Spacechem

Frankly it's surprising that a game like this exists. First off a game devoted completely to the construction and deconstruction of chemical compounds. Meanwhile you interact with an interface that is about 3 parts logic network design and one part troubleshooting. That probably isn't the best way to explain it, but still, for a game this creative, explanations only dull the experience. This is a hard game to start off with. Thankfully there is a tutorial level, though it takes some getting used to the first time in because you can't understand how everything works. (For new players: In each corner is a chemical combination on a four by four grid. On the left, your inputs, you grab and carry a chemical. On the right, the outputs, you must match the placement on the grid representing that corner. Treat it as much like a logic network as you can, making sure that there are designated commands to input and output, as well as grab/drop (Carry function), motion of elements (Logic pathway), rotation of your elements (Store/Replace) and combine or separate (Logic adder or subtractor). This gives you a a head start to understanding the game, but that's only the most basic ideals. Again, you take a component from the left and alter it to an acceptable form to output on the right. To do this you build two pathways that carry and drop for you, and they also work as switches, meaning they create every bit of interaction inside themselves. The puzzle becomes how to take something like carbon dioxide and hyrdrogen, transforming it into Carbon and Water. Aside from doing the creation, you soon have to discover that you need more than just one network to do what you need, in game your constructive networks are called Reactors. And these will come into your troubleshooting part. Issues can and will arise, and it takes a while to build every network. Meanwhile, you have to manage a number of different reactors, making sure that they receive and output what they need. The reactions will stop if you let two separate elements collide, and it'll stop if the outputs aren't being used by the next reactor in line. However, the method is up to you, the order is up to you, and while at times the game will ask you to do things a certain way, later on you have to decide for yourself what the best route is. Do you create everything in one reactor and output them? Or do you try to split up the different tasks over multiple reactors to try and get the quickest solution? While there is a story to this game, it doesn't matter a whole lot other than to get an idea of just what is happening while you get into the game, from the struggles of the company you have been hired into and the nervous observations of a new engineer on a sometimes deadly job. You're here for the challenge, and even though it'll sometimes take you as long as half an hour to set up and finish one puzzle, you'll be too enthralled to pull away from it.

I was very disappointed by this game. As another user as said the game does a poor job of explaining the mechanisms and tools. Which is a shame as those mechanisms are fairly simple once you understand how things are supposed to works. Hence you spend dome time figuring what you are supposed to do instead of solving puzzles. I found the first levels ok, but I quickly get bored afterward, and didn't find any incentive to play it again. I really didn't enjoyed this puzzle game and found it very dry, and don't understand all the hype. Actually I like microelectronics, and it reminded me of microchips design (me than anything related to chemistry), however I find chips design much more interesting and more importantly meaningful and rewarding. Try to find a demo to see if it works for you

Spacechem! man, I wish I was good at playing puzzle games... or chemistry in general! As you can guess, this is a puzzle game, but unlike any other puzzle game (At least, that I know of) this is all about chemistry! Basically, you'll have to manage the entire production line of a space chemical company from top to bottom: from the simple chemical composition to the stations where these chemical compositions occur. There is also some story and the design of this game made it timeless: a puzzle game (feels off calling it that, this game has some mechanics never seen in the puzzle genre) that offers something unique and ,therefore, hasn't really any competitor that could match it. So, yes! definitely worth trying it out, even if you don't have the skill to actually complete it. Trust me, it is worth the experience.

Fun game with a quite interesting story, which I first didn't really care about but when I started reading it I went from "Oh this is neat" to "What the ♥♥♥♥ is going on with SpaceChem". The game itself might be quite hard, but with walkthroughs you can manage to beat it!

At first this game appeared really complicated but after watching several playthroughs on Youtube it was easy to figure. There is no hand holding in this game. It's up to you to decide how you want to tackle each puzzle. There are numerous different ways to solve each puzzle. Some so hard it's kept me up all night but very rewarding when you finally figure out how to solve it. If you're up for the challenge this is indeed a very fun puzzle game. It will really work your brain over. :)