SpaceChem

Nice puzzle game =) Actually helped me get better at programming ...

Epic puzzle game. The solutions are all logical and completion is always just out of reach but never impossible. After having this game for 10 years and spent 93 hours trying to beat it, I've never felt so elated to see the credits of a game roll by. The final level/boss is tough as nails but like the other levels, not impossible if you break down the steps bit by bit. I enjoyed the story too, it added a little sense of place to all the puzzles. My white whale is finally defeated.

An amazing puzzle game with a good tutorial (ahem SHENZEN) that has a skill ceiling that would be ridiculous to have in my home. The difficulty starting out is good and ramps up fairly well, but Alkonost will punch you, kick you in the shins, then steal your lunch money with those sensors. Overall, it's good but challenging and will require a lot of thinking.

Playing on Steam deck. Great game.

SpaceChem is so much fun, it’s insane. Forget about Infinifactory or Opus Magnum, this is the one to play. I got all Steam achievements in 33 hours, and I still want to keep playing ResearchNet levels! For most of the main game, levels were quite easy to complete without constraints, so I found it the most fun to complete them while trying to minimize reactors, time or symbols (in decreasing order of how much I enjoyed each). In the last couple worlds and ResearchNet, levels did sometimes get hard enough for un-constrained solving to be satisfying. It was especially satisfying to toy around with a problem for 20 minutes, be left with a complete mess that I need to delete, but use the gained deeper familiarity with the low-level constraints of the problem to draft a high-level plan which feels like a breeze to execute. I quite enjoyed the defense missions, they really gave me the satisfying feeling of using cursed tactics to barely scrape by. Although the run-time execution of the very last one felt too finicky, which probably could have been avoiding by making the ships switch among ~4 discrete positions instead of a continuous line. (But to be honest, if you get the ship into a …

game just doesn't work anymore. tried various fixes and still no good moving on