Machinarium
Fair · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $5.98, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in February 2021. 86 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.98. The record reaches that level 74 times.
On value it sits in the top 7 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).
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; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,541 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 5.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
60% start to 27% 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
Players
125 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Might be the best point and click game I have ever played. The art, story and soundtrack are top tier
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Machinarium scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40700/machinariumThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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