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Submachine: Legacy

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4.9/5

( 7 Reviews )

4.9

7 Reviews

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Submachine: Legacy
Description
Become the Researcher 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...
Genre:
Adventure - Point-and-click - Puzzle
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 7 more... Exploration, Puzzle, Point&Click, Mystery, Logic, Steampunk, Philosophical
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4.9/5

( 7 Reviews )

4.9

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Product details
2023, Mateusz Skutnik, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 64bit Intel compatible Dual Core CPU, 4 GB RAM, Version 11, 1 GB available space...
Time to beat
8.5 hMain
12.5 h Main + Sides
13.5 h Completionist
12 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description

Become the Researcher

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.

Popular achievements
Chapter I
Chapter Completed
common  ·  78.69%
Chapter II
Chapter Completed
common  ·  61.48%
Chapter III
Chapter Completed
common  ·  59.02%
Chapter IV
Chapter Completed
common  ·  50.82%
Chapter V
Chapter Completed
common  ·  44.26%
Chapter VI
Chapter Completed
common  ·  40.98%
Chapter VII
Chapter Completed
common  ·  38.52%
Chapter VIII
Chapter Completed
common  ·  33.61%
Chapter IX
Chapter Completed
common  ·  34.43%
System requirements
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
8.5 hMain
12.5 h Main + Sides
13.5 h Completionist
12 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Point-and-click - Puzzle
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 7 more... Exploration, Puzzle, Point&Click, Mystery, Logic, Steampunk, Philosophical
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2023-10-13T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Mateusz Skutnik / Mateusz Skutnik
Size:
638 MB
Links:
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Game features
Achievements
Cloud saves
Controller support
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
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Overall most helpful review

Posted on: December 20, 2024

Kklmnm

Verified owner

Games: 97 Reviews: 3

Classic, with a twist

For those unaware, the Submachine series originated as Flash games back in 2005 onwards. Legacy is a neat collection of all the mainline and side games all thrown into one with HD updates, flowing from one to another via "chapters". There are a few changes to the base games so that series veterans can't rely entirely on muscle memory to go through them, but it's still the games you love and remember, with a fresh coat of paint. Newcomers may not entirely appreciate the sheer amount of shout outs and lore fanservice scattered through the game, but it should be enjoyable for most all the same. The sense of atmosphere in the games is uncanny. A recommendation to any and all fans of point and click games, puzzle games, escape the room type games and unsettling vibes in general. Really glad to see this come to GoG as I already had it on Steam, and was glad to buy it again.

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Posted on: February 26, 2025

CRSmoto

Verified owner

Games: 35 Reviews: 3

This game is insane!

This game is insane. A really special atmosphere - without people - and for me extremely well thought-out puzzles. A really successful point-and-click adventure game - it's also fascinating that 1 person has developed such a game himself over 18 years - not only the graphics are very convincing, sometimes even extremely fascinating worlds are created. The game is basically very simple in its structure, as you always jump from one room to the next and the room is square. However, the worlds are very varied and the teleporters, 'wormholes' and light transporters in particular are extremely well interwoven into the worlds. I also think the sequence of chapters is very good. This motivates the player to complete a chapter. So full marks. However, I didn't manage it without a solution, some of the parts are almost too well hidden, but with enough time it would certainly have been possible without a solution. Exactly my style of play, exactly my puzzles and exactly my atmosphere. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

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Posted on: January 30, 2025

Yornick

Verified owner

Games: 444 Reviews: 1

The Legend Returns!

Having first played Submachine in the grim dark ages of Flash, I fell in love with this weird, strange and overall incredibly intriguing world. And this version is everything I could ever want in a remake - the puzzles are still brain-meltingly wonderful, the soundtrack is still deliciously odd, and hey - now it even has achievments!

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Posted on: February 18, 2025

PaulFinnis

Verified owner

Games: 56 Reviews: 6

Love the puzzles and the artwork

If you don't know games from this developer - Mateusz Skutnik - have a look and even better - try one of the games - I have enjoyed them all.

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Posted on: July 28, 2025

LGarms

Verified owner

Games: 73 Reviews: 2

Awesome Game

Just a fun little brain teaser. Really light but FULL of lore and style. Great sound effects and music.

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