Kaizen: A Factory Story, the Japanese production line sim from the creators of SpaceChem, gets a demo later this month and a full release in July

I had no idea that I wanted a programmable factory sim about assembling consumer goods for a Japanese corporation during the 1980s asset price bubble, and honestly, I don't think anybody could blame me for that. It isn't the sort of thing you wake up thinking about, unless what you woke up from was a coma after being hit on the head by a VCR.

Now that I'm aware Kaizen: A Factory Story exists, however, I feel a deep-seated need to play it. And luckily, I don't have long to wait, because as...