Machinarium is a new point and click puzzle/adventure game by the indie devs at Amanita Design. Their previous web-based titles, Samorost and Samorost 2, were subject to much acclaim.

“A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend.”

I just recently discovered Machinarium. After watching the wonderful trailer I immediately had to seek out information on the developers. Though their games are short with simple gameplay, the surreal graphics and original score make them very unique. Once you see this game in motion it really is like beautiful art come to life.

If you’re interested, which you should be, you might want to check out their first two games to get an idea of games’ style. You can play the full 6 levels of Samorost completely free on it’s official website. Samorost 2, however, will cost you 5 bucks. Though you can play a preview of the first 3 levels, 7 in total, for free as well.

I played both games yesterday and they were very entertaining. Great stuff for a lazy Saturday night. I didn’t actually time it but it felt like I got a good half hour of game time out of each. Not bad at all for a free game and another worth $5. Very inexpensive and you are helping out some independent developers. Which is always a great thing.

Machinarium is scheduled to release in October 2009. You can now pre-order the game to get $3 off the final price of $20 plus some additional goodies. Though Machinarium and the Samorost series have different art direction, they are both great none the less.

And now that I can think of anything else to say, head on over to Adventure Gamers where you can read a great hands-on preview.