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Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.
The Mobius Machine is a metroidvania, exploration and side scroller game
developed and published by Madruga Works.
Released on March 01st 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 354 reviews of which 303 were positive and 51 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 12.51€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or above (64 bit)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible with support for Shader Model 5.0 and 1GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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A good metroidvania. Though it can feel a tad too long at times. If you like to explore, get a bit lost sometimes, and shooting disgusting aliens (a lot), this game might be for you. Cool Stuff + Looots of branching paths. It that sense, the exploration and level design are very good (as long as you can handle to have heaps of alternative paths to explore). + Satisfying progression, though if you get lost a lot it could feel slow. + Game feel is good in general. + Lots of collectables and stuff. Not So Cool Stuff - The map is too big for its own sake. Add to this the low enemy and environment variation, and you'll find yourself asking again and again: "Have I been here already?" And half of the times the answer will be no, but the zone will look and feel so similar to others already visited that you'll feel that repetition. A lot. The whole map could have been 1/3 smaller, and the game would have been better for me. - Lots of attacks coming from nowhere. There's really no point in the game when you feel invincible. You get health upgrades, but even playing in "normal" it can be easy to see big chunks of your health evaporate in seconds if you're not careful. Then, even if YOU ARE careful, there were lots of situations where an enemy attack would fly towards me from outside the screen, or behind a wall, without previous notice. Not cool. - Backtracking can get tedious. -- Enemies are damage sponges, and the weapon upgrades don't give you that much of a damage boost in general. This means that enemies, new and old, will annoy you lots of times when you're trying to just get past an earlier zone of the game. -- Even though shortcuts are everywhere, and very well placed, there are some spots that, for reasons I couldn't tell, are one way passages. That's not clear in the map, so it happened sometimes that my backtracks turned out to be doubled because of this. -- Some puzzles and / or indestructible enemies that you'll need to pass through again and again. -- Some zones' navigation can be tricky, so getting past them can get overcomplicated. - The breaking platforms puzzle. I hate it, and seeing other reviews I can tell I'm not alone here. In some places you'll need to jump on destructuble platforms, and some indestructible enemies below will keep firing missiles that break them. If that happens, you fall, take damage, and have to find your way back again. In theory it works. In practice, there's so short time to notice those missiles that you won't be able to react, and will be only able to see how platforms are destroyed just below your feet right before landing. Frustrating.
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I have been playing video games for a very long time (way too long) and I now have a new game in my all time favourites list. For me this is the #1 Metroidvania. What a great time I had getting 100% in this game. The difficulty, pacing, graphics, sound and game play are absolutely fantastic. The animation of the main character and the enemies was great. It is a shame it had to end. It is sad a wider audience did not see this game. I can't wait to play Madruga Works' next game! (If you need help testing.) p.s. Just buy it! Don't wait for a sale.
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As I write this, The Möbius Machine has a recent rating of "Mixed" on Steam, and that feels unfair. It's a competently made Metroid-like with some of the best art direction/graphics I've seen in a 2.5D platformer, enjoyable combat and satisfying exploration. I wasn't even bothered for 2/3 of my playthrough by the reuse of enemies and level design as it offered up opportunities for the game to either prepare me for a familiar challenge or play with my expectations. There's a weirdly, pleasantly chill vibe to exploring this hostile alien world that I found refreshing after the punishing aggression of a game like Zexion. That said, Zexion is ultimately a better game both because it has higher highs (e.g., far more engaging bosses and set pieces) and better overall pacing. By the final third of Möbius, I was less forgiving of the samey-ness of it; once I'd beaten the final boss, I suspected I'd missed the true ending, but traversal through the nooks and crannies of the map had gotten so mind-numbing, with upgrades increasingly so lackluster and fast travel just limited enough to be annoying, that I uninstalled it and moved on. That said, this is a *good* game. A very good game. I thoroughly enjoyed the vast majority of my playthrough and could easily recommend it to anyone. Though it had me pining for some late-game Blade Chimera-esque fast travel at the end, it's worth Metroidvania fans' time, especially those who favor Metroid-likes specifically.
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This was easily one of the best games I have played in a really long time. The game really never drops in quality. Gameplay was amazing, with an insane amount of build diversity built around the weapons and stats, and every character has a particular use that makes them a viable party member. I used pretty much everyone throughout different parts of the game. Tons of bonus areas/content/challenges toward the end that I am still digging through. This feels like an older JRPG in this regard, but doesn't feel mandatory, which is really nice. The music was phenomenal but that was obvious from the first 12 hours I played. The story was incredible, and without spoiling anything, the ending offers something that games have done before, but possibly not executed this well in all of the games I have played. Characters are amazing, and while not all get an equal spotlight, I have NEVER thought this to solely be an issue in the past, and I can safely say it isn't in this game. It is unrealistic to this story, and I think it makes a lot more sense if you beat the game. I am pretty speechless. I tend to rate games after beating them, and I haven't given a new game a 10 in nearly 7 years, until this one came out.
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It's a very solid Metroidvania with a pretty huge and open map, lots of secrets to find and quite a lot of potential sequence breakers. Great visuals and fluid control, interesting enemies and well designed bosses. Also props for including some unique abilities that act as substitutes for more traditional ones like double jump or air dash. The level design is really well crafted around these and makes backtracking and exploration feel satisfying.
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The Mobius Machine is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
The Mobius Machine is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
The Mobius Machine received 303 positive votes out of a total of 354 achieving a rating of 7.95.
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The Mobius Machine was developed and published by Madruga Works.
The Mobius Machine is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Mobius Machine is not playable on MacOS.
The Mobius Machine is not playable on Linux.
The Mobius Machine is a single-player game.
The Mobius Machine does not currently offer any DLC.
The Mobius Machine does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Mobius Machine does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Mobius Machine is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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