Amazing Game But Major Design Flaw

I love almost everything about this game. As a fan of Myst I have been looking for a long time for a game that would live up to that high standard for making my brain work so hard it would hurt. Machinarium does just that. The story, graphics, music and of course the game play is all I had hoped for.

The one and only flaw I can see is what keeps me from rating this at five stars. As others have mentioned, you cant imagine how annoyed I became after working my way deep into the story and saving my game only to go back to it a day or so later and finding all of my saved games missing. How can such a glaring bug not have a fix or update to rectify this issue yet is beyond me.

Ive read where some people have found work-around solutions or have even used Time Machine to restore the lost progress. That to me is not a solution to the problem and Amanita Design should be ashamed to offer this product with such a major design flaw. Simple house cleaning of my iMac should not result in games being lost. I fear that Ill never get to the end of the game if my saves keep vanishing. Ill likely just give up and either delete the game or forget about it. Of course, they already have my money so Im sure they dont care. To those thinking of buying this game, keep this in mind. Youve been warned.

Bundyman about Machinarium, v1.2.0