I'm particularly enjoying optimizing even the early levels, which I did not find as interesting to do in Spacechem (The earlier levels essentially never quite felt like they ramped up enough, so almost the entire first planet was just a tutorial, which is fine, but Infinifactory just feels like it does it better). I've gotten a bit farther and am really enjoying it. However, I did have the best cycle time on my friend leaderboards for all six of these puzzles:īut also because I just love a good puzzle game, I'm back onto Infinifactory. It took me another 34 hours to complete them. After I was 70 hours in, I was on the last six puzzles and thought I had another 15 hours or so to go. I didn't think this was a difficult as SpaceChem, the last puzzles were challenging. However, each puzzle has a leaderboard showing how you did versus your friends in the number of cycles it took, the footprint of your machines, and how many blocks you used (excluding platform blocks).Īs with the Zachs games I have played, there are very few instructions and the complexity ramps up quickly. You can use as many blocks and take as much time as you want. If they are not anchored, your structure will fall. Blocks can be placed anywhere in space, but are affected by gravity. Your goal is to use those pieces to build the output piece. Each level is played in an open space with specific pieces being continuously created and fed into the arena. In this game, you are a human captured by an alien race to build factories for them and their war mongering. Then, you learn some tricks that you can apply to other puzzles to further optimize your solution. Second, tweaking that solution to minimize the cycles, or the footprint or the number of blocks used is enjoyable. First, just finishing a puzzle (particularly the later puzzles) is fulfilling. As with all other Zachs games I have played, this is so engaging on many different levels. I have been playing this game, and finally finished that last mission today. That was a mistake that I recently rectified.

I am sure I picked it up not long after release, but I never got around to playing it. In 2015, Zachtronics Industries released Infinifactory. Goals: Sages 7/10 (2015) Keepers 6/11 (I)īack in 2011, a little game called SpaceChem sucked up a boatload of my time.

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