This is a delightfully elegant game that cannot be recommended unless it receives a GUI update for high-resolution monitors. Currently, the game accommodates big screens purely through extension, and not even small icons or text are scaled. Thus:

1. Selecting a high resolution leads to most text and many buttons and icons being uncomfortably small.
   
2. Selecting a lower resolution in full-screen mode makes everything blurry and the components too big.
   
3. Selecting a lower resolution in windowed mode make everything tiny again.

None of these makes for a pleasant playing experience.

Objective interpretation, hardware report, and total game progress

Opus Magnum is a 2d puzzle game. The game was ran on two different systems, which included an Intel 9900k/Nvidia 2080 super, and an Intel 13900k/Nvidia 4090. No system crashes occurred and no crashes to desktop noted. One full play through was completed and steam achievement perfection was attained.

5/10 overall score and steam review template is posted below the subjective interpretation

Subjective interpretation

I actually fell asleep twice when I played this game. Every aspect of Opus Magnum is that uninspiring, but onwards with my take. The game runs very well, and no bugs were observed. The graphics are quite simplistic, and your visual cortex will be very idle when you play this game. The players Auditory cortex will also lack stimulation, as the sound profile of the game consists of some sort of chime techno rubbish. The story mode contains many puzzles and time investment for completion depends upon the individuals distinctive aptitude. I perceived this as a very long grind, as I will not write a review until steam achievement perfection is attained, thus I had to complete an enormous amount of content within the game.

One requirement for steam perfection was one hundred wins in the game mode SIgmars Garden-ooh, what torturous agony that was. Sigmar had his way with me, and thoroughly enjoyed himself, while I did not have fun at any point during this game. I will admit that there is a type of person that will enjoy this type of game play, as analogously there is a type person that enjoys beings flogged, beaten, and humiliated, thus there must be some people who would enjoy this experience, and I wholeheartedly recommend this game to you if you are one of these people. It's just that the gameplay feels like work at the best, and suffering at its worst. I will commend the developer for enabling the player the creative power to deduce their own solutions, but I wish to be entertained as I play a game, and even the narrative failed to offer any consolation.

The protagonist is bland, unemotional, and humorless, while the antagonists are over the top with their evil wicked behavior. The villains of this story are so sinister that they come off as disingenuous, and this portrayal of the moral spectrum comes off as ridiculous cartoon buffoonery. It just makes you want to skip the narrative elements within this title. The price of 20$ for this game is outrageous. This game is a 99¢ purchase and less. As an aside; I will never forget you my dear Sigmar, for you have imparted such sensational experiences upon myself, and in such a fiendish manner, that it will be forever ingrained into my memory, but for rest of this game I am most certainly going to joyfully forget my experiences.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☑ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☑ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☑ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Can't even play anymore

too hard

Peace

The game is tedious moreso than difficult. There are no real restrictions in terms space/efficiency/parts used. You can try to optimize those things for a better spot on the leaderboard, but there's no ingame reward for doing so beyond personal pride as far as I can tell. None of the puzzles were truly challenging or forced me to think outside the box; they just required tediously writing out long lists of instructions to accomplish a simple task. It kind of reminds me of writing assembly code in that you spend more time hashing out the minutiae than thinking about interesting big-picture problems.

The game also reminds me a lot of Sokobond, a game with a somewhat similar concept (bonding elements) that is way simpler, yet also more challenging than Opus Magnum. I would recommend checking out Sokobond instead if the element bonding aspect of this game interests you.

It's just not as fun as it looks. The puzzle solutions are never satisfying enough that I feel it was worth my time.

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Repetitive and tedious gameplay, poor UI, primitive and dull plot. Basically nothing in this game is done right (except for visual design).
As was mentioned in other reviews, puzzles aren't complex, they are mundane

Ok concept, ok execution. Can be great for some people, not for me. For something vaguely similar but more interesting, look at Factorio.