I forgot that eating was a thing from focusing too hard. Great weight loss game.

Simple but to complicated. Not a good user experience. It is not about alchemy, it is about conveyor belts.

Music from the game straight up stole from Runescape's soundtrack: Medieval. I was enjoying the gameplay until I had heard this. Crossed a line for me so I refunded the game. It's unfortunate. I heard they may have removed the song from the rotation, but I won't be coming back.

Bought this game, started playing after work, and 15 minutes later, 4.5 hours have passed.

Few days extra off of work after the weekend will be all nice and relaxed right? I found this game on sunday, It is now half way through tuesday and im 39h deep already only afk for maybe 1h in total. If you find good factory games addicting and value sleep do not get this game! Who am i kidding you know you want it.

I don't get it. I didn't want to be the only person to give a thumbs down so here we are. Maybe I'm just having a bad day. As far as I'm concerned, shame. Shame, shame, shame on these people comparing this to Satisfactory. It's not even apples to oranges. It's fantastic to frustrating. This game is ridiculous. You think the EXTREMELY annoying part until automated cash register would quickly be behind you. But no. It never gets not annoying. The arc on the catapult alone is embarrassing enough to scrap this weird zombie game. Youtubers edit this to make it seem amazing. Shame on them, too. Working forwards fails so you try to work backwards and that fails, too. The tutorial is like, make this, put it here and sell it. OK that's great for a gear and while you're wondering if a giant, spaghetti mess is the goal, then there's the mailbox with unrealistic goals for stuff you didn't even know is somewhere down the research tree... and the research tree. Why? What's the point? I blame the simulation generation. You heard that here, first. Remember I said that. Simulation Generation. You kids won't go get a job and keep it longer than a month but you'll power wash things in video games. Why would a game involve running back and forth to a cash register? You finally get the auto register and then.... wait. Now THAT needs storage. And large storage doesn't fit on the counter? Am I supposed to twist around a conveyer belt in to a catapult in to a catcher in to a storage box just to collect money at the register? Why? Is that the point of the game? Storage, belt, storage, belt, machine, belt, storage, belt, next machine, belt, storage, belt, catapult, catcher, belt, storage, belt, next catapult, shelf, sell - collect money, belt, storage, take money out, buy more stuff. If you like belts, production, delivery and the feeling of ingenuity to bring it all together, just go play Shapez 2. Alchemy Factory is like Frankenstein's Monster. It makes no sense, the right arm is from one place and the left foot is from another place and in the end it shouldn't really exist. Allow comments so we can discuss whether it has a soul or not? Nah. But I'll wait here with the torches and pitchforks in case some of you ultimately decide we should hunt this game down and put it out of it's misery.

Factorio and Satisfactory player here. My wife will play this one with me. Huge ups for that!

I was so excited to play this game when I saw it on store page. So I got it. No cap, the worst disappointment on Steam so far. Game is so unfun, so unsatisfying. Graphics look bad even on max settings, tutorial is 0, you would basically know the same amount with and without tutorial. Controls are horrendously bad, including the customization of keybindings, most of them being completely unclear what they are for. I despise the use of Minecraft UI sounds. I really hoped and wished that this game was what it seems in the videos but it is just not even close. Refunded.

friends desyncing around with almost nothing built. also heavy drag on gpu for asset flip level graphics. refunding.

I gave this game 10 minutes before I decided it was not worth any more time, or the money I bought it with. The reason I gave it just 10 minutes? The game doesn't seem to want to commit to a sense of scale whatsoever; it seems like the "playable area" is a few house lots in the center of a city (and so there is not any existing free space to consider, and expanding your playable area is done by buying your neighbors houses which are then completely and instantly demolished into a perfectly flat dirt zone). Such a small playable area sounds like the challenge might be squeezing your (presumably) large machines into a tight space, right? Wrong; you build entirely with Machines For Ants. It is unimmersive to create a factory on top of a desk that produces "Large Gears," and the "Planks" you build with are more like thick credit cards. In short, the game instantly lets you assume a new kind of difficulty that it then forgets just as fast; play Shapez 2 instead, if all you want out of a factory game is pure numbers and no problem solving involved in building.

Don't bother trying to build an optimized factory; you can do it, it's possible, it's just that you can use catapults to make some pretty funny constructions.

Can't even load into the game, maxes cpu usage on start up even after capping frames at 30fps, turning on vsync, verifying files, reinstalling drivers. Looks like a neat game but until people can load in, not worth it

Game seems decent but absurd cpu and gpu usage from the start of the game. Turning down graphics does not change much. Either completely unoptimized or something else is going on. Either way, I don't want my pc to burst into flames. Refunded

I honestly think the game has lot of potential! It is early access and I will definitly follow its development. The game just feels very slow and luck dependent at the moment. I have basically two problems with the game: 1) The randomness in the game loop: You buy raw materials, you produce goods, you sell them, and with the money earned you can get raw materials again. My problem: 1) it is luck dependant which customers come and how much they buy and 2) you only have this one shop! While cou can double all machines to double production, you can not double your shop or double the sales or your income, so the factory throughput is always dependent on this. 2) There are so many manual steps required. Of course later in the game you can automate more and easier. But if there is always the risk that the factory stops working (because the shelves are empty) because I forgot one manual step somewhere, then this is not fun for me. Compare it to the big two automation games: I can easily double my production in these games by doubling my power production then doubling the machines. And I can at almost at the start of the game basically AFK for a long time and the factory just works on its own. (which allows me to work on other parts of the facotry without worrying about the parts I have established.) In Alchemy Factory I can do neither... (or maybe only after I have played many more hours?) Again, there is a lot of potential and I will be back. But at the moment I do not enjoy the game for its randomness and the manual work required.

I am unsure what they have done to the game since the demo, played that all the way through and never had a problem. With the current release version, if you so much as pause the game at the menu and leave it for so much as 2 minutes, it crashes and locks up your computer. It never did that in the demo. Since I bought the full release on launch day and played it for 2 days, I have had it lock up on me 7 times. The only failsafe way to go to use the bathroom is to save your progress and exit the game. That is ridiculous. Otherwise it is a fantastic game as anyone who has played the demo will attest to. Uninstalling and reinstalling does not fix this issue. It does this on both my workstation as well as my laptop.

rly scratched the tisms

Absolute gem if you like factory games!! Factorio/Satisfactory fans are going to have a blast.

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

I still have to put far more hours into this, but I spent a few dozen on the old pre-release demo already, and the early access has improved greatly on basically all the pain points while bringing in a bunch of spicy new mechanics and interesting reworks. Alchemy Factory is a factory game made by devs who very obviously know their stuff, and are very interested in community feedback to find and eliminate flaws in the game. The only real minus points I can give are in the game's presentation - NPCs have dead eyes that scream "default" asset and nothing stands out paticularly in visual or audio design, but it all works. Mechanically, this game deserves to be considered among the top automation games on the market in my view. It has the best 3D factory building I've ever seen (definetely better than Satisfactoy). The factories you build are generally quite small, quaint and cute, giving the game some very cozy vibes while also allowing you to look over said factories with ease. You're not allowed to just leave things floating around - you need to consider how to make things vertically viable, and need to progress in the game to unlock better building blocks! It has also managed the extremely difficult task of balancing an automation game around an economy. Money is spent to buy the raw resources your factories rely on, unlocking more land to build on and new technologies, and is gained through a mixture of your shop, fulfilling prodecural quests for increased profits, or selling specific item types through portals for low but highly automatable profit margins. Money is also a physical item that can be belted around your factory to automatically supply resource buyers... The entire game is refreshingly full of new ideas to the genre and good execution on them. It's just a really nice blend for pouring hours into an increasingly elaborate and efficient alchemy factory. If you have any love for automation games, seriously consider this.