然后就是测试样例，[spoiler]第四章Delay Branch有问题的架构能过，但是最后一关过不了，不知道是不是故意的？[/spoiler]，此外有时候想选某个样例去测试但是check会强制你去搞这个样例前面错误的样例，难绷 之后就是连线，后面器件远了之后还不能带着线头移动画面，我通关了才知道按着ctrl点线能有节点 然后就是器件多了之后一动器件远处的线都会狂闪，干什么！.jpg 关卡：有些关非常难受，因为没有逻辑门，位运算，有时候需要你几个器件去完成几个逻辑门就能搞好的功能，并且很多有意思的器件比如二进制乘除法器，比较器都不太好搞 此外就是延迟数值，Turing Complete 全8bit超前进位延迟26，一个8选1选通器延迟12，到这边直接倒反天罡，加法器3选通器8 没有沙盒！内部关卡编辑器也没看到，界面挂着一个不明所以的空白的Community 设计没有Turing Complete/shenzhenio那么灵活，基本上goal就是绝大部分人的最优解，也很好拿 背景故事：看一乐 难度： 第一章懂些简单的组合时序逻辑就行 第二章CPU简单入门 第三章某些关调时延稍有难度，总体介绍流水 特殊章是一些小玩意，还有无流水CPU的跳转指令 第四章简单介绍超标量，流水线实战 基本上是挺循序渐进的 -80%买确实不错，[spoiler]当然有学习版[/spoiler]

really fun little puzzle game with some very brain-bending puzzles