The Music Machine

A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

The Music Machine is a adventure, indie and horror game developed and published by David Szymanski.
Released on May 06th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 525 reviews of which 467 were positive and 58 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Music Machine into these genres:

Adventure Indie Horror First-Person Walking Simulator Psychological Horror Exploration Atmospheric Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Dark Dark Humor Pixel Graphics Puzzle Stylized Music Short Mystery Female Protagonist Point & Click

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP or Higher
Processor: Intel i3 or equivalent
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon 6870 or equivalent
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 600 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

What a roller coaster of emotions! This game builds on the story of "The Moon Sliver" while also showcasing the struggles of a teenager who is haunted by a vengeful ghost from her past that controls her body. A uniquely absurd execution that enhances the strange ideas of David, making this game a one of a kind. If you're a fan of The Moon Sliver you should definitely play this beautiful game.

Dec. 2024

Interesting visual style, atmosphere, interesting story Recommended for those who wants a fresh new short experience

Nov. 2024

A great experience by David Szymanski! I'd recommend playing this once, as it took ~1 1/2h to complete just exploring everywhere and enjoying the dialogue. Well worth the experience

Oct. 2024

I liked this one a good bit. A neat short story with some cool exploration. I really like how he did the art for this one. Very freaky.

Aug. 2024

Another short horror exploration game improving on David Szymanski's previous titles Fingerbones and The Moon Sliver. Solid minimalist sound and visuals are to be expected at this point, though The Music Machine opts for a more unique and striking monochromatic style which works really well. It's unsettling and creepy without cheap scares, has dialog and a real-time story that flow well, and optional exploration and organic decisions that affect the game's ending. My only mechanical complaint is that the "hold M1 to examine, release to interact" system is silly - there's no reason I wouldn't want to examine something, so it just means I have to spend the whole game running around with M1 held down. I'm not 100% a fan of the lore expansion, as it undermines some of the mystery and potential metaphorical interpretations of The Moon Sliver, but that's purely subjective. The story is the weird part for me: Haley (13f) hangs out with Quintin (34m) because they're both lonely outcasts. She makes an advance, he shuts her down hard, she is hurt and lies to her father saying she was molested, dad kills Quintin, Quintin's ghost possesses her seeking revenge. Based on the player's choices he either finds a horrific way of doing so, or when faced with the reality of his revenge realizes he's not willing to go through with it. Based on both of their dialog, Quintin was entirely in the right and Haley was being childish, got him *killed*, and didn't seem too sorry about it until her own life was in jeopardy. I'm not really sure what the point of their weird "relationship" was. The best interpretation I can come up with is that in contrast to the Spindle Men's horrifically logical, literal, and utilitarian view of the universe, human interaction is illogical, messy, and emotional. Their lives and relationship (romantic or not) were messy before death, messy after, and even though Quintin is apparently completely justified in killing Haley, maybe he won't, even if he doesn't forgive her. If nothing else, it made me think for a bit. 100% worth the $ and time spent.

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Developer

David Szymanski

Publisher

David Szymanski

Release 06 May 2015

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