
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.29/day in the week to Sep 10 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
The year is 1986 and you are David Sugimoto, born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. Thanks to a family friend, you’re headed to Japan for your very first job at Matsuzawa Manufacturing.
Japan’s economy is booming. They’re looking for smart, young, motivated business professionals just like you. You’re going to go get to live that 80s executive life and jet-set around the globe, right?
…Right?
Initially promised a job with the international sales team, you show up at your new job and it isn’t a shiny office. It’s one of Matsuzawa’s old factories in the outskirts of Tokyo. You’re quickly put to work designing automated production lines. Do you have what it takes to survive as a rookie thrust into the fascinating world of factory automation?
From the creators of Opus Magnum, SpaceChem, and Infinifactory comes Kaizen: A Factory Story — another masterfully engineered game.
Weld, rivet, cut, and drill the optimal design and share your solutions to build the simplest, fastest, and sleekest items in your factory. Export animated GIFs to show them off.
But wait! There’s more! In case you want to take a break from factory life, you can spend your days playing Pachi-Sol, an exciting new pachinko-themed solitaire game.
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That Pachinko mini-game deserves a game of its own!
Бывают небольшие, но очень качественные игры. И это одна из них. Безупречное исполнение видно в каждом пикселе!
Just when you thought there weren't going to be any more Zachtronics games, here's another Zach-like by Zach and et al. This one is on the easier end of the spectrum I guess, but still ticks all the boxes. Even a solitaire interlude, pachinko shaped this time.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 50 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Игра, в которой нужно с помощью сварочного прибора сварить резинку с тканью, чтобы получились шорты, с кайфом. Играть интересно, мини-игра патинко тоже понравилась, с удовольствием бы играла только в нее. Единственный минус - нет никакого ограничения. Буквально. Дабы собрать какую-то простенькую вещь можно использовать весь арсенал инструментов в неограниченном количестве.
Awesome game! I loved the story and the very concrete puzzles. Compared to other games that can feel abstract, this one is very grounded.
I've noped out of every zachtronics game I've tried before, but this one got me. Assembling real world things made it feel much more rewarding and accessible. From what I read it's also just simpler, but it was still a challenge improving scores.
Sometimes you have to take a step back and come back, its always worth the struggle though
The game itself is... fine. From the amount I've played, the flow is pretty enjoyable: put down devices that will move or rotate the objects and then glue it all together. Problem is, it keeps freezing. Probably Linux, I dunno. But it's not stable enough to continue. I was just finishing up a "fun" (awful) introduction to the "pachinko solitaire" game, and it froze for the second time. In two hours of total game time, that's just not acceptable. Ah well. If the game actually plays for you, maybe you'll like it more than I did?
10/10 игра чтобы почувствовать себя тупым
A nice puzzle game about automation that scratches "I must improve the production line so it makes things faster" itch
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