Opus Magnum

[h2]A magnum opus of a game[/h2] Simple enough to pickup and learn, but will provide plenty of challenges. With plenty of levels of varying difficulties in the main campaign, appendix, and journal. Not to mention the infinite possibilities of steam workshop. With an intriguing lore and world i want to explore further, a soundtrack that perfectly fits the game. It has turned into one my most loved games, and a game i wish i had bought earlier. Though some issues of the game is that the main campaign story is at best middling. Scaling issues on modern resolutions (even 1920×1080 will be difficult to read) And lacking some QOL features like zoom and a more robust copy paste system on the timeline. This is a game i would highly recommend.

Fantastic open-ended puzzle game! In most other puzzlers you would be given restrictions on time/cost/size of your solution. But here it is totally unrestricted. This allows for creative approaches to puzzles and for players to 'choose' their difficulty. Though your solution does matter as at the end it gets rated on time/cost/size and placed on graphs compared to other players. This is another great system as if you want to score high on one of the metrics you can choose what to focus on in your solution. You could try to make a really small solution with a longer runtime or optimize for speed as much as possible while throwing out parts left and right. I found myself focusing on the latter. The core mechanics of the game are simple but there are a lot of subtle details in how parts move and atoms get created which make optimizing very interesting. I was discovering new details all the way to the final puzzle where I was thinking "damn, this could be such much faster if only I could make there grabbers do nothing for just the first loop." And the highlight of the game was finding a strange way to achieve just that.