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ZACH-LIKE
ZACH-LIKE is a book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics. The digital version of ZACH-LIKE contains the full contents of the book, a bunch of terrible games that Zach made before SpaceChem, and some prototypes and early builds of Zachtronics games, both released and... not.
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“It's free”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“liek this if u zach eveytim”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-10 via SteamCharts.
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: Rewriting the launcher to fix the Windows Terminal crash
Today's update introduces a new launcher written in our usual game engine to replace the old launcher, which used the built-in Windows console (and crashed for people using the new Windows Terminal).
UPDATE: Small launcher fix for non-English locales
Today's update fixes a bug where the launcher text would be completely garbled for some non-English locales. If you see any launcher bugs you should report them to [email protected] so that we can
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Puzzle · Programming · Free to Play (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | http://www.zachtronics.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 1400 MB available space