- UPDATE: Miscellaneous fixes - 13 October 2022
Today's update includes the following changes: Fixed an issue where the mouse would sometimes be misaligned on Macbooks. Changed histograms to pull from a local file rather than our live histogram server.
- Immortals Fenyx Rising, Immortality, and more Zachtronics coming to Game Pass this month - 16 August 2022
Microsoft have laid out their PC Game Pass plans for the second half of August, adding another eight games to the subscription service across the remaining weeks then removing eight at the end of the month. Additions include Zachtronics hacking game Exapunks and Ubisoft's child-friendly open world 'em up Immortals Fenyx Rising. Alas, games going include the wonderfully sad What Remains Of Edith Finch and wonderfully wonderful Hades. Read more
- Immortals Fenyx Rising, Commandos 3 – HD Remaster, Midnight Fight Express, more coming to Xbox Game Pass - 16 August 2022
Microsoft has announced the next batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass . Titles include Immortality, Tinykin, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Coffee Talk, Commandos 3 - HD Remaster and more. First up is today's release of Coffee Talk , the coffee brewing and talking simulator we told you about earlier . Read more
- UPDATE: Fixing a crash when deleting custom puzzles - 20 July 2022
Today's update fixes a bug where the custom puzzle list did not update when a puzzle was deleted, which could lead to a crash when attempting to delete the puzzle again. Thanks go out to the embarrassingly large number of people who reported this issue to me before we were able to get around to fixing it!
- Last Call BBS - The last game by Zachtronics! - 5 July 2022
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy! Includes eight full games: 20th Century Food Court: Design factories to produce food just like they did over 700 years ago in the 20th century. Keep your costs low and your machines running fast! STEED FORCE Hobby Studio: Assemble robot models based on the anime smash hit Steed Force right on your computer. No sandpaper required! X’BPGH: The Forbidden Path: Enter a cursed world and create bizarre flesh sculptures in exchange for eternal life. The master is pleased… but can you trust him? Sawayama Solitaire: It wouldn’t be a Zachtronics release without a brand-new solitaire game. This time it’s a fresh take on Klo…
- UPDATE: Fixing the crash handler and histograms - 14 November 2020
Today's update fixes the crash handler and histograms. Nothing else should be affected.
- Defend America from its evil twin in the next Zachtronics game, Möbius Front '83 - 26 October 2020
The minds behind Opus Magnum and Infinifactory are dropping another clever game for ya. Möbius Front ’83 is a new strategy game by Zachtronics set in a past where the United States is being invaded by its dark realm self. Möbius Front ’83 will launch its turn-based tactical battles in November. (more…)
- Physical EXAPUNKS zines are available again! - 23 May 2020
Thanks to the magic of on-demand printing, we're finally able to offer EXAPUNKS zines that are the same quality as our original print run from 2018. They're quite snazzy! A complete set with both issues is available on Lulu.com and costs about $7 plus shipping: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/zachtronics-/trash-world-news-issue-1/paperback/product-wke9y4.html https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/zachtronics-/trash-world-news-issue-2/paperback/product-pgyr97.html If you're going to get one, make sure you get them both, as you'll need them both to play the game. Obviously, buying these isn't necessary in any capacity; the game includes high-quality PDFs that you can view on your computer or print yourself.
- Daily Deal - EXAPUNKS, 50% Off - 1 August 2019
Today's Deal: Save 50% on EXAPUNKS !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Zachtronics games now free for schools - 4 July 2019
Cor, kids have it easy nowadays. Sure, they’re inheriting a polluted hellhole teetering on the brink of ecological and economic ruin, but look at all the neat games they get to grow up with. Thanks to Zachtronics announcing they’re giving away (nearly) all their games to schools, some of them even get to muck about with fabulously inventive puzzle boxes during their pretend workday. Imagine that! Privileged tykes. (more…)
- UPDATE: Minor graphical fix - 24 May 2019
Today's update fixes a minor graphical issue in the options screen background.
- UPDATE: Fixing an obscure histogram bug - 16 December 2018
This update fixes an obscure bug where bad histogram data could cause the game to crash.
- The 10 best hacking, coding and computing games - 26 November 2018
We’ve been hacked! As well as a fake festival of online retail excess, Cyber Monday is now a celebration of hacker games and everything ‘cyber’. This is the hAcKeR collective {{Synonymous Bosch}}. We have taken control of this aRt1cLe. Three years ago it was written by the untalented and scurrilous journalist Brendan Caldwell, a man lacking in both knowledge and substance. But we have gained access in order to correct his egregious errors. It s a hack of a hack! Ha ha ha. We had our best joke cell work on that for three nights. Please laugh. Our detractors may say Mr Caldwell got it mostly right, and that may be the case, yes. But the order is aLL Wr0nG. And he has neglected to update it with a recent hit. We cannot let this stand. Here is an updated list which, actually, looking at it now, is still mostly Mr Caldwell s words and I guess they re okay. Sorry we said tho…
- It's the second official EXAPUNKS hacker battle competition! - 12 November 2018
The same rules apply as last time: you have two weeks to submit up to two solutions for the selected hacker battle (Valhalla). Solutions will be run against each other and hopefully a clear winner will emerge. Full details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/exapunks/comments/9wirk5/hacker_battle_competition_valhalla/ Congratulations to Bacardi (the EXAPUNKS player, not the beverage company), who was the winner of the last hacker battle competition. Statistics and some videos of the best solutions are available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/exapunks/comments/9vf7ue/hacker_battle_kgogtv_results/
- UPDATE: Fix for keyboard input bug - 31 October 2018
Today's update fixes a bug where the game would sometimes fail to detect keyboard input when typing code quickly while the game was running at a low framerate.
- HACKER BATTLE COMPETITION! - 31 October 2018
If hacker battling your Steam friends on an individual basis isn't dramatic enough for you, consider participating in the first sanctioned EXAPUNKS hacker battle competition! There's a little less than a week remaining for you to submit your best solutions to the KGOG TV battle and see if you're among the best. Read the full rules here: https://www.reddit.com/r/exapunks/comments/9qhwqa/hacker_battle_competition_kgogtv/
- UPDATE: Small bug fix that isn't worth mentioning - 24 October 2018
Today's update fixes a bug with the hacker battle win counter where it was sometimes off by one but almost completely obscured so that you couldn't see it anyway.
- EXAPUNKS has left Early Access! - 22 October 2018
After a few months of bug fixes, feature improvements, and the addition of a new bonus campaign, EXAPUNKS has left Early Access! To mark the release we're offering a 20% launch discount, available for the next week. If you missed the EXAPUNKS limited edition pre-order, we still have a few copies available! The package includes a professionally printed copy of each of the two zines, plus a pair of 3D glasses for the TEC Redshift and the mysterious secret envelope. It does not include the game, which must be purchased separately. Orders are $20 in the USA and $30 outside, which both include shipping. Send me an email ([email protected]) if you're interested.
- Exapunks hacks its way out of early access, GIF d for bragging rights - 22 October 2018
If there’s three things Zachlikes have become known for, it’s programming-inspired puzzling, histograms and animated victory recordings to gloat over on Twitter – now Exapunks has all three. After a brief tour of early access, grungy retro-cyberpunk hacking sim Exapunks is free to rampage across the internet. While no patch notes have rolled out for the official version 1.0 release, a patch a few days ago introduced the animated victory GIFs we all know and love, displaying scores and EXA movements, although not the code within. (more…)
- Exapunks review - 22 October 2018
My EXA, a digital bug-looking thing made of code, scurries out into rooms representing nodes in a factory's network. Following the program I painstakingly wrote for it, the EXA disrupts this network with precision before running the HALT command to self-destruct. There is no trace of the fact I have hacked this factory, except that the snack bars it produces no longer contain peanuts. It's the little victories.  Later I hack a street sign so it reads WAKE UP SHEEPLE and want to punch the air in triumph. Exapunks is the latest from Zachtronics, creators of tricky puzzle games like Opus Magnum and Infinifactory that are all about moving things from one place to another, and hacking games like TIS-100 that are all about typing made-up but believable code into computers. Exapunks connects the two, providing space for code and a visualization of that code's effect, which…
