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Kaizen: A Factory Story is 50% off! (Also, we made a new game!)
For the next week, Kaizen: A Factory Story is 50% off on Steam! Design production lines to create the iconic products of 1980s Japan. Flip, weld, and cut blocks to build products, with classic features like histograms a…
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The 2025 Steam Awards
The Steam Awards 2025 are open for nominations, and with your help, we think Kaizen: A Factory Story could win this year's Best Game You Suck At award. Not that you suck at it. It's more about how bafflement can turn in…
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UPDATE: New achievement
Today's update adds a new achievement for solving every puzzle in the game.
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UPDATE: Variants tutorial fixes
Today's update localizes the variants tutorial images and fixes a bug where the variants tutorial was not automatically opened when opening a puzzle using that mechanic.
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Bonus Puzzle #10: Designer's Notebook
Today's update adds our final weekly bonus puzzle, the DESIGNER'S NOTEBOOK, which is actually not a puzzle but a collection of TWELVE new puzzles based on existing puzzles. What? During development, I had originally ima…
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Bonus Puzzle #9: Toy Cash Register
Today's update adds a new weekly bonus puzzle, the TOY CASH REGISTER! "Get kids started early on understanding the transactional nature of modern life! This toy cash register includes a light-up display and drawers to e…
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UPDATE: Puzzle story portrait fixes
Today's update fixes some puzzle story portraits in chapter 5 that didn't match the primary art.
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UPDATE: Slot car track symmetry fix
Today's update fixes a small bug in the "slot car track" puzzle where the front of the "jump" part was incorrectly tagged as rotationally symmetric. Histograms and leaderboards for the puzzle have been reset.
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Bonus Puzzle #8: Slot Car Track
Today's update adds a new weekly bonus puzzle, the SLOT CAR TRACK! "Even though it was clear by the late 80s that video game racing would gain popularity over the old hobby of slot cars, someone at Matsuzawa apparently…
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UPDATE: Dollhouse kitchen art fix
Today's update fixes the art for the "dollhouse kitchen" bonus puzzle to be less ambiguous.
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Bonus Puzzle #7: Dollhouse Kitchen
Today's update adds a new weekly bonus puzzle, the DOLLHOUSE KITCHEN! "This kids' kitchen playset originally included real heating elements along with realistic flame and smoke effects, but those features were nixed bef…
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Bonus Puzzle #6: Boombox
Today's update adds a new weekly bonus puzzle, the BOOMBOX! "Bring the beats with Matsuzawa's biggest boom box to date! The whopping twelve "D" batteries it requires will definitely set you back some cash, but the volum…
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UPDATE: Cut/copy/paste for instructions
Today's update adds keyboard shortcuts to cut (Ctrl+X), copy (Ctrl+C), and paste (Ctrl+V) instructions.
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Bonus Puzzle #5: Chess Computer
Today's update adds a new weekly bonus puzzle, the CHESS COMPUTER! "The Matsuzawa ENDGAME was an entry-level chess computer intended to introduce children and neophytes to the world of chess. But sales faced headwinds b…
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UPDATE: File format changes
Today's update contains some small file format changes to support a future update. Nothing fun, unfortunately.
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UPDATE: Bidet seat acceptance bug
Today's update fixes a minor issue where some solutions for the "bidet seat" puzzle were not accepted.
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