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Machinarium
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 48 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Amanita Design
Developer: Amanita Design
Genre(s): Adventure
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: RP (Rating Pending)
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Summary
Machinarium is 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.
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What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
One of the most beautiful games to hit home computers in a long time.
Read Full Review >Vandal Online
Playing it is a pleasure for the mind and the senses, ever stimulating and ready to surprise and make us smile.
Read Full Review >Everyeye.it
The adventure in the world of Machinarium is an exciting discovery of beautifully designed details and strange machines, which will entangle the player in an alien world made of weird laws, defining a new way for the point and click genre.
Read Full Review >SpazioGames
Machinarium demonstrates, once again, how ideas and creativity in the world of video games today can impress the public, despite the current gaming market being governed by graphics and constant run-up to the latest technological developments. Proudly presenting an unique nature, and belonging to a genre of videogames that is unfortunately going to disappear, Machinarium stands out for originality, thanks to the stunning quality and many hours of puzzles and fun filled with really interesting ideas.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer Spain
Amanita has put a lot of effort in all details, creating an adventure like no other we've seen in the latest years.
Read Full Review >Play.tm
Machinarium wants to tell you a story, it needs you to eek your way through it, and the artists have clearly sweated buckets of WD40 in creating a world originally brilliant for you to absorb, but it isn't 'free'. Your payment (besides the 11 GBP it costs) is the dying brain cells and droplets of blood forming on your forehead as you ponder another conundrum. But pay gladly my friends, because this is a kind of value you'll rarely see in any world, mechanical or otherwise. Savour it too, because Machinarium will pay you back tenfold.
Read Full Review >GameCritics
With a brilliant musical score, gorgeous artwork, solid adventuring mechanics, and a ton of other generic positive reviewer comments I can heap on it, Machinarium is elevated from merely good to gaming greatness, and I can only hope that the minds at Amanita produce some more masterpieces like this one
Read Full Review >InsideGamer.nl
The charm of Machinarium is the perfect play between the magic of the setting, the mysterious characters, little visual details and the soundtrack who binds it all together. This reanimation of a extinct and decapitated genre is still going strong, between all the great games coming out on the market these days. It gives us hope about the future of point-and-click.
Read Full Review >Meristation
One of the greatest PC games that we've tried so far this year is a puzzle game mixed with stunning graphics. A truly robotical adventure that's meant to be one of this year's GOTY without any doubt.
Read Full Review >Games Radar (in-house)
Machinarium’s distinct visual style and seamless animations are etched with a staggering level of detail, and few games come close to possessing the sheer beauty found here.
Read Full Review >LEVEL (Czech Republic)
Fascinating and touching story of a little robot in a vast mechanical city excels in every aspect. Most unusual adventure game you can find these days. [Nov 2009]
games(TM)
Remakes and IP revivals may be raking in the big bucks at the moment, but this artistically unique original is the game that really deserves your love and respect. [Nov 2009, p.106]
Multiplayer.it
We have the chance to take part in a journey that for style and atmosphere has not been experienced before; not in the videogame industry.
Read Full Review >Adventure Gamers
That aside, this is the best time I've had with an adventure game – 2D or 3D, big or small budget – this year. With an original charm all its own, Machinarium is a real winner and an instant classic.
Read Full Review >Destructoid
Some hiccups notwithstanding, Machinarium is just plain one of the best adventure games ever made.
Read Full Review >Gamer Limit
Machinarium is one of the best games of the year. It stands as a pillar of excellence for all independent developers, and will undoubtedly be revered for years to come.
Read Full Review >Gamers.at
The unusual graphics are nice, and the puzzles are not only mindboggling, but also great fun. Machinarium shows what you can do with simplest methods.
Read Full Review >Computer Games Online RO
Therefore, Machinarium can be considered a very successful adventure game, which I recommend to any player, be it or not a passionate of the genre.
Read Full Review >3DJuegos
Machinarium is an old-school Adventure, and a must-buy for hardcore fans of the point and click genre.
Read Full Review >GamingXP
Machinarium is a great, sweet, charming game. Period. Yep, sometimes, it‘s too difficult, but the idea of the built-in walkthrough is awesome, you‘ll understand every emotion and hint without having to read a single word, and it‘s starring a robot. Yeah.
Read Full Review >IGN
Machinarium is a must-play for point-and-click fans. It hearkens back to the early days of the genre with a brutal level of difficulty that will keep you puzzled for hours.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
Machinarium is a treat for the senses that demands more of your brain, a paradoxically gentle yet punishing riff on a genre that, until now, had been revived but sadly defanged for modern players.
Read Full Review >GameStar
Machinarium is the most unusual adventure of 2009. It's part of the game to find out how everything works and what you have to do. What happens if you turn this machine on or pull that lever? Bit by bit everything makes sense and only at the end of the game you'll understand it. This game is a step in the right direction to evolve video games.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
A picture is worth a thousand words in this charming point-and-click adventure.
Read Full Review >PC PowerPlay
A spectacular heart-warming and utterly enchanting adventure. [Christmas 2009, p.66]
AceGamez
Machinarium is a solid and thoroughly enjoyable point and click adventure and while it's not without fault, these are passing annoyances rather than sticking points that will sour the experience.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer Italy
Those playing for a long time have developed the 'eye of the old-gamer', a sort of skill that allows them to lead back the majority of games to a minimum of seeds that give life to the 99% of videogames. We then salute with joy Machinarium, a modern title that goes back to the past, rediscovering what we could call a casual adventure for hardcore gamers.
Teletext GameCentral
Old school graphic adventure that doesn't pull its punches with either the puzzles or the gorgeous art.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 48 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dave S gave it a10:
Perhaps one of the best true point and click adventures since the likes of The Neverhood and Grim Fandago. Unique and charming, this games really draws you in to it's surreal world of hand drawn robots and incredible backgrounds. Shame its not longer.
