SpaceChem
Short description
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. 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!
- Developer
- Zachtronics
- Publisher
- Zachtronics
- Release
- Wed, Mar 02, 2011
- Price
- $9.99
- Reviews
- 2,617
- Positive
- 95%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 11
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $9.20, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 8% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 322 further data points reach back to Mar 1, 2011 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Nov 26, 2014.
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
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Baba Is You | Hempuli Oy 3 titles | 5 | − Programming + Pixel Graphics | $14.99 | 21,100 | 98% | Wed, Mar 13, 2019 | $14.6m $14.6m – $24.7m |
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Silicon Zeroes | PleasingFungus Games 2 titles | 5 | − Logic + Simulation | $14.99 | 248 | 88% | Mon, Sep 18, 2017 | $158k $70k – $706k |
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TOK HARDCORE | Crew Lab 16 titles | 5 | − Singleplayer + Minimalist | $0.99 | 144 | 94% | Thu, Apr 11, 2019 | $6k $3k – $10k |
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SquishCraft | bcat112a 2 titles | 5 | − Programming + Sokoban | $6.99 | 135 | 95% | Wed, Jul 27, 2022 | $40k $18k – $71k |
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Opus Magnum | Zachtronics 14 titles | 4 | − Difficult − Singleplayer + Automation + Simulation | $19.99 | 5,883 | 97% | Thu, Dec 07, 2017 | $4.9m $3.7m – $8.8m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.