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63 games tagged
50% of the games Crit has analysed here land on Buy and 25% on Skip. It overlaps hardest with Indie, which covers 42 of them.
HYPERVOX is a music video game where players perform the vocal melody of songs. When notes reach the judgement line, press the corresponding key to hit the note and recreate the vocal melody in real-time. Aim for the highest score possible by hitting each note with precise timing and accuracy.
Click to generate cycles and power up your processor. Upgrade attributes to boost your production, push your CPU to its limits, and manage overheating before your system overloads and crashes.
Night shift at a data center, first person. Tickets come in from the NOC: run the diagnostic, strap in, pull the right part, swap it, close it by the book, and get graded. 45 real procedures, a sandbox where you can break the facility, and interview prep for data center tech jobs.
Build and manage your own datacenter. Keep the servers running, the power stable and try to figure out what else this place needs from you to survive...
Build a hamster-powered bio-mining operation from the ground up. Assemble rigs by hand, manage heat, feed your runners, and keep production moving. Start in a garage, optimize every part of your operation, and scale into a full-scale industrial operation.
Run your own data center. Design server boards component by component and use your boards space wisely. Wire power and network throughout your floor to form specialized clusters, and dispatch contracts to your custom hardware. Scale from a single rack to a massive redundant, multi-cluster operation.
Build a server empire from a rural farm. Place buildings and generators, rack routers and servers, cable real networks, power everything correctly, then sign clients and keep them online as you grow from a shed into a serious hosting business.
It's late 2022 and the AI race just started. Train models with real personalities, fill the map with datacenters, survive the scandals, and get to superintelligence before the rival CEOs who trash-talk you on social media.
Crosstalk is a hardware architecture design sandbox with a built-in, fully inspectable simulator and emulator. Players can build designs ranging from LED controllers to complex computers using SystemVerilog, then program them. It has a gate-level simulator, introspection tools, a compiler, and more.
LOOPY is the lab’s daily Slitherlink arena: Outrun neon, nine ranked protocols a day, arcade rules that shift under you, weekly/monthly circuits (Gauntlet, Megaloop, Throne Rush), and a synthwave score locked to every mode. Close the loop. Climb the board. No ads. No IAP.
Plug and Slay is a short incremental game about outgrowing your machine cage. Purchase anomalous PC parts and traverse a massive skill tree to overwhelm your wardens with automated neon firepower.
A real electronics simulator: build robots, a 1970s pinball table and a 1980s dart machine from real parts (solenoids, gears, connecting rods, relays, transistors). Wire the circuit, switch on, find out why it won't run: every current is computed, every fault has a cause.