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Photochemistry

100% positive of 12 Steam reviews

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Released
2024
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Thomas Horne.

About the game

Photochemistry is a challenging 2D puzzle game about synthesizing chemicals to sustain plant life in a post-apocalyptic setting. Design and construct elaborate mechanisms to produce complex compounds from simple particles.

Tagged by players

  • Automation
  • Level Editor
  • Post-apocalyptic
  • Minimalist
  • Sci-fi
  • Puzzle
  • Visual Novel
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Atmospheric
  • FPS
  • Simulation

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What players say

  • Recommended
    First thoughts and act 1 playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joQ9GR5giNg Photochemistry is a pretty good, interesting, complex, and fairly difficult puzzle game that puts large emphasis on unique and individual ways to solve puzzles, dependent upon the way your mind can construct a solution. There isn't any one ascribed "correct" solution for anything, which is both a blessing and a curse: the game trusts…

    2.5 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Photochemistry, developed and published by Thomas Horne, is a thoughtfully designed puzzle-simulation game that centers on creativity, logic, and system-based experimentation. Set in a subdued, post-apocalyptic backdrop where plant life struggles to survive due to depleted nutrients, the game frames its mechanics around rebuilding ecological stability through chemical synthesis. Rather than presenting its premise…

    9.6 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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