Machinarium
Fair · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.92/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 21,479
- Critics
- 85 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.1h
- To 100%
- 6h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 February 2021
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 118 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 27% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
87 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.93. The record reaches that level 75 times.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Samorost 3 ($19.99, scores 60).
More about Machinarium
85 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,566 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Pretty to look at, but the puzzles are a headache. 𓊈 PROS 𓊉 ㅤ - The art . So incredibly detailed that the visuals alone easily justify the purchase and make it worth experiencing. 𓊈 CONS 𓊉 ㅤ - The puzzles . Like many Amanita Design titles, they can be un-intuitive, sometimes forcing you to pixel-hunt or click randomly just to progress. ㅤ - 20$ . The game is relatively short for its current price, especially if you...
2 more reviews
My huge respect to the artists who made this game, who imagined such beautiful and cute atmosphere, and composed the music...
A puzzle game that is not only great but genuinely thought provoking. Made me a smarter person.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Machinarium is the award-winning adventure game from the makers of Phonopolis, CHUCHEL and the Samorost series. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta, kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Machinarium scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40700/machinariumReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.