machinarium is ART

I never thought I would ever write about a computer game on this blog. But this game deserves more than just a few lines...

Machinarium is poetry
Machinarium is art

The game consists of several rooms where you have to help a robot find his robot-girlfriend and help other characters in a very weird futuristic world, by pointing and clicking.

Sounds boring? It is not!
You will fall in love with the characters just as I did...
AND all of them are machines!
In some way they all have character and some of them radiate so much sadness that it's incredible...
I really felt sorry for the robots, and wanted to save the city and could not explore other rooms until I had helped them. I wanted to make them happy, so I could feel happier. Only then I felt like I could move on and explore the world some more.

Since all I wanted to do is help my poor robot and the other friendly robots the fastest I could, I basically stopped looking for the answers and solutions all by my self and went straight to the help guide that every room includes. This helped me solve the game in just a few days of playing.

I was so committed to helping him that I invested a lot of my time into the game... I guess...But don't think this was a stressful experience.
On the contrary.
Playing machinarium was my escape-moment of the day.

While playing you are submerged in a flash created world where there is real beauty in every place you go to.
Adding to the wonderfully designed scenarios and solutions, which are really fun, the soundtrack of the game is just addicting. The man Tomas Dvorak is a genius composer



The music just adds a ton of emotion to the scenes, and playing the game just becomes a wonderful experience.
The robots seem to come alive and it's an adventure to meet them and help them.



I have to say, this has definitely become my favorite computer game (also available for mac)
I strongly recommend you take a look at this
hopefully you will fall in love too =)
have a great day!


p.s. for the people who are stuck in one room and don't know what to do, even after checking the help guide of the game, there are walkthroughs on youtube for each level. But do not use them unless you are desperate!
I don't know how reducing they must be, but the fun of playing machinarium is also being creative and trying out every option for yourself.
There are no rights or wrongs, just save the game and try playing with objects and seeing what happens!
Have fun!