Little Alchemy
Start with earth, air, fire and water. Combine them, and keep combining, until you have built several hundred things.
Little Alchemy is a discovery game with no fail state and no timer. You drag one element onto another and, if the pair makes sense to the designers, you get something new. Four starting elements eventually produce several hundred results.
The pleasure is entirely in the associations. Some are obvious — fire and water make steam — and some require a leap that feels like a joke until it works. Because nothing is lost by trying, the correct way to play is to combine everything with everything, and the moment a ridiculous guess turns out to be right is what the whole game is built around.
Controls
Mouse only: drag one element onto another to combine them
Tips
- When stuck, combine an element with itself. A surprising number of recipes are something doubled.
- New discoveries unlock chains, so work through everything a new element makes before moving on.
- There is no penalty for a wrong combination, so guess freely rather than trying to reason each one out.