Sokobond

tryin to find more educational games that I can recommend to schools / students - this one's banger

A good puzzle game based on the rules of chemistry. I learned a lot from the little facts you are "rewarded with" at the resolution of a puzzle. For example, did you know every single atom of helium is bound to float away from our atmosphere into outer space? Thank you, Sokobond. It was enriching.

Not for me. I'm usually a big fan of Draknek & Friends but this one didn't click with me. I think I mostly didn't like how clunky it felt to plan out and move the molecules around. It's still a good game and especially as part of a bundle worth trying out. Maybe you'll have a better time than I did.

I knew I was hooked when I finished a level and exclaimed "noble gases, baby!" out loud to myself. A very tasty spatial puzzle-solving game. And you get a neat science fact as a reward for beating each level.

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"Yes, I reccomend" IF you are fine with dealing with puzzles rules that cause a combinatorical explosion and make it extremely had not only to brute force, but to plan ahead at all. A puzzle here can have like FOUR blocks and a cramped space, but the sheer freedom in which you can interact with those blocks (creating bonds, cutting bonds, repositioning, strengthening bonds) creates so many possibilities that you cannot undertand the solution just by shuffing pieces and seeing what variants do not work and why. Sometimes you will see a few donsen dead ends and you might still have no idea *why* they are dead ends unless will stop moving and think very hard about what you are even looking at. In most other sokobans, trial and error slowly but surely reveal more and more details, and eventually you reach a point where you see a gimmick: some ONE impossible detail, after which the solution boils down to making this detail possible. In other words, you can relax and replace some of the thinking with fiddling. Furthermore, some sokobans can be decomposed into sub-tasks, like "I need to open the door, to open the door I need to press those plates, to press them I need 5 blocks in a st…