The Automatician

[H1]Charming puzzle game that ends too soon[/H1] [b]Introduction[/b] The game mixes solving Rube Goldberg machines with environmental puzzles. Instead of giving you loose pieces like in the Incredible Machine, you're given complete tile sets each with several start and finish points that you have to piece together. It's a bit like the game 'the Mouse Trap'. The graphics are really well done and I genuinly like the look of the Whodos. You can also talk to the Whodos who will give you a tiny bit of back story about the mansion. You can pick up a limited number of items and use them to solve puzzles in the various rooms of the mansion. This gives the game some variety and prevents it from being just a string of puzzles. [b]Weak points[/b] However the story about what happened at the mansion as is promised on the storepage is merely mentioned once or twice instead of actually told. I still don't know what an automatician is, why Emma wants to be one, where the Whodos came from and what ha...

Just finished the game in 54 minutes.... It was a fun ride, original concept and a nice visual style. However the sudden ending was too short and sudden. Definetly not worth 8,-

Started playing this game while eating, finished the game almost before my food, not bad but needs to be longer for the money spent, I'd only get it if on sale

With the exception of the environmental puzzles, all the puzzles seem to be the same hexagonal type, where you connect two nodes together using pieces of varying shape. I didn't find the cute Victorian-style graphics able to rescue the repetitive nature of the puzzles themselves.

a very cool game about using animated puzzle pieces to connect two points. the graphics are fantastic and the concept is really unique. if you like puzzle games this one is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcKL1hLVLr8&feature=youtu.be

Cons:One of the main problem with this game is that it only takes around 2 or less hours to complete it. I also feel as though the story was unfinished. I wish maybe that we could play as Emma when she is the automatician. I also found a key that you can pick up and never found the meaning of it. In the room where the fountain is there is a door that is locked that i thought the mystery key was for. What are all those do not enter signs on those doors about. Why didn't I ever get to go upstairs. Who are the people that I'm competing with? Pros?- The puzzles are easy, that could be a con though. I did a play through on my channel too. It only lasted 3 episodes. My channel is Blue Razzle.

So I was able to beat the game pretty fast, I'll keep it around for any posible extending to the story. As of right now though the game is very short and can be completed from anywhere to a couple of minutes to about a solid hour. I'm really looking forward to see this game grow. If you like a nice puzzle game, this game is perfect

Too short, too many bugs, too little response from "developers" (read that "students who have graduated"). This is a fairly clever little game that was not really ready to become a product before, it appears, the course it was written for ended. We never could figure out how to get into the secret room, even though we must have "solved" the game, as the credit roll came up after we solved the last puzzle. But, there were a couple of unchecked items still on our list of quests. Worse, one of the walkthroughs clearly shows that same item marked as completed just after an action that one would expect to complete it, yet that did not get it marked completed when we took that action ourselves. There doesn't seem to be any response from the developers for a couple of years, at least. Steam ought to take this one down.

It's an interesting game, although slightly frustrating if you don't know how the puzzles work. It reminds me of The Incredible Machine, where you have to put different parts together so that they interact with each other. Although in this game the different parts don't mesh well together and don't make sense. I think there is a lot of wasted potential with this game, with a bit of polish this would be an epic game to play. Also, there is one achievement which is slightly glitched, however it is possible to get it on a second playthrough, once you have uncovered the secret room.

Stunning visuals and a great soundtrack! Be sure to look for the additional content after the game ends though, it was an essential part of the experience for me.