7 Billion Humans
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.78.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $1.48/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, graphics card that supports Shader Model 2.0 or greater, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
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
The value story
December 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. It has been discounted 53 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $8.78, a level the record has reached 47 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SHENZHEN I/O ($14.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Human Resource Machine ($14.99, scores 74).
2 of the 388 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 247 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.1 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 2.1 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
96% start to 4% 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
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 04:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
7 Billion Humans is the game that proves one thing: even in a world with seven billion workers, absolutely none of them listen. It's a puzzle game disguised as a corporate nightmare, where your employees follow your instructions exactly which is great until you realize your instructions were terrible. It's essential for the Steam community because it teaches valuable real-world lessons, like: Programming is...
Sequel to 'Human Resource Machine' - programming with extra jokes. Starts simple, gets harder, challenges can be really tough. On the other hand, like a lot of puzzles, some you'll just know straight away. Give yourself a pat on the back.
A creative way to visualize programming, but definitely not beginner-friendly. First, I have to give this game some credit: it really does a great job of turning programming concepts into a visual puzzle game. You get exposed to concepts like if/else conditions, loops, concurrency, variables, event handlers, binary digits, pointers, and optimization / Big O notation through the puzzles. However, I honestly wouldn't...
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Cite this score
7 Billion Humans scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/792100/7-billion-humansReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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