Machinarium 2 Is Coming Nearly 17 Years Later, and You’ll Play as Both Josef and Berta
- Nearly 17 years after the original Machinarium launched, Amanita Design is making Machinarium 2.
- There is no release date yet.
- The first Machinarium, which made our roundup of the best puzzle games on Steam, was about Josef rescuing his girlfriend Berta from the Black Cap Brotherhood.
Nearly 17 years after the original Machinarium launched, Amanita Design is making Machinarium 2. The Czech studio announced the sequel on Oct. 8, 2026, and it was one of the games shown at that day’s Triple-i Initiative showcase, GameSpot reported.
There is no release date yet. The game’s Steam page lists it as “To be announced,” with system requirements for Windows and macOS.
Two robots, one player
The first Machinarium, which made our roundup of the best puzzle games on Steam, was about Josef rescuing his girlfriend Berta from the Black Cap Brotherhood. The sequel picks up with the pair reunited and looking for a new home. After escaping the city of Machinarium, they crash-land in the barrens and find a hidden valley below a cliff.
This time you control both of them. According to the Steam page, you can switch between Josef and Berta at any time and combine their abilities to solve puzzles neither could manage alone.
The story is still told without words. You talk to the robots you meet through animated thought bubbles, symbols and gestures, with “not a single line of text to read,” the studio says.
A valley running out of power
The valley is home to two robot tribes. One lives in a monastery high on the rocks, the other in a city below, and both are slowly running short of power. The Steam page names the two locations: the Elektrona monastery and the city of Oilton.
Like the original, everything is hand-drawn. Amanita Design says the art borrows from old master drawings and Renaissance landscape paintings.
Built for a gamepad, playable with a mouse
The biggest change for long-time fans may be the controls. With a gamepad, you move the two robots directly, with no cursor in between, and the studio calls that the best way to play. The mouse still works for a classic point-and-click feel, and Steam lists full controller support.
The original team is back
In its announcement post, Amanita Design says the people behind Machinarium and Samorost 3 have reunited, in a team that is now bigger and more experienced:
- Jakub Dvorský, game director
- Adolf Lachman, backgrounds and characters
- Václav Blín, animation
- Tomáš Dvořák, also known as Floex, music
Fans of the first soundtrack will recognize its roots, the studio says, but the new score adds symphonic arrangements, sometimes with a Renaissance touch.
Can your PC run it?
The currently listed Windows minimum requirements are 64-bit Windows 10 or later, a 2GHz Intel i5, 4GB of RAM, a DirectX 11-compatible graphics card and 5GB of storage.
If you never played the first game, now is a cheap time to start. Amanita Design says the original Machinarium is 80% off on Steam until Oct. 15, 2026. In the US, that put it at $3.99 instead of $19.99 when we checked on Oct. 11.
It isn’t the only classic point-and-click series getting a sequel. Ron Gilbert has also started work on Thimbleweed Park 2, which is due in early 2028.
