Of all the shit jobs in the world, working at an acid factory has to be up there with the very worst. Imagine coming home from a hard day’s graft down the acid factory, your uniform half-dissolved from all the acid, looking at your acid-blistered face in the mirror and wondering why no girls will talk to you.

Even games about working in an acid factory can convey the grimness of working in an acid factory. Today’s game, if you hadn’t guessed, is Acid Factory. All you need to do in Acid Factory is run around an acid factory picking up batteries, for some reason. However, this being an acid factory, things are less than easy. You have to dodge the acid zombies that stomp around, and the little blobs of acid with eyes. And, as with all good acid factories, the walkways are all suspended above giant unprotected lakes of acid which dissolve you as soon as you touch them. Once you’ve mastered the basics, Acid Factory is a fun, well-designed little isometric platformer. And it just so happens that Acid Factory is based on the real-life adventures of a worker in one of Hartlepool’s biggest acid factories.

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