Machinarium is a charming point and click puzzle solving game akin to the old LucasArts games. The art style is absolutely stunning and it runs at a smooth framerate. Game aside, I would love to see an animated film revolving around this game’s plot with the same animation style.

In Machinarium you control a robot starting out at a junkyard, as you progress you slowly reveal his intentions and what got him to the junkyard in the first place. Along the way you will solve puzzles and collect items to unlock your progression. Some of the puzzles take a short time to learn but a long time to master. The game does offer an inbuilt guide however you need to complete a mini game just to open it up. I couldn’t even complete the minigame.

I have no shame in admitting the puzzles in this game were above my intellect level so I used a YouTube walkthrough for most of the puzzles. I’d much rather go through this game at a nice pace and have fond memories of it than I would rage quit the game out of frustration and only remember the bad things about it.

Machinarium had been on my backlog for the past 10 years or so and I’m finally glad I got to play it and complete it. It’s a beautiful, well animated and well detailed game with sweet interactions with the other robots. It’s just a shame this game isn’t completely accessible for everyone due to the very hard puzzles.