All Zachtronics games are now available for free to public schools:
http://www.zachtronics.com/zachademics/
Really nice gesture, and I like the thoughtful content warnings for the games:
It also depicts alchemy, which is essentially made-up chemistry and may offend science teachers.
It’s interesting that Space-Chem isn’t listen on there!
Finally got my hands on this (Humble Choice) and gave it a whirl last night… and I love it so far! Very probable it will outstrip my abilities quickly, but I’m a dozen puzzles in and I’m keeping up okay.
I loved SpaceChem and then didn’t love the several follow-ups nearly as much, mostly because they got more technical. (Oddly, that includes Opus Magnum. It wasn’t too technical, but I didn’t deal well with a hexagonal grid…) Really couldn’t penetrate TIS-100, so I stayed away from EXAPUNKS because I thought it resembled that more than SpaceChem.
So we’ll see if I can stick with it, but I feel like this takes the best parts of the past games and puts them in a super-cool wrapper. I’ll let you all know when it defeats me.
ExaPunks is cool, but I got to a point where it felt too much like work. Of course, I loved Opus Magnum.