QuantumPulse 2A
Dashing Strike · 2025 · Programming, Puzzle, Logic, Difficult, Simulation
PC
Positive93% · 30
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About QuantumPulse 2A
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Note: Though featuring programming and set in a time when quantum physics was the hip new thing, nothing related to modern "quantum computing" is included in this game.
From your friends at QuantumPulse Ltd we are excited to introduce the brand new QuantumPulse 2A Professional Computer and Visualization Interface: The most powerful device releasing in '77! With its novel on-chip radios, hi-tech BBS interface, and exclusive hardware addons, the QP-2A is sure to win your heart and mind. Compete against your friends in programming challenges to earn GOLD STARS! And ACT FAST: The first to complete the certification course will receive a complimentary unopened pack of traditional Kostovian playing cards.
Disclaimers: All of the above statements are classified as Marketing-Truth as per the Truth in Marketing Act of 1973. Friends need not be real. Stars contain no real gold. Manual may have been damaged, lost, or censored during international shipping.
Note: Though featuring programming and set in a time when quantum physics was the hip new thing, nothing related to modern "quantum computing" is included in this game.
From your friends at QuantumPulse Ltd we are excited to introduce the brand new QuantumPulse 2A Professional Computer and Visualization Interface: The most powerful device releasing in '77! With its novel on-chip radios, hi-tech BBS interface, and exclusive hardware addons, the QP-2A is sure to win your heart and mind. Compete against your friends in programming challenges to earn GOLD STARS! And ACT FAST: The first to complete the certification course will receive a complimentary unopened pack of traditional Kostovian playing cards.Disclaimers: All of the above statements are classified as Marketing-Truth as per the Truth in Marketing Act of 1973. Friends need not be real. Stars contain no real gold. Manual may have been damaged, lost, or censored during international shipping.
- Gameplay primarily involves programming in an assembly language (with a tutorial, no assembly language experience required, though coding experience is helpful)
- 25+ programming puzzles - many are easy to solve, difficult to optimize
- See how your solutions stack up against your friends' or globally on the leaderboards for each of run-time, lines of code, and cost of components
- Solving puzzles unlocks new puzzles and 7 different chips to use in only future puzzles - when you first open a puzzle, you will always have all of the same tools available as anyone else you see on the leaderboard
- Make use of a unique fictional computing device where all communication is done by broadcasting to radio channels, and all conditional operators test values broadcast from other chips
- No quantum computing involved, the unique limitations come from parallelism and synchronization challenges
- Integrated debugger (with time rewinding), syntax checking, and quick language reference
- Full reference manual
- Solitaire minigame, like all good Zach-likes
- DRM-free
- Note: MS-DOS support is limited to the command-line interpreter only, Windows 10+ or other supported operating system is recommended
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Fun programming puzzles, but I hope comments are changed at some point to not count against a chip's LoC count (maybe chips could have scroll bars so comments could fit and line #s for actual instruction lines), as well as changing alias instructions to count for more than one line. Overall a fun experience so far though!2 found this helpful
Sorry to vote down when it only has that few reviews yet. But as fun as the demo was ... once you get to level 8+ the awkwardness of the channel system and the restrictions of what you can do on one chip start to hit the ceiling of my tolerance. I've played many similar games. I'm fine with Assembly-like languages, but you can't even do a simple ADD or SUB instruction here. You have to use 2 chips to overlay 2 values on a channel to add them and then need a 3rd chip to read the result, bc you are not allowed to read a channel your chip has written to that same cycle. And then sync everythig up again. That's like rolling a pancake until it gets invisible... It looks like TIS-100, but it's not. TIS has a vastly more flexible language and creates difficulty without making you feel like you're too dumb to understand the system itself. The positive aspects last: - It has good QoL in the editor, apart from the deliberate restrictions - The little language features it has are well thought through and even allow abbreviations and shortcuts - It allows to start inefficient in most levels and to optimize later (which TIS-100 does not at the same extent) - Has decent humor and sort of a f…1 found this helpful
this one turned out to require a lot more busywork than tis-100 and shenzhen i/o. feels ok but it does wear you out way faster as a player
Really like it. I like that we can try (and succeed) to optimize with components that look too little to work with (that 2 lines of code and no acc). I like the backward step debugging support a lot too. I had to buy the full game after finishing up the demo :D Thanks for the fun game.
oh my god it's everything i ever wanted i say this with a single tear in my eye download this game
Enjoying the game for the leaderboard challenges it offers, but definitely not enjoying the language. Will continue to play just so I can top all of the leaderboards though. Probably not a good first programming game, but if you enjoy the genre and the challenge, it is worth it.
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