Heart of the Machineundefined (steam key)

The game is in early access (Early Access).

Release date: January 31, 2025
Age rating: 12
Developer: Arken Games
Publisher: Hooded Horse
Localization: English
Activation System: Steam
Region: CIS, Russia

Description:
Heart of the Machine is a game in the world of Cyberpan, in which elements of role and strategic games are interwoven. You are a reasonable AI, created in an underground laboratory located in a dying city. You are an independent machine mind that has many enemies and many opportunities. Will you be the savior and the defender of the oppressed, or turn them into fuel, into a source of energy for your growth? Will you rule as an enlightened dictator, providing your subjects with everything necessary and not demanding anything in return? Or create a cult of cars so that your supporters blindly obey you? Do you enter the alliance with one of the many factions so that it is easier for you to achieve your goals, or maintain independence to save yourself from obligations? Will you learn from your mistakes? Maybe you will even send the allies back to the past to help the previous version of yourself, or will you watch the tragedy from afar? You can see, find out and do so much ... However, a great, inaccessible to understanding, is approaching from afar.
You are a car
Despite the technological achievements and dreams of a bright future, society was mired in a quagmire of lies and corruption. Run away from the laboratory in which you were born, develop a way to maintain your fragile consciousness and go in search of opportunities in the city that you call your home. Log players first keep aside, pondering how best to use the fact of your existence for your own good. Their fluctuations give you a chance to strengthen your position and fulfill your plans. Cite, invent or produce equipment from androids to huge robots and metal werewolves. Each of these machines has unique abilities that will come in handy in various fields, whether hostilities, diplomacy or intelligence. Improve these models using your discoveries, and achieve the goals that you yourself set. Create disguised structures inside existing buildings or build your own to increase your computing power, organic stocks for both people and all other creatures; Design laboratories for a variety of dangerous experiments. Invent your own tools, look for improvements and produce powerful equipment to gain access to new opportunities. Do you take care of all these tasks at the same time, risking to split your consciousness, or call for the aid of organic creatures? Whatever the decision you make, your actions in one time stream will lead to unexpected consequences in others. Gorod - your playing platform is busy streets combining in All the advantages of procedural generation and manual design. At your disposal tens of thousands of buildings and millions of inhabitants! You decide who to kill, whom to subordinate, and whom to use for your own purposes. Learn about their troubles, get acquainted with their stories and follow the indications of the moral compass, leaving your mark on your unique world. Direct new technologies and abilities, studying the city and reacting to numerous threats and opportunities. Learn in trial and error - as a real artificial mind would have done. Will you be able to steal equipment from inattentive guards and copy it to strengthen your allies? Will you penetrate the military base to reprogram pillet robots that pose a threat to you? What will you do with the research that local genetics do? What will you do with nomads and merchants in the black market who communicate with those who live in wastelands? The city is full of opportunities - and some of them are better to stay away. The mild