That feeling is manifest in the segmented controls but isn’t amplified until you find yourself against a later-campaign puzzle, picturing the mass of conveyors and blocks that will have to be meticulously rotated and aligned before you can proceed into another round of the same. This seems to betray one of the core concepts Infinifactory touches on, ironically leaving the player without the reward that your in-game avatar experiences and making the whole process feel like a grind. The story doesn’t feel worthy of the 30+ minutes you spend on one puzzle solution, and your left with no answers to why you’re still doing these puzzles.
Scale and complexity in your solutions is left to your devices, but there’s no reward or loop to speak of for achieving any goal. This leads into what feels like the game’s largest issue: it’s just not fun.
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The PlayStation 4 controls feel cumbersome with too many steps standing between simple actions such as changing block types, especially when compared with the smooth PC interface. Those larger machinations feel both daunting and grand, putting your ability to take involved puzzle-solving one step at a time to the test.Īlong the way, a piece or two seems to have fallen on the wayside with Infinifactory’s design. Either way, you have to learn and obey the physics of the realm if you’re going to work your way through the production lines. You can make an absolute architectural nightmare that puts Mouse Trap to shame, or you can chase the paradigmatic “leaderboard” to be the most efficient block placer in the world. The underlying concept deals with a system of conveyors and pauses, tasking you with creating specific shapes and configurations of blocks given your available tools, but otherwise, the solutions are yours to find. While the music is lovely and a treat on its own, it doesn’t pull that cart well by itself.Īgain though, the puzzles are the main focus and can reach a tremendous breadth very few other games have touched. There is some humor that hits, adding some downright necessary tension relief during longer puzzles, but the music feels like the only part attempting to convey emotions or a sense of dread. You just do puzzles, something innocuous happens, then more puzzles repeat until the game ends. There are audio logs that give you some characterization from other unwilling participants, but it’s a lead ramps. The puzzles do, however, end up standing on their own more times than not with the lore-based excuse to graft you into this rat race seeming flimsier by the puzzle. The internal scenes seem to be infused with a magnified version of Portal’s cruelty and escapist mentality, creating an interesting structure from within the puzzles can flourish. You, as a human kidnapped during an innocuous drive, are made to create manufacturing pathways for your new masters, each group of successful puzzles you solve earning you a gentle pat on the head and another meal. His latest culmination inside the PlayStation 4 version of Infinifactory showcases that puzzle acumen in an open-ended way. Zachtronics is also responsible for puzzlers like SpaceChem, Ironclad Tactics, and TIS-100, which is to say the main cog in Zachtronics’ clockwork, Zachary Barth, has quite a bit of puzzle game experience.
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Infinifactory comes the way of Zachtronics and a fairly speedy turnaround from early access to full game on Steam.
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