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Joe Wainer
Joe WainerUpdated 9 months ago

Geek mode on with Scrap Mechanic

Scrap Mechanic is a multi-player machine-building game, where players are given material to built new machines from scraps given. These can be vehicles, innovative new creations, traps, and more. The challenge is to create the most unique, functional invention, using the tools provided in the game. Choose from a wide range of scrap metal parts, to build a perfect machine.

How does one play Scrap Mechanic?

The game is designed for an immersive sandbox multiplayer experience, where the players are given challenges to design and create machines from scraps, that can help them achieve their goals, and get them ahead in the game, as they fight the “Fambots” who have rebelled. As the story goes, the players have to create machines and weapons to survive in the environment and escape from the rebellious Fambots. Players have to cross fields and different levels of the agriculture planet to survive and win the game.

What are the main features of Scrap Mechanic to watch out for?

Since the game is set up like a sandbox environment, where players need to be creative and to invent machines using scraps given to them, it is highly customizable and each player truly gets a personalized experience playing it.

There are over 100 parts available, that players can use to modify in different permutations-combinations, which can then lead to creating something unique. The players take the role of the robotic mechanic, and you are provided with a guidebook to help you build machines from various parts. One can truly simulate the movement of the objects created, and actually see them in action. Once the creation is done, players can connect everything together with a connection tool, and render it complete.

This 60 players multiplayer game lets users create an environment where they can put together machines and vehicles or even houses. One can switch between several views, choose from a number of blocks, interactive material, parts, and more, that you can choose from a Backpack. Every object can be viewed, and all have their own specific weights and sizes, which can be scaled up or down.

Interactive parts are really fun parts, that have their own functions and they can be used for the machines. These can be engines, thruster, radio, suspensions, some movable parts, and lots more. This interactive parts section is very interesting and surely takes things to a different level.

There are also a number of tools that one can choose from. These can be connecting tools, which are used to connect several parts together, essential for any creation. Every player also gets a lift, where the creation can be lifted from the ground, which lets you put together the entire machine in a systematic fashion, so one doesn’t need to worry about the weight of the parts. There are endless possibilities of what one can create within this game.

What are the best things about Scrap Mechanic?

Scrap Mechanic is an engineer’s delight, as they get free reign to create and innovate with parts, blocks, and interactive, movable material. It lets players digitally create, observe, render, and collaborate over machines, and create anything really from machines, vehicles, houses, weapons, and more. The tools and parts available can be viewed in 3D, and the environment feels so real, that one can almost picture this happening for real.

The graphics and animation are conducive to the actual purpose of the game - to create the most innovative, unique design, and then see it come together in the form of an object. This game also gives great insight into how parts work together, and what the function of each part is. One can experience and explore so many different parts. There is a lot to learn while playing the game, which makes it different from a simple combat mind-numbing video game. This game requires a lot of strategy, experimentation, knowledge, and research while being fun and exciting at the same time.

What are some of the negative points about Scrap Mechanic?

The game is not free, and one must buy it from a source online to play it on Windows. Also, in the age of mobile phones, the game is still not available on mobile devices, which makes it restrictive to play. There are several reported lags while playing, and the entire gaming experience is not smooth.

In terms of the gameplay, the game does not have a map, and there is no option for players to create one either. So there is no clear way to map one’s position, and one just needs to go with the flow, to get where they have to. This gives the game an unstructured, uncontrolled feel, which can be solved by providing a simple map. Scrap Mechanic is a heavy game and takes up around 15 GB of space. That is huge compared to alternatives of the same genre. Some alternatives include Trailmakers, Space Engineers, Minecraft, Raft, Astroneer, Stormworks, Vsync, etc.

What are the technical requirements for the game?

Scrap Mechanic is compatible with Windows XP and more recent versions of Windows as well. To run the game, one needs a minimum Dual Core 2.6 GHz processor, with a 4 GM RAM. Of course, like in any game, a higher RAM is recommended, in this case, the ideal would be 8 GB. The game is not available on Apple devices or Android phones.

What’s the last word on Scrap Mechanic?

The game is truly innovative and allows for a lot of creativity. It is not just a basic combat game but involves using a lot of strategies, research, and knowledge of the different parts, to be put together to create something entirely new and unique. Scrap Mechanic is delightful for anyone interested in design, engineering or just inventing new things. What goes against the game, however, is that it is not free, and that restricts it considerably. The game is only available on Windows, and not on any mobile devices or Apple products as yet. Overall, Scrap Mechanic is great if you love creating!

PROS

  • Creative and innovative concept
  • Personalized gaming experience
  • Over 100 parts to choose from

CONS

  • Not free
  • Takes up too much space

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User reviews about Scrap Mechanic

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    by Timothy Hale

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  • Klaudia Márton

    by Klaudia Márton

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  • Oscar T

    by Oscar T

    i just love it i love building its my favurite thing to do i love it

  • Anonymous

    by Anonymous

    Scrap mechanic looks god.
    I Think is very god and is its easy medium and hard in one game.I will have scrap mechanic for its look god and nice.

  • Phan Thi Thanh Tu

    by Phan Thi Thanh Tu

    i like to make what ever i want.
    love it much.we can create things that are in our imaginations

  • JOrex Subawu

    by JOrex Subawu

    maybe.
    is amayzing :D and is really really really awsome
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