You know it: An evil AI has seized control of the planet, the last humans are in a desperate war against their superiority. Only you are not one of them, but the artificial intelligence itself, and become the manipulative master of mankind! This is the scenario of Heart of the Machine, a strategy game due to be released in 2023.
You can find out what makes the title special here. On the other hand, if you want to know what worthwhile games will be released on Steam this week, then check out our overview:
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Was ist Heart of the Machine?
In Heart of the Machine you don’t have to laboriously build cities yourself, a great civilization is already waiting for you.
Heart of the Machine offers you a huge, procedurally generated sci-fi world thousands of buildings and millions of citizens
as a playground. They are not aware of your existence and so you can manipulate them from the shadows, make plans and become more powerful.
Your goals are not set in advance: you want them only
overthrow the current government and put other rulers in power? Do you see yourself as more of a leader, or do you want to bring about the city’s downfall by turning their own weapons against them?
Story, tactics and decisions
How your game ends depends on your choices and goals.
on Steam Heart of the Machine already promises a lot of exciting features. Here’s everything you need to know, summarized:
- Do what you want: As already indicated, you can pursue a wide variety of goals. You can control parts of the colony, or all of it yourself, establish a government of your choice, use mechs to wage war against humanity or trigger a nuclear apocalypse. However, it is still unclear how exactly this all works. However, the basic mechanics should be easy to learn.
- Tactical Battles: Heart of the Machine promises combat on multiple levels. On the one hand, you can destroy entire blocks of houses with huge mechs. However, the clashes probably also take place in individual rooms and buildings. There you can then manipulate the existing devices to turn printers or televisions into death traps.
On the one hand you can control mechs as tall as houses, …
- Many stories: The strategy game also wants to have a big focus on the story. So there should be several endings for a campaign and you can discover side stories. However, the most interesting stories should be created by you and your decisions. For each of your actions has good and bad consequences. With this goal, Heart of the Machine is reminiscent of building games like Norland:
Medieval building game
Norland wants to tell stories that Rimworld would be jealous of
What do you think of Heart of the Machine? Do you find the setting and approach of the game exciting? Do you want to rule over humanity as an ingenious AI, pull the strings in the background, or just wipe them all out? Or do you prefer to build your cities and colonies with your own hands and are less interested? Write your opinion in the comments!
