
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.
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 into feeling brilliant in a single moment. How an idea coalesces into a complex machine that miraculously does exactly what you wanted it to do. And then seeing your friend beat your score.
So if Kaizen has ever made you feel proud, frustrated, confused, delighted, or all of the above in the same five minutes, we would be honored to have your nomination. A Steam nomination (and reviews!) does more than earn us bragging rights as a newly formed co-op studio -- it boosts visibility and helps more folks join in the fun of thinking there\'s something wrong with the game and e-mailing Zach about it before realizing there really is a solution out there, waiting to be found.
Thanks for building, breaking, and occasionally questioning life choices with us!
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 10.10+. SteamOS
- Processor: 2.0 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
- Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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