EARLY ACCESS

Good people at Valve once said players should buy into an early access for what it is now and not for what it could be. We agree! Make sure you read the Early Access Game section above.

Hard Chip is in its active development phase. While the core player experience is in place, the content is subject to change. You may encounter areas where fine-tuning is ongoing, and some features may evolve as we continue to improve the game. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us shape the final product, and we appreciate your understanding and support during this exciting phase of development!

About the Game

You are new_user, trapped. The only way out is through the machines but nothing works.

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation and puzzle game where you design a real processor from scratch. No abstraction layers. No drag-and-drop logic blocks. You start with the foundation, the transistor and you build up from there.

BUILD FROM THE GATE UP

Wire complementary transistors into NAND and NOR gates. Combine gates into components. Combine components into circuits. By the end, you will have designed a working 8-bit ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) by hand, from silicon principles.

ASSEMBLE INCREMENTALLY

Combine your gates into larger, more sophisticated parts. Each assembly is a puzzle, demanding not just intelligence but creativity, planning, and foresight.

GROUNDED IN PHYSICS. NO SHORTCUTS.

Every wire has length. Every gate has delay. Your design is only as fast as its slowest path. Propagation delay is not a stat, it is a consequence you have to engineer around.

A STRANGE WORLD THAT DEMANDS WORKING CHIPS

The terminals are dead. The machines are silent. Figure out why, one gate at a time.