Don’t be surprised to find yourself doing some voluntary unpaid overtime. Unlike the player captive, you can punch out anytime. Watching it all come to life is satisfying, and having it all actually work is positively thrilling. As more components are introduced, the solutions become ever larger and highly convoluted. It doesn’t take Infinifactory long to sink its hooks into fans of complex puzzles. Think of it as the inspirational cat poster of the future. It’s a small touch, but sharing your genius with loved ones/rivals might just be the thing to get you off the cot for another day of toil. Those food pellets aren’t free, ya know…Īs a bonus, if you’ve created the ultimate Rube Goldberg contraption and you want the world to know, you can create an animated GIF of it in action. At any time, you can go back to a previously completed stage and try to tweak your creations by cutting out any excess. Once a stage is completed, scores for efficiency and effectiveness are presented, and compared to any of your Steam friends that have also completed the stage. While this free-flow approach to puzzle solving could easily fall apart in a different game, it actually enhances the feeling of being dropped in an alien world and having to solve a puzzle. There is never one “correct” way to do things, and as you can stack machines above or beside other tiles, there’s always a way to make use of all the space around you. This added depth also opens up the ways in which you can employ your imagination in each solution. It can also keep you from falling to your demise should you “inadvertently” step off into the abyss. When there isn’t enough space to connect everything on the ground, building up is the only way to go. This ability is quickly made valuable in the construction of complex factories. You’re equipped with a jetpack, and it makes getting around in 3D space easy. Once enough of the desired products are harvested, you can move on to the next stage. Raw materials will be produced, and your job is to place the right components to move, fuse, craft and ship them in their completed form. In the passive state, you can move about freely, setting up the machine that will get the job done. Each of these nodes displays a transparent hologram of the item it requires. Burning Out His Fuse Up Here AloneĮach mission requires that particular items be constructed and transported to a collection node. Playing each of the “failure logs” helps to deepen the story that ties all the madness together. Search each location closely to find your predecessor (the person doing your job until they died from boredom or an industrial accident). Each block of challenges takes place in its own unique exotic locale. Which is to say, you’ll be confined to a platform above these landscapes. If that last descriptor hits too close to home, fear not! You’ll also be transported to gorgeous alien landscapes. Welcome to your new bachelor apartment! From here you can eat food pellets and work. The otherworlders make a brief speech (in their language, no translation), and open up a trap door that leads to a tiny holding cubicle. After a few rudimentary gameplay lessons, the abductors reveal themselves to you with great fanfare. Awakening in a series of bizarre hallways, it’s clear that you aren’t in rural ‘Murica anymore. On the way home from a shift at a factory job, you are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. This puzzling factory building game is every engineer’s dream, and every Johnny Punch-Clock’s worst nightmare. The goal is to create complex three-dimensional mechanical constructs in order to please your stern alien captors. From Zachtronics (creators of SpaceChem and IronClad Tactics) comes the good-looking and challenging Infinifactory.
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