Heart of the Machine, a strategy/4X/RPG hybrid where you play a sentient AI trying to take power in a dystopian cyberpunk city, released in early access Steam
Heart of the Machine, a strategy/4X/RPG hybrid where you play a sentient AI trying to take power in a dystopian cyberpunk city, released in early access Steam
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Developed by Arcen Games, one of the OG indie developers. AI War 1/2, A Valley Without Wind 1/2 and The Last Federation.
I like Arcen a lot and this is very much a game I will get at some point.
But holy crap. They released a video on youtube in the past few days about "different timelines" and that was the fastest I went from "this should be fun" to "I need to really set aside some time to learn this game". And I play Dwarf Fortress and Terra Invicta.
It's been a couple years since I played TI, so maybe they've improved it, but I think this is a lot simpler than TI.
It would be genuinely difficult to find a game more complex than TI. And I grew up on the frigging derek smart battlecruiser games.
It mostly speaks to whoever in marketing thought the best way to describe the gameplay loop would be to do the FULL gameplay loop and introduce like ninety difference concepts in ten minutes.