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The Programming Games Humble Bundle is another sweet deal worth grabbing

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Last updated: 9 Jan 2025 at 4:13 pm UTC

New Year, New You: Programming Games is a fresh Humble Bundle with 7 rather great indie games worth picking up. All of the games included have Native Linux support too which is rare for Humble nowadays.

All the games included are listed below along with their Steam Deck rating too. But since they're Native Linux games, on desktop Linux they should all work great.

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Learning Factory

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

while True: learn()

You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

7 Billion Humans

Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Human Resource Machine

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

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EXAPUNKS

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

SHENZHEN I/O

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Steam Deck Unsupported

TIS-100
But it does seem to work.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Check out the full package on Humble Bundle.

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Ehvis 15 hours ago
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First time that I actually own (and played) every game in the bundle. So the bundle must be good! Although not sure Learning Factory really fits in with the other games.
Eike 13 hours ago
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I'm just playing the game in the preview image, Exa Punks. I like that you can compare your results to the ten percent percentile or the one percent percentile. Ten percent is enough for me, thank you very much!

(Need to know to understand the following: I am software developer by profession.) When i couldn't cope with an optimisation puzzle, my 7yo daughter said to me, so I'm obviously not a good programmer.

I did beat the ten percent percentile today in this puzzle. Had to. :)
questioner9 11 hours ago
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A brilliant bundle, I'd buy it if I didn't already own them! My favorite programming puzzle game is Shenzhen I/O and that was my first introduction to Zachtronics' games and it was a delight to discover that developer. If you like coding and puzzles they're the best. Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans also great with a good music score I thought, sometimes I've put their music on in the background whilst I do real programming work
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