Cute but short. Not a great story, its short, doesn't have very good or creative puzzles, the one with the stars and music lock is unnecessarily hard. On the bright side, its dirt cheap, it has great visuals and great music. So you could kill an hour or two playing this. It's not good, but it's not bad either.

If you like games like Samorost/ Samorost2 and Machinarium this game is for you!

This is also a Flash-based game, since it was originally a Browser game, too. There are surreal, beuatiful artwork, characters and landscape with an overall theme and tone that fits in very well among with these other games. And the small fella you are controlling is cute and loveable, too.

But the similarities end here, Even if the Author adminst that is was Samorost that inspired him for Alchemia. This is not a copycat game. Alchemia tells a great story on it´s own unique way. Dialogues are realized with speech bubbles that fit the theme perfect. The background music is very enjoyable and a good compensation for the missing voice over.

The Puzzle are varied between standard and some with nice twists to the concept. Feeling mostly fresh and (mostly) never too absurd. Most of the time it´s your own way of complicated thinking hindering your progress.

Now for the bad part. This game is SHORT. 2 hours maybe three if you take a time, that´s it. And this is the EXTENDED version!

So I definitely URGE you to get this gem, while it is on sale. At $3.50 is a steal.

Also, since this is a FLASH game, your Browser Flash-Settings may delete savegames after closing.

So make you protect the appropriate Game Cookie/LSO with something like BetterPrivacy Add-on for FireFox!