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Zach Barth, the namesake of game studio Zachtronics, tends to make a certain kind of game.

Besides crafting the free browser game Infiniminer, which

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, Barth and his collaborators made SpaceChem, Infinifactory, TIS-100, Shenzen I/O, Opus Magnum, and Exapunks. Each one of them is some combination of puzzle game, light capitalism horror, and the most memorable introductory-level computer science, chemistry, or logistics class into which you unwittingly enrolled. Each game is its own thing, but they have a certain similar brain feel between them. It is summed up perhaps best by the Zachtronics team itself in a book:

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Barth and his crew have made other kinds of games, including a forward-looking visual novel about AI,

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, and multiplayer card battler

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. And Barth himself told PC Gamer that he hates "

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." But fans of refining inputs, ordering operations, and working their way past constraints will thrill to learn that Zach is, in fact, back.

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