UPDATE: Windowing improvements
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.
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Developer postLast 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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UPDATE: Minor bug fixes
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.
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You can now get the enhanced SpaceChem Community Edition on Steam
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.
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UPDATE: 64-bit Mac Support (v1016)
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 support for some of the game's UI.
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Satisfactory review (early access)
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: Windows From: Steam , Epic Price: £27/€30/$30 Ther
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UPDATE: More bug fixes (v1015)
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 when loading invalid ResearchNet puzzle
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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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Zach-Like comes to Steam free with loads of game-like extras
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 Spacechem , Opus Magnum , Infinifactory and many mor
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UPDATE: Bug fixes (v1014)
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 settle down with these changes I'll uploa
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UPDATE: Miscellaneous bug fixes
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" reactors. Fixed a bug that would spawn
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UPDATE: SpaceChem community update (v1013)
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 did most of the actual work for this updat
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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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UPDATE: Fixing a crash on Mac when importing custom puzzles
Today's update fixes a crash on Mac when importing custom puzzles. No other platforms should be affected.
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UPDATE: SpaceChem is back on Mac!
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 like that. If you experience anything weird
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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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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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What are the hardest PC games?
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. Previously, we ranked the Mass Effect and Call of Duty serie
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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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Infinifactory has left Early Access!
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! Optimize your solutions, and then optimize t