Alchemy Deluxe (2001)

Alchemy is a computer puzzle game from PopCap Games first introduced on August 29, 2001, and initially available only on the Windows platform. In May 2002, a version was made for the Mac platform. That June, a version was released that was available for shipping. That September, a handheld version was released. This title can be played for free online at various websites minus some components, or a full version can be downloaded and unlocked for a fee. On mobile devices, the game can only be played if downloaded for a fee. The objective of the game is to turn a board of squares from lead to gold by placing randomly generated symbols called runes on every square.

Each play consists of a rune of a random color and shape being generated by the computer. The rune must be placed directly adjacent to at least one other rune (either above, below, or to the left or right; runes located at a diagonal to the square have no meaning), unless the board is totally blank. All runes that are adjacent to the square where a rune is being placed must share its color or shape.

Their first game as PopCap was Bejeweled, a gem-swapping game, which was supported on all major platforms and awarded by Computer Gaming World Hall Of Fame in 2002. The company expanded in 2005 with the acquisition of Sprout Games, a Seattle-based casual games developer company like PopCap Games, founded by James Gwertzman. Sprout Games is the creator of the game Feeding Frenzy. The Sprout team helped PopCap to make a sequel to the game, Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown, with Gwertzman becoming the Director of Business Development at PopCap. In early 2006, PopCap International was opened, based in Dublin, Ireland, working on product localization, mobile games development, marketing, sales and business development.

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Nostalgic value for retrogamers, MS-DOS Gamers in the highest quality 🎮🕹️!

[Dosgamert]

If you've played Alchemy ♉♊♋♌♍♎♏♐♑♒ then I bet you remember these other PopCap, BigFish, GameHouse and Reflexive Games too!!! Check them here:

[PSV]

Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about this game, I loved playing this back in the day!

[pineapplesky]

A serious classic that will NEVER go out of style. They gotta make one for app download! I’d easily pay 💰💰

[r.a.]

The old PopCap Classics like this one will live long well after all mobile games died. Evergreen games. In an unlikely event of the internet being shut down, these will continue to be played.

I discovered this game upon watching Rubycored's gameplay.

[MrToonster]

This game has 24 levels where every level, a new symbol is added, and every 4 levels a new color is added.
Medium starts on level 6, and hard starts on level 11.
On level 24 (19 in medium, and 14 in expert) the last symbol is an invisible symbol. After that level the game continues with infinite levels with a full symbol and color set until you get to the highest 32 bit integer (2.14 billion)

[jonathancreveling]

This is a true gem of a game! Released 2 months before Windows XP

[yuranoob]

Fun fact: Alchemy quest levels in Quest Mode of Bejeweled 3 are used as a reference to Alchemy Deluxe (nostalgia pandering)

[alternistom]

I SO loved these PopCap Games....I wish they would do these for mobiles as well...

[cthulhu]

Always loved this game! Never got the soundtrack out of my head after all these years lol, still have the cdrom of this and bejeweled too, gud times 😁✌️🔥

[JON-teqg]

I've been looking for this game but could never remember the name thanks for the find

[Wavorly]

This game is so Addicting I can’t stop playing

[Wernershnitzl]

This theme goes so HARD that 23 years later I'm still earworming it

[Class_DiamondLux]

I now understand playing the alchemy deluxe game

[reneegoday]

This is one of my favorite darn games I need to be able to play it NOW on my ANDROID NOW

[ZombieMiraculer]

I played this when I was little, I didn't know these symbols before, but now, I knew they are all zodiac signs. There was Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and other zodiac signs.

[mmvolnutt]

I just realized something
The quest Alchemy from Bejeweled is actually inspired on this game.

[Only_Oleanders]

my grandma would get annoyed that i read Harry Potter and played Pokemon then got totally hooked on this 😂

[KrakenGuyVT]

I was just curious to see which games released on my date of birth, and this was the result.

Oh if only pop cap knew the future they would have.

[stormcooper]

A real shame that this game (and other games like atomica) weren’t rereleased on steam

But hey at least it’s available elsewhere online (probably I haven’t checked yet)

[timthekillermiller]

Mad nostalgia here.. are these still around??