SpaceChem: An Introduction

Have you heard about SpaceChem but aren't sure what it's about? Spend two minutes and watch this video and you won't be confused anymore!

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.

[jeyendeoso]

dont bother about these jerks in the comments. if you dont get that this is a puzzle game about solving problems, then you're probably not going to understand how to play it. Play the demos if you want. Also play The Codex of Alchemical Engineering, it's Spacechem's dad.

[Whiplashr]

this game is unbelievable amazing. I just had to get a grasp on the mechanics, and suddenly I was hooked. Amazing.

[ctuley]

The game is less about chemistry and more about process control. I'm studying Process Control and instrumentation and we discuss loop tuning all the time. I found this video informative and the game is great!

[umcarainteressante]

Who said that this is intented to teach chemistry? However, it does teach you a lot of useful concepts.

[marclarell]

zachatronics industries. My personal favourite gamedevelopers after Mojang, i hope for a remake of "Codex of Alchemical engineering", this was pure awesome.
And SpaceChem is awesome, too, of course.

[WestPictures]

Easily the hardest game I've ever played

[FlyveHest]

Fantastic game, will wreck your brain in seconds!

[piraat]

I wonder if Zachtronics is from this planet.

[JapanForSale]

Not unlike CoAE, eh? That's a nice trailer/semi-tutorial in one too, unlike the "tutorial" for KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People. :P That game is just deceptively hard for non-engineers without some kind of hand holding for the first few puzzles.

[cheatyhotbeef]

Link doesn't work, but this is a neat game! Northernlion brought me here!

[WindyPower]

@Madsy9 Yes it is, and it is indeed quite awesome. The rest of the soundtrack is just as good. Buy the game~

[darkowl]

I think my biggest issue with SpaceChem is the tutorial screens are really lacking in information and the UI can hide stuff. I've seen people playing really far into the game without knowing that Grab/Drop can be specialised, which means they're making solutions way more complex than need be.

It's an awesome game, but the discoverability of the interface needs a little more work. That, and sometimes you unlock two story pages at once but it shows the latest first, which is really confusing.

[handlebarshandlebars]

Great game, this helped me a lot and i'm enjoying every second of this awesome puzzler!

[Koopsas]

@hewtoi its really not, its just a matter of trying to push the boundries of what you know to solve a puzzle :D

[snoopy]

Game auch in verbindung mit Bit.Trip Beat + Revenge of the Titan für nur 15€ erworben werden :)

[XnnFrk]

@darkowl9 i just went through the tutorial and it clearly explains that commands like grab/drop can be specialised

[FizzleFX]

This is my new Portal II !!! fucking awesome game

[davegunn]

Why isn't this information in the actual game?

[SuperKnowledgeSponge]

Now that I look at it, it seems more like a repetitive game that simply makes water molecules.

[SuperKnowledgeSponge]

@demoniccurses9 Yeah, I figured that out after 2 minutes of the video. That's why I made a second comment.