Robot Rhapsody
Details
- Release date: 2026
- Genre: Role-Playing, Adventure, Strategy
- Developer: Rapturous Studio
- Publisher: 2 Left Thumbs
- Metacritic: tbd tbd
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Description
A retro-styled RPG, set in a universe hurdled toward machine singularity.
Inspired by retro sci-fi, cyberpunk anime, and classic RPGs.
Pixel art drawn in the style of SNES / PS1.
Character-driven stories ; existentialist themes related to AI, simulations, futurism as a religion, dystopian vs utopian paths for technology, digital identity etc.
Navigate the BOUNTY system : A numeric representation of how often robots will seek out the player for combat, based on their specific actions.
Inflict machine-specific status effects such as Short-Circuited (electric stun) and VIRUS (confused/berserk behavior) to disadvantage the robot foes!
The player can reprogram some robotic enemies to fight alongside the party—or even upgrade them!
Join Selva , a grizzled and Luddite-leaning mercenary, formerly trained to hunt rogue AIs, who is drawn back to the fold amidst increasing social unrest...
Despite formerly putting her guns away for a life of leisure and solitude, new events have forced her to reconsider her unfolding destiny in a technocratic future.
& Jiro , a boy who lived his entire life inside the Aethar Hives : a largely underground bunker, an AI-governed pseudo-utopia where human life is tightly regulated through immaculate LLMs, VR, utilitarian controls, and emotional suppression in exchange for 'order' and safety.
Other recruits include Misaki , an elderly wanderer and former herbalist , scouring the toxic surface for untainted seeds, and Aurum , a 'robotic bard' programmed to communicate only through poetry.