SpaceChem (Win/Mac/Linux)

About the Game
Zachtronics Industries is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products! Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem.

Key features:
Over fifty mind-bending puzzles!
An original soundtrack by Evan Le Ny, whose music was featured in The Codex of Alchemical Engineering!
Twelve challenging achievements!
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In a nutshell, it's a unique puzzler. You have to make chemical compounds from elements by dropping them into the reactor, bonding them and such like. Some compounds need double/triple bonds and require rotating. It just gets more complicated as you go through the levels. Maybe it will only appeal to science majors but I urge everyone to give the demo (also on Steam) a whirl if you like puzzle games.
 
It's a brilliant little game, i've just played the demo and am away to drop the money on the full game.

I encourage anyone to at least give the demo a go, it's quite addictive really.
 
It makes you feel like a computer programmer or something. I just wish there was some debug tool! Things kept going wrong for me on one level and I couldn't see what I'd done wrong.
 
Getting further in now, and it's all gone a bit "meh".

The fun part is designing reactors to do what you want, but half the time they sit there waiting for things to be pumped to them, often causing the reactions to go haywire.

It's just an unnecessary complication, and one I can be doing without really.
 
Hmm, I can see where you're coming from but there's more 'fun' to be had in streamlining your processes to minimise delays. I see it as an extra challenge to get everything ticking along nicely. Which level are you up to?
 
My academic route is Chemical Engineering - whoever made it "fun" and sold it as a game is a genius! Although I suppose you avoid most of the maths this way :p
 
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