The Automatician
DreamPunks · 2017 · Indie, Casual, Adventure, Puzzle, First-Person
PC
Mixed53% · 17 📈 Making a comeback 61%
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About The Automatician
Summary
The Automatician is a first person puzzle game where you take on the role of Emma, who needs to solve puzzles and problems in a Victorian mansion. To prove your worth as a candidate to become "The Automatician" players must build increasingly complex chain reaction machines (Rube Goldberg Machines) to satisfy their challengers. Can you become the new Automatician?
Gameplay
Take on a series of increasingly complex hexagonal puzzles that ask you to create chain reaction machines. Find one or all of the solutions that make your machines a success!
Explore the halls of a Victorian mansion called the Absolon Estate. Solve a number of quests for the denizens of the mansion while you investigate to uncover the secrets of the mansion.
Story
Explore the Absolon Estate, speak with it's inhabitants and learn more about their past.
Take on the Challenge to become the Automatician, and prove your worth in a series of escalating challenges.
Should you succeed, you can expect one final secret to reveal itself to you...
Features
- Beautiful environments to explore, with a lot of secrets to uncover.
- Figure out the Story behind what went on at Absolon Estate.
- Learn about the enigmatic animated burlap dolls called Whodos.
- Quests to be solved around the Mansion.
- Increasingly complex Chain Reaction Puzzles to be solved.
- Using Unreal Engine 4 for high quality graphics.
Music
Beautiful Soundtrack and Audio created in collaboration with Ratchet Audio.
About us
DreamPunks is game development studio from Breda, The Netherlands. The Automatician was developed by about 30 students from the NHTV University in Breda. The game was developed part time, as a part of our studies.
Events
While in development, the game has been showcased at a variety of events to gather feedback and improve on the existing game. Some of the events that we've participated in so far include:
- GDC 2016, San Francisco
- Nordic Game Jam 2016, Copenhagen
- A Maze 2016, Berlin
- Indigo 2016, Utrecht
- AnimeCon 2016, The Hague
- Indigo 2017, Utrecht
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Too short, too many bugs, too little response from "developers" (read that "students who have graduated"). This is a fairly clever little game that was not really ready to become a product before, it appears, the course it was written for ended. We never could figure out how to get into the secret room, even though we must have "solved" the game, as the credit roll came up after we solved the last puzzle. But, there were a couple of unchecked items still on our list of quests. Worse, one of the walkthroughs clearly shows that same item marked as completed just after an action that one would expect to complete it, yet that did not get it marked completed when we took that action ourselves. There doesn't seem to be any response from the developers for a couple of years, at least. Steam ought to take this one down.3 found this helpful
It's an interesting game, although slightly frustrating if you don't know how the puzzles work. It reminds me of The Incredible Machine, where you have to put different parts together so that they interact with each other. Although in this game the different parts don't mesh well together and don't make sense. I think there is a lot of wasted potential with this game, with a bit of polish this would be an epic game to play. Also, there is one achievement which is slightly glitched, however it is possible to get it on a second playthrough, once you have uncovered the secret room.1 found this helpful
Stunning visuals and a great soundtrack! Be sure to look for the additional content after the game ends though, it was an essential part of the experience for me.1 found this helpful
games not worth £5 too easy, not long enough.
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[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] Eh, it's alright. The game has a cute atmosphere that reminds me of Supraland. And like Supraland, there are a number of environmental puzzles that are fairly easy to solve. However, unlike its successor, the puzzles in this game are not rewarding to solve. And the non-environmental puzzles that I ran into were all of the same form: a really annoying jigsaw-like puzzle involving a hexagonal grid. These puzzles were not fun or challenging, they were just frustrating due to poor UX. Overall, it's worth trying, but there are definitely better options out there.
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