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Machinarium

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Developers

Amanita Design

Released

2009

Genre

Point and click adventure

Modes

Single player

Platforms

Flash

Input

Mouse

Website

homepage

Machinarium is a point and click adventure by Amanita Design, creators of Samorost 1 and 2. The visuals in the game are hand drawn and water colored.

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Gameplay[]

You play as a small robot named Josef, who seeks to save his girlfriend from the evil Black Cap Brotherhood robots. The game itself is a standard point-and-click adventure game, with puzzles and minigames scattered across the landscape.

Point and click adventures usually being quite hard, this game offers a solution in the form of a cheatbook. When selecting this item in the upper right corner, a mini-game starts, which after completion gives you the full solution to all the room's puzzles. This avoids players having to go elsewhere to scavenge for walkthroughs. The game also has a hint per room, which are sometimes helpful, sometimes a little less.

Trivia[]

  • Machinarium won the 2009 IGF Excellence in Visual Design award.

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