The Chemist

The Chemist is about building a career by creating recipes, managing resources and making decisions about your work and private life. You take contracts, earn money and a reputation, and your choices can affect the world around you.

Create recipes

You make recipes for many kinds of liquids, from AC cleaner to soy sauce, using the contracts and resources available. Experimentation can produce unusual results, such as fruit soda that also works as soap, motor oil with a taste, or shaving gel with other uses. Some concoctions are shady but highly profitable, and you can try to master this side of chemistry in your basement.

Manage your work

The game offers hundreds of contracts. Completing one immediately may not always be the best choice: you may need to hold on to particular resources as their prices rise because of seasonal storms or other events. You also balance the demands of making a living with the choices that shape your career.

Decisions and consequences

Event-based gameplay gives your decisions consequences for your private life, career and even the fate of the world. The game currently has close to 800 events. As your reputation grows, powerful companies may take notice and offer dealings of their own. Their plans may aim to improve the world or take advantage of you, and your dealings with them visibly change it.

When stress builds, you can throw flasks until they shatter or take out the trash, though the former can leave you short on rent.