While we're recommending programming games, I think Virtual Circuit Board is a bit underappreciated. It's a pure sandbox, not a game, so you have to bring the ideas yourself, but it hits a really sweet spot somewhere between Minecraft redstone and Logisim.

You just draw traces and add gates on a grid, with a few special IO components like the Nand2Tetris course. But there's some kind of compilation of the circuit, and simulation can be blazing fast, way faster than other programming games/programming friendly sandbox games.

> Virtual Circuit Board is a bit underappreciated.

For the convenience of the reader:

- Website: https://www.virtualcircuitboard.com/

- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885690/Virtual_Circuit_B...

There is an emulator on steam called CRUMB.

Rather than being schematic, it is almost too real.

The 3D lab is equipped with a breadboard, power supplies, signal generators, various passive and active components, and chips such as the timer 555.

I attempted to use it to complete a lab from my university, where I had to construct a trigger from a chip with 3 NAND gates.

But at this point getting membership at nearest hackerspace may be a decent option.

> But there's some kind of compilation of the circuit Realistic enough. Back then you could compile your PCB project in altium designer, but now this button would be called validate.

Sorry, if I wrote too much in this discussion thread.

s/trigger/flip-flop/

I forget that in English it is more often called latch and that there are also flip-flops, two different types of what is called triggers in the East.