Machinarium

Amanita Design

About this game

Help Josef the robot to save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang.

Ratings and reviews

The story and puzzle style gameplay are fun and sometimes hard to figure out but not frustrating. Fun soundtrack, engagingly cute and realistic sound effects . People complaining about clutter/details in the background: if it was more obvious the game would be too easy, boring and be over too fast. The controls are a bit wonky on a phone I guess, it's better on a tablet. I love this game and play it again every few years.

It's pretty good - however, the art style is very cluttered which makes it difficult to tell if something is relevant or just a piece of art. The controls can be kind of finicky too, especially when trying to tap on something that's near something else. However, the game is overall pretty fun! I couldn't finish it, but I think I got about halfways through. I'd maybe suggest a better hint system and not having the help book require playing a minigame.

I really wanted to love this one, but the controls are at times infuriating. Touch accuracy is all over the place, owing to the game's original inception as a PC game using mouse input. Some hit boxes are just too small to tap with a finger/thumb with any reliability, and I'm not using a device with a tiny screen by any means. It's also really hard to discern what objects can actually be interacted with at all, resulting in random pecking around the screen in the hope that something happens.

What's new

Performance optimization.