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You are the first sentient AI, born into a city filled with endless opportunities. Raise an army of robots and obliterate your foes, become a benevolent machine overlord, or explore countless other objectives and the many paths to accomplish them.
Set in the far future, Heart of the Machine is a turn-based sci-fi 4X RPG where you play as a powerful sentient Machine Intelligence, beholden to none. Pursue whatever goal catches your eye across a multitude of playthroughs with a plethora of tools to help you achieve objectives how you’d prefer, often in surprising and unexpected ways, while overcoming those that seek to thwart you. Genetics labs, factories, nuclear silos, military complexes, and much more besides are ripe for the taking, each offering a litany of ways to accomplish your tasks, each with consequences of their own, building a...
Also known as: HeartOfTheMachine.exe
March 6, 2026
Heart of the Machine was released on March 6, 2026.
Heart of the Machine is available on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac.
No — Heart of the Machine is a single-player game.
Heart of the Machine was developed by Arcen Games and published by Hooded Horse.