Manufactoria 2022 Reviews

Manufactoria 2022 is a remake of a classic Flash puzzle game that builds on the original without sacrificing the original spirit. If you like the "Zach-like" genre of puzzle games, if you like Turing machines*, if you like optimizing grid layouts, you will love Manufactoria. The gameplay is based on assembling machines to perform various tasks by placing parts in a grid. * Technically, the game is clearly inspired by "queue automata", which are Turing-complete, but not Turing machines. The major positives are: * Large number of levels (105) in a good difficulty progression * The challenge is based on assembling a large number of parts, but only a small number of types of parts. Some games in this genre are constantly introducing new types of parts. This game definitely is not, instead the playability is based on flexibly combining a few types of parts. * Most levels are incredibly open-ended (the task can be solved many truly different ways), except for a few basic introductory levels. * There is a good editing UI, allowing you to take portions of your grid and copy, paste, rotate, etc. * If you like optimizing solutions in this type of game, Manufactoria will provide hours and hours of entertainment beyond solving the levels, as 90+ of the levels each have "gold medals" available on 3 different criteria. The main negative would be if you don't like this genre.