Lab Job! (Play In-Browser)

Ohhh, the idea that moving things can interact between each other is very cool.
It took me quite some time until I found out about putting things into acid(?)
Would love to play something like this on the steam deck

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@alpie Thanks for playing! Will have to try on the deck too

Great idea! Loved melting corpses, and clarity of what to do in each level. Mechanics flow together nicely, great puzzle design overall.

Nice puzzle game thanks for sharing.

Very very fun! As a fan of sokobon style games, this was very satisfying. The interactions are all very discoverable, and funny to see occur. It's a pretty flushed out genre, so it's hard to be innovating in it, but I had a fun time!

Fun puzzle game! It took me a while to find out that I could throw bodies in the acid. Makes sense though

Simple but interesting concept, loved the interacting between acid nd the bodies, really fun to just play for hrs, great game!

A sokoban game is a clever spin on the limited space theme. I liked the graphics and especially the music--very cool and atmospheric. :)

Loved it! The vibe is really nice and the puzzles are designed well. I like how it goes straight to action. However, this goes to bookmarks for later for I am too exhausted to think xd

Awesome idea, the levels are actually really difficult :D Also it's very polished. Good job!

Tried and true mechanic. Love the lab job theme. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out I could put the bodies in the vats of acid.

Awesome work. Keep at it. Love u 💖

Reminds me of sokoban but with a funny setting, and I like how you have to cleanup and move the stuff onto pallets

Reminds me of sokoban but with a funny setting, and I like how you have to cleanup and move the stuff onto pallets

The way you can combine the bodies and the acid is quite an interesting game mechanic! I like how you have to plan out your moves so you don't trap yourself or one of the tiles. I kind of wish there was an undo move button but besides that this was a cool experience :)

The theme is great, the atmosphere is nice, I had a good time, well done!

The background story of hiding/destroying illegal stuff in the lab is quite funny. The graphics are clean and readable. The puzzles where quite challenging by times, but maybe that's just me. Awesome job.

Good level design, nice graphics and very good music. Nice done.

A creepy take on Sokoban - covering up the chemical incident with a limited space in the truck seems comical.
Good job on making multiple levels, it's really playable game.

Really like the idea of combining items in a Sokoban-like game. Feels good and some fun puzzle design. Great job!

I like the combinatorial aspect to it! Makes the difficulty ramp really smoothly

Sweet game! Somewhat easy, but the step counter is a good way of adding some challenge. Overall well made, I liked it! Cheers :)

again, fantastic work aaron

Ayy @jerem-watts - What a fantastic stream! Thank for playing and your feedback.

Great idea, completely on topic. I reached the third stage and hesitated, leaving the tube on the wall. Cool the bodies in the acid. music and sounds fit together well. cool puzzle

Very fun game, great idea. Was a bit difficult to me, but I enjoy playing it!

Loved the puzzles! Great graphics.

I found the throwing-bodies-in-acid mechanic really funny. I did not expect that.

I enjoyed playing, good job!

Had a lot of fun with this one. Some very clever ideas here. Amazing atmosphere (5/5 for mood from me), nice puzzles (though I wish you introduced new ideas in separation, on the last level I went through the whole thing just to realize there's more things to pack than space on the truck, only then I understood... Would be better to have a quick level before that with just 3 things in it so the realisation would be quicker). An undo button would be useful as well, few times I accidentally moved a block into a wrong spot, having to restart was annoying there. Otherwise it's really a brilliant game, good stuff!

An absolutely horrible score, I imagine...

@vlad-r @lincolnsalles @jamjamem @zeke @killnaprimer The bodies into the acid was a last minute, frantic decision - I'm so happy it's a favorite feature! :laughing: Thank you for the feedback!

@kasmilus @rmheuer Totally agree, would love to add a limited undo feature (say 3x per level attempt) I wouldn't want it to be limitless as it would remove the challenge, but I certainly want to remove the frustration element!

Cheers for playing and the feedback!

@kasmilus Thanks for sharing your score! It's actually pretty good, I'm going to try beat it and will share my score soon.

Agree on the level design, having a new combination in the last level without an introduction is suboptimal.

@kasmilus

Love a good Sokoban game. The step counter is a great touch. As was already discussed, I'm just begging for an undo button.

Fun game, and a great presentation! I loved the mechanics and the way they were introduced. My only minor nitpicks are that I'd like to see an undo button (though I found the level geometry to not be too punishing as far as irreversible moves are concerned, so it wasn't a huge deal) and I wish the truck drove a little faster between levels (or there was a button to skip the animation). I also would've been interesting in seeing puzzles where the truck plays a bigger role, like a level where you have to push one of the acid containers partway into the truck to make room to push a pallet into position and then bring the acid back out to combine them. This was my score, though it was far from optimal:

Tried again! I see some worthy challengers appeared above, but looks like I'm still the best on level 3. I'll take it :laughing:

@stevenjmiller Great feedback, thank you for sharing! That's a great idea, to use the truck as playable space - I'll experiment with this

Fun game! Those were some great brainteasers.

I liked the crime theme a lot. I was surprised by having to dissolve bodies in acid.

The puzzles weren't very challenging, they increased in size but not in difficulty. I wish the levels were smaller, but harder.

Despite that, I had a lot of fun playing the game! Thanks for making it!

Man, the setting of the crime scene was really good! I really like those little additions to the original sokoban mechanics like dissolving bodies with acid, diluting the acid with water (I don't know what exactly they are, but they do look like water for me), or putting stuff on the pallets first before loading them on the truck. The pixel art is really good and detailed, I like the little fluid animation of the acid, very cool. The audio is nice too, from the fizzing sound to the truck's engine, really made the game more enjoyable.

But I noticed one thing that when I packed all the stuff and the truck started leaving, then I accidentally pressed "R" and the whole level restarted, and that was the last level too. I suggest that you should add a condition check to prevent pressing "R" once the truck starts leaving.

But other than that little thing, I had a wonderful experience playing it! You did an amazing job!

Nice sound effects :D The only think missing for me is Undo Last Move Button. Besides that really nice puzzle game, cool art style and music too! Great job, with the game

@constance Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Great catch regarding the restart bug, I'll fix that in the next release :D

Level is so interesting,although I feel like I go a long way to dispose of these corpse-like things.That's so good!!!

Interesting take on sokoban. Clean graphics. It wasn't always obvious what the best move was, so sometimes I resetted the level and just tried it again. So definitely a keeper.

Decent entry with a unique game idea, there is limited resemblance with the theme, or im just dumb. The puzzle aspect is really good, and has a good learning curve. The sfx are also nice!

I AM THE KING OF SOKOBAN!

Excellent entry!

As mentioned on stream, excellent art and puzzle design (and some fun little quirks to exploit :smile: )

Murder Sokoban on Mondays :bathtub: :battery:

funny and entertaining.. i laughed a lot with the sound effect. best sound effects ever :)

This was so well done. Super clean and fun and atmospheric. I didn't know it was counting moves or I would have made better decisions and I do think some of the middle puzzles were much harder than the last. Overall, awesome entry

Very impressive entry especially considering the time limits. Fun puzzles and sick sound effects

Great Job! I love the puzzles used and it was a lot of fun to play :)

Great little game. Love the graphics and gameplay, simple to pickup. The hiss when you dump a body in the chemicals is very satisfying! Excellent work!

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