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Opus Magnum

You play Anataeus Vaya, a rising alchemist appointed Head Alchemist of House Van Tassen. The campaign follows his work for the city’s powerful Houses, where alchemical engineering and political intrigue provide the setting for each challenge. Each puzzle asks you to build a machine that repeatedly produces a specified alchemical product. Place and program mechanical arms, tracks, and other components to move, rotate, transform, and combine reagents; run the machine to see whether it completes the task. Solutions are open-ended, and the main goal is to make a working machine. Afterward, you can refine it around measures such as cost, runtime, and occupied area, and compare results with other players. The game also includes optional puzzles, player-made challenges and puzzle creation, animated GIF exports, and Sigmar’s Garden, an alchemy-themed solitaire game.

As an alchemist-engineer, program mechanical arms and tracks to turn reagents into products, then refine each machine for efficiency.

Released 07 Dec 2017

97%positive of
7.3k player reviews
$19.99
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Automate Alchemical Recipes

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Optimize Cost, Speed, Space

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Export Machine GIFs

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Developed by Zachtronics · Published by Zachtronics

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Common Player Critiques

  1. Slow Machine Playback
  2. Missing Editing Controls
  3. Steep Later Puzzles
  4. Unclear Story
97%
positive of 7.3k player reviews
90/100
Metacritic

Back of the Box

Platforms Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements 6
Age ratings
  • ESRB T — Violent References Suggestive Themes Alcohol Reference Mild Language
  • PEGI 12 — Bad Language
  • ClassInd (Brazil) 12 — Linguagem imprópria Violência fantasiosa
  • IGRS (Indonesia) 15 — Rokok dan/atau rokok elektronik, minuman beralkohol, narkotika, psikotropika, dan/atau zat adiktif lainnya Penggunaan bahasa Kekerasan
  • Steam (Germany) 6 — Alkohol / Tabak Schimpfwörte Fantasy-Gewalt
Controller required No
DLC / extras 1 listed on Steam
Content notices
  • Violent References
  • Suggestive Themes
  • Alcohol Reference
  • Mild Language
  • Age rating for: ESRB
Metacritic 90/100 View on Metacritic
Website Official website

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