MHRD
Fair · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.2h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 451 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.70 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 90 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Human Resource Machine ($8.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Hacker Evolution ($0.99, scores 20).
More about MHRD
Of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
63% start to 12% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
it's a good game. I don't remember how much I paid for it, and it's been a while, but I only have good memories from it. Altho I have a few complaints: - I'd wish the text editor was a bit more advanced, multicursor, vi emulator; whatever that makes things a bit less tedious to write... Also tab for switching tab is terrible UX. - It only gives you the tool to do it one way, better exemplified by the RAM_4W, where...
2 more reviews
This is why nobody likes VHDL. This is another one of those logic games that have troubles emulating building a latch from scratch. I had the same problem in Shenzhen. You might as well just get into programming real VHDL instead of playing games. The game skips making a basic D Flip Flop and gives you a pre-made DFF circuit that doesn't have an enable pin, because the game engine doesn't support it. If you try...
A Minimalist Puzzle Game That Makes You Feel Smarter Than You Are I went into MHRD not really knowing what to expect, and it ended up being one of those games that quietly pulls you in without doing anything flashy. At first glance, it looks super simple, almost too simple, but the deeper I got, the more I realized it's actually pretty clever. The whole game revolves around building logic circuits. You're given...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
MHRD scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/576030/mhrdReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.