Marketed as an “elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry,” Sokobond lives up to the billing. I enjoy the game’s title for its cheeky transparency: it is a series of clever wrinkles on the the classic sokoban block-pushing puzzler, but with a more interesting player goal of assembling, and thereby complicating, atomic structures that make traversal through the claustrophobic grids difficult.

Sokobond’s cleverest quality is its clustered puzzle selection menu upon the Periodic Table, one that can be abstracted as a physical place - maybe a museum - with localized, iterating themes. Its presence turns the act of pushing circles into a journey.