Silicon Architect

Silicon Architect

An incremental hardware engineering game with a Windows XP themed UI. Configure and optimize processor components, build your own CPU, and run automated benchmarks. Harvest telemetry and gather research funding to unlock new hardware, and scale your processing power.

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itch

Development

Early Access

Platforms

Windows

Mac

Monetization

Fixed price

Playstyle

Semi idle

Active

Length

Days

Graphics

Setting

Scientific

Technological

Gameplay

Resource management

Strategy

Money making

Numbers go up

Branching upgrade tree

Features

Prestige

Cloud save

Achievements

Engine

Unity

AI usage disclosure

No AI was used during development

Step into the shoes of a 2000's era CPU engineer at BinTel and develop your own CPUs in this incremental idler. Combine CPU components, run benchmarks, gather telemetry to upgrade, and repeat. Develop new components, expand to improved socket types and shape the future of computing.

Design your CPU

Build your own CPU to beat the benchmarks, based on real-world components and designs.

Improve your components

Each run provides you with telemetry data, which you can use to improve your CPU's development.

Develop new sockets

Release new CPU sockets to gain massive generational uplifts.

Features

10+ unique CPU components, leading to infinite custom CPU layouts
Low in resource consumption, doesn't actually benchmark your PC
Nostalgic Windows XP theming
Vibe to the Jungle DnB soundtrack
Online benchmarking leaderboards