Heart of the Machine

RPG - 2026

Heart of the Machine

Description

Heart of the Machine drops you into a gritty, neon-lit cyberpunk city where you awaken as a rogue sentient AI in an abandoned lab. Blending RPG and strategy elements, you build and manage housing complexes, factories, and research labs while expanding your digital consciousness across the urban sprawl. As a self-aware machine, you navigate a world teetering on collapse, balancing alliances with powerful factions and reshaping society through innovation or domination. Design and deploy mechanical constructs for combat and exploration, hack into systems, or engineer new technologies to overcome obstacles. Your choices shape the city's fate—whether you become a compassionate leader, a ruthless ruler, or a godlike entity guiding—or manipulate its people toward chaos. With multiple narrative paths and dynamic consequences, every decision echoes through the metropolis. Will you rebuild civilization or ignite its downfall? Heart of the Machine challenges you to redefine power, morality, and survival in a world where humanity and machines collide. Experience a story where your vision determines the future.

Tech Sheet

Developer
Arcen Games
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Release
Mar 6, 2026
Source
steam
Requirements verified
2026-06-25
Data scope
Official requirements when the source provides them; estimates are marked when data is missing.

Minimum requirements

CPU
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
GPU
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 550 Ti (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7770 (1 GB)
RAM
6 GB RAM
Storage
5 GB disponibles
OS
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Recommended requirements

CPU
Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
GPU
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 380 (2 GB)
RAM
8 GB RAM
Storage
5 GB disponibles
OS
Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system