History VideoGame / Machinarium

* {{Jerkass}}es: The Black Cap Brotherhood.

* KleptomaniacHero: Often Josef is this.

* [[BigBad Big Bads]]: The Black Cap Brotherhood.

* StomachOfHolding: Josef stores all of the items he can get in his body. It helps that he's a robot.

* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: Jozef plugs into the system of a robot on the top floor to erase malware bots there and an inner battle ensues.

* SurpriseCreepy: The prison sequence. The atmosphere in the rest of the game is generally serene and pleasant thanks to the [[SceneryPorn hand-drawn backgrounds]] and soothing soundtrack. The prison, on the other hand, is small and cramped, with [[RoomFullOfCrazy scratchings all over the wall]]. The song that plays at this point is a total departure from the rest of the soundtrack as well, full of hushed whispers, ominous drones, and faint chanting.

* ReligiousRobots: There's a church in the town square where three robots (who seem to practice ersatz versions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) take turns worshiping.

* DamselInDistress: Josef's girlfriend Berta is being held by the Black Caps and forced to do all their cooking. You get to briefly play as her too, as she helps Josef find fuel for a gas-powered elevator.

* ReligiousRobots: There's a church in the town square that three robots (b

* SceneryGorn: Every single screen is this.

** You can play Space Invaders in this game.
** And there are some shout outs to earlier games made by the same developer.

** You also have to get through one when [[spoiler:you plug into the head of the head of the town to reverse the damage done by the Black Cap Brotherhood.]]

** In one of Josef's reminiscences, he's sitting on a lamppost with his female friend. The target-shooting black hat robot clocks him right in the head with a hex nut fired from a slingshot. Josef lands head-first and gets the hex nut version.

* DamselInDistress: And you get to briefly play as her too.

* EatingMachine: Even though the robots are not seen to digest what they ingest, the Black Cap Brotherhood still [[StayInTheKitchen imprisons Josef's girlfriend in a kitchen]].

* ImagineSpot: Given time enough without activity, Josef will start daydreaming of what he used to do with his girlfriend before the Black Cap Brotherhood came.

* KickTheDog: The Black Cap Brotherhood appears to do nothing else but make the lives of the citizens miserable (except poker, maybe), especially Josef. Then they proceed to cross the MoralEventHorizon by attempting to bomb the leadership of the city.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The Black Cap Brotherhood is ejected from the city through a pipe, but are not explicitly shown to be disposed of.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: The Black Cap Brotherhood.

* AIGettingHigh: When the Black Cap leader puts Josef in prison, he has to build a cigarrette and give it to his robot cellmate to get help in escaping. The robot ends up so engrossed that he doesn't even notice if Josef unlocks the cell door.

* StoppedCaring: One of the robots in the prison appears visibly indifferent, just sitting around and only offering you help if you make a cigarette for him. Later on when you unlock all the cell doors, the smoking robot doesn't even bother to leave with everyone else.

The main character is a robot named 'Josef' (named after Josef Čapek, who created the word robot) who's been thrown out with the garbage, [[OntologicalMystery for some reason]]. He must get back into the {{Steampunk}} city of Machinarium, populated entirely by a variety of robots, and stop the plans of the villainous Black Cap Brotherhood.