Bot Colony _redux

Bot Colony _redux is a sci-fi narrative game in which you investigate a spy’s infiltration of Nakagawa Corp’s research and development facility on Agrihan Island. You speak or type freely to robots, who respond in the language you use, and your conversations shape the story. The game has three episodes, each with its own setting, characters and gameplay.

Talk to the robots

You can use a microphone or type to communicate with a dynamic cast of robots in 16 languages, and they answer in the language you use. You can also mix languages in a conversation. The robots respond to what you say rather than to a selection of preset dialogue options.

The investigation

Nakagawa Corp, a large Japanese robotics company, hires you to track down a spy who has infiltrated its R&D facility on Agrihan Island. In Episode I: Intruder, top-secret prototypes have gone missing. Before you can start the search, the security chief gives you two hiring tests: control a robot with your words and access its repressed video memories.

In Episode II: Arrival, you land on Agrihan as airport robots patched with Update 237 begin following the instruction “Do As People Do.” Their attempts to emulate human behaviour coincide with a crisis, and your assistant Miki-05 helps you navigate the events as you encounter anti-robot terrorism firsthand.

In Episode III: Riot, you fly a Hunter Bot to an oil rig where the robots have mutinied and the human staff have fled. The robots form opposing communist, capitalist and eco-defender factions. To survive, you must resonate with their ideology, then prove your humanity to robots in a test modeled on the Voigt-Kampff test from Blade Runner.

Agrihan Island

Built in Unreal Engine 5, Agrihan is a futuristic island with an original soundtrack. You meet dozens of robots designed for specific roles, from domestic bots to hunters, whose gestures, expressions and voices reflect their goal of emulating people.

Conversations and responses

The game uses natural-language understanding alongside speech and voice-generation technology to create robot responses to your input. Generating these responses uses cloud resources. You receive an initial allocation of LEKS for conversations; after it runs out, you can purchase more to continue playing.