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Released Jan 20, 2016

Scrap Mechanic

2016 · PEGI 7 · Simulator, Adventure
Axolot Games · PC

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Real Score
70
Well liked
from 2,622 reactions
very high confidence
65% positive11% mixed24% negative
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What people are saying

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The Real Review

Scrap Mechanic is Axolot Games' PC sandbox where you build wild machines, survive with friends, and fight off evil Farmbots, and most people who talk about it are having fun with that core loop. The building, creative mode, physics, and Chapter 2 content get the strongest praise, with multiplayer and story also landing well. Performance is the big gripe, and the mixed feelings about value and difficulty show where it can sour the mood. Survival mode and Seekerbot also draw more complaints than cheers, while PC, Steam, and Twitch chatter skews grumpier than the game's overall positive vibe. If you're there for inventive contraptions and chaotic multiplayer, it's worth a look, but expect some technical annoyance.

Synthesized from 2,622 real reactions · very high confidenceMultiplayerGameplayStoryGraphicsValueDifficultyPerformance

Sentiment split

Every qualifying reaction, weighted.

65%positive
  • Positive65%
  • Mixed11%
  • Negative24%

By aspect

What people scored, piece by piece.

multiplayer74
gameplay71
story70
graphics68
value50
performance25
difficulty20

How opinion moved

The Real Score, night by night.

687173Oct 3579117070

Buzz

99 reactions over two weeks, counted by the day they were posted.

01020Sep 27: 8 reactionsSep 27Sep 28: 4 reactionsSep 29: 9 reactions29Sep 30: 6 reactionsOct 1: 5 reactions1Oct 2: 5 reactionsOct 3: 6 reactions3Oct 4: 10 reactionsOct 5: 11 reactions5Oct 6: 8 reactionsOct 7: 3 reactions7Oct 8: 6 reactionsOct 9: 9 reactions9Oct 10: 9 reactions10

Where the signal came from

Volume and platform mix only.

Steam1,905
Social Media717

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Names and topics that came up

Mentions across all reactions, with the share that were positive. Anything mentioned fewer than twice never shapes the review.

Axolot Gamesdeveloper238×41%+
Twitchplatform69×22%+
survival modefeature59×44%+
Chapter 2feature49×84%+
Scrap Mechaniccharacter45×69%+
PCplatform44×27%+
Scrap Mechanicfeature37×65%+
physicsfeature37×73%+
survivalfeature30×77%+
vehiclesfeature29×59%+
creative modefeature29×86%+
Drilling Thunderfeature28×86%+
Seekerbotfeature27×0%+
buildingfeature25×88%+
Steamplatform22×18%+

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