Neon Noodles - Cyberpunk Kitchen Automation

Neon Noodles - Cyberpunk Kitchen Automation

So much that I like about this game. I liked the idea of Overcooked, but it was always too frantic for me and in Neon Noodles I like taking time to plan and be an efficient chef. Designing the layout and instructions is intuitive and works well even with a controller. The UI is clean and clearly communicates, while still looking really good. Building something that works first, and then optimizing it based on the 3 categories (roughly space, time, and complexity) adds additional challenges. It makes me want to cook all of these delicious recipes.

Real player with 13.3 hrs in game


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Selecting to play a new game from the main menu screen will take you to the level screen. Choosing to continue a previous game from the main menu will take you to the game level you’re currently on. On the first level Sliced Avocado, you’ll be welcomed to Neon Noodles! From here you’ll continue an existing program and be instructed on what to do. You will also get more information as you progress through the levels.

Real player with 10.9 hrs in game

Neon Noodles - Cyberpunk Kitchen Automation on Steam

Cyber Factories

Cyber Factories

Cyber Factories is an Automation and Base Building game in a cyberpunk universe.

On post-apocalyptic Earth, all cities and settlements have been ravaged by pollution, war and a hostile biosphere.

Humanity as a species hasn’t adapted well and only a small fraction of them remain. Fortunately, humans recently discovered a new technology allowing them to transcend death. This discovery consist of transferring human soul to a new synthetic cyber-body receptor. These new humanoid robots can now endure thousands of years of light speed travel!

With this new hope, you lead a colony of human remnants. Help them survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet..


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Cyber Factories on Steam

EXAPUNKS

EXAPUNKS

The best “Zach-like” game yet. Even if it is by Zach.

Another excellent puzzle game from Zachtronics. If you’ve never played a game like this before, this is an open-ended puzzle game. By “open-ended” I mean there is a problem you are trying to solve, and you are given tools (in this case a programming language for what appears to be tiny robots) to solve it as you choose. You build a solution to the presented problem. You win if the solution works but how you get to a working solution is up to you. There are limits to your freedom both by the language and what the “little robots” can accomplish at one time. The puzzle here revolves around writing little program fragments that unfold through parallelization into pretty impressive results. It is a complete programming language (although a very simple one) and even has a little test-bed where you can make your own creation without a specific goal.

Real player with 107.5 hrs in game


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The first Zachtronic game I found myself being able to complete and with extremely minimal help, more so due to that some puzzles are difficult to understand rather than writing the code itself. Even though the game does get hard, it does an excellent job of preparing you for the difficulty ahead. Even without any programming knowledge, you’ll be able to overcome the challenges this game poses. You can always see the exact end state the game wants you to leave the board in at any time, which serves as an excellent guide in what you’re meant to do.

Real player with 87.6 hrs in game

EXAPUNKS on Steam

Anton

Anton

In the year 2399, automation is rife, every sector across all areas of industry have been automated with just a handful of jobs available to man.

There was no robot uprising or sudden change of power that was expected in the late 20th century, but a gradual erosion of jobs and the crawling growth of vast automated industrial complexes working tirelessly and efficiently, more than man could ever have hoped for.

This should have been a future of hope and prosperity, instead man is relegated to the side lines, a bored consumer, barely able to make ends meet and clamouring for just one of the few remote jobs still available to them.

You’re one of the lucky ones, you’ve been selected from 10s of 1000’s to start as a remote CCTV operator, man’s value now is so low that it is more efficient to have man controlling remote CCTV cameras than to automate them.

Your role is simple, to mark any Automaton units for the recycling program that have malfunctioned or that have hit SAT (Self Awareness Threshold), today is your first day, you connect remotely to the AMI Industrial Complex…

Features

  • Control a remote CCTV drone camera allowing you a unique view into an automated industrial complex

  • Hack devices in the world through a series of ever more complex interfaces

  • Interact with and reprogram devices and automatons

  • Converse with automatons through the branching narrative system

  • Delve into the Cybersphere, the central data matrix that shows all the accessible data nodes with a complex through the BotOS 2395 operating system

  • Unravel the truth behind this vast automated empire.

Look for the Anton 2 Level Demo on STEAM

FInd a Level 1 Spoiler Playthrough at the end of the screen shots if you’re stuck

Anton on Steam

Code Lab(代码实验室)

Code Lab(代码实验室)

Play a beginner programmer!

You can program the car to do all kinds of things.

The way of programming is very simple, just need to set a variety of built-in instructions provided by the game; however, as long as they are arranged intelligently, their combination can play a lot of unexpected effects!

Even if you are a novice, you can also manually set a fixed program to bypass the maze and reach the end!

When your program ability has improved, you can make the program more intelligent, so that they are not just mechanical execution of the program, but will be flexible simple intelligence!

Code Lab(代码实验室) on Steam

4th Super Industrial Revolution Wars

4th Super Industrial Revolution Wars

4th Super Industrial Revolution Wars is a programming game.

And also turn-based strategy game.

Write your codes, click build button.

And then every turn your codes will become your (team’s) units.

Units will fight automatically with AI.

and your goal is to destroy enemy’s base with sending units.

For Beginners, (both Of this Game Or Programming)

Please progress tutorial in game.

Yes, Year 2020! Happy New Year!!

4SIRW is real programming game for year 2020.

You may need to prepare 4th industrial revolution.

*You Are Not Prepared.

So playing this game, you will learn programming.

And you can enjoy programming.

… May the 4th be with you.

Codeyounglings apologize for delaying launch.

Actually Codeyounglings is 1 indie game developer.

I am trying to do all but there are too many of them.

I hope that you understand me and don’t confuse me as the masters or something.

I planned new scheduled release date as TBD

But I’ll do everything not to launch too late.

4th Super Industrial Revolution Wars on Steam

[ECHOSTASIS]

[ECHOSTASIS]

STEP INTO YOUR [CHAMBER]

LET [HER] DO THE REST

In [ECHOSTASIS], you take control of the lead engineer at ENIGMA RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT. While testing a new device that can generate personalized realities known as [ECHOES], a cyber-attack is launched on [ENIGMA] HQ.

[ECHOSTASIS] on Steam

The Signal State

The Signal State

Great little Zach-like. If you like this genre of fiddly little programming games, you’ll like this. If you’re not interested in the genre, you won’t.

Pros of this particular game:

+Charming analog aesthetics. The game’s UI feels very “physical” and low-tech in a neat way.

+Minimalist but reasonably interesting story. I’m all about workers seizing the means of production.

+Good soundtrack. Really helps you get into that zen programming mode.

+More accessible than most games in this genre, as difficulty curve is lower. This might be a con for you, if you’re super good at this genre and really want a challenge, but I think difficulty curve is in that sweet spot challenging without feeling like you now have a second job learning an imaginary programming language.

Real player with 36.4 hrs in game

This game falls short on so many aspects and makes so many dubious design decisions that makes me wonder whether the devs actually know what they’re doing:

  • UI/UX:

The main UI, a physical rack representing modules, is just bad, period. Now before you yell blindly, “but node-based programming is the future!”, please note that the game does not feature node-based programming: actual node-based programming would be like Scratch, LabVIEW or Blender nodes. This game’s UI represents specifically DAW skeuomorphism, notably Propellerhead’s Reason. It is also a design decision from the last century, done by nobody else, and being commonly criticized around all the time. Also, DAWs don’t have a million tiny modules like this game.

Real player with 20.7 hrs in game

The Signal State on Steam

The Last Taxi

The Last Taxi

When a fatally wounded member of an anti-technology cult leaves you with what appears to be an undocumented infant, you’re thrust into a dark network of secrets – unravelling a conspiracy that could shake Progress Point to its core.

The Last Taxi is a narrative-driven adventure game set in Progress Point, a politically and economically-divided sprawling metropolis that has fully embraced automation and human modification, creating a satirical and somberly-surreal vision of the future.

As the last human driver, you’ll meet a diverse cast of passengers, each with their own tailored conversations. Be drawn into morally challenging decisions that lead you into the heart of a dying society.

Narrative Gameplay:

As a taxi driver, your job is to keep passengers comfortable, happy and generous.

Or not?

How you interact with passengers is up to you! With varied dialogue choices and multiple endings, you can choose to keep the tips rolling in or spend all your time insulting them.

But keep in mind, gaining their trust and listening to their problems is a lucrative side business. As per Progress Point’s governmental regulations, all taxis are fitted with sleek, handy, and mandatory listening devices – for uhh… quality assurance.

If your passenger expresses something that isn’t quite above board, you can quietly report it to the authorities for some side cash. Choosing to let some shady business go unnoticed does have its perks, though. And with over 80 diverse characters to chat with, you’ll see all kinds traveling the city.

The World:

In the future, you got what you asked for – Flying cars! Unlimited time for hobbies! And the ultimate hybridization of human and machine! Or was it just flying cars you wanted…

Regardless, life in Progress Point is going pretty great. As the only standing city, we survived environmental and economic collapse because no one from the past changed their small, but destructive habits.

Status quo reigned and we’re the societal afterbirth, filled with various factions that believe in one kooky thing or another, like free will.

Oh, but that makes it sound so bleak. Really, there is a bright side.

No one needs to work anymore! The brunt of the workforce has been given to automatons …Well, unless you personally didn’t harbor a vault of cash before the collapse. If you’re one of the unlucky ones, you’ll still need to find some way to make an income, pay the bills, and find your niche in a world run by automation. As a human, you’ll just have to be creative and think outside the processor.

Features:

• Earn tips by navigating through 80 treacherous, quirky, and haunting choice-driven passenger conversations.

• Aid and abet criminal passengers, help them reconsider their actions, or report them to the authorities.

• Upgrade your taxi with new tools allowing for hijacking cargo, hacking toll booths, enhanced customer experience and more!

• Maximize fares by managing malfunctioning equipment, avoiding environmental hazards, and keeping your passengers comfortable.

• Experience a rich and detailed world of technological headquarters, mountaintop temples, sunken metropolises and pirate-infested underworlds.

• 10 hours of gameplay with 20+ unique choice-driven endings.

The Last Taxi on Steam

Bitpunky

Bitpunky

Bitpunky is a first-person sandbox game where you have to create and develop your own digital civilization! You will start with a small piece of land in the middle of the virtual space, you need to explore the outside world and get resources to develop your own world. Over time, a lot of research, technologies and improvements will open to you, you can automate many processes inside your city, as well as protect it from enemies from the outside environment.

Building

Build and develop your own digital city, explore new blueprints and transform your small world into a huge metropolis

Exploring

Outside of your city, there is a huge virtual space full of useful resources, but viruses and enemies are also roaming around it, ready to get involved in a battle at any moment

Automation

With the development of your city, you will have to work more and more, but here automation will come to your aid - set up the processes inside your city for a full life without your participation

Citizens life simulation

You can observe your citizens life - they live and work in your city, you have to set the different city roles for them depends on your current goals

Bitpunky on Steam