June 10, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA - This June, Astra Logical brings two deeply systemic titles to Steam Next Fest - Kaizen: A Factory Story and Dawn Apart - both offering a unique take on building, automation, and the flow state that can accompany a very satisfying video game.
And conveyor belts. There may or may not be a few conveyor belts involved.
Kaizen: A Factory Story by Coincidence
From the creators of Opus Magnum and SpaceChem, Kaizen is a Zachlike game from the OG Zachtronics team that tasks players with designing, building, and optimizing production lines in factories across Japan. Build calculators, camcorders, arcade machines, and more in an attempt to rise through the ranks in 1980s Japan.
Kaizen launches on July 14th on Steam for PC.
Dawn Apart by Industrial Technology and Witchcraft
Developed with inspiration from genre-defining titles such as Factorio and RimWorld, Dawn Apart offers a fresh take on the space colony sim genre, emphasizing both strategic depth and narrative agency. The game's destructible world and intricate automation systems promise hours of engaging gameplay for fans of strategy and simulation.
Dawn Apart launches on July 14th on Steam and the Epic Game Store for PC.
(Yes, both games are launching on the same day. Yes, we know this is going to be a pretty wild day for us as an indie publisher supporting these fantastic developers.)
Both demos are now live and available during Next Fest from June 9th through the 16th.
Find out more about Kaizen here: https://astralogical.org/game-kaizen
And some very excellent content for Dawn Apart here: https://astralogical.org/game-dawnapart
About Coincidence
Coincidence is a flexible business framework that mostly makes games, founded and created by numerous former ex-Zachtronics developers who worked on titles like Opus Magnum, Infinifactory, Last Call BBS, SpaceChem, and more.
While it may appear their works are developed according to a certain plan or schema, they are not. The human brain is wired to infer causal relationships between events that bear similarity to each other whether or not such causes exist. Therefore, these works are developed by Coincidence.
For more information, please visit Coincidence.
About Industrial Technology and Witchcraft
Industrial Technology and Witchcraft makes games in voxels and pixels with amazing soundtracks. Based in Berlin, Germany, the team is currently working on Dawn Apart, an automation game that takes place on a completely destructible voxel planet.
Learn more about Industrial Technology and Witchcraft on Discord and their website.
About Astra Logical
Astra Logical publishes systems and strategy games that don’t hate you. A mission-driven indie publisher, they support games with an ethos of progressive complexity and emergent thought. Astra teams up with developers who create approachable yet deep challenges for the curious-minded.
For more information, please visit astralogical.org or email marketing@astralogical.org.