Beam Time
Release date: Aug 19, 2025
Developers: Connor Slade
Publishers: Connor Slade
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Camera Comfort, Color Alternatives, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Beam time is a logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more. Each level provides a description and some test cases your solution must pass. Inputs are passed in through laser emitters and outputs taken from beam detectors. It's your job to use some combination of components to complete the level. Here are all seven in-game components from left to right: emitter, galvo, splitter, mirror, delay, wall, detector. Galvos are the only 'active' component, they rotate the mirror they are facing when powered. With just these few components, It's theoretically possible to perform any computation. The game also features a sandbox mode where you can build whatever you want. Below is a zoomed in view of an implementation of the one-dimensional elementary cellular automaton Rule 30.