Opus Magnum is getting new DLC eight years later – and the devs revived a closed studio just to release it

Zachtronics has announced De Re Metallica, a DLC expansion for Opus Magnum – the 2017 puzzle game about building alchemical devices. It's set to release on March 17.

The expansion adds three prequel chapters with 17 new puzzles, new cutscenes, music, and new glyphs – the machine components used to construct your devices. Zachtronics says it's "around half the length" of the original campaign.

The announcement is a bit unusual, given that Zachtronics formally ceased to exist a few years ago. Studio founder Zach Barth once declared in a PC Gamer interview that "Zachtronics is over."

After that, Barth and part of the team went on to form Coincidence, a new studio that released Kaizen: A Factory Story. The closure may have been connected to the 2016 acquisition of Zachtronics by Alliance Media Holdings.

Now the team has revived the Zachtronics name specifically to release De Re Metallica. A PR representative noted that "the future of Zachtronics and revisiting and expanding on other titles is unknown at this time."

The DLC's story follows Saverio Daas, a maverick alchemical researcher "who believes he can unlock metallurgical secrets that even the Imperial Academy has not uncovered," according to the studio. A price has not yet been announced.