Mechanism

Mechanism — an adventure game about a lonely robot. Dive into a depressive steampunk world which has been infected with a strange disease called "Phlegm".

40 19 July 2018

Adventure Indie

Mechanism is an adventure, released 19 July 2018 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 5 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Mechanism is

Mechanism was released in 2018. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Mechanism holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 29 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mechanism launched on 19 July 2018, within three weeks of Dead Cells, Octopath Traveler, Overcooked! 2 and Sonic Mania Plus. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Cells, Octopath Traveler, Overcooked! 2, Sonic Mania Plus.