# Machinika Museum — Mystery puzzle game

> Mystery puzzle game with alien machines, logic puzzles, and a narrative. (iPhone/iPad app by Plug In Digital.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/machinika-museum/id1543204967 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Plug In Digital](https://appshunter.io/developer/608306412)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Adventure, Puzzle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 3,777 App Store ratings · 689 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 1.4 GB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish and 1 more
- Released: 2021-04-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/machinika-museum/id1543204967/reviews.md

## What is Machinika Museum?

Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story.

Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along. Do you like The Room? Myst? The Witness? Machinarium? Escape games? Do you like finding out what is behind a locked door? So do we! 

Key features:

•	Mind bending Puzzles: use your sharp logic skills and your sense of observation
•	Mysterious atmosphere and story: there is so much you don't know about yet...
•	Wonderful visuals, cryptic alien machines have never looked better
•	Intuitive and enjoyable touch controls. Why make it complicated?
•	Available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian

What are these machines? Who sent them? And why won't anyone give you answers? You will have to find for yourself. In this far future, finding machines from alien civilizations is not unusual, especially in a museum dedicated to them. But this time it looks like something deeper is hidden from you...

This app is a free-to-try demo including the first chapter. The purchase of an inapp is necessary to unlock all the content of the game.

## Key features

- Mind-bending puzzles
- Mysterious atmosphere and story
- Cryptic alien machines
- Intuitive touch controls
- Multi-language support

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full Game Package | $4.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Machinika Museum?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Accrocheur
- 👍 Amazing Game
- 👍 Wonderfully difficult
- 👍 Very Nice
- 👍 Intéressant
- 👍 Awesome!
- 👍 One of my favourites!!
- 👍 Simple and Effective Investigative Puzzler!
- 👍 Really enjoyed this game—looking forward to game 2!
- 👍 Fun!
- 👍 Best puzzle game I ever played!
- 👍 Very Roomy
- 👍 Review
- 👍 Well done puzzle game
- 👍 Love it!
- 👍 Un bon divertissement
- 👍 Wonderful game - you'll want to savor this one
- 👍 Compelling game
- 👍 A lot like The Room series
- 👍 Fantastic!!
- 👍 Great game - let down ending
- 👍 Excellent puzzle game
- 👍 This was a great game.
- 👍 So far so good!!
- 👍 Bv
- 👍 NEXT GAME PLEASE
- 👍 Fabulous
- 👍 Great Job Guys!!
- 👍 Enjoyable Puzzler

**Cons**

- 🐛 Puzzles are very vague
- 🐛 Need some hints!
- 🐛 Disappointing for the price
- 🐛 Chapter 7 is impossible to get past
- 🐛 Disappointed
- 🐛 Good game but have bugs
- 🐛 Short chapter a bit easy
- 🐛 Can't play again without paying again
- 🐛 Not interested in your newsletter
- 🐛 Damaged goods
- 🐛 Would be 5 stars but…
- 🐛 Too many bugs
- 🐛 Very nice puzzle but buggy
- 🐛 A little buggy.
- 🐛 Too short
- 🐛 Why so short/ pourquoi si court
- 🐛 Started off loving the puzzles...
- 🐛 Save feature needed
- 🐛 Poor interface
- 🐛 Stuck on chapter 3

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Overlapping of inventory line to gameplay causing gamers to have to restart chapters
- Soft-locking issues requiring restart
- Inability to save progress within chapters
- Controls issues, especially with zooming
- Glitches causing loss of progress

**Most requested features**

- Hint system
- More levels
- Ability to replay without paying again
- Option to remove curse words

## Recent user reviews (10 of 689)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/machinika-museum/id1543204967/reviews.md

### 2/5 — More frustrating than challenging; Touchscreen roulette

*2026-08-18, version 1.15*

I really wanted to like this game, especially after playing The Room series, but I found it more frustrating than fun. The biggest issue isn’t the difficulty of the puzzles—it’s the controls and lack of feedback. Many objects only respond if you touch or swipe a very specific spot, so I repeatedly tried the correct interaction, got no response, and naturally assumed the object wasn’t interactive.

Several puzzles also give you almost no indication of what the rules actually are, so instead of logically solving them, you’re left guessing what the game wants you to do. Even worse, during the final puzzle we had everything set correctly and nothing happened. We finally redid the exact same settings, and then the ending triggered.

I love challenging puzzle games and don’t mind being stuck because I haven’t figured something out. But being stuck because the game didn’t register the correct input—or because you have to guess the rules of the puzzle—isn’t challenging, it’s frustrating. There are some great ideas here, but the finicky controls and lack of intuitive feedback really took away from the experience.

### 1/5 — Não é um jogo grátis.

*2026-07-22*

Seria mais honesto se tivessem lançado uma demo grátis e um jogo pago separado. Este jogo só te deixa jogar o primeiro capítulo e depois você tem que comprar, achei enganoso

### 5/5 — Machinika Museum

*2026-03-09, version 1.15*

Best game ever. Please continue with a 3 and 4 and more. Two is not enough. I hope to see a new game soon. Awesome, awesome game.

### 5/5 — Like the rooms game by game fire or fire games

*2026-02-07, version 1.15*

Good

### 5/5 — Nicely done!

*2026-02-03*

Similar to The Room as it uses quality graphics and evokes a steampunk yet futuristic vibe

### 2/5 — Glitchy and too clever by half

*2026-02-02, version 1.15*

Glitchy operations (especially final assembly scene); annoyingly counter-intuitive puzzles; shameless The Room rip-off, but not as elegant or interesting, with an extraterrestrial end scene that looks like it was designed by a 10-year-old with Legos

### 5/5 — Medium difficulty puzzles, high degree of ASMR

*2026-01-10, version 1.15*

I experienced no bugs in the game like others have posted in their reviews, so I believe the developer is completely ironed out any bugs that were there before. The game took me approximately five hours to complete, maybe six, but it was an extremely enjoyable and soothing journey.

### 5/5 — Machinika Museum

*2025-12-08, version 1.15*

Best game ever. Please continue with a 3 and 4 and more. Two is not enough. Please keep it going.

### 5/5 — Lots of fun

*2025-12-01, version 1.0*

The detail is astounding and kept me captivated

### 4/5 — Ok

*2025-11-16, version 1.15*

Beautiful graphics, very well done, but I had to bail out part way into Chapter 7 and never finished. The puzzles became tedious and un-engaging. I stopped caring if I solved them or not.

## Frequently asked questions about Machinika Museum

### What is Machinika Museum about?

Machinika Museum is a mystery puzzle game where players interact with and repair complex alien machines. The game combines logic-based puzzles with a compelling, galaxy-spanning story that players uncover as they progress.

### What are the key features of this game?

The game features mind-bending puzzles that require logic and observation, a mysterious atmosphere with an unfolding story, visually stunning alien machines, and intuitive touch controls. It also supports multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.

### How much does Machinika Museum cost?

The app is free to try and includes the first chapter of the game. To unlock all the content and continue the full experience, a purchase within the app is necessary.

### What kind of puzzles can I expect?

You can expect logic-based puzzles that challenge your sense of observation and problem-solving skills. These puzzles are integrated into the mysterious alien machines, requiring you to figure out their mechanisms and how to fix them.

### Is this game suitable for casual players?

While the puzzles are designed to be mind-bending, the game features intuitive and enjoyable touch controls, making it accessible. The narrative aspect also appeals to players who enjoy engaging stories alongside their gameplay.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.15 — 2024-08-20

• Discover Machinika: Atlas now on the App Store!
• Bug fixes and improvements

### 1.14 — 2022-06-09

• Two brand new original chapters!
• Explore the two lost machines of the Museum.
• Bug fixes and improvements

### 1.13 — 2022-06-08

• Two brand new original chapters!
• Explore the two lost machines of the Museum.
• Bug fixes and improvements

### 1.12 — 2022-05-13

• Two brand new original chapters!
• Explore the two lost machines of the Museum.
• Bug fixes and improvements

### 1.11 — 2022-05-11

• Two brand new original chapters ! 
• Explore the two lost machines of the Museum.
• Bug fixes and improvements

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*