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Machina Arcana ~ To Eternity

Created by Adreama Games, Inc.

A dark and immersive experience awaits you and your group of explorers. Travel the unknown, face cosmic horrors and fight for survival!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

We are Legion
over 3 years ago – Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 01:19:32 AM

The horde continues to grow. Her influence spreads like a haunting visitation, spanning the globe for now we are legion. Greetings to our new cult members who speak German, French, Spanish and Polish. 

Thanks to your keen suggestions, we have redesigned the stretch goal section on the main project page. 

Let us join hands in ritual ceremony and chant together the unholy rites that will usher in the next set of stretch goals!

Illustration by Igor Krstić
Illustration by Damir Podhraški
Illustration by Damir Podhraški

Yet more aberrations lurk patiently beyond the veil, waiting to plunge into our world. Together we can sing their invitation. There are only seven days remaining. The gibbous moon is in descent. 

Destiny is calling. 

Join us.

Unlocked: Spanish language version
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:02:07 AM

¡Estamos encantados de anunciar la edición en español de Machina Arcana!

La encargada de la edición en español será Maldito Games, una editorial con amplia experiencia en localización de juegos que realizará la traducción del juego base y expansiones ("From Beyond" y "To Eternity").

Sin retrasos: la traducción empieza ya

¡No habrá ningún retraso en la producción y envío de los productos!

Cuando se envíen los archivos a la fábrica, las ediciones en inglés, alemán y español (y puede que más idiomas) se producirán a la vez, para que todos reciban los productos al mismo tiempo.

Traducción de los componentes

Nuestro principal objetivo es tener todos los componentes listos a tiempo y con una traducción fiel al original, que mantenga la inmersión narrativa. En principio, los libros (Codex Arcanum y Codex Aeternum) no se traducirán, dado que son elementos que no se utilizan durante la partida y supondría un importante retraso en la producción.


¿Cómo elegir la versión en español de los productos?

Tras la campaña, tendrás acceso a un cuestionario desde el administrador de campañas (BackerKit). Allí podrás elegir el idioma que prefieras para cada elemento que hayas adquirido y que esté disponible en español u otros idiomas.

Unlocked: French language version
over 3 years ago – Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 02:21:58 PM

Chers explorateurs,

Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer l’arrivée de Machina Arcana en français !

À vous de lutter pour votre survie : laissez-vous envoûter par une histoire d’horreur captivante et des événements très particuliers alors que vous luttez pour survivre dans les mystérieuses profondeurs des arcanes !

Notre partenaire français : les Éditions Matagot

Connu pour localiser de nombreux succès mondiaux, Matagot sera notre partenaire pour la traduction de Machina Arcana, le jeu de base, mais aussi pour ses extensions « From Beyond » and « To Eternity ».

La traduction commencera très bientôt : il n’y aura pas de délais supplémentaires dans la production et la livraison de la version française. 

Lorsque nous enverrons les fichiers pour production, la version française sera produite en même temps que les versions anglaises et allemandes, et livrées au même moment.


Le focus est sur les composants du jeu !

Pour l’instant, nous ne traduisons pas les livres (Codex Arcanum, and Codex Aeternum) : ils ne sont pas utilisés pour jouer et notre priorité est de tout livrer dans les délais annoncés.

Comment choisir la version française de Machina Arcana ?

Une fois la campagne terminée, vous aurez accès au pledge manager (BackerKit), où il vous sera demandé de sélectionner la langue de chacun des éléments inclus dans votre pledge et disponibles en plusieurs langues.

Lured (story from Codex Aeternum)
over 3 years ago – Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 01:42:41 AM

The passages seemed to spiral into infinity. Sprawling in every direction, tangled and inter-wrought, folding back upon themselves to defy cartography with a wink that upended perception. 


Merceda fixed a listless stare into the murk as she struggled to recall her ingress. The cloying proximity of the walls and ceiling offered no bearings as the edifice itself seemed to hum and breathe in tandem with her own ragged exhalations.  


Distractedly she found her fingers drawn to trace the intricate linework glyphs that unfurled upon every surface, etched in painstaking symmetry upon a thicket of dense cogwheels ellipses, each oiled, coiled and stacked in ossified bronze beams. The air grew thicker here as the stultifying heat dressed each surface in a film of condensation- as though the machine itself could sweat, pained by the exertion of its terrifying labours.  


With no landmarks to guide her, she again pricked her ears against the stillness and spun to follow the strange rhythm that had compelled her this far. A clicking. A scraping. A chime.  Entranced as though commanded – her limbs strode without purpose deeper into the labyrinth. With each faltering step, she strayed further from her companions, each of whom who were no doubt unravelling even now within chambers of their own personal reverie.  


A click. A scrape. A chime. It resounded once more, more insistent than before. The strange glissando reaching deep within her to pluck bowstrings of long dormant memory… 


…The peal of the bells were calling her to the chapel. It was daybreak and the sins of intent and omission were due to be recounted. They weighed upon her breast as she inched up her skirt, exposing pale brittle pins as she hiked her way through the square to the vaunted doors that forever smelled of circumstance and ceremony. A weary chorus hung muffled in the eaves of the vast interior, punctuated in dynamic shifts by the comforting cadence of the bell that had summoned her. Three chimes then an echo, decaying in anticipation of three eruptions further. And on it went, cutting ripples through the clouds of incense-sweetened air.  


She had first learned of sanctuary here, although the safety she felt was one of compromise, conjoined as it was with the halting confessions she spat to redeem herself in a tiring cyclical ritual – her stories, her follies, her sense of self - made and unmade again in seven day snatches… 


A click, a scrape, and a chime. She fought to remain present.  


…The sound of cartwheels oscillating on rickety spokes as it ferried her brother home to her door. He would scarcely cross the threshold before tall-tales began tumbling endlessly from his road dusted lips. 

She latches herself to his side and stares open-mouthed in admiration as he pools images in her brain with each new exclamation. The world at large is imbibed in vicarious gulps as she struggles to take it all in, legs bobbing like springs in the youthful urge to join him. The sunken streets of the village held no secrets now, the rituals sat splayed and arrayed, rote and desiccated. She would find no further meaning here. 


The letter had landed in his absence. His return now a forlorn whispered wish, not spoken of over supper, nor even in those evenings when the light would crest his room to throw shadows where he used to lie. Like a sapling unfurled, she had grown into a woman in waiting, and as she read the tightly wound loops of ink, her resolve stiffened into something implacable. Before the new moon waned into a sickle she was gone - bedsheets still ruffled, pillow still warm. 


Three steps further into the winding depths. The chime as guide. Like hammer upon anvil now. A clarion tattoo. 


…As the final impact rang out, she stooped to admire the buckled plates that sat cooling in the strange breath after birth. Frescoed with filigree and tailored to her frame – the armoured attire she would tighten to her torso seemed impossibly mythical. Exoskeletal and impervious, it would brace her as she was buffeted both within and without. 


Polished brass detailing catches the light, the curvature clicking as it contracts. It is almost too perfect. Un-scuffed.  She will soon see to that. Strapped and bound she strides into the vespers and the carriage that awaits, crowded with companions whose names she aspires to live long enough to remember… 


A click. A scrape. A chime. Impossibly close this time, and in an instant she hurtles back into her boots, firmly and irretrievably in the now as the sweet sounds curdle, drifting over her shoulder.  


The scraping! An approach! Joints click like gunshot as they bend at angles outrageous. Leering - it rises, an ink-stain smear in her periphery. 


The impact is like a bayonet charge.  


Blood fills her lungs. She glances down gutted as the proboscis protrudes. Rib bones twist as they are exposed to the air, the exit wound ejaculating a clotted mist of gore. Behind her it bends in a chitinous arc, rising to dwarf her as a monstrous thorax stretches to its apex upon a cluster of spindled limbs. Choking now, she gasps only sputum and crimson as a scream suffocates to emerge as a muted gurgling whimper.  


Again the impact. Probing extremities run riot inside her, viscera shredding as strange puckered orifices fill the rent space with a thousand slathered squirming sacs. The brood beds down, warm within. Organs erode, mulched for the many. It is over quickly but has only begun. Seeded, a surrender to decay and rebirth, human excrement and warm earth. 


Fertilised she lies in vacant repose.  

Three leagues removed, he turns to note her absence and follows the framework further, entranced as he is beckoned by a trio of clues. 


A click, a scrape and a chime.

Stretch Wide the Gates of Hell
over 3 years ago – Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:32:36 AM

$300,000? You people are amazing. Unyielding. Relentless! 

With each offering the brazier burns brighter, the ritual chanting rises, the stars draw tighter in a dreadful prophetic symmetry.

Witness what you have now unleashed!


While that’s all for now, we still have innumerable atrocities lurking behind the curtain waiting patiently to be unveiled. How much can you bear? What terrible destiny awaits your accursed crew?  

A curdled laughter rattles through your skull as the hour draws nigh.