Welcome all in this guide! Since I had recently finished the entire game and completed with with full achievement list, I will try to do my best in terms of explaining it in two modes: non-spoiler one and spoiler one. In each chapter of this guide you will find useful tips, choices, spoiler warnings and explanations regarding each further step. So grab yourself drink of your choice, nice snack and lets begun full explanation of what is it this game about. You may want to listen to the Type O NegativeThe Least Worst Of album as well, due to the colours chosen by the game developers. Or their uncles. Or unknown entity. Who knows. Are you ready and set? Go!?

If you do the simple online research of the game title, you may find some articles in google related to Uncanny Valley as a term and a guy named Masahiro Mori. What is it about then? I will try to explain this, so no matter if you're knowledgeable or not, you will get something extra from this gameplay. So, what is the Uncanny Valley then about? It was first introduced in 1970 as a term by Mori, who written a book titled Bukimi No Tani. Mori assumed, that if the robots resembles us humans just a little bit, the people will react positively - however if the robots will be almost human-like, it will unlock in the people some form of disgust or even fear. This means then that: The game for the starters is suggesting to the player that a common unsettling feeling people experience may be the main plot in here, when it comes to non-human objects. That is probably why the word "Machine" is also a part of the game title.

And this is what basically happens at the very beginning. In this click-point game, you wake up in quite messy room, with bed, computer and some other furniture. You will have to click at the text appearing on the bottom to go through it. Sometimes, on the screen may appear pop up boxes with options, on which you have to click on too. Then you may see a pop up lines (like two) between which you will have to choose what will be your course of the action in order to unlock next options.

While still in the room: The more you click and discover the dialogue lines, the more you discover about the space itself. After viewing outside through the window and starring at some street corner, you find out that the world is filled up by some robot-entities that are resembling humans, but when they encounter humans they are after them in order to wipe us out. That is why your main character is hiding. Well it seems that at this point you're out of food. You may log online and enter the chat leading you, as usual, to an online community which is hiding away from the weird entities, so the people may survive. You find out quickly by sitting in front of the computer as your character (on some online page) that you have no other choice, but to go outside, to get some food,but you have to pretend "to be them" in order to survive.

So: Go outside,pretend to be one of them, obtain the shopping and go back to the apartment. This should take no longer than 2 minutes of game-play, only if you "will focus on these simple instructions" and you not gonna aim for anything extra. However for more details, please move onto the next step, which will introduce to you all the possible spoilers. Do not complain that I did not warned you properly.

So let's say that you have explored already your apartment, spent some time in front of your computer and finally you have the guts to step outside. You need to get into the shop, which will lead you into following a sequence, where the game is describing to you every single step you make. Keep it in mind and try to memorise the order of your way to the shop. Otherwise you will get killed for the first time due to making the wrong way back, by messing up the order of each direction. This is also leading you to obtaining your first achievement known as achievement D.

When entering the shop you will face the android-human-like thing that will look quite empty, if you notice the void-face they possess [unless you already have one like that, then I'm sorry pal]. And this leads you to your very first choice. You may face them or try to avoid them. Well, if this is your first round and you decide to avoid them, you will get killed and you will obtain the very first achievement in this game known as D. I would suggest you to face them, since you wanna do the shopping as planned, right? If you do, you gonna carry on without any major changes.

Did I mentioned milk for a reason? Of course. You see, in the shopping chapter game will lead you onto another one sequence, where after short descriptions you will have an encounter with someone. On your actions it depends what will happen next. While walking through the alleys, you reach the fridges with bottled milk. You character will focus on the inner narration related to what is happening with the store functioning. Which is unavoidable. Keep clicking & get ready.

You will hear noise and out of sudden see the girl responsible for it. She is a living human being for sure and she may lead you in one of the routes to an additional ending or more of them if you pay the attention. The robot-creature will also appear again in front of you and the girl, which will lead you onto another choice sequence to be made. You will face again two options, each one of them will lead you to completely different game route, which is why I have to censor them. Clearly the noise caught the attention of non-humans which is why they will head towards you and the girl. Make sure to create the saving point right now, especially if you don't like to waste the time in gameplays. Just saying ya all.

You can decide to pretend to be one of the androids, which will help you carry on with the shopping. However you will end in the situation where your morale is down, due to seeing weird creatures killing girl right in front of you. You then explore noodles in the different section, grab your stuff and then aim for the way back home, where you are still pretty shaken up. You sit down in front of the website to start bragging about the life with strangers, which leads you to obtaining achievement F.. The game is finished for you. Yes. You have to start again if you want to get different achievements and results.

You can also decide to help the girl. This will lead you out of the shop with her in the rush, which then finish the first stage in the game in my opinion and starts the stage number two. Whatever happens next will affect you, her, survival rate, possible options to choose from. Definitely you may die immediately if you are too slowbe quick and responsive in what you do next. It's time for next steps:

So if you are reading this, I assume that you made the wise choices so far. Are you ready then for the ride? You see it is a time for stage two where the game creators throw you into time-response mini game sequence, where by making choices on time, you extend your survival rate. Also WHAT you choose is important, because 1/3 choices visible on the screen is the right one, the rest will lead you onto your death.

On the first part of this, you will see the above choices. Clearly your partner-in-crime is pretty shaken up, so you know what choices you have left. Assuming again that you have some wit and you remember what the beginning of the guide is mentioning, you shall be seeing next screen looking like thisunless you decided to give the girl her right to choose or you picked the left-hehe-option:

Well, carry on my wayward son like the tune from the Supernatural keeps going on with the lyrics, or just die. Assuming again that you did not messed up [lucky you!] the next screen will be looking like thisunless you had your dead wish and decided to run down or turn, then goodbye at this point:

It's not over yet. You gotta make fast choice if you want to face the last screen which will be that one and for the sake of the title of this stage, please just keep running straight at this point, thx, otherwise you will not reach the below screen:

And if you remembered how did you get to the shop, out for your apocalyptic-groceries, you will get that one choice correctly, without a failhowever all the dummies need to turn to the right, instead of running further, this is how you do it, thanks again. That is why just in case it's good to have the saving point set up in the shop, before you decide to leave it and move on. This way you will save yourself the game-play time. Well since we are reaching that point after the run, you will get the girl back to your apartment, and there is this moment where the introduction is taking the place, so you may exchange your credentials with the girl:

And you want to not miss the chance here for the rare achievementwhich should be not typing any name for yourself and trying to carry on by clicking the enter and keep clicking in the game, which will activate the storyline where you act like you are loosing your mind a bit by not remembering your own name, which activates the achievement called NN the hardest one to get in the game lol, but I bet you will loose it without reading the spoiler. Well you also gonna learn here very Evangelion style of the name that the girl has and together you enter your "mansion" or I'd rather call it a messy room.

Well after that, game will give you again choices, and trust me this is rather important part: If you pick the wrong option, this girl will spend short amount of the time with you. If you pick the right option this girl will stay longer and this will possibly let us entering the stage 3 in this whole guide. Meanwhile, no matter what you will choose, this girl will exchange with you few words, where you answer to her question, she shares a bit about herself and then proceed to leave the housetogether if you are lucky enough with the choices you have been making so far.

If you decide that you enjoy being single-for-ever, pick the above option, this will lead to the simple route where the girl shares her life story with you for a moment, checks the time and explains to you that she has to hurry up, which will lead to saying goodbye to each other. Then as a typical apo-no-lifer you will sit in front of the PC and start ranting.This is the moment when you should unlock 2C achievement for being a lazy bum and making wrong choice
Again this is the end of the game for you, but not the entire end for the game itself. In the perfect world everything should be about miracles, girls and feeling like a hero and that kind of stuff, which is why it's time to move onto separate part of the explanation here for bit of cheesy-weezy feeling in this game. So make the save, restart the game and follow the next instructions:

Before we start, I have a quick tip for all of you: DID YOU ALL KNEW THAT IF YOU PRESS "BACK" BUTTON ON THE BOTTOM OPTION PART, YOU MAY SKIP THE DIALOGUE CHOICE BACKWARD, SO THIS WAY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RE-DO YOUR CHOICE FASTER? NOOO? WELL NOOOOW YOU KNOW!*sparkle* Not applicable if you died, obviously, duuuh. You still need to do some game saves.

Let's get back to the main plot then. Assuming you are here, that means that your below choice:

Focused on being polite since the beginning. Well carry on with that and with truthful choices. If you will carry on with this, you are going to unlock completely different route. Especially cool one, if you adore Gordon Ramsay [but imagine him without the shouting charm]. You see, the girl you are interacting with after sharing with you her story, and facing your true story, decides to stay longer with you, and that leads both of you onto the... mini game! This time it will be something resembling the mini-chef mode!

And no... She does not turn into the food. You will be using the groceries that you managed to bring from the store. However if you feel like you could eat that chick I need to let you know that there must be something wrong with you. Oops. After conversation with the girl, in the best possible scenario she will suggest to you to think further about what to do next. Due to your dialogue lines she will assume you want to go out with her to her place of stay and she will agree to this. This is when the cooking is unlocked through entering the below screen view:
You will be facing an option of product selection. Each time before the final dish you have to pick 3 ingredients and combine them into something eatable. This is where you get back to the basic route mode without any extras. And since there are at least 3 basic options of the dishes, you may end up with things such as:



Yes. You can feel it. She picked up cool names for each dish up there. In a meantime: Your own Master-Chef win moment is taking place. But also, you gain nothing from it. For gain, there must be a pain.
Actually what you really want to do is screwing up the food. You may for example pick the milk, then the cheese, or ketchup or any other weird combination, which will lead to fail, and will irritate the girl named Eva so much, that she will decide to cook for you! At the same time, you will unlock the funny achievement called Chef which must be some inside joke in this game. Also Eva will prepare for you the below dish:

After finishing the meal, you prepare yourself for getting out of the hide spot and you are aiming to get safely to the girl's home. This will be related again to some multiple choices to be made, as well as to possible of gaining an achievement and probably reaching the true game ending? Who knows, but please allow me to explain this separately then.

So here we are. Again outside, making the route back to the safe-spot belonging to the girl saved by us. Basically according to the game plot we need to get out of the town and pass through the bridge. Are you curious why I picked such a title? Well, keep reading, then everything will be more clear.
Again, we are back to choices. You have here 3 options: Leftwhich is the best one, inspection of baby carriagewhich will allow you to have special 1:1 with baby Cthulhu or whatever the hell this isor rightwhere you end up in blind spot and nothing happens side. After you made your choice, assuming the correct one, you should change the scenery:

One of the above options leads you to die. Another one will push you further. You may do the save point here, just to quickly reload the game and carry on. So speaking about going further:

You have again two options and you want to start actually from the wrong onewhich is the right one. This will allow you to enter the spot with beautifully scenery view, where you make a promise with the girl to go back there at some point [oh, how romantic]. I believe that this must be related to TON but I might be an idiot as well in this Schrodinger case.

So once you leave the scenery, you get back to the previous spot and choose the only left available option. This pushes the story further to leaving the town, crossing the bridge, running until you both get tired and allocating finally the girl's house:

You hope now for cookies, milk and happy ending subtitles? Nah, that would be too easy.
Once you enter the house, girl is shouting to her relative that both of you came over with shopping and she proceeds to go upstairs to check on her family member. The moment you hear music shift, you realise something.Music is very creepy, Eva starts panicking, so it looks like that ending will not be so happy, as there is a risk that her mother turned out to one of the entities, maybe she was murdered, or maybe she just simply died. Either way the screen shows the house, getting surrounded by darkness, more and more and more... Which is the moment where you will see the achievement S showing up on the screen. So that's the maximum out here when it comes to the potential of this game. We have to somehow also review the achievements in case you skipped all the spoilers and avoided any unnecessarily info at any costs. So:

In terms of the achievement, there are total 6 of them. They are separated into: D, F, S, 2C, Chef and NN. I will be making here open spoilers without hiding them, so you should read that part in case, you feel like you have no other choice and you are literally stuck.

According to the list, this is how you get each one achievement:

D - this is the achievement you will obtain by dying. At any point of this game this may happen, so that is the easiest one.
F - this one will take the place, if in the choice making related to the girl, you will make a wrong decision.
S - this one is unavoidable - if you unlock the furthest ending to this game.
2C - this one is literally related to you, loosing the girl out of sight after saving her, ranting about this online and remaining the looser.
Chef - is like an Easter egg, as it's related to the food game.
NN - is like no name, so in terms of the introduction between you and the girl, you have to act like you have dementia. Simple as that.

Apart from nice views, good choice of colours and some good story behind the game, nothing more is there to be unlocked [unless the creators will think about some dlc lol].

Thank you for participating in reading this, and staying till the very end. Despite this game being just a click-pointer and a quite short one to be honest - I really enjoyed playing in it. If you want to share your thoughts or just confirm that you are human - feel free to leave the comment. Stay safe!

PS: And if you struggle with English and you're Polish just like me - you may leave also some questions in your native language, as I may easily translate for you the possible solutions in this game.