Developer: Amanita Design
Steam Deck Compatibility?: Verified
Rrp: £12.99 (Gog.com, Humblebundle and Steam)
I don’t know exactly what it is about Amanita Games but ever since I played Botanicula a few years ago I started to keep an eye on them. There’s just something distinct about the visual style they use that really appeals to me. It also helps that they mainly make point and click games (very quirky ones too) which is a weakness of mine. Also an interesting thing that Amanita Games does is not include dialogue of any form, everything is delivered to you through fairly easy to understand pictographs which is great because that means there isn’t any language barrier to overcome.
In this game you play as a little robot (in a world that is only populated by robots) who somehow ends up in a junk heap outside of his home town and so you’re first task is to get back in… well actually the first task is to put yourself back together and then get back in. As I stated in the previous paragraph Machinarium is a point and click adventure game, complete with inventory and environmental puzzles. The good thing is though that if you get stuck the game comes with a built in walkthrough, you have to complete a little minigame to unlock it and it’ll only show you how to get past that one puzzle but still its nice that it’s included.
I found this game to be incredibly charming everything about it shows a level of care and attention to detail, plus its pretty funny in its own subdued way.
