Uncle Chop's Rocket
Shop

Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop (2024) is a high-pressure puzzle game where you work to build and repair rocket ship components for your growing business without running out of time. Play involves choosing, connecting, and fixing parts to meet the requirements of your ever-increasing clients. Deciphering how to solve each problem is part of the fun, but the real interest is the life-like manual that provides key information to solve each problem.

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Set in a futuristic America, you play a new business owner striving to work up the ranks and build a successful new repair shop. However, as you are new to the field, you have to start from the beginning. To progress you must manage workloads, projects and relations with clients. As you start projects you need to buy the correct components and decipher their use. The catch is that you need to use the dense manual filled with data on each part to understand which you need and how to use them. Clients want their ships finished quickly making working at speed necessary.

Progress is determined by how quickly you can construct these increasingly complex systems. Make enough money from your projects and you can invest in new components enabling you to work on bigger and more complex ships. You start each project in an organised way, but this steadily becomes frantic and chaotic as you battle to complete more and more projects. In this way, you need to use your manual to your advantage, finding key information is key to help finish projects.

The result is a game where the fun lies in the endless optimisations and improvements you can make to your work. However, the immersion of leafing through the large manual creates a realistic and rewarding experience.

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Our examiner, Will Oster, first checked Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop 5 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 4 weeks ago.