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Prime Mover

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.

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Developer
4Bit Games
Publisher
4Bit Games
Release
May 21, 2018
8 years and 74 days ago
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Very Positive215 reviews88.8%

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About the Game

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!


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