SHENZHEN I/O

SHENZHEN I/O

Steam Deck Playable

Zachtronics · Programming · Nov 17, 2016

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

At $14.99. It has been as low as $7.49.

95%
Very Positive
4k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 40 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Optimization: 11 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 8 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 4k player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
86% of themes are praise14% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Until the puzzles are well designed and interesting, this works wonderfully - and this is the case with the main campaign of the game, some 30 levels of excellent nerdy fun.
40 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
Some of these are fiendishly difficult to get your head around, they can easily take hours to solve, and most "annoyingly", you can't just build and optimize, you have to yield your every last idea of optimization just to get the design working.
11 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
At the heart of the gameplay is the process of constructing and optimizing electronic circuits.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The projects you get assigned to definitely keep you going, especially with the art style of the game and that you get to see what you are actually trying to build or program.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
I really like the way you have to solve things just like a real world controller in many ways.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
The interface is clean and efficient, providing tools that make it easy to experiment and iterate quickly.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love6 themes
Story and characters40 reviews
Optimization11 reviews
Gameplay8 reviews
Graphics7 reviews
Controls7 reviews
Interface6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty29 reviews
86%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $7.49.

4 points recordedtoday · $14.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
95%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
6
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.