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Games Like Submachine: Legacy
Oct 13, 2023·98% positive·
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Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.
Best games like Submachine: Legacy
The best games like Submachine: Legacy are Subsurface Circular, Monolith, Machinarium, Machinika: Museum, and The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 98% positive across 1k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Indie, Adventure, platform support for Windows, and $24.99 pricing signal.
- Subsurface Circular - Subsurface Circular is closely similar to Submachine: Legacy because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Point & Click, Adventure, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Monolith - Monolith is closely similar to Submachine: Legacy because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Puzzle, Point & Click, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Machinarium - Machinarium is closely similar to Submachine: Legacy because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Puzzle, Point & Click, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Machinika: Museum - Machinika: Museum is closely similar to Submachine: Legacy because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Puzzle, Point & Click, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 - The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 is closely similar to Submachine: Legacy because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Puzzle, Point & Click, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
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Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You will find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way.
the World of Submachine
With over 1900 rooms to visit, there's a lot to see here. The underground world of submerged machines offers you vast variety of locations and structures to discover and repair. While everything is shattered, you will try to put things back together to understand and escape.
Story
You are alone here. You will follow the footsteps of a banished lighthouse keeper discovering his descent into ruins of Submachine. The story is divided into chapters that will unlock for you as you progress through the game. The story is conveyed by series of notes that you'll collect and read.
Puzzles
There are tons of puzzles, some of which you'll solve by bringing the machinery back online, tinkering with it, turning off and on again. For others you'll need to find missing parts, levers that were broken off or stolen, depleted power sources, gears, cogs, lamps, coils and so on. As you move through the structure, you will be putting back together things that were shattered.
Graphics
Entire game is hand-drawn. There's nothing auto-generated nor procedural. Each location was thoughtfully designed. Stylized drawings give the game its eerie atmosphere.
Music
Ambient music for this game was created by ThumpMonks, with chapter 1 ambient by Marcus Gutierrez. The music perfectly emphasizes the atmosphere of lonely exploration.
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