Game: The Qubit Factory
Genre: Puzzle
System: Steam (Windows and macOS) (also available in browsers)
Developer | Publisher: Logical Basis
Controller Support: None
Price: £ Free | $ Free | € Free
Release Date: July 29, 2025
Review code provided, with many thanks to Logical Basis.
The Qubit Factory is a game about moving little items from one conveyor belt to another while altering, combining, incinerating, and other things to the bits on the way there. It’s a pretty complex puzzle game with a simple premise that will challenge your brain.
The Gameplay of The Qubit Factory
The Qubit Factory is a programming-like game that challenges you to create assembly lines for items. Along those assembly lines, you can add all sorts of modifiers. These allow you to rotate, duplicate, delete, rearrange, merge, etc., the Qubits in your factory so you can deliver them in the correct order. Each level has a goal and a star goal; completing the level with the star goal gives you a gold star on that level.
Each level begins with a selection of Qubits on one side of the screen, and you need to move them to the other side of the screen into the correct receptacle. You get a variety of parts to help you do so, including two wire conveyors, one for each type of bit, and things called gates that can alter the bits before they reach home.
The right side of the screen breaks down the tasks you need to complete in order to succeed, including if there is something special you need to do to get the star for that level. You need to click the gates and drag them into the correct spots on the grid to connect the output and inputs, then you need to push play so the bits start to move forward.
The concept of The Qubit Factory is simple enough, but with 16 different kinds of gates, the puzzles get real crazy quickly.
The Pros of The Qubit Factory
The Qubit Factory is a simple game to pick up and start playing, thanks mostly to the very hands-on and well-done tutorial levels. I found that it introduced the game and all the concepts you need to understand in a planned, concise, and interesting way, making it easy to understand.
This free-to-play game is neat-looking with a simple UI that belies its complexity. There aren’t extra things to distract you. The music and sound design are basic and unobtrusive. Overall, The Qubit Factory is paired down, focusing on the puzzles themselves instead of the other trappings that could have been added.
The puzzles start easy, then ramp up quickly to take the things you have learned and make more and more difficult versions of them.
The Cons of The Qubit Factory
I didn’t really have any issues with The Qubit Factory. It was an interesting game of programming items to go from one place to the next. It wasn’t especially unique, as it reminded me a lot of other programming-type games I’ve played, like RoboSync and Human Resource Machine. However, I think that for a free game, it’s a pretty cool concept and excellent execution.
The Qubit Factory is not a game for me for the same reasons that Human Resource Machine isn’t: it requires skills that I just don’t possess. I’m not good at these types of games at all, and while I sailed through the first levels, it quickly got to the point where I was too dumb to continue. But the levels I did get to complete were fun.
Conclusion
While The Qubit Factory is not for me, it could be perfect for you. If you enjoy these kinds of programming-style games, The Qubit Factory is a good game to choose. It’s free, it’s by an indie developer, and it has a simple premise that leads to great puzzles. I really liked my brief time with The Qubit Factory, and those with the correct kind of brain would probably really enjoy this one.
Final Verdict: I Like it a Lot.
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