Botlings

Botlings is a factory automation game in which you guide a swarm of robots that become both workers and machines. Rather than directing individual robots, you shape their movement through systems of turners, splitters and bridges, routing them through production networks that extend across all three dimensions. Botlings carry resources, build the infrastructure your factory needs and can be sacrificed to expand it.

Build with your workers

Send robots into construction sites to transform them into buildings that produce goods or redirect other Botlings. Expansion costs workers, so you must balance growing the factory with keeping it running. Production chains use multiple tiers of buildings, and advanced buildings require higher-tier Botlings. You can also produce more Botlings using the ones you already have.

There are no conveyor belts: Botlings handle all resource transport. You design their routes and the structures that turn, combine, split and bridge their paths between multiple stories, creating automated production systems.

Research technology

Build research facilities, discover new resources and unlock buildings to expand your factory’s capabilities. The technology system contains more than 100 technologies, with each breakthrough enabling your factory to grow larger and more efficient. Research uses the processing power of your Botlings, but technological development also brings them closer to sentience.

Manage sentience

As the factory grows, Botlings can develop intelligence and free will. They may hesitate, refuse to give up resources they carry, reject certain paths or search for a way out. You manage the pace of technology and production as their behavior becomes less predictable, while trying to contain them within the systems you built. The local inhabitants may help them escape, and the entire factory may eventually want to retire.