
- 70/100
- Players21 ratings
- 75/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic5 critic reviews
- 77/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 69/100
- GameFAQsTough
- 3.3/5
- Player reviews
- 93% positive1,867 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$14.99
Where to get it

2018 · Indie · Puzzle
7 Billion Humans
Nintendo console exclusive
"Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people.
- Released
- 23 August 2018
- Platforms
- AndroidLinuxNintendo SwitchWindowsiOSmacOS
- Genres
- IndiePuzzleSimulationStrategy
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ComedyEducational
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- ESRB EPEGI 3CERO A
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal) and 2 more
- Time to beat
- 10hmain story14hwith extras22hcompletionist
About
7 Billion Humans is a puzzle video game developed and published by American studio Tomorrow Corporation. It was released on August 23, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Nintendo Switch on October 25, 2018. The game was later released for Android on July 25, 2021. Designed as a sequel to Human Resource Machine, players solve puzzles by moving multiple data cubes with human workers using an in-game programming language.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Similar to Human Resource Machine, players are tasked with over 60 programming puzzles, typically involving the movement of numerical data cubes by human workers. For example, a task might ask the player to program the humans to sort the numbers on data cubes in order. The programming language is similar to assembly language, allowing for simple loops, logic, memory storage and calculations. As with its predecessor, the code can be edited in a textual form by copying-and-pasting.
The same program is used to control all humans simultaneously, while allowing each human to follow its individual logic through the project based on their current state, such as moving left or right based on comparing the value of the data cube they are holding. The humans will run through the program until either the program solution is met, or all the humans reach the end of the program and the problem solution is not met, in which case the player must rework the program. The player is able to step through the program and select any individual human to watch their progress through the program for debugging purposes.
Reception
The game was generally reviewed positively by critics. Destructoid called the game "work...but enjoyable work" and stated that while there "could be some hard-to-ignore faults", that overall "the experience is fun." Harry Slater of Pocket Gamer summarised the game as "a brilliant mixture of coding, humour, and puzzling," rating it 4.5/5 stars.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- The Tomorrow Corporation CollectionHuman Resource Machine Deluxe
- Follows
- Human Resource Machine
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