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TIS-100

Zachtronics

Released
20 Jul 2015
Platforms
AppleLinux
Last updated
16 Sep 2026, 19:20
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ProgrammingPuzzleIndieSimulation
Latest players
24
Player history
Positive reviews
97%
4,105 reviews
Steam followers
23,089
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United States store
$6.99
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  1. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    23 Apr 2024Developer post

    UPDATE: Fixing missing leaderboards

    Today's update fixes a bug where some leaderboards would not show up in the bonus campaign. If you see anything weird in the game, whether or not it's related to leaderboards, please send me an email ([email protected]) to let me know! It's been a while since I've updated TIS-

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  2. 05 Jul 2022Developer post

    Last Call BBS - The last game by Zachtronics!

    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 all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!

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  3. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    14 Nov 2020Developer post

    UPDATE: Fixing the crash handler and histograms

    Today's update fixes the crash handler and histograms. Nothing else should be affected.

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    05 Nov 2019Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    MOLEK-SYNTEZ is a new Zachtronics game about making drugs in a cold Romanian apartment

    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 synthesiser. Your goal is to turn chemic

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    04 Jul 2019Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Zachtronics games now free for schools

    Cor, kids have it easy nowadays. Sure, they’re inheriting a polluted hellhole teetering on the brink of ecological and economic ruin, but look at all the neat games they get to grow up with. Thanks to Zachtronics announcing they’re giving away (nearly) all their games to schools,

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  6. 04 Jun 2019Announcement

    Daily Deal - TIS-100, 75% Off

    Today's Deal: Save 75% on TIS-100 !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time

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    07 Feb 2019Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Zachtronics book Zach-Like shows how the puzzle sausage gets made

    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 book. Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter (

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  8. 10 Oct 2018Announcement

    Daily Deal - TIS-100, 75% Off

    Today's Deal: Save 75% on TIS-100 !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time

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    12 Sep 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    How Exapunks represents hacking without limits

    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, it s a game about programming viruses a

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    29 Nov 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    The 10 Best Hacking, Coding, Computing Games

    As anyone who watches their feeds knows, we live in a constantly evolving cyberpunk dystopia . They’re connecting toilets to the internet , for heavens sake. If this Gibsonist world is just too REAL for you, we have put together the ten best videogames about hacking, programming

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    27 Nov 2017Developer post

    UPDATE: Unexpected bug fixes

    Today's update fixes a few bugs that we've been tracking for a while: Fixed a crash caused by OneDrive locking the game's save files. Fixed a crash caused by leaderboard friend scores being too long. Fixed a crash caused by leaderboard friend names having strange characters in th

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  12. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    27 Nov 2017Developer post

    UPDATE: Unexpected bug fixes

    Today's update fixes a few bugs that we've been tracking for a while: Fixed a crash caused by OneDrive locking the game's save files. Fixed a crash caused by leaderboard friend scores being too long. Fixed a crash caused by leaderboard friend names having strange characters in th

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  13. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    23 Nov 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Zach of Zachtronics: I really like making my dumb little games that don t matter

    The alchemical puzzler Opus Magnum has a few of us at House RPS scratching our heads and shouting “a-ha!” before giddily sharing our twisted contraptions in GIF form. It’s real good, friends. The studio behind it, Zachtronics, is headed by Zach Barth. I spoke to him about the gam

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    17 Oct 2016Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Premature Evaluation: SHENZHEN I/O

    Every Monday we send Brendan to the special economic zone of early access and task him with increasing the productivity of the people s republic of videogames. This week, the brain-breaking electronics of SHENZHEN I/O . Some spoilers included. Zach Barth of Zachtronics, who is pr

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    03 Oct 2016Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Can Videogames Teach You Programming?

    if(desire_to_program > 10) continue; else return; When I tell people I’m a programmer, I get that look. The glazed eyes, the polite smile, the clear desire to change topic. If I’m lucky, I’ll get pitched on an idea for the next killer mobile app that my conversation partner in

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    13 Sep 2016Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    SpaceChem & TIS-100 Creator Announces SHENZEN I/O

    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 , Zach Barth and his Zachtronics have announced a new Zachli

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  17. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    02 Mar 2016Announcement

    Daily Deal - TIS-100, 50% Off

    Today's Deal: Save 50% on TIS-100 !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time

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  18. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    09 Nov 2015Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    The 10 Best Hacking, Coding, Computing Games

    Three weeks ago the UK telecoms provider TalkTalk was hacked, allegedly by a band of teenagers, compromising some 157,000 users details. This week hacktivist group Anonymous released personal details of hundreds of members of the Ku Klux Klan. And now the UK government wants a re

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  19. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    22 Jul 2015Product Release

    Now Available on Steam - TIS-100, 10% off!

    TIS-100 is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!* TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programm

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  20. TIS-100TIS-100 cover art
    21 Jul 2015Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    New Zachtronics Puzzler TIS-100 Out Of Early Access

    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 literally learn and write code to fix up

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