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Automatoys 4+
Moving Machines
Idle Friday
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
Screenshots
Description
◆ Play the first three Automatoys for free! ◆
Insert coin. Dispense ball. Tap, turn, tilt and spin the contraptions to help each ball hop and roll its way to victory. Each automatoy is a unique, mechanical obstacle course.
Features
- No ads
- Complex machines, simple controls
- Outpace the clock to better your score
⁕ = Made it!
⁕⁕ = Super fast!
⁕⁕⁕ = Incredible!
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Apple Design Award Finalist 2023
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“Tinker around with gorgeous digital toys”
PocketGamer
“Complex brilliance made tactile and delightful”
Eurogamer
“Perchang meets Monument Valley”
TouchArcade
“Delightfully Elaborate”
TapSmart
What’s New
Version 1.0.30
- Minor fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent cheap little game to relax with
I don’t understand the guy I saw saying £1.99 was too much. It’s a bargain. It’s very entertaining, very “just one more try” and how long it will take you depends on your skill, some show offs here saying too easy, and others saying too difficult and they gave up, I think it’s spot-on, and my 8 year old son has been having hours of fun with it too. The design is very clever and the lofi music is really relaxing. In the tip jar part it says “help me make more games” implying one person is behind this, so for a small creator I think it’s impressive and I hope more games are on the way.
Ingenious Level Design with Perfect Difficulty Progression BUT Has a Frustrating But
As an engineering student, I was endlessly fascinated by these levels. Each one is unique, bringing a new challenge to the table, and keeping the player in the optimal flow state - not too easy, while not exceedingly hard.
I love the star system, and seeing the timer while playing the level is a nice touch; other games with similar time-based star levels generally only show you your score upon completion.
However, and this is probably because of how much I like the star rating system and my tendency to ace each level with 3* before moving on, I was quite annoyed when I saw that the game does not actually save your star rating after finishing a level. On the level menu, when finishing a level, I see the grey stars above the level graphic flash yellow for a split second, showing my score, then immediately revert to grey again. This bug occurs on both my iPad and iPhone, and I have the paid version with all levels. It must be a bug, otherwise why would the levels show the stars above them if not to showcase the player’s historical best star rating?
In any case, I’m sure it was a minor oversight, and certainly doesn’t take away from the experience of this delightful game itself.
Unique but Very Short
This game is truly unique which is rare for a game on the AppStore but (and it’s a very big but) it lacks in any sort of replay-ability and is very short.
It reminds me of a game I used to play as a kid where you had to do the same thing but it was a board game/toy. There’s some nostalgia that the game brings but once it’s done, it’s done. There are 12 levels for £2.99 which in theory can be completed in a few minutes (or less) and after and when you’ve got 3 stars you might as well delete the game. It doesn’t draw me back to play it, there’s no secret levels or ways to complete each level and you feel a bit cheated when you finish everything. If there was some reassurance from the devs that there were more levels coming then I’d keep it, but at the moment it feels like a quick money maker for them.
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Information
- Provider
- Idle Friday LTD
- Size
- 176.6 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Idle Friday Ltd.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Operator Key £1.99
- Gift a coffee £2.99
- Gift a pizza £9.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.