Machinarium
Amanita Design · 2009 · Point & Click, Puzzle, Hand-drawn, Robots, Steampunk
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About Machinarium
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Guide Josef the robot through a gorgeous hand-drawn city to rescue his girlfriend from the villainous Black Cap Brotherhood by solving clever puzzles and brain-teasers. This award-winning adventure stands out with its charming robot world, wordless storytelling told through comic bubbles and symbols, and a beautiful original soundtrack that brings every rusty corner to life.
Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost, Botanicula and CHUCHEL.
A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost, Botanicula and CHUCHEL.
A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend.
- World: Machinarium world is populated only by robots of various forms and functions. One of the most interesting places in this world is old, rusty and legendary city of Machinarium where the game takes place
- Story: You will have to get rid of wicked robots from the Black Cap Brotherhood and save the head of the city and also your robot-girl friend
- Puzzles: You will be solving many logical puzzles, adventure quests, brain teasers and mini-games
- Graphics: Backgrounds and characters are 2D hand-drawn and there is more then one hour of carefully crafted animations
- Music: Beautiful original soundtrack was composed and recorded by Floex (Samorost2 OST)
- Communication: You won't find any lengthy boring dialogs in this game, characters talk by comic bubbles with simple animations and symbols
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Machinarium simultaneously feels like a perfect exemplar of the adventure genre's strengths and an disappointing example of the failures that made the genre so infamous and radioactive for so long. The game's main strength is in its personality. Beautiful and quirky hand drawn art, charming character designs and an approach to storytelling with minimal dialog in favor of actions and little animated thought balloons. The music is also perfectly quirky and off-kilter. So why the negative score? The puzzles. The puzzles are what does it in. They're exactly the sort of moon logic, pixel hunt nonsense that Sierra would get up to in Kings Quest or the like, and they're still just as unfun to figure out. You walk into a room, often without a clear goal, click on things to see what's interactable (and hope you don't miss something in the detailed but unhelpful art), and then randomly start using items or combining them to see what what will happen, often something arbitrary and obtuse but necessary to progress (and the lack of dialog makes for a difficult time in figuring out exactly what's wrong with your solution). If you're lucky, there might be a somewhat useful hint for the puzzle. If…1 found this helpful
Great game so far
Nice game with amazing ambientation. Just to sit, relax, enjoy the music, solve puzzles and reflect about society.
one of my all time favourite games. it's beautiful 😻
Awesome game
good brain teaser with beautiful artstyle and soundtrack. Probably a defining game for its decade
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