MOLEK-SYNTEZ
To those unfamiliar with Zachtronics' games, MOLEK-SYNTEZ is an open-ended puzzle game.
The goal in each puzzle is to transform or rearrange precursors (inputs) to make another molecule (output).
As usual with these games, there isn’t just one solution. It’s up to you to make one with the tools you’re given.
You can just enjoy making each molecule and be done. It’ll most likely take you a few pleasant hours.
Or, you could go down the rabbit hole…
Because there are many solutions, some will inevitably be better than others. Each solution is rated on 3 categories (metrics), which you can try to optimize. And this is where these games shine, in my opinion. You’re making Aspirin in 360 cycles? Pretty good, but what about that person on your friend list who makes it in 240? How does that work?
– Real player with 168.2 hrs in game
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This game is really good if you like complex puzzles that make you use every inch of your brain. One of its faults (or perhaps benefits, depending on who you are) is that it doesn’t really explain anything. You have very little instruction and have to figure it out by yourself. This can be really obnoxious.
This game is a pain in the ass for completionism, but the right kind of pain in the ass. The last ten of the bonus puzzles made me want to scream, but it was so so satisfying to get the final achievement.
– Real player with 38.6 hrs in game
Alan’s Automaton Workshop
_**Turn on Vinyl Player, Put on your Goggles,
Hack an Automaton**_
Alan’s Automaton Workshop is a Steampunk themed puzzle game which mainly focusing on programming challenge.
You, as a novice engineer, will join Alan and his new business in town - an automaton workshop. By composing nodes and arrows with various hardware devices, you can create novel automatons to solve problems from clients, such as: improving working conditions, providing entertainments …… or even change the world?
Design, build and test
Find out your own design and build original automatons to solve all kinds of strange cases. Each level has infinite possibilities!
40+ step-by-step levels
Starts from basic loops and conditional statements, to advanced algorithm topics. You can find satisfaction no matter what your programming skill is.
Optimization challenges
The real challenge begins after you clear a level! Try to get the best results with minimal instructions or fastest execution time.
Dive into the dark tides in steampunk world
With your efforts and the expansion of Alan’s business, the more-and-more powerful automatons attract the attention from intelligence agencies …How would it change the game?
Level editor, sandbox mode and more
Challenge your friends with level editor, or create your own puzzle in sandbox mode. Let’s see what you can build!
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Black Lotus Motel
WELCOME TO THE BLACK LOTUS MOTEL. An escape experience that puts you and a friend to a bonding test where you need to stay strongly cooperative until the end. LIVE or DIE… TOGETHER.
Are you wishing to truly connect with a beloved friend on a fast-paced puzzle-solving experience? THIS MIGHT BE AN EXPERIENCE FOR YOU. An unbreakable bond is created when you survive the Motel together.
[READ ME!]
- The Demo is now available! Grab a friend, download the game and enter the Motel. Just to give you a taste of some of the challenges you’ll need to face within.
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If you or your friend can’t connect to the game, it might be related to server capacity. Make sure to try again with your friend later :) This will expand when the game is released.
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If either of you gets stuck at any stage of the game PLEASE report it here - BLACK LOTUS MOTEL’s DISCORD!
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If you mention me in the Lobby (@A3) I’ll spawn so we can meet and hang around. Streamed playthroughs are highly appreciated.
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The full game release is Coming Soon! Don’t forget to hit Wishlist button to get notified :)
See you at the Motel! I’ll be hiding behind a bush next to one of the containers _ Thanks for playing!
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Blocksplode
Angry Bird Wit Bombs N Blocks.
Angry Blocks.
Fun!
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Blocksplode is a casual physics based puzzle game, place your dynamite in a strategic place and watch the destruction unfold. The more blocks end up under water the higher your score. You can play the single player campaign by yourself or play multiplayer with friends. An editor is included.
It’s enjoyable for playing a few levels at a time. There are a lot of levels and because the game keeps track of your best scores you could go back and improve your scores once you have a better understanding of the game physiscs.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1662230/Cowboy_Life_Simulator_Prologue/
In Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue - you can test your skills on three levels, 2 on order and one level - your own restaurant.
In the full version of the game, you will have many opportunities and ways to develop your business, as well as more tasks to complete, tools to use, and more.
The most important feature of Cafe Owner Simulator is the ability to “build” a restaurant business from 0. You get an old room from your father, and you decide to open a dream restaurant there. But it takes money. You decide to take work on order, for restoration, cleaning and putting someone else’s restaurant business in order. After each task, you can invest in your institution.
Renovate the building and remove all the trash, paint the walls, renovate the floors and ceilings, create an interior that will appeal to you and your future clients. Create a menu of dishes, hire employees, buy groceries, shape the style of your establishment, mood and order advertising from bloggers and the press.
We try to create a variety of possibilities in the game, so you won’t get bored! You will have to pay bills, extinguish fires, repair faulty equipment, poison cockroaches and other pests, hire security guards to keep homeless and drunkards out of the restaurant.
When you complete tasks, the level of your establishment will grow, and you will be able to expand it, complete additional premises, open the second floor and much more. What establishment will you open?
Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle
I am loving it. I love the chatbox conversations the coworkers are having. I love the stupid caricature of the boss type. I love the writing sample selections. I love the color. While this game is in desperate need of a tutorial that experts could skip and the zoom function for the text area is a little awkward, it’s totally workable.
Most importantly, I love how this worked out so well as a game to sit and play cooperatively with someone. It’s fun to solve these puzzles together and try to optimize the work you’ve done. This was absolutely worth the small fee to buy this game.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Addictive as hell!
But you need to know the basics of Regex! Because unfortunately, the explanations are really bare-bones.
(Reading the reviews, this put off a lot of people. Which is a shame: The Dev could just add more detailed, in depth explanations. All it costs is a bit of his time.)
If you actually want to learn Regex, one step at the time, each step with a detailed explanation plus an interactive example, go here: https://regexone.com/
I find this the easiest, best resource to get started with Regex.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
DANGER! Escape Lab
After reading the description of the game, I thought it would be something higher than I expected. Overall, the graphics are okay, but with problems that occur throughout the game. The same problem, and with the preserves, after 15 minutes of play, went on break, went back into the game and save as there was no. What I was very upset !
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
2nd degree contamination, 2nd degree contamination, 2nd degree contamination, 2nd degree contamination, 2nd degree contamination, LSD, 2nd degree contamination, 2nd degree contamination, 2nd degree contamination.
Ok so i have now completed this and i have to say the constant droning of the 2nd degree contamination is annoying. The game is functional and nowhere near as janky as other vr escape games (im looking at you onskull) however do you know why escape rooms jump in and give you little hints? Because nobody likes to lose these things and you’re much more likely to recommend it to a friend if you walk away happy than if you walk away frustrated. either a mild hint system or something would go a long way but that said it needs more than 6-10 puzzles to make it interesting. i would say this is more like a just below good experience than the bad one the thumbs down suggests but its asking would i recommend someone spend money on this game and the answer is mostly no.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Electrify
This game is still in earliest of access, but doesn’t say so - Version 0.1 when you boot it up.
Essentially broken - experienced many crashes.
It’s very unstable, crashing when saving components.
The interface is very difficult to use and poorly explained.
Moving/deleting components clunky of fails often
Bugs where circuits gave wrong answer or moved inputs and outputs.
Stores circuits as truth tables in json - so you can’t edit previous components you’ve made. And very slow to save components with more than 8-10 inputs or outputs, and then makes megabyte sized text files.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Stratup screen says: “ALPHA VERSION, EVERYTHING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE”
Where is it written on the store page it’s an alpha??
Could be fine/interesting, but, unfortunately, it’s really an alpha, it’s very unpolished
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Equilibrium
Equilibrium combines god-game, resource management, and planetary simulation into a cute, thoughtful game for Windows. Ensure that your procedurally generated planets remain habitable while keeping the population in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Minimise atmospheric pollutants, and keep global temperatures hospitable for human life. Or let dirty industry run rampant and produce a blazing hot tomb world. We’re not your boss, it’s up to you.
Equilibrium is a planet simulator with an environmentalist twist – you manage procedurally generated worlds, trying to keep conditions suitable for human habitation.
Manage the happiness of your global human population by providing a clean, liveable environment.
Manage global atmospheric conditions by minimising pollution and encouraging the use of renewable energy and reduced consumption.
Manage global average temperature to ensure ecosystem survival.
Fruit Factory
Great game, very fun but very short.
Seems like there’s a lot more potential for more to be added.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
this game was “berry” great
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game