ComPressure

Three years ago I got my master's degree in chemical engineering, but only now do I feel like a qualified plumber. You can literally use steam and pipes to calculate the Fibonacci sequence. We definitely need more games featuring ANALOG circuits! One issue: the game encourages you to build custom modules to reuse in future levels, but this inevitably increases pipe length, which slows down the system's response time and ultimately lowers your score.

Saying that Compressure is a hidden gem is an understatement. It is unlike any other puzzle game I have played. While it has many similarities to the Zachtronics games, There is one thing that sets Compressure apart. Compressure forces you to improve. It isn't merely a suggestion. Every level you complete becomes a component in future levels. At first it's pretty easy, but as you progress, it becomes apparent that your old designs simply aren't good enough to meet the strict time and accuracy requirements of the later levels. Just when you think you have the game figured out, the next level completely destroys you. Beating this game means continuously studying its mechanics and improving your designs. It is incredibly rewarding. It is also hard. Really hard. Sitting at around 1.6% of players who finish the game, it is one of the hardest puzzle games I have ever played, and I loved every second of it. All of this is saying nothing about the actual puzzle mechanics, which are deceptively deep. Everything in this game is made from only 3 components: pipes, valves, and inlets. From those, you construct more advanced components, one level at a time, all the way up to a simple comput…

The criteria aren't clear and I have to understand the nonsense about the story. I inverted the pressure and it continued to reject me for no apparent reason, I'm doing output=100-input, just let me pass The game seems like it is a cool idea, there does exist digital circuitry games but not analogue as far as I'm aware. It's just not clear why it's failing when I'm doing what it's told me to do, and the game looks hideous and I don't want to look at it for hours The UI also sucks, so much of the screen is wasted space but I have to have different tabs for different things when they could all be visible at the same time

Very interesting analogue computing game

Game 166 of my backlog I'm sorry, but this just doesn't make any sense to me. I want to recommend it but can't due to poor explanations. If you like Zachtronics games and can potentially understand difficult wording, then give it a try. It is only 5 bucks. Maybe look up a youtube video of the first couple levels to see if you get it or not.

Extremely frustrating to play. The test UI is inconsistent. Inputs are not marked as inputs. Expected output values are not clearly distinguished from actual output values. Debugging efforts are constantly interrupted by the game auto-playing through the test phases.