Rig or Skill: PC Brawl

Rig or Skill: PC Brawl is an air hockey-style tournament where self-aware computer applications compete to prove whose algorithm and tactics are best. You enter as a newly sentient application, choose an in-game PC and battle opponents by slowing down their virtual machines.

Online duels

Play casual duels, compete in ranked matches and climb the league table. You can use an online leaderboard, friend lists, clans and bragging titles to track and share your standing. The game also features internet-culture references.

Aim mobile units at the enemy’s CPU: each accurate shot reduces the FPS capability of their virtual PC. Ultimate attacks can overheat or slow down an opponent’s machine, hack enemy units or create a black hole in the arena. You can defend your CPU with stationary units, but every unit on screen raises your virtual PC’s core temperature, so you need to deploy them tactically.

PCs and rewards

Earn in-game money to unlock new PCs and skins. Completing challenges earns experience points, levels and in-game prizes.

Single-player puzzles

Work through challenges that ask you to hit targets with mobile units. Each puzzle is a labyrinth of walls and traps to overcome.

Tournament story

In the game’s story, internet-connected computer applications become self-aware and begin disputing which is fastest and most functional. Their conflict turns into a tournament, where the applications compete in PCs of their choice.