Machinika User Reviews

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Can’t play since latest updates

Was playing just fine yesterday until I updated it. Now it’s making me replay the magnetic screwdriver that I already financed and on top of that when I go to use the screwdriver and zoom in on the task, the screwdriver doesn’t come with me and I can’t back out using the back arrow. This is why I hate doing updates on apps. They always screw everything up
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Bugs bugs and cool doors

There’s some minor graphical glitches with the doors, during the loading sequence the ceiling sometimes freaks out and so does the lighting and textures. I like the game but please make better hints as they don’t help at all besides guiding you to the object. The only other problem I have with this game is the load time, if you can find a way to make it more reasonable that would be great (im sitting in front of doors for a while and there’s nothing to do while that’s happening, if you can’t shorten the load time maybe have something to do while it happens) anyways Good game and it’ll earn a five star once the graphical glitches are fixed and maybe the hint system.
Edit! The bugs are getting better but the doors are still a problem, I found an annoying solution. If you turn your graphics down the doors work better. As well as this in the security room the hologram has a weird visual glitch that has a giant bright light randomly appear. Please fix that as I can’t deal with it. If you could fix the loading times as well that would be great but not necessary.
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Major major bugs

Many bugs on iPad.
Updated and it wants me to buy again.
I already paid but can not go back to chap 4 where a bug wouldn’t let me use screwdriver on pod.

Can not recommending this game on iPad.

Bugs bugs and cool doors

There’s some minor graphical glitches with the doors, during the loading sequence the ceiling sometimes freaks out and so does the lighting and textures. I like the game but please make better hints as they don’t help at all besides guiding you to the object. The only other problem I have with this game is the load time, if you can find a way to make it more reasonable that would be great (im sitting in front of doors for a while and there’s nothing to do while that’s happening, if you can’t shorten the load time maybe have something to do while it happens) anyways Good game and it’ll earn a five star once the graphical glitches are fixed and maybe the hint system.
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Improved

But still buggy. The story line is fun and the problems solvable. I hope more is done to remove the remaining bugs. I also look forward to the next episode, somewhere in the galaxy?

Response from developer

We're sorry that our game didn't meet your expectations. We will try to improve these parts as soon as possible and release a new version of the game. Stay tuned!

Could be a great game but it isn’t

I persevered with this game, having been stuck on the very first game because I couldn’t see the screen due to a bug. Eventually, I managed to get around it, can’t remember how. I found that sometimes I would tap on something and nothing would happen but I continued because the hints kept sending me back and eventually it would work. Some of the puzzles are really enjoyable but some are quite bizarre and I couldn’t work out what you were supposed to do, as there were no instructions or hints like I have seen in other games. The hints seemed to become completely unhelpful, continually, prompting to interact with ‘something’. I have finally given up as the game is just crashing and I can’t get back to where I was. What a shame!
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Decent game, but numerous bugs.

Overall, the game is good, but there are bugs in too many areas.

1. The puzzles using the drone are buggy. In one puzzle, even after setting the switch in the correct position so that the door is open, the forward and backward icons never appear, and the drone cannot be driven forward to complete the puzzle. The only solution is to skip the puzzle, which I would have preferred not to do.

2. In another drone puzzle, where three switches of different colours need activating, the puzzles involving the green and blue ones worked, but the red wouldn’t activate. Skipping the puzzle was necessary .

3. After completing the puzzles in the engine room, and after ‘chapter complete”, one could not proceed to chapter 7 without exiting and choosing chapter 7 from the chapter menu.
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Game locks up

In the anti gravity section, game lock's up, tried restarting but issue continues. I don’t know the name of the room, game also lock’s up when I try to access the chapters.

Minor glitches

Great game, lots of interesting puzzles!

I'm running it on an iPad Pro 5th gen with LOTS of memory and iPadOS 18.1.

I keep hitting glitches in the red-to-green spinners to open doors in which the spinner just keeps spinning, sometimes dozens of times. I have to exit the game completely and re-start it with the 'Chapters' selector because 'resume' just takes me back to the running spinner.

Also, a couple of run-throughs have seen it glitch after the engine room chapter is completed. You exit the operator seat, then can't head for the door, and have to quit and resume.

Overall it's a very enjoyable game and i recommend it.
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Want to enjoy - please make functionality change?

I listen to audiobooks while playing puzzle games. Atlas preempts audio so I can’t. If you change it, I will immediately purchase the game. Sadly, most game audio generally irritates me and regardless I don’t single-task, ever. Probably a weird request from a 50 year old, but I’d really appreciate it if you’d make the audio fully disable. IOS 17.5.1 if that helps.
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