Run a cosy chemistry lab on a sleepy space station. Identify mystery samples with real flame tests and fizzing acids, grow glowing crystals on your windowsill at night, and find out why the last chemist vanished. No timers, no fail states: just you, A.L.F.E. and a shelf of dusty jars.

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Planned Release Date: January 2027

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About This Game

Chemist Wanted. You answered the ad. You arrived on Mira Station to find the last chemist, Dr. Vale, gone without a word — and a lab full of unlabelled jars. The station AI, A.L.F.E., has been keeping Vale's note for nine days: Label the jars. Help the people. Find out what's in the water.

Solve samples with real chemistry. Residents bring you bottles: a crust from the sink, a green rock from an old miner's kit bag, white crystals that might be plant food. Run the same tests a real lab would — flame colours, fizzing acid, precipitates that bloom in the tube — and prove what's inside in as few tests as you can. Guessing doesn't count; deduction does.

Grow crystals by night. When the lab goes dark, the windowsill is yours. Dissolve, filter, cool to the curve, hang a seed, and tend your jars through the night. Hold the solution just right and a clear blue crystal grows; rush it and it shatters into needles.

Uncover a gentle mystery. Every jar you label adds a clue. Salt in the café's tea. Zinc in a kettle. Green crust on the copper pipes. Something is getting into Ring C's water and Vale went to fix it.

Meet the station. Four chapters, each with its own trouble: Ring C's water, a flooded garden dome, a clinic robot that keeps relabelling the medicine and a cargo ship full of surprises before Station Day. Letters come with twists: a clue hidden in the sender's words, a test you're not allowed to use, a jar with only a pinch to spare.

Cosy by design.

  • No timers, no threats, no fail states. Play at your own pace; the day ends when you go to bed.
  • Real chemistry, honestly shown — every result is what the real test would give.
  • A glowing pixel lab, a casebook that fills with your notes, a bookshelf of little guides.
  • Easy, Medium and Hard: from guided to a true detective's challenge.
  • 69 salts to catalogue, ranks to earn and Dr. Vale's notes to find.
  • A station shop: new kits, a spectroscope, a thermostat and new crystal salts.
  • A crystal contest on Station Day, judged by a nine-year-old and a very strict retired miner.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some in-game text was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed and edited by the developer.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: 2 GHz dual core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Any GPU with OpenGL 3.3 support
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system