Fait – The Machine

Voltage Development LLC

About this game

Fait – The Machine is an atmospheric action-adventure platformer set in the ruins of an abandoned machine civilization.

The player controls a furry creature named Fait, who, after waking up from a deep sleep in a time capsule, tries to find out the secret of his origin and understand what exactly happened in this abandoned world.

On his way, he discovers a large number of unique obstacles and tries to breathe life into the world around him. But does everyone agree with this?

INVESTIGATE

Secrets surrounding you, advancing through caves, basements, engine rooms and magical dungeons

IMMERSE

In the technogenic world, once a great civilization, filled with secrets, deadly traps and cunning mechanisms

FIND OUT

What awaits you at the end, passing 18 exciting atmospheric levels, with realistic physics of the surrounding world

Fait – The Machine supports game controllers and gamepads.

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Ratings and reviews

This is similar to Gish, which is lovely. But I just couldn't make myself like it. First, it's way too dark. You're a black blob moving over black objects with dark shadows in the background. A few objects or lines are brightly lit, which makes it even harder to distinguish different black objects. This really strains the eyes. It also makes it very hard to judge what is a walkable object and what is a background object, when everything is dark. Definitely not a fan of the color palette. Second and more importantly, the controls are extremely imprecise. I'm not talking about the inertia that you character is supposed to have, the controls simply don't react properly half the time. The blob doesn't follow your swipe directions (on vertical surfaces you still need to swipe left/right instead of the real direction, which is confusing but not what I mean, even left-right swipes are often ignored), crouching works on the 10th attempt, jump doesn't jump half the time. The blob starts running too quickly, so slow careful movements are impossible. On some surfaces you hold still even when completely vertical, on some surfaces you slide even when just slightly tilted, but you can't tell them apart. The physics is completely bonkers and seems to react the very opposite way you'd expect, e.g. levers ignoring your body weight or acting like you're full of helium. I got stuck in Scheme level (about half the game) which I couldn't completely in like 20 attempts, because of the controls and the physics. It's a shame, I was in a very positive mood in the first few levels. Currently I'd give the game 50% for reminding me of Gish.

The finger touch zones are low and seem to be fixed. This is terrible for users like me who prefer a high thumb zone. Why the devs couldn't simply make them the entire left and right sides instead of specific lower boxes on each side is beyond me.

The starting of the game has a bug, but after close and open I have managed to open. The game is very nice, but the controls have to been improved

What's new

Changelist:
- alternative controls mode (can be enabled in settings)
- gamepads support!
- improved character controls
- bugfix