Games like MHRD
If MHRD is your kind of game, the closest matches are Comet 64, TIS-100 and EmuDevz — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About MHRD: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into MHRD also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Comet 64
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with MHRD.
Top pick for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
TIS-100
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with MHRD.
Second-strongest match for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
EmuDevz
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with MHRD.
Third-strongest match for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with MHRD.
Ranked #4 for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
CHAQS 44
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
CHAQS 44 is a system simulation game that encourages players to explore, learn, and experiment. It offers a wide range of realistic tools and environments designed to test understanding and curiosity.
CHAQS
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with MHRD.
Ranked #6 for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Silicon Zeroes
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with MHRD.
Ranked #7 for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
IT Specialist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with MHRD.
Ranked #8 for MHRD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MHRD at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MHRD.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MHRD.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MHRD.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MHRD.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MHRD on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with MHRD.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly lets you delve into the inner workings of guns from the largest gears to the smallest screws
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
The classic web game, reborn! Enjoy this remaster in glorious 4k resolution! Follow this frog on its arcade action adventure through swarm of bugs and beyond! Purchase the hat DLC for the ultimate experience, if you want to eat bugs while wearing a hat!
Gunsmith Simulator: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with MHRD.
Enter the world of gunsmithing and become a real expert in making, repairing and modifying weapons in Gunsmith Simulator: Prologue. Open your workshop, be creative and excel at gunsmithing!
Jigsaw Puzzles Infinite
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Sit back, relax and build puzzles to your heart's content. Assemble one of the many included puzzles, or add your own images. Customize size and shape of the pieces for any puzzle. Enjoy Classic mode or try out Zen mode for a new type of puzzle experience.
ABI-DOS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
"LIFE" not found;
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Nimbatus - Drone Creator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
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Frequently asked about MHRD
- How much does MHRD cost?
- MHRD is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MHRD?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MHRD are Comet 64, TIS-100, EmuDevz.
- Who developed MHRD?
- MHRD was developed by Funghisoft.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on MHRD.
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