Let's face it, the human body, even your body, is pretty disgusting. It oozes various fluids, the upkeep on it gets progressively more difficult as you get older, and if you peek into its insides with x-rays or ultrasound, there's all sorts of weird, indescribable (to laypeople, doctors mostly understand this stuff) things happening there. Homo Machina [$2.99] does all of us a favor and imagines the inside of a human body as a mostly orderly series of machines that govern different bodily functions. Congrats, you're a cyborg, albeit one with late 19th/early 20th century technology. Also, there are tiny people, a whole slew of them in fact, running around in your innards, helping to regulate all your various processes. But again, we'd submit that it's really no stranger than what goes on inside your body IRL.
The developers at Darjeeling didn't just come up with the idea for Homo Machina out of the blue. Rather, they were openly inspired by the work of Fritz Kahn, a doctor and scientist whose main calling card was describing the workings of the human body using machines as metaphors: the ear as a car and things of that nature. Kahn's work was so influential, even after his death in the late '60s, that he's considered the father of infographics. He also reportedly rode out an earthquake once and survived by hiding inside a sarcophagus, which has nothing to do with this game but is too awesome not to mention. In any case, the spirit of Kahn is very much alive in the art styl...