73%Strong matchBot Wars
87%69387% positive reviews, Very Positive across 693 reviews·Shooter · 1980s
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A Real Time Tactics game. An AI with a directive that backfired horribly has made robots to wipe humanity out. In response, humanity built their own robots to fight back. By hacking the robots, you'll sabotage the enemy and boost your allies to turn the tide of battle in humanity's favor.
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In a war between humanity and the AI they created that's gone out of control, robots are built to fight through the streets of a recently rebuilt society. You, a mysterious hacker, must help your side win the fight by indirectly (or in some cases, directly) manipulating the robots to turn the tide in your favor.
In the far distant future, humanity is rebuilding from the ashes of devastation. Recorded knowledge is far and few between, they had to relearn technology that used to be so commonplace in the years before the war that ended the old world era. They find what would be their biggest rediscovery that ultimately lead to their downfall, Artificial Intelligence.
They named it "Contego" and without understanding how it works, gave this AI unlimited control and power to achieve a goal that backfired horribly... After failed attempts to shut it down, it completely took over the machinery of the factories and began making combat robots to wipe humanity out.

In order to fight back without risking more human lives, robots were also scrapped together by humanity to fight in their place, but they couldn't risk the AI taking control of them, so they were made inferior, no internet connection, only local programs and extremely primitive networks.
Flying drones over the battlefield, someone untraceable has managed to get ahead of Contego on the digital front. By using these flying drones as relays, malicious (or sometimes helpful) code is injected into the robot's network traffic and accessing their systems, sabotaging the AI's forces, and supporting and corralling humanity's forces in order to help them complete their mission and bring everyone closer to the end of this catastrophe.

Sometime in the coming months, more content will be announced as free updates to the game, these may include things like more missions, new enemy types, more scripts, and/or more features in general. Patches will also be released with the intent of improving the overall quality of the experience.
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