Loses Progress!

I enjoyed this game and had some time to play so I played…. then I got busy and had to let it sit. Today, I returned to play while I had some down time only to find that all of my saved games were GONE. A little googling and I find out…it is designed this way. Don’t recal seeing any warnings about saving off your cache to prevent this problem. I would be less critical if this flaw was a noted issue and a work around was provided. Now I either have to decide to spend a very long time getting back to where I was or just walk away… walking away seems like the best bet given my time constraints. What a waste of money… who designs a game that allows you to save and load games only to find out they weren’t saved to disk but rather to some impermanent cache on the machine. Very bad design practice. The only reason I went to 2 stars is the game is actually very good and the art work it good. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what is needed and the pace is slow, but overall it is a nice game. Put some time into fixing the saving issue and it would be five stars.

escodell about Machinarium