Submachine: Legacy
Mateusz Skutnik · 2023 · Puzzle, Point & Click, Adventure, Hand-drawn, Exploration
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 1,256
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About Submachine: Legacy
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Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You will find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way.
the World of Submachine
With over 1900 rooms to visit, there's a lot to see here. The underground world of submerged machines offers you vast variety of locations and structures to discover and repair. While everything is shattered, you will try to put things back together to understand and escape.
Story
You are alone here. You will follow the footsteps of a banished lighthouse keeper discovering his descent into ruins of Submachine. The story is divided into chapters that will unlock for you as you progress through the game. The story is conveyed by series of notes that you'll collect and read.
Puzzles
There are tons of puzzles, some of which you'll solve by bringing the machinery back online, tinkering with it, turning off and on again. For others you'll need to find missing parts, levers that were broken off or stolen, depleted power sources, gears, cogs, lamps, coils and so on. As you move through the structure, you will be putting back together things that were shattered.
Graphics
Entire game is hand-drawn. There's nothing auto-generated nor procedural. Each location was thoughtfully designed. Stylized drawings give the game its eerie atmosphere.
Music
Ambient music for this game was created by ThumpMonks, with chapter 1 ambient by Marcus Gutierrez. The music perfectly emphasizes the atmosphere of lonely exploration.
What Steam players say
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Get a notebook ready, and note down everything!!!1 found this helpful
Mur u lil' prick the most evil and twisted point & click game when it come to difficulty (that I played) Good luck that ♥♥♥♥ facked me up at 3am but I got out of the Machine.1 found this helpful
ohh the nostalgia...1 found this helpful
I played the series a lot as a kid. Discovering this is a trip to my childhood, so glad this exists!
I was so intrigued by the setting of this game series, and remember the list of Submachine games on the various flash game sites I would go through. I could never understand how to progress then. But I'm happy to fully finish this series now. Beautiful art and the feeling when exploring these various areas is incredible. I loved delving deeper and deeper throughout this world.
[b]“Look at this funny trick”[/b] [i]-M[/i] [hr][/hr] [b]Submachine[/b] is now a more than 20-year-old running series that had humble beginnings as a flash game. [h1]Gameplay[/h1] It’s an escape room point-and-clicker, which means collecting items in the environment to use on other pieces of the environment to make progress while also solving some logic problems. [h1]Story[/h1] A story about multiple realities and the exploration effort conducted on them to understand its mechanics, origins, and future developments. [h1]X-Factor[/h1] The game is very easy to pick up and play, it has a unique setting, and heavy “lines as texture” style. [h1]Downsides[/h1] It feels very “disjointed” because of it’s more than 10 games rolled into one over a 10-year development span. The story is a confusing mess, it is coherent, but you can certainly feel that the developer wanted to go for something in a certain chapter and then something else completely with the next one. The first chapters feel too experimental than having a consolidated style that plays well with the rest of the game. Puzzles are on one hand simple but with items that hide well in the background, them blocking progress, a…
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