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Hacktivist: Escape the Automaton

In the future, AI has replaced %85 of the job market.  Those who resist, are sent to work as slave labor for the AI firms in automated prisons. Play as Destiny as she blasts her way out using weapons and a handy hacking bracelet used by the prisons’ programmers to control the robots.

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Rosewood Works
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Rosewood Works
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About the Game

Game Background

It is the year 2057, and AI has replaced %85 of the job market. Robots police the streets, they feed us, they teach and nurture our children. The United States government has been usurped by a small collective of companies that manufacture this tech. There is a growing resistance, hacktivists: people meeting in the darkest corners of the internet, removing their neurolink, discussing ways to take down the network and the companies that control it.

Those who are caught, are sent to work as slave labor for the AI firms in automated prisons called Automotons. branded as rehabilitation facilities to appease the programming-class that keeps the system running. Destiny Charter. The former leader of a hacktivist group, has been imprisoned here for five years, when someone hacks into The Automoton to help her escape. But she won’t be able to do it quietly. 

Gameplay

A third-person shooter fused with sci fi abilities. Destroy enemies, use your hacking bracelet to incapacitate them, and enjoy challenging, high-intensity combat. 

  • Realistic sci-fi environment

  • Stealth takedowns

  • Choose your combat style: guns, hacking, or hand to hand

  • Surprising and reactive enemy AI

  • Enemies posses different combat behavior and weapons

Development Background

This is a sci-fi third person shooter game developed by a husband and wife team: Michael a.k.a Spike, owner of Rosewood Works and K'la, who stars as Destiny. We hope you enjoy this alpha-build demo and provide feedback!

    • STORAGE: 12 GB available space

    • SOUND CARD: Windows

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