Pocket Alchemist vs Idle Space Program Game

Fire and Water make Steam. That is the whole of it...but that's also just the start. Pocket Alchemist is a quiet incremental game about a moonlit workshop. You gather five essences, put any two of them in the cauldron, and find out what answers. Order never matters. A pair that fails is not a mistake — it leaves Residue behind, and Residue buys the help you need later. Thirty-two recipes wait across four tiers, from Steam and Magma up to five ritual artifacts and the three Great Works beyond them. Every one you find stays found. THE WORKSHOP • Combine any two ingredients. The order never changes the result. • A journal of clues for everything still hidden, with hints you can buy. • Up to four benches that keep crafting while you are away, capped at eight hours so a long absence is never punished. • Tune a bench to an element and it works faster on that family. THE DAYS • A different omen every day, favouring one element and hindering another. • Sundays carry a conjunction — rarer, stronger, and worth planning around. • An apothecary shelf of short-lived draughts, bought with Residue from your failures. • A streak for finding something new, and mastery for the recipes you make most. THE RITUAL Five artifacts complete a ritual and begin a new cycle. It clears the shelves — but never the journal. Everything you have learned, mastered and unlocked is yours to keep, so each cycle is faster than the last. Insight earned this way buys a fourth bench, quicker hands, a fuller starting satchel. Carry a Great Work into the ritual and it returns as more Insight still. Building one costs artifacts the ritual also wants, which is the question the late game keeps asking: one more, or finish now? HONEST ABOUT ADS This is a free game funded by advertising, and we would rather be plain about how. • Every ad is optional. There are no forced ads, no ads between screens, no banners. • Each one sits beside a way to carry on without it. • One free gift a day, if you choose to watch for it. • No in-app purchases at all. • No account, no sign-in. Your workshop is saved on your device. Designed for one hand, in portrait, with text that scales and touch targets that do not shrink.

Build your own space program! Start with a single suborbital rocket and grow into a fleet of hundreds of rockets and satellites orbiting the whole Solar System. SOLAR SYSTEM MAP - pan and zoom, watch your rockets and satellites fly to the Moon, Mars and beyond MASS LAUNCHES - unlock more rockets and watch the whole fleet lift off PROGRESSION - from first hops above the atmosphere to deep space missions RESEARCH - invest science into permanent upgrades METALS & SHIPYARD - mine metals from missions and upgrade your whole fleet at the Shipyard PRESTIGE - reset for permanent bonuses and grow faster OFFLINE EARNINGS - your rockets keep flying while you sleep 30-SECOND SESSIONS - the perfect coffee-break game No forced ads. Play at your own pace.