IT THINKS! game icon showing a processor and cooling fan

Press kit

IT THINKS!Build Your Own GPU

A logic puzzle game about building a computer from a single NAND gate, up to a working GPU. On Steam for Windows and macOS, 19 November 2026.

Steam page Steam demo Play the web demo

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Fact sheet

Title: IT THINKS!: Build Your Own GPU
Developer: Catchy Games (Catchy Yazılım Limited Şirketi)
Release date: Thursday, 19 November 2026
Platforms: Windows and macOS, on Steam (no Linux build)
Price: USD 14.99
Languages: 22: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian
Genre: Logic puzzle, simulation
Players: Single player
Controls: Mouse and keyboard, or controller
Content: 62 contracts in 6 acts, a free-build device bench, daily puzzles, 20 Steam achievements
Demos: Free demo on Steam, and a browser demo that needs no account. Demo progress carries into the full game.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5196330 (full game)
store.steampowered.com/app/5198250 (demo)
Browser demo: catchy.games/it-thinks
Website: catchy.games/projects/chipmaker
Press contact: contact@catchy.games

Fact sheet as plain text (.txt)

Trailer

Music:
"Brain Dance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
ISRC USUAN2300006

Download the trailer master (MP4, 1920×1080, 60 s, 21.8 MB) Poster frame (JPEG)

About the game

Short: Design the chip that powers AI. Start with a single logic gate and build a computer: wire circuits, cast designs into reusable chips, program tiny kernels, and scale your architecture into a working GPU.

IT THINKS! is a hands-on hardware puzzle game about discovering how computers grow. Place parts, draw wires, watch signals move, and prove each design on a live test bench. Your first component is NAND: a tiny logic gate with two inputs and one decision. From there, your designs grow into arithmetic, memory, a programmable processor, parallel cores, matrix multiplication, and finally a chip that recognizes the shapes you draw. Nothing has to be a black box: every part, from the adder to the GPU, can be built from gates you placed yourself, or licensed from the factory when you would rather keep moving and built later. No electrical-engineering background is required.

Build every part yourself, starting from one NAND gate, and prove each design on a live test bench.
Cast each working design into a chip you reuse in the next one, and open any chip to see the gates inside.
62 contracts in 6 acts, each solution scored on gate count and depth, with histograms to compare against other players.
Program the hardware you built with a compact assembly language, then run the same kernel on eight cores of a GPU that draws a picture pixel by pixel.
A device bench opens after the first act: put buttons, displays and a lamp matrix on a front panel, and share the device as a link anyone can open in a browser, with no account.
Learn at your own pace with optional hints, the Master's Notebook, and skip tests for concepts you already know.
Six colour palettes, including colour-blind friendly and high contrast, a choice of typefaces, and mouse, keyboard or controller.