Automaton Heart

Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements. You explore unusual places, upgrade your organs and choose which items to take on each excursion. Action is broken up by exploration and rest areas where you can manage equipment and upgrades.

Organs and abilities

Organ upgrades affect your combat stats and can unlock new features. Upgrading the mind provides navigation tools, while upgrading the lungs lets you breathe underwater for longer. You play through the stories of three automatons—Uma, Alma and Misha—each with distinct traits and six unique abilities. These abilities have varied effects, including summoning a friendly companion or jetting through the air for a short time.

Exploration and equipment

Different tools provide access to new areas, but you can carry only a limited number at once. The world is persistent, so you can stash items and return for them later. Enemies may follow you between areas or steal items from you or from the floor.

You assess your equipment and stats, create hidden stashes and plan which supplies to bring into the unknown. Shopkeepers and friendly sentient creatures can trade useful items, so encounters involve deciding how to act.

Character progression

You gain experience by finding secret areas, defeating enemies or choosing to invest computer chips in your body rather than sell them to a shopkeeper. Gaining levels generates organ cores, which you distribute among your organs to upgrade them.