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A Linux-native robot programming sandbox inspired by Brad Heide's 1992 Robugs. Wire logic gates into miniature fighting machines, build arenas, and watch emergent battles, foraging, and reproduction. No fixed score—just design, simulate, and save your own circuits.
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Rawbugs
SteamAbout Rawbugs
<i>Design circuits. Build worlds. Watch what happens.</i>
Rawbugs is a freeware homage to Robugs (1992) by Brad Heide — an Atari ST classic where tiny robots fight for survival using hand-wired logic, not scripts. You place gates, radars, thrusters, and guns on a grid, connect them together, save your design, drop robots into an arena you sculpted, and press play. Populations rise, starve, shoot, and reproduce. There is no campaign and no score — the game is the experiment.
What you can do
Linux and Steam Deck
Rawbugs is built for Linux and SteamOS (native, no Proton). Keyboard and mouse (or trackpad on the Steam Deck). Fullscreen from the in-game menu or launch options. Player manual inside the game (Credits → Player Manual) if needed.
Credits
In gratitude to Robugs (1992) — Brad Heide.
Rawbugs is an independent recreation by Shimpinomori; not affiliated with the original author.
Free to install. Have fun designing worlds.
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