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Escape Machine City – Puzzle Game Review
Escape Machine City is a Puzzle/Adventure game from Snapbreak Games AB, first launched in 1st September 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 742+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Escape Machine City Stand Out
Can you escape Machine City?
- A next level escape game with stunning 3D graphics and visual effects!
- 15 beautiful levels to explore! First 8 levels are available free of charge!
- Dozens of challenging quests and original puzzles!
- An escape game you will remember!
An imminent destruction is facing the town, and you are the only one left behind…
Discover a strangely unique machine world that is trapped on a high cliff in a desolated wasteland.
If you think you have what it takes to escape Machine City then go on and download this game now!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Escape Machine City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th November 2019
Recent improvements include:
Walkthrough bug fixed
Download & Availability
Escape Machine City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Escape Machine City on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
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We love these games, already finished "Machine City Airborne", having fun on this one now . Not too hard & not too easy, perfect for our old aging brain LOL ! We just WISH there were more of the flying city machine games, they're just plain AWESOME.
We love figuring out puzzles. We hate having a character. We hate stories. We hate dialogue. We hate when puzzles are too hard to solve because due to leaps of logic. We just want to be us, solving a series of puzzles just hard enough that we have to think. Snapbreak games have that and we replay their games a lot.
We would definitely love to have a label for what objects are what but for most, it was fairly easy based off the picture alone. We love this game! Ive enjoyed each app they put out and this one is just the same. Great game, just had one recommendation and thats saying a lot! Thanks for the fun.
This was an easy decision to spend a few bucks. There are a couple of things that would normally prevent us giving this a five star rating but we want to encourage the developer to make more games like this. The puzzles skew on the easy side which suits us fine. Nothing frustrates us more than heading to a walkthrough and realizing we missed some obscure object or didnt tap the exact sequence. The short levels are nice too because we can fit one or two or three in here and there without having to get back into the same frame of mind later. This is casual point and click at its best. Downsides: no save within a level. Not terribly tragic given the levels arent long but still an annoyance. The last puzzle in the factory frustrated us because we didnt realize you had to actually push a button to open the door. We just kept trying to get the right combination of gear rotations for a good fifteen minutes before we accidentally tapped the button when it was uncovered. Even looked at some walkthroughs and still didnt get it. Other than that, this was an entertaining way to pass the time for a couple of hours.
Perfect little puzzles. Beautiful graphics. Nice little story lines. Also check out tiny robots That is a cute little puzzle game.
We have really been struggling to find something out there that we catch our interest.Even though we are only through three levels it has kept our interest and for us that its a good thing. Because we dont hands are the devils tools. Thank you so much for taking the time to develop the game and good luck in the future.
Nice music and graphics. Not too hard, relaxing.
Tried to contact developers , couldnt. #14 Oil Refinery, tapping to get green lights to come on the 6 tanks, didnt work. We watched the walk through, still couldnt get the green lights to come on all 6 tanks. We are afraid of damaging our new iPad.
Interesting escape game. Make you think and concentrate. Truly, enjoying it and would recommended it to everyone.
Hoping this developer keeps it going, we really enjoy this style. You can play for a couple minutes, or for an hour. Its a good level of difficulty although we could stand a bit more. We hope this style turns into a category, like Big Fish has done for HO. Thank you.
Cant get out of level 3 It wont let us move the truck to open gate Thanks.
This game is fantastic! The graphics are beautiful and the puzzles are challenging. We didnt have any glitches in playing or saving the games like other reviewers claim. We had to use a couple of hints only because we didnt know what the item was. Exp: we thought the item was a pizza cutter but it was a bolt remover. It would really help if the item was identified when you click on it. We did download two of the games advertised but we never purchase additional levels of the game Im playing. We would love to have been able to play more levels of this game for free.
Its older, but is still kind of fun to figure out, and it provides really good hints without watching ads.
Just like in airborne it has green glowing people that are dead and hints to so it could be better.
This game is almost 5 stars. But its missing something other adventure games do: object descriptions. A text blurb or hint or the player characters thoughts displayed when you click on an interactive element. Its used a lot in adventure games because it adds immersion, builds the story, and gives you subtle hints about the puzzles solution. This game is missing that. Sometimes youll just click the whole screen like mad and then be annoyed when the solution is extremely obvious and you realize youre just an idiot.
We like this game because the puzzles are just challenging enough to be interesting but not hard enough to be frustrating. The game saves your level, but the one thing we dont like is it wont save your progress WITHIN a level. If you dont finish all the puzzles, you have to start the level over when you go back. You just finally get a tricky part solved, then get interrupted and have to go through the whole thing again. Not good.
We hope a developer is on here. We got to level 13 but couldnt get the last panel to work to open the door. We bought the next levels and tried to go to level 14 but it wont open. Do we have to finish 13 before we go to 14? We just couldnt get that last panel to open. Help.
We prefer hint rather than the video.
Id pay to have the ads removed, but the game is fun.
So fun to play and the graphics are great. Shorting it one star because it sometimes makes us start a level all over again if we have to put it down halfway through.
Level 10. How does one know which direction the cog wheels should point? Level 12. How do the flashing lights relate to the code for the door.? Once we places the wheels in the ceiling puzzle, the lights flashed yellow and red. When we came back to the game later, they were only flashing yellow.
The game has been challenging and enjoyable. Our main complaint is we have to hold our iPad upside down to play. It doesnt rotate to the other landscape position.
Fun. But – This game doesnt re-orient itself based on the rotation of an iPad. Its upside down relative to every other app when propped up on a folio case.
Love this game but do not like glitches. On level 16 right at the very end we cannot make the wheel move no matter how many times we tried. And of course, once u leave, it makes u start all over again.
When we were trying to decide if we wanted to buy the extra chapters we read that the remaining chapters were longer. We did not find this to be true, it even seemed that some where actually shorter. Even at $2.99 for the extra chapters we felt that the extra chapters were not as advertised and not worth the money spent.
Please do something about the 6 tanks on this level. We managed to get to the last one and had to quit or we would throw our phone. It is virtually impossible. We think we have more levels but we cant move past it. The idea of the game is to challenge, not frustrate.
We would enjoy more – but game plays upside down on our iPad. Annoying.
We have completed the first 3 levels so far. The levels are too short and the puzzles for each level are too easy. Overall fun but not worth paying for the additional levels unless this game becomes more challenging.
Good luck igniting the sixth combustion tank on level 14 in the gas refinery. Very frustrating. Enough for us to drop our rating from 5 to 3 stars. We get puzzles should be challenging but not virtually impossible.
This game is fun, with fantastic graphics, but its WAY too easy for experienced adult puzzlers. This would be a fantastic game for for a kid learning to do puzzle games, but we recommend that fans of The Room leave this one to the youngsters. It took us about 2 minutes to solve each level, making this about a 30 minute game.
This is a very good game. Not too difficult but still a challenge. But the one thing that frustrates the hell out of us is when these style games have a very difficult puzzle to accomplish and they do not have a re-set or solve puzzle option. Am referring to puzzles within a puzzle. For example lets say you have a lot of gears to arrange within a frame. You have arraigned them incorrectly and want to start over…but you cant. A reset button would bring everything back to the original starting point so you could try again or follow a video for hints. We paid for this game but cannot proceed due to a problem like this.
Halfway through you are forced to spend money in order to play the remaining levels. They said levels are longer but it turns out they are just as short and it really is the halfway point. We made the full purchase for all remaining levels and was disappointed to see that the game didnt extend much further after paying and contributing. Expected and wanted a lot more gameplay after making the purchase for the remainder of the game.
This game is annoying,the drop down menu keeps interrupting the game . It keeps asking us to rate it or to buy something every thirty seconds. Other than that the game is a good.
This game would be good if it had a skip button for those puzzles requiring manual dexterity and fast reaction times. Watching a walkthrough does not help with those puzzles and we are unable to do them. At least put a warning on the game so folks like us dont waste their money on a game they physically can not complete.
Fun premise and aesthetic. But couldnt get past level three on mobile bc the prompt for unlocking the final puzzle was overruled by a close up scene :(.
Puzzles are super simple maybe 8 tasks per level. Dont waste your time.
Many reasons why one has to put the game down right in the middle of a level or worse yet almost completing it. Only to come back later you have to start the level again. Frustrating and aggravating. On the harder levels this is even worse since one needs a break now and then. We paid for it and would have thought the paid version would at least have saving your progress in a level.
Now dont us get wrong, we have played almost every Snapbreak game there is. But this is by far and away the WORST. Sure you could watch the walkthrough video over and over again…but the problem is if you screw up and do everything out of order, most especially the elevators, BEWARE FOR THERE IS NO SAVE IN THIS GAME. That means if you do anything wrong, you have to start that same level from the beginning, again and again and again, until you get to the point where throwing your device against the wall rather than watch the walkthrough for the hundredth time would be more satisfying. We love Snapbreak. We absolutely hated this game and as an avid puzzle solver game player, we dont think Ive come along a worst gaming experience. SAVE! What happened to the idea of SAVE YOUR PROGRESS.
Cant get past a door. Have googled how-to websites. Followed the directions, but it wont click in to let us pass. After three days and more than 25 tries, Ive decided that paying for the extra levels is a rip-off since we cant play what Ive paid for. Stick to the free part, people. The developer doesnt offer any help other than a you-tube video which we can get online. And Ive followed it religiously.
Have loved the other games and havent had any problem with play until this one. The puzzle inside the suitcase in the lobby is impossible to solve and the game wants to load upside down whenever it is opened. Enjoyed the others but will probably delete this one. :(.
Right away, a glitch on level 2. We even watched the walkthrough to ensure Id done everything. The on button for the door doesnt work. Disappointing. Deleted.
We also paid for The extra levels on the assumption they were longer, didnt seem to be the case, but they were more difficult. Overall thought it was fantastic! Worth the measly 2 bucks we spent.
Love the game! So much so that we would like to be able to enjoy the experience, music and puzzles again. Please add a restart or a new game option like Ive seen with other games. We know we can go to any level and restart from there, but if we leave the game and then return, Im back at the train station – Id like to be able to return to where we left off just like the first time we escaped. Still, great game, interesting puzzles. More of the same.
Each level starts out in a new setting with a bunch of machines and you need to solve puzzles, make the machines work, and overcome obstacles. Its bewildering at first but gradually everything comes into focus. A few of the puzzles require logic and thought but on the whole this is a relatively easy game that is more about exploration than pulling out your hair.
Its involving and exciting. Enjoying so far.
Beautiful scenes, unusual puzzles. Love this series.
We are so pleased we found this game and their others. What an amazing game! Graphics are fantastic. Sometimes difficult, but not so much as to make us want to give up. So nice to play a games withOUT violence, blood, hate, etc…….!! Thank you developers – more please!!! Linda.
We love this game the graphics are cool and puzzles are great and we like the different levels of the game, great job and good luck for the makers.
When playing through Escape Machine City, we feel like Im exploring an abandoned futuristic city, which is exactly what the storyline is. You need to escape this abandoned mechanical city, before the meteor shower lands and kills you. The story line is simple and intriguing, the puzzles are not frustrating, nor are they difficult, and the areas you escape from have fascinating designs. The gameplay is smooth and the graphics are amazing. We love this escape game so much! We cant wait to play its sequel.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.05
- Size: 553.62 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Snapbreak Games AB
Last updated: 29th November 2019 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Snapbreak Games AB