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ZACH-LIKE

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.

Released Jun 17, 2019 Developer Zachtronics Platforms Windows IndiePuzzleProgrammingFree to Play
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

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96.9%positive161 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“It's free”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“liek this if u zach eveytim”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-10 via SteamCharts.

51all-time peak
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Latest official news

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Jul 16, 2023
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).

Jun 20, 2019
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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Facts & details

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GenresIndie
Player tagsIndie · Puzzle · Programming · Free to Play (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Official sitehttp://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