Again, a very in-deph game and with a reflection of Gemini Rue with a missing memory as part of it. I should one day get around to seeing all multiple endings as I'd like to know how you can complete the game with all robots and so on.

Edit: The story is set on an Earth far in the future where humans are such a distant memory that robots view humans as some kind of a god-like beings complete with a bible that teaches robots that mankind is "A perfect machine from the heavens that built them in it's own image" and so on. You even get quizzed on this to get a bomb from a old military robot that's guarding them.

The start of the game you play as Horatio Null-built who even built his own little sarcastic companion who can help out in reaching items and such that are out of reach. Horatio is building a ship to take off from this planet where energy is scarce and he had just discovered a energy core, but a robot comes and steals it, taking it back to this city that Horatio has to investigate to find out where the item has gone.

I do love how all the robots have a surname based on who build them and because Horatio has amnesia, he doesn't remember who built him, but his companion's surname is "Horatio-built" and there's even a case where you have to solve a dispute between two who have fallen out and each wishes to name the robot they created together and take full ownership of him.

As you can guess, the oldest and rarest of machines are named "Man-built" because they were built by humans and had most-likely seen and interacted with humans when they were still on the planet that is now a giant polluted trash-pile. Another great hit from one of my favourite game developer/publisher Wadjet Eye Games.

Reviewed on Dec 11, 2023


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