Игрок 8853·Рекомендует·34 ч в игре

THE SHORT SELL If you've ever played any falling-sand game, like maybe The Powder Toy as an example, but you found yourself wishing the game/simulator balance was more 50/50, this is exactly what you would've been wishing for. And I say that with confidence. If that sounds appealing to you, read no further and just put this game in your cart because you know everything you need to know. If you still want little bit more to sell you on this game, and you're familiar with the genre, I'll try to lay it out nicely just down below. And, last but not least, if you're someone who doesn't even know what a falling-sand game is, just skip the long sell section for now and head to the context section. It's kind of important. Just a little bit. THE LONG SELL Atomcraft is a fully actualized falling-sand GAME. You need to process materials into other materials through relatively complicated reactions in order to achieve real objectives, and it's really fun if that's your sort of thing. At first, it's more basic processes that will allow you to upgrade your gear and become more competent thanks to a bunch of different tools. Eventually though, thanks to your newly acquired tools, you're going to be building (or even browsing community creations for) complex machines with multi-stage reactions in order to achieve your goals. The biggest of which being that you need to attain every element on the periodic table and use them to fix up your ship. Now, if you know about the genre then you're probably sold by now. And you should be, this game rocks. And metals. And gasses. And- And this game really feels like it was made with love. I don't know if it's just one dev or if there's a small team, but you can tell it's indie... in the best way possible. The UI is a little rough, I won't lie, and there have been a couple of bugs, but that's it for any real critique. That's nothing compared to the vision and the execution that the dev(s) have with this game. Plus, the dev(s) are absolutely cracking down on the bugs if you report it in the Steam discussions, it's unreal how good they are. Then, you add in how much content is in the game plus the fact that it's going to get even more? I have 30 hours down and I haven't even started fixing the ship yet. Yeah, if you ask me, it's EASILY worth $15USD. Do yourself a favor. If you've got an extra $15 and you feel like this is something you'll have fun with, then just get the game. I can almost guarantee you'll be glad you did. CONTEXT If you don't know what a falling-sand game is, this is important context. A falling-sand game is a "game" where you're presented with a wide assortment of materials, and each of them has their own properties. Also, each of the materials exists as individual pixels! So, thanks to their properties, steam pixels float and sand pixels fall; hence the name "falling-sand game". For another example, fire pixels are really hot and wood pixels are flammable. So when fire touches wood, it might catch on fire and slowly turn into charcoal pixels. You take that and imagine as many materials as you can: stone, ice, acid, etc. Now, that was basically the extent of those games, which is why I put "game" in quotes earlier. Really interesting and fun to mess around with, but it always felt more like a raw simulator than a real game to me. You could load up people's creations and see the different contraptions they'd built that would allow them to create certain reactions, but there's no objective or anything to really sink your teeth into. Even the most popular one was (and still is!) called "The Powder Toy". Not "The Powder Game". But that's not to diminish it entirely, it's a very fun toy! But then... then there's Atomcraft. Now, if you made it this far and you still want to finish the review, please go on back to the section that I had you skip :)

Игрок 9231·Рекомендует·69 ч в игре

If you can get past the graphics, the UI, force yourself through the first half of progression and unlock the functional "blocks" of this game like conveyors, pumps, heaters, filters etc, then the factory building potential of the game is huge. Your toolkit is still rather small even in the endgame, but that's the challenge of it - balancing the inputs, heating / cooling / mixing stuff without a stray phase change ruining things, splitting the post-reaction elements and so on. The premise is cliché, the end sequences are facepalm silly, combat is nonexistent (2 enemy types total), survival mode/mechanics feel really unnecessary but are thankfully prone to cheese. Ignore all that. The pixel factory must grow. There isn't any real in-game incentive to put a lot of different mass-producing assemblies, but there are some for renewable resources or for reclaiming reagents you spent in a lot of similar reactions that you need to finish the game. There's a range of detractors at the moment that feel more like bugs or poor implementation, like some odd logic pixel behaviour with variable-length pulses making it hard to create stable logic circuits. Some gameplay is not really that engaging IMO, like creation of synthetic elements by means of manually bombarding them with alpha particles / protons / neutrons (can't build a machine for that, and there's no in-game reference for how elements decay). The game is effectively an EA title that's dirt cheap however, so it's quite worth the money. That is, if huge and oft inconsistently-sized pixels don't make your eyes bleed.

Игрок 8474·Рекомендует·65 ч в игре

我化学工程相关从业，玩起来真的有瘾。无限制冷制热电解，一切都轻松惬意。高强度玩了60+小时，目前还差最后几个合成元素没有弄出来。用各种反应来提炼元素的底层玩法就足够吸引我了，对我来说画面没那么重要。反而像素风很自由，而且硬件要求也不高一般笔记本到后期都还可以走60帧。 反应：总体来说系统还是很完善的，不同的元素需要不同的方法来精制纯化。一些小问题比如不能用石灰水和盐酸反应得到氯化钙和水无伤大雅。我从土坑木炭烧铜铁锡到各种学过的经典反应，相应的的反应器设计也一步步搭出来：高炉，气液吸收塔，海水电解，熔融盐电解，流化床反应器，空气分离，水电解制氢，合成氨。搭出来看各种设备just work非常舒适，但目前基本还是半自动化。 信号和自动化：我不知道是我没有搞懂还是游戏开发还不到位。用一个与门发现完全不是与门的功能，我就没有继续升入研究了。虽然游戏里有各种逻辑门和锁存器，但我还没想在游戏里搓集成电路做控制系统。没有一个比较方便的控制是我目前的遗憾。 NPC和剧情：基本没有也不重要，我就是来造大设备玩的，顺手救救几个坠落的外星人而已 最后我觉得这个游戏配合长河劫关于原始化学的视频（b站的BV1SB716REPq）就很赞。

Игрок 4709·Рекомендует·20 ч в игре

Just wanted to add some encouragement for the developer :) This is a complex game, managing that complexity within clean gameplay loops and keeping all of us different, weird gamers happy is hard work. Appreciate your dedication and I'll keep playing your game!

Игрок 3081·Рекомендует·29 ч в игре

A good game about interactions between elements, represented each as single pixels You'll have to make smart machines to handle some of the processes as they get more and more complicated but you'll manage or you can ask on the discord server for help

Игрок 7604·Рекомендует·55 ч в игре

Once you get past the clunky UI and somewhat unintuitive gameplay, this game is amazing. It's like if Terraria and Noita had a baby, and that baby grew up and got a PhD in chemistry. I can't wait to see where the Dev takes this game. It's fantastic.

Игрок 4748·Рекомендует·113 ч в игре

Fun game with a lot of chemistry experimenting. For an absolute nerd like myself, really a no brainer. Dev is very active as well, which you love to see. Doesn't hurt that I was able to create a black powder and nitroglycerine chain reaction deep underground so violent that a solid pillar of 30,000 degree fahrenheit (~16650 c) debris went clean through the surface into space melting through a few asteroids on the way to eternity.

Игрок 9811·Рекомендует·23 ч в игре

基础设计很有创意性。不过暂时因为还很早期。有机化学，核化学和以及一些直接完全无用也拆不出的化合物有不少。但是目前内容依然算是比较完整的。前十几个小时的探索也很棒。