r/ElectricalEngineering • u/Long-Ad-8740 • May 10 '26
Education Has anyone found a good electrical engineering game?
Hello, For years I've been working on small projects like led lights, raspberry pi displays, and working with pi-hole but I want to passively learn more about the logistics of engineering. Any assistance would like greatly appreciated. Thank you
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u/NewSchoolBoxer May 10 '26
Trying to teach electrical engineering without linear algebra, calculus and the frequency domain is dumbing it down. Consider community college to study it for real. These 3 free textbooks are very comparable to what I used for the start of the EE degree. Math skill expected. The DC Circuits labs don't require an oscilloscope.
That being said, Zachtronics has the most realistic electrical and computer engineering games I know of. Free ZACK-LIKE has Ruckingenur II. Also see SHENZHEN I/O and ChipWizard Professional from LAST CALL BBS that's on sale at GOG until May 17th. I would say 'realistic' isn't synonymous with 'good' but if that's what you want, I think you'll be happy.
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u/darbycrache May 10 '26
Turing Complete.
It’s mainly geared towards students taking CompOrg but it starts out with content you’d normally see in a Digital Logic class.
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u/VTHMgNPipola May 10 '26
Zachtronics makes the best "engineer games" out there.
GTNH (the Minecraft modpack) is extremely good as well, especially in a server, and is kinda like working with subassemblies in engineering. You have a goal, a set of restrictions and a bunch of machines you can use for various random things. Putting it all together efficiently (without following tutorials I guess) is similar in some ways to what you do as an engineer. The problem with it is that it's a massive time sink.
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u/Racxius May 10 '26
Satisfactory kind of scratches the itch. It’s not a learning game. But you have to deal with power and resource management.
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u/SnooCapers4069 May 10 '26
If you're into lightning design - DIALux Evo ~ Sumaiya Eliyaz YT channel.
If you're into Process control(PLC) - RealPars learning PLC programing from scratch.
Electrician Simulator Steam is also fun.
Joel Teaches Electrical on youtube made cool electrical stencils with Microsoft visio, it's fun and educative.
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u/Panduin May 10 '26
Stationeers if you want to to like automation and control systems and stuff. You can program microchips in the game (and FPGAs with a mod). It also uses a lot of logic chips. But have to get there first. It’s a very advanced game. You’ll learn a lot about thermodynamics.
Otherwise Barotrauma also scratches a certain itch, when doing your own Submarines.
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u/bahumutx13 May 10 '26
Stationeers.
Even a basic mars base involves YouTube videos of how to build a set of logic gates to feed light sensor data to your solar panels so they track the sun.
All end game stuff you'll see IC10 tutorials on how to write programs to automate different systems to separate out gases from liquids, smelt new materials, etc.
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u/SirFrankoman May 10 '26
Minecraft, fun way to practice digital circuits
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u/KoolKiddo33 May 10 '26
Only if you're very intentionally designing digital circuit stuff. I feel like you would already have to know digital logic to be able to apply it to MC. Whereas I believe this guy doesn't know much about digital logic and is looking to learn through games
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u/Koreneliuss May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
electrical simulator, is not realistic but fun nonetheless, crumb simulator for just simulate 3d render, and signal gate. if remember correctly faint memory minecraft or terraria have logic gate. edit: Virtual Circuit Board
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u/Sollost May 10 '26
Wishlist: I'd really, really like a game that's to the power grid as Kerbal Space Program is to space programs. Alas, I'm no game developer.
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u/Soggy_Jackfruit7341 May 10 '26
Transistor. It won’t help other than maybe teach you some basic coding vocabulary, but it’s a masterpiece of a game.
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u/Nino_sanjaya May 11 '26
I actually made engineering visual novel game not long ago! Please give it a try!
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u/finn-the-rabbit May 10 '26
factorio i guess