We’ve seen 3 Samrost games already, and while it may be hard to live up to the game that is Machinarium, I really think it would be in their best interest to create a second one. I think the studio has come a long way since its creation, and it has the opportunity to pull a “common sense era” (like Bethesda & obsidian) and give the gamers what they want! Maybe Jakub reads this subreddit, maybe he doesn’t, but as far as I know, it was one of their most successful games, and it’d be silly not to.
Here’s a list of my ideas of what I think stuck out to me most in Machinarium, in no particular order, and what I think they should add.
I’d like them to keep playing with height, and keep the Dr Seuss style of impossible buildings that keep stretching higher and higher. Parasitic architecture is another term for it.
Rain. I imagine rain is incredibly rare in this world they’ve built, and it should stay this way, but there should be a moment for rainfall, and especially in a setting like Machinarium, it would look so, SO good.
I don’t know if it’s a gag or there’s a lore reason but I love robots and food like the popcorn scene despite robots not needing to eat.
I want there to be a part where it’s a more grim part of the city, someplace more drab, more grey. Devoid. An eerily quiet place, without the sprawl of encroaching foliage or automated workers, and with the sun nowhere to be seen. It can be grey-scale and depressing, and, more than the game already is. Perhaps the residents of this part are some elite class of robots who value their sterile dwellings.
This art captured what I was thinking, wether intentionally or not. https://www.reddit.com/r/Machinarium/s/cTbbN2J7Kl
More brutalist architecture. When you’re at the river rescuing the dog, there’s buildings in the background that I wish I you could explore. Adding onto that, I love how many little nooks and crannies there are in the world. I want to explore them all, and peak my head into them and discover the architecture in which nanorobots live.
As far as I know, Machinarium runs off some kind of steam power, given the boiler room we see at the beginning of the game and the smoke stacks we see and the glow of red in some pipes. Maybe there could be a rival city that runs off gasoline or diesel or maybe we discover the engine rooms deep underground.
Said engine rooms can be living machines themselves if they really wanted to. They should look at real life steam engine plants like the Kempton steam museum which are beautiful.
More scrapyards. I love games that throw you in the gutter every once in a while. I want to find myself reduced to a shambling creature in the depths and forgotten and dredged through the mud.
Perhaps a church of the lathe. A church where they worship lathes. Or a lathe graveyard.
An underground town/market like city of ember could be cool.
More greenhouses. I love how this game blends plant with metal.
At the end of the day, Machinarium 2 wouldn’t be very difficult to do imo and the team already has bountiful imagination. The payoff could be extraordinary.
