Machinika: Atlas
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $4.79.
- Length
- 3.8h 4.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 615 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Machinika: Atlas is an indie puzzle game and is the direct sequel to Machinika: Museum, you play as a museum researcher who just land on Atlas. Will you unravel the mysteries of the alien vessel? Solve cryptic puzzles to find out what happened!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with at least 1 GB of dedicated VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
24 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.79 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre. Machinika: Museum ($1.19, scores 87) outscores it, and so does The House of Da Vinci 3 ($19.99, scores 62). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Machinika: Atlas
4 of the 433 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
100% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I can recommend this game. It's not long. But it's also not completely good. It's a nice puzzle game, although I kinda felt like it's holding my hand. Had troubles with one puzzle, but rest were quite easy. Story was quite good, but dialogs were just bad, especially at the end. Also I didn't much liked the message of this game. That essentially was that humanity is bad. There were some tiny hints of positivity about...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Kinda fun, but not excessively so. Dialogue is cringe, some puzzles are genuinely frustrating, others are fun. During transitions there hasn't been much care in hiding the seams around the doors, so you can see that the previous room has unloaded and there are a few pixels where you can see the exterior of the asteroid. Good buy for 4€
"Machinika Museum", the first game, was like "The Room" in that it concentrated on individual devices as its puzzles. "Machinika: Atlas" appears to have followed the format of "The Room Two" where it expanded from singular contraptions into entire rooms of puzzles, but in doing so, it could not match the quality of The Room series, and it lost what was so fun about the original game. The final two chapters in Atlas...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Machinika: Atlas scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2817620/machinika-atlasReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.