67%Strong matchSilicon Zeroes
88%24588% positive reviews, Very Positive across 245 reviews·Programming · Puzzle
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Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
A god falls. A rift opens. A hero rises.

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 and build Circuit boards that solve a wide variety of logic and computer science inspired problems.
- 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.
- Utilize a wide variety of components in your quest for optimization! Create circuits boards within circuit boards, within circuit boards!
- Score by the amazing Jonathan Geer, composer of the Owlboy soundtrack.
- Memory fragments are scattered across the blueprint. Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden!

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