Kaizen: A Factory Story

I love this game for small sessions when I want to relax.

a real visual treat, fun puzzles that aren't painfully hard but have plenty of ways to go back and try to solve them in different ways. if there's one thing i would wish for it would be a custom puzzle system, even though drawing the sprites for it would be a ♥♥♥♥♥. i just KNOW we'd go crazy with it

Great little puzzle game with no time pressure and lots of scope for ingenuity. Lovely little story scenes and music too. Great fun.

I skipped the story, so I can't really comment on that, but the gameplay feels more relaxed than other Zachtronics games and is just really chill. It's fun, I like it. yeah

This game is Infinifactory and Opus Magnum badly mashed together. Or possibly Infinifactory and MOLEK-SYNTEZ, but you can lay your own tracks, so Opus Magnum it is. I wish there had been literally any other element to the puzzles that wasn't 'yeah you have all the blocks you need in mostly the shape that you need them, now go make them fit together'. Make us actually have to *assemble* things, dangit. Also the solitaire is weak and arbitrary.

So, following the closure of Zachtronics, I feared that the genre of 'programming like puzzler' games was going to disappear. Fortunately, it turns out the closure of Zachtronics was more of a rebranding than a real closure, and this game from the new studio Coincidence is a true Zach-like game, though this time with a voice-acted story. The story is best described as 'cosy' and the voice acting does as a surprising amount to make it feel more alive than normal Zach-games. I am glad to see the team hasn't left the industry after all and whilst some others have entered this genre of game, this team are still the kings of it.