Great Permutator

Seems simple at first, then you realize that your brain is going to get fried. This game is hard as hell, and wrapping your head around these puzzles is going to provide you with nightmares for weeks to come. Level 1 sets you up for level 2 to take you down. In The Great Permutator you have a soft limit to each stage for the number of conveyor belts and pieces that you use. In order to get the objects from the top to the bottom, you're going to need to start thinking of how to manipulate the system. Your soft limit is typically 20 conveyors, but you can place as many conveyors as you want (you just get less score if you go above 20, I guess). Not readily apparent at first, there is an order to which boxes have to leave the factory first, which is where the true challenge comes in. You need to figure out ways to make sure the right boxes leave the factory first. Unlike the "as many as you want" rule, this rule is hard and immutable. You can't just take a penalty and drop the boxes off in any order. It's fun if you like puzzlers, but if you don't, then you might as well save your $7 and use it to buy something more your style.

Old but awesome. Now sold for hefty discounts at indie bundle sites but is it abandonware? No. This game was around before factorio and latest 3D first person factory puzzle games were around and pushed this genre to a more mainstream thing. If you have completed those newer games and want more then this one is worth checking out. Good luck getting the achievements without warping your brain.

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A very nice programming-esque puzzle game. Not as straight-up programming-esque as SpaceChem but it uses a lot of similar logic to work out the puzzles. Basically you put together sorting devices with a small space and various function machines. There's a lot of different functions and a lot of creative (and difficult) puzzles put together. With 65 puzzles ranging from easy to pretty damn hard there's plenty of playtime to be had, and solving puzzles under the space par can force you to look for alternate, more optimal solutions, giving the game replay value. The graphics are basic and there's only a few looping music tracks but it's a good game mechanically and I've quite enjoyed it thus far.

我是自动化解谜厨，我喜欢Great Permutator 但我不是很喜欢它的那套机制，对格子有点卡的太死了，而且传送带乱插很难Preview最后得到的结果，也不是那么方便调试。

很上瘾的游戏，逻辑很简单，利用传送带和机器设计线路将物品从入口送到指定出口。题目不多，但很有强度，而且还内置了像一个玩家排名系统，不过这个系统只会根据程序线路占用到的块的多少来排名，”程序“的运行速度即迭代次数并不重要。但即使是这样，刷最佳解法还是把我CPU干烧了，优化到最后，每少用一块都是巨大的进步。每一关并无唯一解法，所以当觉得已经优化到头了没法更少了时，常常是需要换一种逻辑思维。虽然游戏很难，攻略也几乎没有，但那种解出来之后茅塞顿开的畅快感受真的是太爽了，我想这才是解谜游戏最大的魅力。ps：音乐一共就三首，但挺耐听的，而且不会让人烦躁 大问题：有bug，好像是跟steam cloud功能有关。在玩了几次之后，游戏有可能会打不开，反复卸载安装也无法解决。由于是个老游戏且没什么人玩过，开发者也早就不知道去哪儿了，解决起来很麻烦，社区里倒是有些bug的解决方法，不过还是需要玩家对这个游戏有热情才会去查，还不保证一定能解决。所以推荐第一次安装之后就一直挂在后台直到玩完，这是我能想到的最好解法（笑）。 尽管游戏有如此恶性的bug，我还是极力推荐喜欢解谜游戏甚至是喜欢做题的人来玩玩这款游戏的，因为真的能体验到纯粹的解题的快乐 ——————————————更新线—————————————— 重启电脑可能可以解决无法进入游戏的问题

A permutation is a combination of objects in a specific order. This concept helps describe the overall objective of the game, to guide colored blocks down a transport puzzle to reach pre-determined destinations in specific order. A better name for the game, perhaps, could have been "Great Iterator", not because the grueling puzzles in this game often require trial&error problem-solving, but because they frequently must be constructed such that blocks loop through the puzzle several times, interacting with puzzle pieces multiple times until the puzzle’s conditions are met. The puzzles can be solved with two different types of pieces. These are the conveyor, which move a block to the adjacent square in the direction in which it is drawn, and devices, modifier pieces that may change the block’s color, that have variable points of output, that collect blocks and releases them simultaneously when enough are inserted and so on. The puzzles require patience and lateral thinking. They are very difficult, particularly if you try to solve the puzzles in the fewest number of moves possible. With 50+15 boards and a built-in editor, Great Permutator has more than enough content to satisfy those who appreciate genuine challenge.

Nice game. The puzzles are hard. Hard as hell. They let you think about the possible solution in the night, if you wake up. That happend to me just with SpaceChem and with Tetrobot. BTW, for fans of those 2 games this is mandatory buy. On the other hand, the presentetion is terrible and the UI is clumsy, it does not render the game into unplayable category, but it is shame that such a good idea is presented so bad.

Great Permutator is a great pure puzzle (that is, a puzzle with no platforming/ irrelevant mechanics involved) in the vein of SpaceChem. The graphics are simple but sufficient. The music is good. And the later levels are HARD. I got it long before it was available on Steam and enjoyed every bit of it. Highly recommended to people who like challenging puzzles.

Great Permutator is real brain-burner puzzle game. This game is a lot of fun but wow does it make you think. It reminds me a lot of programming logic and such. It's really fun, and you feel like a genius after solving almost any puzzle after the first couple easy ones. EDIT: After some time I will add this: The game is still really fun, but unlike games like spacechem or infinifactory, there are very limited amounts of solutions. It's more of a find one or two unique solutions or it won't work, rather than let you solve it and try to optimize. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does feel somewhat constrained.