Action · June 20, 2017

Nex Machina (2017)

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Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future. In the world of Nex Machina, humans have become so dependent on technology that they cannot avert their eyes from portable devices anymore. Around them, machines have reached consciusness and surpassed human intelligence tenfold. No reasons to be servants now – robots are clearly the superior lifeform. And to make their point, they start eradicating all human life... Housemarque, the creators of Resogun, and Eugene Jarvis invite you on a trip back to the age of arcades and play Nex Machina, the twinstick shooter of this generation. Destroy the evil robots, free the humans and defeat your friends' high scores along with their dreams of success. Do you have what it takes to make it to the top? - Explosive twin-stick arcade shooter gaming at its finest - Over 100+ challenging levels in 6 different intense worlds - Secret paths, levels and humans - Local cooperative multiplayer - Deep scoring system, rich metagame and replayability - Specially tailored feats and achievements - Community and friend leaderboards - Unlockables and player profiles - Next gen signed distance field (SDF) ray-tracing and morphing tech - Voxel driven, significantly reworked version of the Housemarque engine

Action releases from 2017

180 Action titles launched in 2017 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Twin Stick Shooter · 93
  • Bullet Hell · 76
  • Action · 75
  • Arcade · 71
  • Great Soundtrack · 65
  • Indie · 54
  • Shoot 'Em Up · 50
  • Cyberpunk · 43
  • Difficult · 42
  • Local Co-Op · 42
  • Shooter · 35
  • Top-Down · 35
  • Sci-fi · 33
  • Controller · 33
  • Singleplayer · 31

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.1k Steam reviewsTop 96% in Action
Positive rating87% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 49%
Metacritic84/100Genre average 77 — top 22% of Action titles
Engagement hours2 h averageTop 94% for session depth among Action

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Hungarian

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player

Reception Metrics

Steam community

87%Very Positive · 2.1k reviews

1.8k positive · 276 negative

Metacritic

84/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

1.4k

Press Quotes

“What a trip.” 5/5 – The Guardian “Housemarque has just made the game of its career.” Essential – Eurogamer “Nex Machina is a game that confidently meets expectations. It's difficult, intensely satisfying, and packed with enough secrets and lofty secondary objectives to keep you enraptured for hours.” 9/10 – Gamespot

Release & Availability

Release dateJun 20, 2017
DeveloperHousemarque
Base price$19.99
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

2h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

2h

Typical completion time

Achievements

39

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Nex Machina