Humanize Robotics

Humanize Robotics is a dual-perspective game about a corporate worker trapped in a dystopian facility. To survive, you move your mind from your vulnerable human body, seen in first person, into a heavily armed AI robot, controlled in third person. You navigate procedurally generated obstacle courses, solve physical puzzles and fight hostile threats while uncovering the facility’s secrets.

Human and machine

As the human worker, you explore the oppressive corporate facility. You can then project your consciousness into a robotic combat chassis to clear rooms, tackle heavy-duty physics puzzles and take on threats.

The robot uses a neural network to control its limbs through physics-driven movement. You choose where it should go, and it works out its footsteps. During combat, you can adjust limb stiffness and decision speed: excessive stiffness can make recoil knock the robot over, while too little can leave it collapsing under enemy fire. Learning to control it is compared to a baby learning to walk, with even a simple platform over a pit posing a danger.

Combat and survival

Procedurally generated facility layouts contain obstacle courses, guns, traps, explosions and hostile encounters. Damage can tear apart the robot’s chassis; if a rocket blows off its leg, the physics system can let it balance on one foot and keep firing.

Runs continue as long as the robot’s head remains. If the chassis is destroyed, your mind returns to the human worker and you start another run.

The company’s secrets

The Company’s stated motto is “Not to Kill!”, despite equipping you with high-explosive weapons. As you push deeper into the facility, corporate logs reveal dark humor, satire and disturbing truths. They also raise questions about why an AI company needs so much firepower and about Antonius Greyrat, the mysterious, omnipresent boss who created the AI that later built The Company.