Game Details

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<aside> Developer Talha and Jack Co

Publisher Judatone Studios

Genre Strategy | Exploration | Adventure | Cozy

Release date Q3 2025

Platforms PC, Mac, Linux ****Steam | Demo

Players Solo

Social Media Bluesky | X | YouTube

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🎮 About the Game

Mashina is a digging adventure by the developers behind Judero. You play as Mashina, a friendly mining robot tasked with finding minerals to help mend, build and nurture her quirky robot community.

The gameplay in Mashina is divided into two distinct sections; a deep, mysterious underground full of trinkets and minerals and a vibrant, fully explorable 3d overground.

Underground

A lot of the game will be spent exploring, discovering and reclaiming the underground world.

Use your radar to scope out objects of interest.
Dig to excavate rare minerals.
Store the rare minerals safely in Mashina's backpack
Turn those minerals into cash
Build helpful machines to aid your excavations
Find robot pals, treasures, trinkets and more!

Overground

The overground is where your pals hangout. It is here where you will find ways to enhance Mashina's digging and broaden her horizons.

Meet the locals and get missions
Upgrade your equipment
Decorate your surroundings
Explore and find collectables and secrets

Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.

✉️ Contacts Business: [email protected] Press Inquiries & Key Requests: [email protected]

🎨 Art Style

Everything in Mashina is handmade out of various materials and animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. The development team then turn the animations into textures and sprites that are used in game, adding normal maps which let them have dynamic lighting and shadows.

The art style follows on from Talha and Jack Co’s debut game Judero which is currently nominated for Excellence in Visual Arts in the 2025 IGF Awards. They are building on everything they learned in Judero and aim to make an even more visually compelling stop motion game.

🔑 Key Features

Traditional Stop-Motion Animation: Everything in Mashina is handmade out of various materials and animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
Digging / Mining: An entire under world to explore and dig around! Dig by hand, use your radar to find precious items and work your way up to a fully automated process with tools and inventions you find along the way!
Inventory Management: Digging up minerals, trinkets and treasures takes up a lot of space! Make sure you manage your inventory to maximize your time in the under world.
Secret Items and Unlockables: Excavate rare minerals, find items that help you unlock new inventions and friends that will join you and help you on your adventure!
Equipment Upgrades: Upgrade your digging and mining equipment to maximize your under world operation!
Exploration and Base Building: Take the items you find in the under world above ground! Friends around your island help you in all sorts of ways!