Posted on: October 11, 2020

Louard_le_Barbare

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A Beautiful Little Game

Machinarium is, by and large, a typical point & click game: a succession of scenes in which you have to solve environmental puzzles, using logic and a variety of more or less wacky objects you can stack up in your inventory and combine together. While I am usually not a fan of these games, which I think are frustrating, I found this one to be very enjoyable and approachable. Solutions to puzzles are often logical and not too hard to figure out, and, unlike other P&Cs, what you can pick up and / or interact with is usually well highlighted. The difficulty curve is especially well-made: the game starts off easy, throwing you in small areas with enigmas that are easy to solve, and gets increasingly complex, letting you explore larger and larger zones with obstacles that get more and more twisted. Overall, the most trouble I've had was with the combination puzzles (y'know, Rubik's cube type of things), which tend to be quite difficult and frustrating. Still, a built-in walkthrough guide can be accessed at any time through a minigame to help you solving them, which is neat. The big selling point of Machinarium is clearly its aesthetic and atmosphere. The game, which tells the story of a small robot in a huge mechanical city, just oozes magic. The hand-drawn characters and backgrounds are superb, the music is beautiful. And while the plot is simple and the game is entirely devoid of dialogues, the narration is masterful, delivering emotions without a single word. It's all super cute and is full of quirky moments that rarely fail to get a chuckle. The biggest problems with Machinarium are its steep price and short length. There are not a lot of locations to visit, and most of your time will be spent on trying to solve puzzles: once you know the solutions, the whole thing can probably be finished in under an hour. Still, I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a sweet little game with a ton of personality to act as an gateway to P&C as a genre.

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Posted on: March 2, 2021

rapilki

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Very Nice Little Game

Good looking and enjoyable game. Nice puzzles and fairly logical plot. Well worth the £3.29 I paid for it but a bit short to justify the £12.99 it's quoted at the moment.

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Posted on: June 29, 2021

jsisidore

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One of the best adventures ever made

If you like the atmosphere of INSIDE and LIMBO you will like this one.

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Posted on: July 23, 2021

Armin79

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Wonderful but hard game

When I first started to play Machinarium I thought it will be like other games by Amanita, yeah will it has the typical Amanita flair, but the difficulty level is not what I have expected. But the puzzles are all (somehow) logical and if you really stuck you can use the integrated, wonderful hint system. The graphics are pure artwork, creative and a joy to see, as I already expect from a Amanita Design Game :) You dive into a imaginary fantastic world of machines where you have to figure what actually you should do. But step by step you will figure out more about what to do and also more about what happened, before you started the game :) The graphics resolution is quite static, as everything is handdrawn. As the graphics are not vector but images the upscaled screens may look a little bit more low-res, but still give you a nice experience. I had some issues sometimes, when I started the game it got frozen sometimes in the intro screen, and in that state it's almost impossible to close the game, because it always stays in front, you are even not able to see the windows task manager. I was able to work around that problem by opening Notepad, write some few letters into the notepad (don't save) and then start the game. If it then hangs I will press Ctrl+Alt+Del and choose to Log Off. The game is then closed, but because the open notepad, the log off will not finish, so I click "cancel" and restart the game :) Usually the second it worked then. All in all, even that game already aged a bit .. but we are on GOG here, aren't we? :) ... I still highly recommend this game, also the soundtrack is a special joy. Buy the game and relax, but also expect you have to use your brain cells quite much. :)

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Posted on: October 24, 2021

Ahmn

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Perfect for a chilling evening

The game is kind of short and can be played in one go. I finished it in just under 5 hours and was probably not very quick. Overall a great game with nice design and music, very mixed puzzles and a built in guide in case you get stuck. Except for a few puzzles, it's not a very difficult game but I had to resort to the built in guide a few times. Sometimes I did it just for fun too, as the guide contains a lot of artwork etc. It's very well done. If you don't want to make it too easy, you can use it to get a vague idea as well. Even in the pictures, the solutions are not always instantly clear. I didn't enjoy Botanicula in case someone reading this also disliked it and feel hesitatant about playing Machinarium because of that. I'd really recommend trying this out.

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