Although everything costs gold, there's no limit to how much you can spend on a machine.įor the first few chapters, the level of difficulty is remarkably low. All arms can rotate themselves or what they're holding, piston arms can extend and retract, and if something's on a track, you can tell it what direction to move in. Once you've placed your tools, you have to program them by adding icons to a timeline.
There are also blocks that can modify or bond elements together. The basic tools at your disposal include arms, pistons and tracks that objects can travel along. You're given an infinite hex grid to build a machine that turns the input into the output. A level gives you a set number of elements as inputs, and tells you what your output needs to be. The core gameplay loop is simple to understand. But the narrative, while well-written and capable of providing some respite between challenges, is far from the attraction here. As the story plays out, you become stuck between various factions and your creations are used for nefarious purposes. You play a young alchemist, tasked with creating elemental compounds for your employers in a time of conflict. Opus Magnum is, like many of developer Zachtronics Industries' releases, a puzzle game centered on engineering. All I know is that I saw a split-second of it in a YouTube video a few weeks ago and have been obsessed since. I'm not sure how Opus Magnum passed me by when it came to Steam Early Access last year.
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