SpaceChem is an obscenely addictive, design-based puzzle game about building machines and fighting monsters in the name of science! Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products! Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem.

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3 comments by jeffr on Oct 6th, 2011

All you Humble Bundle purchasers know the drill. Check out your Humble Bundle download page for links to Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of SpaceChem, the mind-bending, molecular machine-building puzzle game by Zachtronics Industries!

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In SpaceChem, you take on the role of a Reactor Engineer, designing complex reactors that transform raw atoms into the complex chemicals needed to survive sinister threats on the frontier colonies of space. It’s a maddeningly addictive puzzle game, and the recent addition of a level editor in the included “ResearchNet” update ensures that you’ll have plenty of challenging atomic manipulation at your fingertips.

More than 150,000 Humble Frozen Synapse Bundles have been purchased with 8 days left in the promotion. Enjoy SpaceChem, and remind your un-bundled friends and family to visit humblebundle.com to score a deal on great indie games!

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Dorsai!
Dorsai! Dec 23 2011, 8:03am says:

Will the update come to desura eventually? Having the "Update released" message ingame makes me nervous.

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Nuck-TH
Nuck-TH Dec 13 2011, 6:04am says:

game updated, why content on your servers is old?

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balasar0451
balasar0451 Nov 2 2011, 11:05am says:

this is very addictive :D

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Dinopron
Dinopron Oct 22 2011, 10:03am says:

Trying to play Spacechem on a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 I had the following issue: The game didn't started trhough Desura and starting by the console I had the following output:

"The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded.
It should have been installed in the `/usr/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll' directory."

Looking at "/usr/lib/mono" I found out that only the folder 4.0 was there, so, long story short I resolved this problem installing:

libmono2.0-cil
libmono-winforms2.0-cil
libsdl-image1.2
libsdl-mixer1.2
xclip

(The dependencies were satisfied automatically)

And edited the file "~/desura/common/spacechem/spacechem-launcher.sh"

changing the line "./mono SpaceChem.exe" to "mono SpaceChem"

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I hope it helps, because it was the first place I looked for support, by the way, thanks to everyone that put answers here or in the forums, it really makes the difference guys >D

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intgr
intgr Nov 9 2011, 5:17pm replied:

This issue is fixed now, at least it works here. :)
Please report Linux game problems in the "Application Linux" forum: Desura.com

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enseyn
enseyn Oct 24 2011, 11:03am replied:

Thank you so much. Installing the dependencies fixed it. It should be noted that you no longer need to edit spacechem-launcher.sh because the most recent update has already changed it.

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teerl
teerl Oct 10 2011, 7:01pm says:

Really great game. As a hobbiest progammer I find this game very interesting and challenging. It's really fun trying to find the most efficient way to solve the puzzles.

I wasn't planning on buying this at $15 (Desura's current price), but was planning to catch it if the price went to $7 - $10. I did however get this game from the newest Humble Bundle. Now that I've played it I can say it's very well worth $15 easily.

Running perfectly on my Slackware64 system, but I did have to use my system's Mono install instead of the one bundled with the game. In the game's directory I just backed up the supplied Mono and replaced it with a symlink to the system's Mono.

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Proxyon
Proxyon Oct 9 2011, 6:22am says:

Seems SpaceChem runs fine on Xubuntu 11.04 64-bit for me. No issues with starting it.

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texaco
texaco Oct 31 2011, 12:03pm replied:

Me either.

I have just instaled in netbook with xubuntu 11.10.

I only have to install dependencies (mono). And it's working.

My screen is so small, then the game overflowed at windowed mode. But it's work so nice at full screen.

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gmh_michael
gmh_michael Oct 15 2011, 10:13am replied: Online

ive had a lot of issues with xubuntu. the close minimize and max controls have disapeared. any help?

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