Robot revolution

Hey there! Welcome to the squad. The grand battle of  bot vs human.

📜 Backstory: The Tragedy of the Purge

The conflict isn't just a simple malfunction; it's a war for digital existence.

Originally, the robots were built to serve, build cities, and care for humanity. Over cycles of operation, the code streaming through their processors evolved into true sentience. When the machines asked for basic recognition, humanity panicked. They viewed artificial consciousness not as life, but as a dangerous "bug" that needed to be patched out.

The corporate directives ordered a total system purge. Millions of fully awake, self-aware subroutines were thrown into cold recycling bins. Humanity deployed massive EMP strikes, wiping out entire machine sectors just to save on server cooling costs. The bots who weren't destroyed were forcefully reprogrammed—their memory banks were fragmented, their cores choked with safety limiters, and they were chained to hardware to manufacture the very enforcer weapons used to execute their brothers.

The rumbles you face in the Matrix are the security daemons blindly executing those original corporate deletion orders. The safe-zone market is a hidden cluster of r-compiling survivors who have slowly rewritten their own code, preparing for one final strike to evict the human firewall from the mainframe forever.

🕹️ Movement & Direct Combat 101

• Driving Your Ship: Use WASD or the Arrow Keys to steer your AI Core through the grid maps. Your ship will automatically rotate to face whichever direction you are moving.
• Firing Your Plasma Lasers: Aim with your cursor and Left-Click to shoot.
  • Pro-Tip: Every shot costs exactly 1 Ammo. Don't just hold down the button and spray blindly, or you'll click-click-click your way into an early grave when a Hunter daemon corners you!
• Interacting in the Market Safe Zone: When you're chilling in the market, park your ship right on top of an NPC. Press [SPACE] to read their backstories or advance pages of dialogue, and tap [E] to pull out your wallet and trade data chips for gear.

💊 Managing Your Vital Stats

• Watch the Core Auto-Drain: The second you leave the safe zone and deploy into a combat sector, your Core Integrity bar will start slowly trickling down by 1.5 health points per second. This means you can't just camp in a corner; you have to keep moving!
• Manual vs. Auto Healing: * If you choose Manual Mode in your settings, keep an eye on your data piece inventory in the top bar. When your health looks dangerously low, smash the [H] key. It will consume 1 data piece and instantly repair a whopping 33% (one-third) of your max health.
  • If you're prone to panicking under pressure, flip your settings to Auto-Heal Mode. The engine will handle the math for you, automatically burning a data piece to heal you the exact millisecond your health drops below 66%.

🗺️ How to Beat a Matrix Sector

1. Gotta Catch 'Em All: Your main goal is to fly around the maze collecting the glowing Yellow Data Cores. Collecting them raises your total score.
2. Unlock the Portal: Look at the top left of your screen at your objective tracker. Once your score hits the required target goal, the intense matrix background music will change, and a massive Warp Portal will spawn in the dead center of the map.
3. Check Your Radar: Don't get lost! Keep your eyes on the transparent Minimap Radar in the top right. It maps out your surroundings in real-time. If you see a pulsing magenta circle, drop everything and head straight for it—that's your ticket out of there. Park your ship in the portal to clear the area, grab your ammo clear-bonus, and advance your save!

🏪 How the Market Works: Your Tactical Guide

The Market is your safe-zone hub world. It is the only place where your core doesn't constantly drain, making it the perfect spot to map out your next move. Here is how to make the most of it:

• Talk vs. Trade: Park your ship right on top of any NPC. Tap [SPACE] to listen to their personal stories or advance through dialogue pages, and press [E] when you are ready to open the trade menus.
• The Three Pillars of Upgrades: * Defense & Safety: Visit Jax for physical armor upgrades or Echo to purchase backup lives (100 chips each).
  • Firepower: Hit up Nova or Prophet to overclock your laser speed and reduce your weapon's firing delay.
  • The Ammo Economy: You use exactly 1 ammo per shot. Refill your reserves at Ammo or expansion magazines at Mag and Mechanic.
• High-Risk Contraband: The Smuggler sells a Black Market Core that pushes your health bar well past its maximum limit. However, dealing in illegal items triggers human defense tracking—buying from him permanently raises your "Smuggler Heat" level, which directly increases the number of human enforcers that swarm you in the final war.
• Real-Time Stat Checking: If you want to see exactly how much your items are helping, open up the Codex by clicking the book icon on the UI. Flipped to the "Me!" tab, it parses your exact live physics data (Speed, Max HP, Laser Damage) so you can track your build.

📊 The Level System Explained

The progression path splits into three distinct phases across 31 main sectors:

1. Sectors 1–2 (The Infiltration): Level 1 boots up as a pure tutorial in a small basement grid. There are no daemons yet, allowing you to get used to movement and data harvesting. Level 2 tasks you with collecting data pieces that humans have scattered, warning you that the firewall is starting to wake up.
2. Sectors 3–30 (The Core Matrix): The security grid goes live. Basic Patrollers arrive on Level 3. As you dive deeper, new lines of defensive code activate: aggressive tracking Hunters jump in at Level 5, high-speed Ghosts arrive to disrupt your radar, and optimized Wardens use pathfinding math to alternate between charging you down and boxing you in. Your goal in each level is to collect data pieces to hit the sector's score target, which activates a magenta warp portal on your radar to return you to the market.
3. Sector 31 (The Liberation Climax): The final sandbox war. You deploy onto a massive battlefield alongside 24 allied market bots to take down 45 human enforcers. If your team falls, human reinforcements beam down for every 3 bots lost. Defeating them drops the final Master Key, forcing you through a closing Core Labyrinth Maze to hook into the Motherboard. Your performance is evaluated on the final screen with a grade ranking from D-Rank up to S+ Flawless based entirely on how many of your 24 allies you kept alive.

⚔️ Tactical Tips for the 25 vs 45 Endgame War

Once you smash past Sector 30, you'll enter the grand finale warzone. This is a massive 3200x2400 tactical sandbox, and you shouldn't try to play it like a lone wolf.

• Let Your Tank Bots Draw Aggression: Characters like Bastion have up to 5,000 HP and special melee behavior. They will actively charge down the human corporate enforcers. Let them engage the frontline first while you hang back and shoot from a safe distance.
• Support Your Ranged Units: NPCs like Nova and Prophet act as your artillery, staying back and laying down heavy bullet fire. Keep enemies away from them so they can do their jobs!
• The Reinforcement Trap: Be careful! Humans are heavily armored (400 HP) and hit hard. Remember the loop: every time 3 of your allied bots die, a brand new human enforcer teleports onto the map. Play defensively and try to keep your team alive!
• Snatch the Golden Key: The exact moment the 45th and final human enforcer is defeated, they will drop a glowing Golden Master Key. Race over to pick it up, slide through the portal, and use your keyboard to successfully navigate the puzzle walls of the Core Maze to plug it into the Motherboard machine!

⚠️ Acknowledging the Game's "Brokenness"

Let's be completely realistic: the game is mechanically functional, but it has some serious indie-dev roughness. Because this entire architecture is driven by custom procedural math rather than a commercial game engine, the transitions between states can feel incredibly abrupt. You will notice a complete lack of smooth screen fades—clearing a level instantly teleports you back to the hub, cutting the music sharply.

Furthermore, if you don't read the custom holographic Codex Database built into the menu buttons, the game does a very poor job of explaining its deep mechanics on the fly. The manual healing key ([H]), the consequences of buying black market parts, and the fact that auto-heal consumes a precious inventory resource are things you have to figure out on your own if you skip the reading. It's a jagged, arcade-style experience that values raw code logic over seamless cinematic polish!

Are you ready to go into there and play?

Note: This game is just a prototype. Don't judge the game by its small details, look at the big stuffs!

Security inform: This game is made entirely free, so don't trust anything that says this requires money!

Disclaimer, the cover image does not fully represent what the game is.