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Mother Machine

Mother Machine

Team up for 1-4 player co-op platforming in procedurally-generated alien caves! Customize your gremlin, embrace the chaos and fart on friends! Tackle challenges together and unlock new looks and wild mutations for your next run!

Released Mar 26, 2025 Developer Maschinen-Mensch Platforms Windows PlatformerCo-opExplorationRoguevaniaAtmospheric
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

76.9%positive78 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“i dont have mouch in the game, but i just want to say please optimalise it more, i would like it really more if it would be better optimalised, i have strong hardware but still the game is laggy for me on the worst graphics possible.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“I really wanted to play this game. It is fun! That's not the issue. The issue is it is SO buggy that it is essentially entirely unplayable. When I tried playing local co op with a friend, it forced us to have the exact same abilities even though the game advertises being able to…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

46achievements
5.0%median completion
0.1%rarest: Creators' Ruins Mutant
61.0% of players 57.1% of players 40.7% of players 39.0% of players 35.8% of players 24.8% of players 17.7% of players 16.5% of players 16.1% of players 16.0% of players 14.0% of players 13.8% of players 12.5% of players 12.1% of players 11.7% of players 7.5% of players 7.1% of players 7.0% of players 6.8% of players 6.5% of players 6.4% of players 6.0% of players 5.2% of players 5.0% of players 4.9% of players 3.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.3% of players 2.6% of players 2.4% of players 2.3% of players 2.2% of players 1.9% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 61.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
61.0%From A to B — Complete a CAVE TREK Expedition
57.1%Mother's child — Complete the Tutorial
40.7%Welcome to the club — Drown in Acid
Rarest badges of honor
0.1%Creators' Ruins Mutant — Unlock All Creators' Ruins Mutations
0.1%Mother's favourite child — Be Mother's favorite Gremlin 50 times when playing online
0.1%Gremlins Together Strong — Finish a hard Expedition with 4 Gremlins without anyone dying

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 15, 2025
Mother Machine Update 1.3.1

Today's patch fixes a few issues that some players have reported: Fixed crash on startup when using FSR on some GPUs Fixed crash when completing some Adventures Fixed being able to take damage while s

Aug 12, 2025
Try the Co-Op Gremlin Tours Demo!

Greetings Gremlins! Today we’re happy to share with you what we’ve been working on for the last few months since launching Mother Machine: a demo of an experimental new game mode, which we’re calling

Aug 12, 2025
Mother Machine Update 1.3

Greetings Gremlins, Today's update brings a long-requested feature to the game: Offline Mode! There's also support for AMD's FSR technologies to get a faster frame-rate, a new Leg-Up ability, and more

Jul 02, 2025
Steam Deck Verified!

Our Gremlin technicians have been very busy in the last few weeks and we are happy to announce that Mother Machine is now officially Steam Deck Verified . This means that the game is fully functional

Jun 25, 2025
Mother Machine Update 1.2.1

Greetings Gremlins, We hope you're enjoying exploring the Creators' Ruins! Today's update has a few fixes for Split Screen and Steam Deck: Fixed Player 2 not having correct interaction prompts sometim

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Indie
Player tagsPlatformer · Co-op · Exploration · Roguevania · Atmospheric · Comedy · Controller · Online Co-Op · Local Co-Op · Procedural Generation · 2D Platformer · Character Customization (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support
LanguagesEnglish * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese *
ControllerFull support
Achievements46
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or Steam Deck Processor: 4-core 2.4 Ghz Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: DX11 compatible video card DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 25 GB available space