Some nice animations and a really nicely assembled workshop but I'll admit the gameplay feels really opaque. I'd have liked some highlights or tooltips to better indicate what buttons to press where. Also, I think there might be something bugged - I tried the "GY" combination marked on the chart and it resulted in a brick of gold, but Brumaire still did the "failure" animation.
Also I know there's a pun in play, but...it really does feel like we're smelting dogs into lead for our alchemical experiments ^_^;
