Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure set in a mechanical world where the player controls a small robot that has been kicked out of the city. He has to return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood who terrorizes his kind and took away his girlfriend. The game consists of a number of static, non-scrolling screens the player gets to explore. This is done by clicking on objects in the environment to manipulate them, gathering them in an inventory and solving a wide array of puzzles, ranging from simple item combinations to more complex pattern analysis. The player's robot can scale his height to solve a number of problems, and communication is often presented graphically through speech bubbles that describe a scene using animated images, rather than words.

It is not possible to die, and when stuck, the player can opt to use a single hint (one per screen) or consult a walkthrough book. Pages in this book show the full solution to the level in the form of concept art panels, but to reach it a short side-scrolling shooter mini-game needs to be played. Therefore, the player cannot access it right away. In the beginning progress is done screen by screen, but after a while the world opens up more with many locations available at the same time.

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Alternate Titles

"Машинариум" -- Russian spelling

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Point 'n' click is not dead yet

Windows

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The Press Says

Just Adventure	Windows	Dec 18, 2009	A	100
Indie Game Magazine	Windows	May 31, 2010	93 out of 100	93
Destructoid	Windows	Oct 19, 2009	9 out of 10	90
Games32	Windows	Nov 03, 2009	87 out of 100	87
Adventurearchiv	Windows	Nov 14, 2009	87 out of 100	87
3D Juegos	Windows	Oct 22, 2009	8.6 out of 10	86
Indius	Windows	Jan 11, 2012	17 out of 20	85
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Nov 27, 2009	84 out of 100	84
4Players.de	Windows	Nov 13, 2009	82 out of 100	82
IGN	Windows	Oct 20, 2009	8.1 out of 10	81

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Trivia

Next to the Windows and Macintosh version of Machinarium, the German retail release also includes:

The official soundtrack by Tomáš Dvořák
Two-sided poster showcasing the cover art of the game as well as advertising for Daedalic Entertainment's next title Deponia
The flash game Samorost 2

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