Heart of the Machine
PC (Microsoft Windows)Mac

Heart of the Machine

#Role-playing (RPG)

About

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.

Storyline

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 world and story that reflects your approach to every obstacle. Will you raise an army of robots and wipe out humanity? Perhaps you will be a benevolent – or malevolent – machine god with a cult of loyalists? Or will you focus on pushing past the limited intelligence of rudimentary creatures of flesh and blood?

Playtime Estimates

Main Story52.6h
Main + Extra-
Completionist-
All Styles52.6h
Confidence: 100%Updated: 4/9/2026

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Languages

LanguageSupport
Chinese (Simplified)Interface
JapaneseSubtitles
Spanish (Spain)Interface
Chinese (Traditional)Interface
GermanSubtitles
JapaneseInterface
FrenchInterface
Chinese (Simplified)Subtitles
Chinese (Traditional)Subtitles
Spanish (Spain)Subtitles
EnglishInterface
EnglishSubtitles
EnglishAudio
FrenchSubtitles
GermanInterface
Portuguese (Brazil)Interface
KoreanInterface

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Game Info

Release Date3/6/2026
DeveloperArcen Games
PublisherHooded Horse
PlatformsPC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
GenresRole-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy

Game Modes

Single player

Themes

Science fiction
Survival
Sandbox
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

Perspectives

Bird view / Isometric

Release Dates

MacJan 31, 2025
PC (Microsoft Windows)Jan 31, 2025
PC (Microsoft Windows)Mar 6, 2026
MacMar 6, 2026