The Machines 12+

Battle your friends in AR‪.‬

Directive Games

    • 3.8 • 44 Ratings
    • £1.99

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Description

**As featured in the Apple Keynote**

“The Machines may be Apple's most impressive augmented-reality showcase yet” - Eurogamer

“If you've only got enough money to spend on one AR game, then I'd probably make it this one.” - Pocket Gamer

“The Machines is a perfect example of the future of AR” - Macworld

“A must have ARKit game—Highly recommended and definitely worth its asking price!” - AR Critic
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In The Machines, battle your friends in a breathtaking augmented reality world. Experience 3D sound, graphics, and gameplay like never before.

Use powerful abilities and perspective-based tactics to destroy your enemy's base and climb the global leaderboard.

Victory or defeat depends on your skills, strategic thinking, and ability to maneuver yourself and your troops in battle.
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VISUALLY STUNNING
The Machines uses advanced technology to push the boundaries of visual fidelity. The battlefield has over 1.2 million polygons and uses 4k assets and physics-based rendering to bring you a beautifully immersive game.

3D SPATIAL AUDIO
Your position in the real world affects the audio you hear. Move closer for louder action or disappear behind a rock and audio bounces off, just like in real life.

PERSPECTIVE-BASED GAMING
Your physical position is the competitive edge in this augmented reality battlefield. Use super weapons and abilities tactically by aiming your phone and adjusting your position.

COMPETETIVE MULTIPLAYER
Claim your place at the top of the global leaderboards by defeating foes around the world. Outwit your opponents with balanced, strategic gameplay. A single player training mode is also available to gain experience.

FRIEND BATTLES
Add friends via a unique invite link and challenge them directly to battle! Play against each other on the same table or anywhere in the world. See who is the champion on your friends leaderboard.
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What’s New

Version 1.6.3

• Fixed a crash when trying to add new friends on iOS 14

Ratings and Reviews

3.8 out of 5
44 Ratings

44 Ratings

(:Jake:) ,

What am I doing?

Fun little game but as mentioned by other users, the tutorial is lacking detail and leaves you to find out yourself, but this is the future and it works so well.

Also would love to see smaller maps/gamespace due to the current one being hard to work with on iPad.

@Trident ,

Needs updating

Love the concept of the game and the visuals, however definitely needs some updating. For one, multiple times I’ve seen hero’s shoot through objects like rock and mountains. Like, really? And, like other people have said the hero’s require way to much control to be able to play the game effectively. I had to launch the tutorial 5 times in order to complete it, as if you pressed the hero icon to move it, before the you pressed next on the tutorial message the hero would just stay where it was and the button couldn’t be pressed again, so you were essentially stuck there until you completely reopened the app. Further more, again, like others discussed, the tutorial needs to be more helpful, you get put in a game without any knowledge of the objectives or what to do. And finally the set up of the map is way to difficult and in accurate, like why can’t you make the map smaller so that it would fit on whatever surface you were playing on, instead of going over the edge.
Overall I see massive potential for the game.

Developer Response ,

Hi. Thanks for your feedback - it is really appreciated.
There are definitely some aspects of the game that we are looking to improve and polish. Also, we are refining the on boarding experience, revising some parts and mechanics of the tutorial to make it clearer for new players.
With regards to the set up of the map, we have made some changes in version 1.1.0, allowing ARKit to detect surfaces also through "features points". While this shouldn't affect tracking much, it will make detection and alignment easier under any lighting and surface condition. We are also evaluation the possibility to allow players to revise the size of the map and its rotation. Many in the community have provided similar feedback and we are keen on testing it. We just want multiplayer to be as fair as possible and that's why we have been keeping the map size standard until now.
Please keep the comments coming, we love to hear from players - your contribution makes the game better!

TinkieOfScunthorpe ,

The Machines iPhone 7 Plus

This is a different way to play video games... You can literally move your phone into any position which will replicate in the game, allowing you to view the battlefield from any angle you feel which immerses you into the game. The game could be explained a little better. I still aren’t quite sure of the full dynamics of the game.

Graphically though, WOW! It’s well worth £4.99 just not to have any pay walls etc... pay once, play forever.

***UPDATE*** incredible developer who obviously care about their fan base as they have repeatedly listened to their customers and upgraded and fixed where necessary... this is 5 stars for me now and feels polished and complete.

Developer Response ,

Thank you. We really appreciate and the team will be super happy to hear your comment. We will continue to work hard to bring more features and content to the community as we grow the game. Please keep comments and feedback coming!

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Supports

  • Game Center

    Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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