Opus Magnum

Peak

great game, watching your finished solution is incredibly fun

epic

Extremely satisfying to solve a puzzle. Not as hard as I thought it would be. Highly recommend.

>boot up game >pull up unfinished solution >bang my head against a wall >ragequit after 2 hours of trying to optimize cycles >repeat love this game

[h1] If you know Zachtronics, here you are going to larp as an alchemy erudit [/h1] If you are not familiarized with Zachtronics games here is what you can expect: Zachtronics has a theme that repeats in all their games, that being puzzles based on programming or divide and conquer with some kind of flavor for you to larp and get immersed as a fake technicist on a usually complex system. In this case as I said above, you will be roleplaying as an scholar of alchemy that works for a family. This is game is a cellular automata kind of game where each cell has a specific behaviour, you will given starting cells (Reagents) that you will need to manipulate with other cells ("Mechanisms" that will move the compound and "Glyphs" that will bind, unbind or mutate the reagents or compounds) to form a particular "Product". The problem solving comes in space awareness, programming mechanisms and your desire to be efficient in time, space and cost. Your solution is compared against the normal distribution so you can know how bad or good you did. If you like this kind of game, check for other Zachtronic games like: Shenzhen I/O, where you can do more tangible things with electronics; TIS-100…