Sokobond

to me this is a, if not THE, quintessential sokoban game. if you like the genre, this is a no brainer. and if not, then its still worth checking out- definitely the kind of game where you can easily know whether or not it will be fun based on watching gameplay or playing a couple of levels. the best thing about this game is that i never felt overwhelmed by the complexity or difficulty- sure it gets very tricky at some points. but im not the smartest person and i was able to get through all of it (plus a little extra), which is a very welcome thing as many puzzle games kinda plateau for me when they get too hard to solve without some hints (im looking at you bean and nothingness!! - also an amazing game btw but no hopes of finishing without a tutorial or at least some hints lol)

Fun little game with some witty quips, some history, and a lot of chemical bonding. Puzzles ranged from easy to hard, with new mechanics thrown in that built upon each other as you progress. I'm not familiar with the sokoban genre, so my enjoyment came from just pure puzzle logic and a bit of chemistry.

Sokobond: Sokoban-style game with a strong chemistry theme. + Nice spin on the classic Sokoban (bonding, valence, cutting and rotating molecules). + Great level design; each level has a unique twist that is required to solve it. + Nice difficulty level: difficult, but not diabolical. + Very stylish visually. I even made a T-shirt with the molecules. - The last achievement is quite obscure. (It's supposedly very difficult too, but that's par for the course.) It's wasn't clear what needs to be done without a guide.

I knew I was hooked when I finished a level and exclaimed "noble gases, baby!" out loud to myself. A very tasty spatial puzzle-solving game. And you get a neat science fact as a reward for beating each level.

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"Yes, I reccomend" IF you are fine with dealing with puzzles rules that cause a combinatorical explosion and make it extremely had not only to brute force, but to plan ahead at all. A puzzle here can have like FOUR blocks and a cramped space, but the sheer freedom in which you can interact with those blocks (creating bonds, cutting bonds, repositioning, strengthening bonds) creates so many possibilities that you cannot undertand the solution just by shuffing pieces and seeing what variants do not work and why. Sometimes you will see a few donsen dead ends and you might still have no idea *why* they are dead ends unless will stop moving and think very hard about what you are even looking at. In most other sokobans, trial and error slowly but surely reveal more and more details, and eventually you reach a point where you see a gimmick: some ONE impossible detail, after which the solution boils down to making this detail possible. In other words, you can relax and replace some of the thinking with fiddling. Furthermore, some sokobans can be decomposed into sub-tasks, like "I need to open the door, to open the door I need to press those plates, to press them I need 5 blocks in a straight line" yadda yadda. There are puzzles like that too, but sometimes no matter how much you shuffle pieces nothing of the sort becomes apparent. There is no exit, so at a first glance puzzle's finish can be anywhere. No keys, so you can't see what you need to do before you can finish a puzzle. The only way to solve quite a few puzzles in this game is to properly view the set up and the rules by which atoms can move in this particular puzzle, and then to imagine how a final turn HAS to look like. To understand sertain little things that won't reveal themselfes on their own and will leave you stuck for an hour if you will not figure them out.