Machinarium launches on Switch next week

Machinarium will arrive on Switch next week, a Japanese eShop listing has revealed. The adventure game had previously been confirmed for Switch during the summer.

Here’s an overview and trailer for Machinarium:

Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost and Botanicula.

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.

– World: Machinarium world is populated only by robots of various forms and functions. One of the most interesting places in this world is old, rusty and legendary city of Machinarium where the game takes place
– Story: You will have to get rid of wicked robots from the Black Cap Brotherhood and save the head of the city and also your robot-girl friend
– Puzzles: You will be solving many logical puzzles, adventure quests, brain teasers and mini-games
– Graphics: Backgrounds and characters are 2D hand-drawn and there is more then one hour of carefully crafted animations
– Music: Beautiful original soundtrack was composed and recorded by Floex (Samorost2 OST)
Communication: You won’t find any lengthy boring dialogs in this game, characters talk by comic bubbles with simple animations and symbols

Machinarium will release on November 1. Essentially all languages are supported, so expect a worldwide release.

Source: Switch eShop