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Comment by sebmellen

14 hours ago

What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!

I played it with my wife on the couch over many winters evenings, and then ten years later played it with my daughter. Good times. Reminded me of playing Sierra games as a kid.

  • Same here, though no kids yet.

    I bought the soundtrack on vinyl (by Tomáš Dvořák, aka Floex), then got a record player, aaaand ended up accumulating a ton of records since then.

    I still play that record though, it never gets old.

    The other game that we enjoyed in a very similar way is Primordia [1]. Named our first cat Crispin afterwards.

    You will probably enjoy Boxville [2]; it's very much Machinarium-inspired. Its sequel, Boxville 2,came out recently, so there's more in store.

    It's Ukrainian-made (Machinarium is Czech), so the devs share a gritty post-communist childhood to draw the inspiration from.

    [1] https://primordia-game.com/log.html

    [2] https://store.steampowered.com/developer/triomatica

    • There’s also an album called Machinarium Remixed, which is the original soundtrack made into slightly more energetic/EDM tracks. Really good stuff.

I really enjoyed "Samorost 3" by the same developers. Machinarium still takes the cake though.