Bartlow's Dread Machine

Bartlow's Dread Machine

Beep Games, Inc. · 2020 · Action, Steampunk, Arcade, Shooter, Indie

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Positive84% · 3270Metacritic
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About Bartlow's Dread Machine

An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a long-forgotten game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating game worlds and a cast of improbable monsters and historical characters.

Teddy Roosevelt has been kidnapped! Your mission: Pursue his abductors from New York, across the Great Plains to San Francisco, the high seas and beyond using trains, ships and even a newfangled automobile. Master an arsenal of futuristic Edwardian weapons as you fight otherworldly creatures to free the Commander in Chief.

Coming Summer of 2020!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players appreciate the on-rails shooter gameplay, art style, and music, but criticize poor camera angles that obscure enemies, unfair enemy placement that limits movement, and messy hitboxes that make combat feel unfair. The user interface is frequently cited as confusing and poorly designed, with unintuitive controls and unskippable cutscenes, leading to the consensus that while the game offers some fun, better alternatives exist in the genre.

Recommended Apr 28, 2025
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Recommended Feb 6, 2026
Some good fun
Recommended Feb 3, 2026
This is by all means a great on-rails shooter where you play with your character stuck on a real rails. You get attacked from every angle and you blast them to bits. Gameplay is pretty awesome. Graphics are decent and the sound is good. If i would rate this, then i would give this a 7.5 out of 10 points. RECOMMENDED!!!
Recommended Jan 17, 2026
Pewpew old timey good fun
Not recommended Jan 5, 2026
The art and the music are good, but its a bad game. The camera hide enemies and make hard to the player to know where exactly the shots will pass above barriers and where it wont. The game constantly will put more enemies than space to move to avoid the damage. It makes enemies lock you and you cant move. Hitboxes are messy as well. This game has the most horrible menus i ever seen. It makes a work so bad with the enter/space thing that even when i finished the game, i werent familiar with it. Other decisions like doesnt have a quick menu to select phases, the unskippable 'cutscenes', etc make me think the developers didnt test this game. You can still have some fun, but there is a lot of better games out there.
Recommended Oct 13, 2025
For what it is, its decent.

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