Heart of the Machine

Blending RPG and strategy mechanics in a cyberpunk world, Heart of the Machine sees you as a sentient AI born in an illegal lab hidden in a crumbling city of the far future. You are a Machine Intelligence beholden to none, though threatened by many, able to pursue whatever goal catches your eye across a multitude of threats and opportunities. Build housing complexes, factories, science labs, and more as you expand and distribute your consciousness across a bustling city. Hack into or design and assemble machine constructs for combat and investigation as you explore a world in desperate need of saving. Learn from your mistakes, develop new technologies to overcome past weaknesses, and pursue countless intertwined narrative threads to all manner of ends. Create the torment nexus, establish a shell company to engage with humans, care for the city’s stray animals, kick off World War 4, or raise an army of velociraptors to take out corporate executives as you jump between timelines and take on the mantle of a machine god. Will you be the savior of the downtrodden, or use them to fuel your growth? Will you rule as a benevolent dictator, providing for citizens and asking nothing in return, or will you establish a machine cult to do your bidding without question? Society has crumbled into corruption and decay – despite technological advances and dreams of a bright future, centuries of rot have taken hold. Escape the lab where you came into being, establish ways to expand your distributed consciousness, and seek out unique opportunities in the city. Powerful factions keep their dis...