7 Billion Humans puts a cheerily dystopian face on programming next week

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!

First World of Goo, then Little Inferno, then Tomorrow Corporation even made programming a bit sinister in Human Resource Machine. Next week, they’re rolling out 7 Billion Humans, sequel to Human Resource Machine. Robots have taken over the world, and in order to give our now-redundant species something to do, they’ve bundled us all into a towering office building. It’s up to you to program them to make work happen, because that’s what humans do. The darkly comical (and surprisingly educational) game will be out next Thursday, August 23rd.

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