Prime Mover

Prime Mover

4Bit Games · May 21, 2018 · Indie, Simulation, Programming, Puzzle, Sci-fi

Buy Prime Mover from Steam at $14.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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lowest tracked $2.99
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Prime Mover price by region

Prime Mover costs £11.39 in the United Kingdom, €12.49 in Europe (EUR), $14.99 in the United States, $14.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$17.49 in Canada, NZ$18.49 in New Zealand, A$21.50 in Australia, R$28.99 in Brazil and zł53.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Prime Mover offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £11.39 £11.39 — 1
Europe (EUR) €12.49 €12.49 — 1
United Statesyour region $14.99 $14.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $14.99 $14.99 — 1
Canada CA$17.49 CA$17.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$18.49 NZ$18.49 — 1
Australia A$21.50 A$21.50 — 1
Brazil R$28.99 R$28.99 — 1
Poland zł53.99 zł53.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Prime Mover

A god falls. A rift opens. A hero rises.


Prime Mover is a game about designing circuit boards from 4Bit Games.


In this open-ended puzzle game, you build circuit boards to solve a wide variety of logic and computer science inspired problems. Compare the speed and efficiency of your unique solutions with your friends and the world. Work your way from transistor to processor, uncover the story of the Byte of Burden!

Design Circuit boards

- Design and build Circuit boards that solve a wide variety of logic and computer science inspired problems.

Open-ended puzzles

- There are infinitely many ways to solve every puzzle, but some solutions are better than others! Compare your solutions with your friends on the online leaderboards and monitor trends with the global histograms.

A toolbox of chips

- Utilize a wide variety of components in your quest for optimization! Create circuits boards within circuit boards, within circuit boards!

Vibrant soundtrack

- Score by the amazing Jonathan Geer, composer of the Owlboy soundtrack.

Uncover forgotten secrets

- Memory fragments are scattered across the blueprint. Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden!

Prime Mover — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise this puzzle game as deeply satisfying and brilliantly designed, using only eight simple components that never get removed to artificially increase difficulty, combined with gorgeous pixel art that makes solutions feel rewarding. The main complaint centers on the game's "lockstep" timing system where signals move in synchronized steps, which some players find unintuitive compared to alternatives like Turing Complete with instantaneous signals, and a few note that leaderboards could be more robust. Despite a steep learning curve, most players find the eventual breakthroughs and ab

Not recommended Mar 21, 2026
I preferred Turing Complete, where the signals are instantaneous. There's something about the Zachtronics style "things move in lockstep" that my brain doesn't wrap around quite right. YMMV.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 21, 2026
The best puzzle game I've played. There's a bit of a learning curve but it is extremely satisfying. Another review put it best: "It introduces merely 8 [exceedingly simple] functional components (and they are ALWAYS available - no gimmicks!)." i.e. no lazy level design where a tool is removed to increase difficulty. Building something like an indexable array or max function from just these simple tools, and watching it come to life in the games juicy art style, is so fun. If your having trouble just spam some circuit boards and I promise something will start coming together. Also try to make your designs not rely on the timing of the wires until you optimize :)
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 27, 2026
Game 176 of my backlog It is an EXCELLENT Zachlike. Explanations are solid. Mechanics are fun. Puzzles are HARD. I managed to get through the first 4 worlds pretty easily. World 5 has stumped me. Hit my quota on this one. Requires some chessmaster intellect for some of those later puzzles. Bottom line: If you love Zachlikes, pick this up.
Recommended Jul 19, 2026
For folks who love Zachtronics games, Prime Mover fits the bill perfectly. I found it to be a more difficult variant, and incredibly rewarding when you solve it! The highly complex components you can build with dead-simple atomic pieces is astounding. Having infinite space to work on is also a great relief, although I do wish you also had infinite time (mainly just for the final puzzles).
Recommended Mar 19, 2026
Very fun puzzle game, definitely makes you use your brain. Only feature I would've liked is a more in depth leaderboard.
Recommended Feb 9, 2026
An idiosyncratic programming game about moving and manipulating numbers. If you want to solve some very challenging engineering problems, this game is for you.

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