Machinarium / PC – $10 today

Direct2Drive has been having a 24 days, 24 games sale. Today’s game is Machinarium / PC (84 at GameRankings).

It’s a very attractive puzzle game, released in October. You play a little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard. You have to return to the city, confront the evil organization behind your demise, and save your girlfriend.

In their ‘A’ review, the Onion said:

Machinarium, a point-and-click adventure game set in a strangely recognizable robot city, is one of the most beautiful games to hit home computers in a long time. It achieves this with the barest possible technology: colored pencil drawings, ethereal music, and crude pictograph dialogue. The atmosphere is almost filmic, like Metropolis and Jean-Pierre Jeunet filtered through The Triplets Of Belleville, but the gameplay is joyously inspired.

Here’s what gameplay looks like: