$14.99Atomcraft A whole planet as your chemistry set
Atomcraft is a 2D sandbox where every pixel can be picked up, placed, and reacted. You dig through a planet, smelt ore, run chemistry, and build pixel-by-pixel machines to find all 118 elements and repair your crashed ship. For survival crafters who like slow progression that turns into clever automation, it is hard to put down.
Is Atomcraft worth it?
Atomcraft is worth it if…
- you like survival crafting games where gathering turns into automation
- you enjoy chemistry puzzles and chaining reactions to get rare materials
- you like building fiddly machines and tuning them until they run smooth
- you want a long hunt with a clear goal: all 118 elements and a repaired ship
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Dig deep and work up the periodic table
You start digging with basic tools and work downward through the planet's layers for better ores. Smelt what you find, mix it, heat it, cool it, and see what it turns into. Every element exists somewhere down there, though getting it pure often takes a creative chain of reactions.
Finding a new element feels like solving a puzzle backwards, from the material you want to the ore you can actually reach. Upgrading your drill and tools opens deeper rock, which opens stranger chemistry. You watch grains melt, separate, and change state pixel by pixel while your vessel holds together — or does not.
Build machines that do the chemistry for you
Hand-mixing gets you started, but the real game is machines that react for you. You place conveyor belts, trapdoors, heaters and coolers, wiring, buttons, switches, sensors, and even logic gates to move pixels and control reactions.
Build a furnace that feeds itself, a separator that reclaims reagents, a cooled chamber that keeps nitroglycerin from exploding during crafting. Brute-force soup in a hot blender sometimes works. Tight, balanced builds work better and are a highlight. The factory potential is huge once conveyors, pumps, heaters, and filters unlock, which rewards survival crafters who enjoy tinkering toward full automation.
How does Atomcraft play?
What is the main goal?
Dig through the planet's layers, extract every material on the periodic table, and repair your crashed spaceship piece by piece. Along the way you may uncover what happened to this mysterious world.
How does the pixel simulation work?
Each pixel reacts to what touches it, so heat, mixing, and containment matter. Reactions need room for their results in the 2D plane, and some real reactions are simplified or changed to keep the game playable.
Can you change elements into other elements?
Yes. There is nuclear decay and a particle gun that fires alpha particles, protons, and neutrons to bombard elements into new ones. It is done by hand, with no in-game chart for decay paths, so expect trial and error.
Is it good if you like science?
Yes, especially chemistry. You will smelt ore, electrolyze liquids, separate gases, and purify elements with different methods. It teaches real ideas in simplified form, and the start screen warns against trying any of it at home.
