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Today's update makes a few improvements to the game's windowing behavior, allowing it to be arbitrarily resized and toggled in and out of fullscreen by pressing Alt-Enter. It also fixes a typo (!) in the final puzzle.
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re…
Today's update fixes a minor bug where typing a forward slash into a text field would paste the contents of your clipboard instead, in addition to some tweaks to make the "mirror vertically" feature more intelligent.
SpaceChem, the classic Zachtronics design-based puzzle game not only got a sweet update recently to improve the tech behind the game, it's also now super easy to grab the updated community version.
Today's update brings SpaceChem into the future with an upgrade from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 and 64-bit builds for macOS so that the game now runs on macOS Catalina. It looks like it also contains a few fixes for obscure crashes and scroll wheel…
Satisfactory review A first-person industrialism sim that sees you wrestling with machinery on an alien planet to create the perfect factory. * Developer: Coffee Stain Studios; * Publisher: Coffee Stain Publishing; * Release: Out now; * On:…
Today's update is all bug fixes, brought over from the game's unofficial "community edition": Fixed a Windows-only display bug when using a high-DPI monitor. Fixed an exploit where you could disconnect a pipe from its reactor. Fixed a crash…
It is so likeZach to release a Zachlike (just a Zach to his friends) about creating drugs in a small Romanian apartment. Molek-Syntez is now squatting on early access, trying to hook you in with the good stuff as you program your molecular …
Zach-like, the book about Zachlikes by Zach Barth, creator of the genre, is now free albeit notably less papery now. Zachtronics’s previously Kickstarter-exclusive book was a collection of design documents from the creator of Spaceche…
Today's update includes the following: Fixed a crash when starting a pipeline with too many reactors. Removed impossible scores from the histograms for the "Swapite" journal puzzle. Bumped the version number from 1013 to 1014. When things s…
Today's update includes the following changes: Fixed a bug in production inputs with variations of the same molecule. Fixed a bug with reactors being slightly too roomy at the right and bottom. Fixed a bug with the Reset option and "ancient…
Can you believe it's been over eight years since SpaceChem first launched? Today we're releasing a community-driven update featuring a host of bug fixes, improvements, and new journal puzzles. Special thanks to 12345ieee and Csaboka, who di…
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I reckon most of the RPS Treehouse gang love us some Zachlikes, since well before Alice Prime coined the term in 2016 in reference to Shenzhen I/O. Puzzlemeister Zach Barth likes the term too, as he’s borrowed it for the title of his …
Today's update fixes a crash on Mac when importing custom puzzles. No other platforms should be affected.
After a few years of SpaceChem not being officially supported on Mac, we've finally gotten around to getting it working again! It ought to work out of the box for everyone now, and not require Mono to be installed separately or anything lik…
This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the difficult journeys they ve taken to make their games. This time, Exapunks . It s pretty obvious that the excellent Exapunks is a game about hacking. Specifically, …
A proposal: puzzles games focused on assembling or programming – or both – should be called Zachlikes. Following the atom-assembling SpecChem, production line ’em up Infinifactory, and the computer-programming TIS-100, Zac…
survey fridays Every week we ask you to rank a series or just reminisce about PC games in a not-very-scientific survey. Look for the survey link in our Twitter and Facebook feeds each week, and the results every Friday. Prev…
SpaceChem and Infinifactory creator Zach Barth has released his latest thing-making puzzle game, which sits somewhere between fiddling with chemistry and building automated factories. TIS-100 is an assembly programming puzzler, having you l…
If you liked SpaceChem there's a good chance you'll love Infinifactory, the latest design-based puzzle game from Zachtronics! LIKE SPACECHEM… IN 3D! Design and run factories in a first-person, fully 3D environment. HISTOGRAMS ARE BACK! Opti…
If you liked SpaceChem there's a good chance you'll love Infinifactory, the latest design-based puzzle game from Zachtronics! LIKE SPACECHEM… IN 3D! Design and run factories in a first-person, fully 3D environment. HISTOGRAMS ARE BACK! Opti…
After having folks design molecules in SpaceChem and automated plants in Infinifactory, Zachtronics are back with another puzzle game of complex systems. What comes after atoms and factories, the whole dang universe? The multiverse? Nah, yo…
The world’s most accurate ranking of the 25 best puzzle games ever to reach a computer. Plucking the peak of PC puzzling, we break down what makes them so special, and put them in the correct order. Read on for more time travel, rearr…
Zachary Barth's Infiniminer was Minecraft before Minecraft was Minecraft, kickstarting the whole cubey, block-digging genre that has made other people lots of money over the years. He's been sticking to 2D art for more recent games suc…
Zachtronics has linked the SpaceChem molecule to the Infiniminer molecule to create and announce their new game: Infinifactory. It’s “Like SpaceChem… In 3D!” says the site, which sounds like a very good thing when yo…
Now, let’s be clear. When I say “Hey, Sokobond has been out since September but now it’s on Steam,” I don’t mean to imply that you should refuse to buy games not on Steam, and I don’t want to encourage pe…
Ironclad Tactics, from the creators of Spacechem is Now Available on Steam! Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots! Experience unique gameplay, wi…
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After a brief foray into the world of music, the Humble folks are back with their third Android bundle. Which is also a PC, Linux and Mac bundle too. Buy them, and you’ll get versions for each. In there this time are BIT.TRIP.BEAT, Fi…