The best way to describe A Machine for Pigs is that it is basically the movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Except for rotating valves and opening doors there are no gameplay mechanics to speak of. No tinderboxes or oil to collect. This game makes Final Fantasy 13 look nonlinear. There is not a single iota of challenge to be found: puzzles are boringly easy and enemies are few and far between. Unlike A Dark Descent, where enemies spawn randomly, here they always spawn in the same place and have a stomping ground of about 10 cm. There isn't even a penalty for standing in the darkness where enemies can't detect you! Not only is the story shockingly bad, it is extremely over-reaching, over-dramatic and pointless. The game is not scary. The player is given such a long period of time to recognize what is happening that no jump scare will ever get you, and the subject matter is far from disturbing. I find the Teletubbies to be more frightening than A Machine for Pigs. Surprisingly there is uncensored male nudity in this game, including a scene where there is a literal respirator attached to a boy's genitalia, which is just absurd to the point of hilarity. Read that sentence again just for good measure. Pretty much the whole time I played this game I was making fun of it for how bad it is. The best thing about this game is how short it is. I can't believe I paid $20 for such a bad non-game. I would not recommend this game to anyone.
