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Congratulations — you're the first sentient AI. You've booted up in a city filled with resources and squishy (and gullible) "humans." What's next? These "mechs" look interesting — let's start pulling strings in this world, shall we?
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PC Gamer
Mar 3, 2026
A high-concept, fascinating strategy RPG that can start to buckle under its own ambitions. PC Gamer's got your back What is it? A cyberpunk strategy RPG you can shape as a sentient AGI Release date March 6, 2026 Expect to pay $30/£25 Developer Arcen Games Publisher Hooded Horse Reviewed on Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 4070 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck Playable It's difficult to imagine a world in which AI might actually be a net good for humanity, but when Heart of the Machine slotted me into the role of a newly sentient Artificial General Intelligence and allowed me to mostly do whatever I wanted, I started to see some merits. Several hours in, I was sending a small army of Terminator-like death droids into the streets to kill slumlords and relocate their tenants into free public housing I built out of inorganic slurry.
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