Besides a variety of card games, Coincidence is also developing a more Zach-Like game in the form of Kaizen: A Factory Story. It’s a factory automation game where you play new-to-Japan David Sugimoto who is put in charge of developing assembly lines at Matsuzawa Manufacturing for classic electronics and other products.
On first glance Kaizen might look very similar to the old Zachtronics games, like TIS-100 and Opus Magnum, I don’t have any reason to expect it’ll be significantly different. There’s even a pachinko-themed Solitaire game built-in. I am so psyched.
There is no release time frame outside of the publisher’s 2025 estimate for Kaizen: A Factory Story yet, just a Steam page for wishlisting that claims to support Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Usually their video games are released into a brief Early Access window, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case here as well but there are no indications of one on the Steam page. There is a post where a moderator gave an estimate of a few months before Kaizen comes out, and that was a month ago, but that isn’t with any certainty. I’d hope it’ll be available this Summer.
