Machineers - Episode 1: Tivoli Town

An interesting game that will get your brain moving Machineers is a very cool idea for an adventure, or rather a series of mini-games sprinkled with a point and click story. We play as a robot woman who is thrown into the middle of the robot world, - to get further she has to help everyone in turn, of her own free will or not. Everyone we meet will want and need something, and we have to set the algorithm for the...

13 found this helpful, 2015-05-16

The puzzles seem similar to older games like crazy machines. You put missing parts in machines and fix them. The game always gives you clear instructions what the machine should do, there is never any confusion about the goal. Most of the problems are timing related, which can be solved by trial and error, but also with a little bit of thinking ahead. For someone who loves games like spacechem and infinifactory, the...

6 found this helpful, 2015-05-26

The introductory episode of Machineers is awfully short. 72 minutes to complete in a very leisurely fashion. I was really expecting twice as much content, even for $5. There is a small amount of replayability or non-puzzle interaction. For example, once you (partially) fix a Space Invaders game, you can play it. Once you fix a DJ console, you can mix a track. And if you choose not to complete the 1st episode by...

10 found this helpful, 2015-07-27