Machinarium
Machinarium is award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost and Botanicula. A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the…
Machinarium is an adventure developed by Amanita Design, released 16 October 2009 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It currently starts at $3.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 5.7 hrs to finish.
What Machinarium is
Machinarium is an adventure game developed by Amanita Design and released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adobe Flash Player.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Machinarium opens with an overview of the eponymous city as a disposal flier launches from its highest tower. The player character, a robot called Josef is dumped on a scrapheap, where he re-assembles himself and sets off for the city. Entering the city, he discovers a plot by the Black Cap Brotherhood, his three thuggish antagonists, to blow up the city's tower.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Machinarium holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 449 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.7 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.70 per hour of the main story, or $0.74 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 Ghz Processor and 1GB Ram. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Machinarium launched on 16 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition and Bayonetta. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Machinarium yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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