Adventure · October 16, 2009

Machinarium (2009)

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Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang! Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend. World: Machinarium world is populated only by robots of various forms and functions. One of the most interesting places in this world is old, rusty and legendary city of Machinarium where the game takes place Story: You will have to get rid of wicked robots from the Black Cap Brotherhood and save the head of the city and also your robot-girl friend Puzzles: You will be solving many logical puzzles, adventure quests, brain teasers and mini-games Graphics: Backgrounds and characters are 2D hand-drawn and there is more then one hour of carefully crafted animations Music: Beautiful original soundtrack was composed and recorded by Floex (Samorost2 OST) Communication: You won't find any lengthy boring dialogs in this game, characters talk by comic bubbles with simple animations and symbols

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French volume_up
  • Italian volume_up
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  • Spanish - Spain volume_up
  • Czech volume_up
  • Japanese volume_up
  • Korean volume_up
  • Polish volume_up
  • Portuguese - Portugal volume_up
  • Portuguese - Brazil volume_up
  • Russian volume_up

Full audio (12)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Czech
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Portugal
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume17.2k Steam reviewsTop 14% in Adventure
Positive rating95% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 29%
Metacritic85/100Genre average 77 — top 16% of Adventure titles
Concurrent peak125 playersTop 18% in Adventure by live player count
Engagement hours4 h averageTop 72% for session depth among Adventure

Community Tag Signals

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

  • Point & Click · 630
  • Puzzle · 617
  • Hand-drawn · 560
  • Steampunk · 539
  • Robots · 537
  • 2D · 530
  • Atmospheric · 515
  • Story Rich · 494
  • Casual · 476
  • Cute · 475
  • Family Friendly · 472
  • Adventure · 472
  • Surreal · 466
  • Stylized · 465
  • Sci-fi · 451

Peer Adventure titles

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Reception Metrics

Steam community

95%Overwhelmingly Positive · 17.2k reviews

16.4k positive · 862 negative

Metacritic

85/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.7/10

Curator recommendations

15.6k

Peak concurrent players

125

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Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“A must-play for point-and-click fans.” – IGN “Machinarium may be the best adventure game I've ever played.” – Destructoid “Machinarium is an extraordinarily beautiful creation.” – Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

4h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

2h

Current engagement

Achievements

12

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateOct 16, 2009
DeveloperAmanita Design
Base price$4.99 -75%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support

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5 Adventure titles launched in 2009 — top 4 by review volume.

Editions & Packages

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