Machinarium

TriedandTested · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:11

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2009/10/25/machinarium-review/1

9/10

http://store.steampowered.com/app/40709/

Machinarium is award-winning independent puzzle / adventure game developed by the makers of popular web-games Samorost and Samorost2.

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

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uv · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:18

Completed it last week, awesome game

The artwork, music and atmosphere are fantastic.. and the puzzles are actually fun

*just one FYI - if anyone uses CCleaner, it'll wipe the saved games - try not to use it until you've completed the game

Kelah · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:21

The artwork looks awesome

may have to give the demo a try.

Mr. Anderson · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:34

story line sounds a bit like Wall-E

uv · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:40

Kelah said:
The artwork looks awesome

may have to give the demo a try.

The demo is minuscule - don't let the length of it put you off

Lyon85 · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:41

Highly recommend it, even to those that don't play point and click adventures. Beautiful little game. The world is lovingly crafted, characters are great and the soundtrack is surprisingly awesome.

I wasn't keen on all of the older puzzles, but it was hardly an issue.

OldComputerGuy7 · 25 Oct 2009 at 18:15

I meant to give this a try, downloading demo now.

FlukeRogi · 25 Oct 2009 at 19:33

Great game, but could have been longer. Still, it isn't a full price game, and you really owe it to yourself to try it.

The only thing I wasn't that mad on was the reliance on quite a few logic/board game puzzle type affairs, rather that puzzles based on the story and environment. The 5 in a row one nearly had me tearing my hair out.

All round though, top stuff.

wonderlust · 25 Oct 2009 at 20:33

currently working my way through the game.

Reminds me a little of the Abe's Oddworld games.

thedinks · 25 Oct 2009 at 20:56

brilliant game, even my mum loves it

- Shes further than me

FlukeRogi · 26 Oct 2009 at 00:21

thedinks said:
brilliant game, even my mum loves it - Shes further than me

Pwned by your mum?!

psychas · 26 Oct 2009 at 00:28

very good game completed in 9 hours do

Dogoid · 26 Oct 2009 at 18:55

playing through it myself. just brilliant.

Paul_cz · 27 Oct 2009 at 09:06

Yep, brilliant piece of game.Wish more were like this.

Kua · 2 Nov 2009 at 14:55

Best game I've played in quite a while. Reminded me very much of Braid in terms of raw creativity. I've been looking out for this one for a while and in fact it exceeded my expectations!