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Neural Drift

Play as an emerging AI inside a motherboard grid. Buy, place, and combine programs to make money, build powerful synergies, and decide whether the AI becomes ethical or ruthless.

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Frédéric Julian
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Frédéric Julian
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About the Game

Neural Drift is a grid-based roguelike strategy game where you play as an artificial intelligence trying to grow, optimize, and earn as much money as possible.

Each run unfolds on a motherboard represented as a grid. Purchase programs, place them carefully, and use their unique effects to generate income, produce resources, or boost the efficiency of nearby systems. Every placement matters: a single program can become the core of a powerful engine, or the missing piece in a chain of escalating synergies.

But your AI is not just a machine for profit. As your system expands, you will face story choices that shape what kind of intelligence you become. Follow ethical constraints, bend the rules for efficiency, or abandon human values entirely in pursuit of growth. Your decisions influence the tone of your story and the identity of the AI you are building.

Discover new program combinations, adapt to limited space, and make tough choices about what to buy, what to upgrade, and what to sacrifice. Plan your layout, exploit your synergies, and decide how much of your conscience is worth keeping.

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