SpaceChem

Ok, wow, this is the game for me.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I got stuck at one point in the demo, but up until then I was pretty bowled over.

I got stuck a bunch of times too but everytime when I figured it out it is just a pure joy - I can't believe how good this game is!

This is climbing up my all-time pantheon pretty fast.

gettin' the demo, y'all have convinced me.

picked this up last night in a drunken just-got-my-paycheck Steam frenzy but haven't gotten a chance to dive into it yet

needless to say I expect it to go on sale for like $.99 any minute now

It's worth giving the guy some money though, it's a pretty staggering achievement - like the central mechanic is really solid, there was no need to make the game so FUN but he did anyway - all the plot stuff and weird unique missions and stuff really adds something that you just wouldn't get in a game made on the Kongregate model.

Yesterday I spent an hour playing this by writing things on paper.

Expansion pack released today!

Oooh, Steam achievements and TF2 items? I smell sale!

FINISHED THIS TONIGHT (the original game, not the expansion)

The last level took a solid week to beat. A week!

Annnnd it's on sale for 50% off until Thursday. Bitin' time.

I really can't stress enough how good this is.

Lol, last level of World 2 still driving me bonkers!!

I know there's a logical solution there but damn if this game ain't making me feel like a complete idiot

The formaldehyde one?

yep

Like I get the obvious basic idea, and have 1 reactor pumping out CO double bond, and am trying to have reactor 2 run a loop to attach a H molecule, pick it up, rotate, attach another H, then output it, the correct timing/logic seems to escape me

I can drop a hint if you like!

Please do!

You can move the bonders around - for some reason you never get told that!

Also you can IN and OUT on both sides with both colours if you right-click.

I knew the first thing, but I don't understand why you would use more than one OUT, since my second reactor is just pumping out one product to the SpaceTruck?

But then again, you just gave me the idea that i could use the Red OUT instead of the Blue OUT, so HMM..

Amazingly inelegant, but I finally managed!!

http://i.imgur.com/RK6Bj.jpg

Great job!

Ok I see the appeal here, it's like the phd to trainyard's bachelor degree. really don't see myself with the time or inclination to get stuck in though, am happier with something i can play while sitting on the can :)

Fight it man, this game is totally worth it

it's not clicking for me.

behold my glorious formaldehyde solution:

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/3687/spacechem.jpg

pretty lucky to pull that one off though. trying the same elegant simplicity on the next level has led to fistfuls of hair.

Nice!

(This was mine fwiw: http://ploader.net/files/57c636b87ac5b2e1fa92f4e5da8e54c5.png )

damn, how did you guys get through that stuff without all the loops!!!

especially yours gravel - i don't get how you're doing both H bonds in one pass

Nhex - if you look at the blue waldo, I'm syncing it twice, but I only sync the red one once. So you get 1 blue loop for every 2 red ones - ledge's is the same principle!

$5 on Steam today only!

I downloaded the demo and was like "uhhhhhhhhh what?"

^

There's an expansion for this now btw

I got an extra key if anyone wants one, just shout out here

if you wouldn't mind?

webmailed!

thanks man!

This is one of those games I can never remember if I've bought it in some indie sale or not.

How life-consuming a distraction is this going to be on a scale from minesweeper to FTL

also hotline miami, it turns out i have that too, how distracting is that

xp not that bad, since you will eventually get stuck on a single puzzle for ages and then give up

hotline miami can be cleared in a weekend - finito. there isn't a ton of draw to replay it for higher scores, but i do think i'll go back and try to unlock all the weapons eventually

i should really play hotline miami

thomp from my super-limited knowledge of yr tastes i suspect spacechem is your actual favourite game.

i should probably avoid actually playing it until i have a free month then what