Atomcraft

A very fun little sandbox pixel sim- [i]by[/i] chemistry nerds, [i]for[/i] chemistry nerds. Unfortunately, I am [i]not[/i] a chemistry nerd. Melting stuff down into alloys was fun, but the minute the game asked me to make aluminum all of my failed attempts at playing Gregtech-based Minecraft modpacks suddenly flooded back like war flashbacks and I spent the next 45 minutes flipping back and forth through all the different steps in making aluminum until my brain finally shut down completely... For context, by "make aluminum," I do mean "plan, construct, and wire a machine pixel-by-pixel that performs the entire aluminum refining process, including synthesizing the sodium hydroxide for the Bayer process from scratch, [i]with absolutely no assistance whatsoever[/i]." This isn't really my typical cup of tea, but for some reason the infuriatingly realistic detail put into the chemical engineering in this game keeps drawing me back for a little bit at a time, almost tauntingly- [i]What's the matter, can't slap down a couple pipes and wires from a blueprint? Lost your spark for automation games, huh? C'mon, you can figure this out, you're so close![/i]

9/10 I like the game, it is basicly a powder simulation game with insane detail to physical/chemical reactions and the game has progression. The optimization is so good that I only experienced a single fps drop (for now) and that was during the rain. Even the game powder toy didn't run this smoothly which has considerably less detail.

Great game some things could be better described but thats the only critic i have.

Very interesting physics based game. If you liked Terraria and the old Powder Game, this is right up your alley. You have to do real chemical reactions to get resources to upgrade and progress through the game. It gets increasingly complex. At some point, I felt like I was too dumb to continue playing, because you needed to use combinations of chemicals and heat and stuff like that. Really cool and unique game, though. I feel like it would be even better with multiplayer.

Such an amazing game! I'm so glad i found it! 100% recommended !

You do have to change your mindset in a lot of ways from playing other 2D and/or factory and/or automation type games. But once you do have a handle on it, it's a great game with a clear goal that takes a lot of work and is a lot of fun.