The Music Machine
Fair · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.56/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 615 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.30 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, AMD Radeon 6870 or equivalent, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 93 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Iron Lung ($7.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Fingerbones (free, scores 52).
More about The Music Machine
None of the 290 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
- I'm sorry. - Ok. - About what I did. I'm sorry. - I said ok. - Doesn't it matter ? - No.
2 more reviews
Credit where it's due, the visual direction is probably my favorite in all games i've ever played. Story is a little odd.
Walking sims are boring, but I found the characters in this one to be enjoyable and the art style is very beautiful and unique. Overall, it is worth it, but maybe pass if you dislike walking sims.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Music Machine scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/359040/the-music-machineReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.