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Kaizen: A Factory Story
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“This game honours the spirit of Kaizen and its beautiful. Kaizen is japanese and literally mean refining your solution into perfection. Getting naturally better. Compared to other games in the genre, especially original Zachtronics, its much simpler. I think thats a good thing.…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“I'm still thinking about this game after beating it almost a year ago. I'm excited for the day when enough time has passed that I can play it without remembering any of my previous solutions. Fantastic game.”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“Amazing Zachtronics-like puzzle game ! Global difficulty is lower, except the very last level which is such an hell !”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
UPDATE: Fixing a background image
Today's update fixes the level select background image for chapter 6 so that the driveway is marked correctly for driving on the left side of the road.
Kaizen: A Factory Story is 50% off! (Also, we made a new game!)
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
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 baf
UPDATE: New achievement
Today's update adds a new achievement for solving every puzzle in the game.
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.
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Programming · Strategy · Puzzle · Simulation · Automation · Logic · Difficult · Singleplayer · Education · 1980s · Retro · Building (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Custom Volume Controls · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Achievements | 8 |
| Official site | https://coincidence.games/kaizen/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space