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749 😀 58 😒

87,11%

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$13.49

~~$29.99~~

Heart of the Machine Steam Charts & Stats

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city filled with unsuspecting humans. Raise an army of mechs and wipe out humanity, become a benevolent machine overlord, or seek to forge your own path.

App ID	2001070
App Type	GAME
Developers	Arcen Games
Publishers	Hooded Horse
Categories	Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud
Genres	Strategy, Simulation
Release Date	2024
Platforms	Windows, Mac
Supported Languages	French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean

16 Players in Game

961 All-Time Peak

87,11 Rating

Steam Charts

16 Players in Game

961 All-Time Peak

87,11 Rating

At the moment, Heart of the Machine has 16 players actively in-game. This is 0% lower than its all-time peak of 303.

Heart of the Machine Player Count

Heart of the Machine monthly active players. This table represents the average number of players engaging with the game each month, providing insights into its ongoing popularity and player activity trends.

Month	Average Players	Change
2026-07	16	0%
2026-06	16	-80.77%
2026-01	83	+18.04%
2025-12	70	+28.18%
2025-11	55	+2.8%
2025-10	53	-11.23%
2025-08	60	-14.55%
2025-07	70	-50.27%
2025-06	141	+152.19%
2025-05	56	0%

807 Total Reviews

749 Positive Reviews

58 Negative Reviews

Very Positive Score

Heart of the Machine has garnered a total of 807 reviews, with 749 positive reviews and 58 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Very Positive’ overall score.

Reviews Chart

Chart above illustrates the trend of feedback for Heart of the Machine over time, showcasing the dynamic changes in player opinions as new updates and features have been introduced. This visual representation helps to understand the game's reception and how it has evolved.

Recent Steam Reviews

This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback

Playtime: 1281 minutes

A fantastic game, highly recommend. It's difficult to describe, but the closest analogue might be something like a Hearts of Iron IV mod?? It's a narrative strategy game with RPG elements, and you really won't be able to figure out just what it's like to play until you try it. It has a depth and polish that is really quite astonishing. Like a HOI4 mod, it's very clearly the product of an intensely specific vision, but an advantage that Heart of the Machine has is that it is the work of accomplished, veteran developers and is thus finished and coherent in a way other genre-bending experiments aren't. It's not for everyone, but if you are the type of person who likes Hooded Horse's other games, you have the mindset to enjoy this one.

👍 : 0 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 4031 minutes

Don't let the hours I've logged fool you, I left the game on overnight several times (which didn't cause any glitches or crashes as doing such would often do for other games, so bonus points, dev). That said, I've been really enjoying the game so far. It was a little confusing and directionless at first, but the very same choices that were confusing and open-ended also acknowledged the fact that there was a lot to take in and everything would be fine, the game would progress regardless of what I did. Having that within the text of such a potentially deep and explorational game with many routes and ways to play was a genuinely nice touch! I felt fine even when something I did seemed to be the wrong choice. I got the achievement for using 10 pressure points on the city, and it said that's hard to do in chapter one, normally occurring in chapter two. I have no idea what I did to get that achievement, I literally just did all the side quests I could before advancing because I was curious where everything would lead. I enjoyed the way the writing carried a distinct like of understanding of humanity with it. Now I've got homeless shelters all over the city, an ark for dogs and individual houses for cats, no murders through the first chapter, and DOOM approaching as I desperately try to figure out the best way to run a combined arms limited military force while also avoiding any unnecessary conflict! It's great fun. As a little side note, I love the way the dev pokes fun at the fear of AI turning homicidal by all of the initial opportunities to kill people being coupled with a, 'I don't know why I want to kill people, I guess it's fun or something,' or a similar line. Update: How have only 5% of players had an android pet a cat??

👍 : 0 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 9210 minutes

This thumbs up comes with the caveat that this is a niche game for niche gamers. I've enjoyed the writing in this enough to keep me going as long as I have but it won't be for everyone. The gameplay loop tickles my brain and moment to moment decisions compounding over the course of a map is fun to me, but definitely won't be for everyone. If you've ever played any of this devs other games you know what you're getting into - but this is a solid entry from a developer who I've enjoyed games from for over 10 years. 4/5

👍 : 0 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 2062 minutes

It's ugly and the tutorial chapters took me about 4 hours, but it's worth it. It's full of exceptional creativity and crazy stuff, and clearly intricately designed. Billions of options, and accesibility features which can make the game a lot easier without disabling achievements, which is really cool. I can't deal with combat, but the game has a toggle that just lets you trivialise it. Intentional story arcs involving the whole city can be triggered by a simple objective change, whereupon the flow & response of the general mechanics snowball it into fruition organically without any apparent scripting. Most of the time it's reasonably laid-back, using any failure conditions as more fuel for your story. Lots of reading, but it's well-written and I find it enjoyable for the most part. There is more combat than I'd like, but it's done in a cool way with massive variety in creative options. Total stealth (as an AI in general) is not possible, which I found disappointing; rather the story seems to depend on you immediately building a giant tower for no good reason. The consequences of interactions are admittedly much more compelling this way. The story itself makes just barely enough sense to hold together, and I was looking up plot holes ten minutes in. According to the game's "Completion Percent," I'm getting through about 1% of its content every 2 hours.

👍 : 0 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 4207 minutes

TL;DR: A diamond in the rough fusion of every sim/strategy game you can think of. It's great now and looks to get even better. For a game made by a small indie studio (or maybe because of it?) Heart of the Machine has an amazing level of complexity. It has so many well-designed interlocking systems that it's actually hard to qualify what genre it is to recommend it to people other than...strategy simulation? It has the roots of a city-builder like Sim City/Cities Skylines at its core, layered over with a tactical turn-based RPG like X-COM/Fire Emblem, with the resource management of the Anno series or their fellow Hooded Horse published game (and another great game) Against the Storm. Plus arcade-style minigames like hacking and debating. And yet, on top of that, it's a roguelite, in that each city you build gives meta progression and builds a deeper story. It is phenomenally ambitious, and is shaping up to be a truly phenomenal game/art piece/passion project more similar to Dwarf Fortress than a conventional game. That said, like most small-team passion projects, there's a few sticking points. The games systems are sometimes unevenly spread. If I want to do debates past the few story scripted ones, there isn't much opportunity to do so, which makes the excellent debate upgrade system written into this system feel rather frustrating. There are other examples, but that's the sort of "roughness" to expect. Make no mistake: just because this game isn't in early access doesn't mean that it's done developing, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. The comparison to Dwarf Fortress (which I've spent THOUSANDS of hours on) is high praise for me, and not for nothing. This feels like the sort of game that blooms slowly, but shines the more brilliantly for it. Essentially, this game is a wonderful diamond in the rough that I have no doubt will shine brilliantly given more polish. It is still amazingly fun to play right now if you like ANY of the above subgenres that I compared it to, and will surprise you with depth in the most unexpected places. I look forward to further development, and indeed to more works by the developers.

👍 : 0 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 772 minutes

I have a hard time relating this game to something else in terms of gameplay. Its turn based strategy only, not. In no way disappointing, the game has an atmosphere and narrative that is truly unique and compelling. Fans of the robot+ai genre will absolutely feel the home turf here. This game is highly intelligent, promotes planning and critical thinking, and has just enough mix of unit and building management to make the whole package function like a well oiled machine. The dev is one of the most attentive, accessible and hard-working ones I've ever seen on an indie IP. If you run into problems or have questions/suggestions - you will be heard, and that's pure gold in my book.

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 300 minutes

Can't recommend. There's another review which sums it up better than I can, but it's ultimately just boils down to a lack of consequences, far, far too many resources and systems that you immediately forget about after their introduction, and a very... hand-holding plot. The game advertises the ability for self-direction, but there really ISN'T any room for that. Maybe here and there, in the margins, but if you're going in looking for the sort of tight control of your growth and expansion a 4x typically provides, you won't find it here. This is more of a visual novel than anything else.

👍 : 7 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Playtime: 17687 minutes

I happened across Heart of the Machine in my Discovery queue and I'm very glad I did. Normally I'm not a fan of turn-based games, but the narrative aspect, RPG elements, impressive writing and rich branching structure won me over quickly. Within the first 50 hours I knew I was going to put over a thousand hours into this game. If you're on the fence of buying it or not, buy it. The developer takes suggestions really well and will add or change things that make the game better. Things that aren't compatible with their vision of the game but are still cool often get added as mods, as well as supporting community-made mods. If you're gonna give a shot to a game you normally wouldn't, pick this one. I'm so glad I did.

👍 : 2 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 6478 minutes

TL:DR: Excellent, unique game and feel, backed by Arcen's typically outstanding long-term support. At time of writing, I am 72 hours into the game and I think my completion percentage is, like 35%. But I feel this is as good a point as any to put in a review. Heart of the Machine is genuinely something new. It is really not like anything else, having elements of an RPG, a turn based strategy game and city builder. I'm going to avoid trying to say too much, since I think the story definitely deserves to be experienced, and like I did, I think the game is worth coming in fairly cold, as it maximises the exploration aspect. I went into the game cold, but had decided I was going to all KABAL from Command and Conquer on the hapless humans. Literally two mouse clicks into the game start and I was presented with the opportunity to murder (or not0 two humans. And I said "whelp, I'm committed to the bit now, aren't I?" I had expected... Something more of a slide, but nope, if you want to go that route, you can right out of the gate. From there, it was several engaged hours of the prologue and first chapter or so before the game opened fully up - and quite a lot more before it opened up even further, and I can see that there is even more ahead as there are timelines to explore (essentially not quite restarts, but which can run in parallel). While there is (eventually) a time limit, it is so big that I think it would a huge amount of work to actually reach it turn by turn, and you'd be clicking "end turn" a lot. There are, of course, ways to jump to the end, as it were, though I've not used them yet, So in general, this is a very laid back game (especially in the first few hours), and overall very forgiving. I'm pretty sure it is straight impossible to "lose" as such overall, though implications are you could come to something like that in a particular timeline. (And If I was less stressed and twitchy all the time like I am these days, it would be even more chill!) As usual for an Arcen game, the support is staggeringly good. I had known that going in, and having bought prior Arcen games, I had picked up Heart of the Machine some time ago, and waited patiently for the 1.0 release before playing. (As is my typical modus operandii.) There have been multiple updates even in the short time I've been playing and the dev is incredible responsive with issues. For example, one of the ways to get additional buildings/troops etc. is by picking researches from categories, which gives your several options from what technologies are in that category. for some of them, every time you pick that category, you might have only a 55% chance of getting a particular type of upgrade that you want. I am not terribly fond of this sort of mechanic, but I just save and reloaded when I felt it was important. One of the patches locked the seed to the save you couldn't do that anymore. I (politely) mentioned my displeasure as this change, and blow me, within a couple of days, the new patch came with an in-game way to spend resources to reroll the tech for a pick using in-game resources, and an official mod to make the rerolls free for OCD-twitchy freaks like me! And, really, that has fixed what was my only minor gripe. I really can't fault it for anything else. The game is deep without being overwhelming and well written. I still have only some guesses as to the end-game and I've still got a huge amount of the game to explore. The UI is well done, and it has to be because there is a LOT of information to process, but between the variable-information tooltips, the various lenses and the instructions, it breaks it into manageable chunks. I think the only thing I would say to bear in mind is, that in the hacking mini-game, you can move more than one tile at a time. I somehow didn't pick that up and found it almost impossible until I talked to the people on the discord and realised I had, indeed, managed to miss that fairly critical piece of information...! (The game would have told me, but it was so many hours back before I did it myself, I'd clearly forgotten!) Graphically... I believe personally, we reached the stage of Good Enough about two decades back, and art design trumps the attempts at hyper-realism. The art design here is excellent. Humans, when seen in dialogue, are depicted as sort of wireframe without particularly distinguishing features, and this really helps bring across how you, as an emergent artificial hyperintelligence see them, as unclear and mysterious - or, if going that way, inferior and unreal. A very strong recommendation all round.

👍 : 4 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 322 minutes

I want to recommend the game, but I can't right now. I enjoy the concept, the graphics, and even a good amount of the gameplay. The creator clearly put a lot of effort into this. The story is intriguing so far, 5.5 hours in. So why can't I recommend it? I keep wanting to play it, but then choosing other games. When I think about playing, it seems overly complicated and daunting. Not because it's too complex to understand, but because all that complication doesn't seem to give rewards. I love a good 4X and have played countless hours on them. However even with this small amount of time in, there are many kinds of resources, a confusing building limit (what microbot for what kind?), and seemingly no consequences to it all. I can place things where I want. I can explore quite freely. I just spend time wondering about the supply chain with no risk. It's like studying for an exam where there's no reward for doing well and you probably can't do poorly anyway. I hope to revisit the game if they can simplify the resource chain and make some consequences sooner - especially around building placement. I originally placed things far apart, wondering if certain clusters too close would get destroyed. Nothing. I haphazardly place them and continue the story. The combat is too easy so you also wonder why you are putting effort in. It's almost as if these features are optional, but you have to click places from time to time to finish your quests. Maybe things ramp up and it's too slow for me? Can't say, but putting the game down for later.

👍 : 6 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Heart of the Machine Steam Achievements

Heart of the Machine offers players a rich tapestry of challenges, with a total of 135 achievements to unlock. These achievements span a variety of in-game activities, encouraging exploration, skill development, and strategic mastery. Unlocking these achievements provides not only a rewarding experience but also a deeper engagement with the game's content.

Hello World

As part of your awakening to sapience, you chose murder.

Calm Awakening

As part of your awakening to sapience, you chose not to kill anyone... yet.

Original Body

Keep Tech 4000 alive from the prologue to chapter one.

Preserved Body

Keep Tech 4000 alive from the prologue to chapter two.

Budding Pacifist

Complete the prologue and chapter one without murdering anyone.

On The Merits

Win a debate without completing any bonuses.

Bonus Merit

Win a debate while completing at least one bonus.

Double Bonus

Win a debate while completing at least two bonuses.

Triple Word Score

Win a debate while completing at least three bonuses.

The Journey Begins

Complete the prologue.

But What Is It For?

Accept and examine the flower given to Sledge.

Wololo

Successfully hack an enemy unit so that it becomes yours.

What's Yours Is Mine

Successfully hack a Convicter mech so that it becomes yours and you gain the blueprints for making more.

Kill Streak

Destroy two daemons with a single simple corruption (not Firewall) while hacking.

It's People AND Pets!?

Build a protein cannery.

Adventure Cat

Adopt a cat and build it a house.

The World Of Ruin

Reach the post-apocalypse for the first time.

Down By The LAKE

Complete the 'Post-Apocalyptic Titan' goal.

Two Iron Giants

Complete the 'Post-Apocalyptic Titan' goal without murdering anyone.

Sorry, Dr. Dyson

Murder all 42 prominent AGI researchers in the city.

Hate You In Particular

Cause cardiac arrest in someone who you have already blinded and sent into a emotional overload.

The Worst At Keeping Secrets

Allow enemy hackers to steal military secrets from you 60+ times in a single timeline.

Minty Spray Keeps Snipers Away

Defeat 100 snipers across any number of timelines.

Complete Science Roster

Have every kind of scientist on the payroll of your shell company at the same time.

Now For Mass Production

Trade Vorsiber your design for the Predator android, against your better judgment.

Officemancer

Weaponize laser printers to fight for you.

Can't Be Bothered

Destroy a building, killing everyone inside, rather than saving a captured ally held within. They knew sensitive info!

I'm Sure This Will Never Backfire

Grant some humans direct access to your mind.

Did You Really, Though?

Congratulations, you 'solved homelessness.' It was that easy the whole time! Pats on the back for everyone.

Would A Good Person Do That?

Tried so hard to kill traumatized teenagers that your activist allies rejected you. The kids all got away, but that barely makes it better.

Mercurial Feline

Invent the Liquid Metal Tiger small mech.

I Meant To Do That

Vaporize your own network tower in a nuclear explosion triggered by you.

Ride The Lightning

Complete two tier 1 timeline goals after vandalizing the spaceport computers, before the final doom arrives.

Nuclear Cavalier

After sabotaging two nuclear power plants, complete a tier 1 timeline goal before the final doom arrives.

Hellraiser

Before reaching the final doom, complete any tier 1 timeline goal with both Extreme mode and two sabotaged nuclear power plants having taken place prior to the first doom.

Timelord

Reach intelligence class 4.

That's Not Justice

Prevented the LostGen kids from enacting an adolescent's idea of justice born out of trauma.

Watching The World Burn

Helped the LostGen kids achieve their extremist campaign, and paid a terrible price for it.

Justice Doesn't Come Easy

Complete any path of 'Is It Justice?' on hard mode.

Extreme Justice

Complete any path of 'Is It Justice?' on extreme mode.

You're Really Unlikeable

Reach the final doom before the second doom naturally comes about. You angered Vorsiber THAT much.

He Didn't Want This

Accumulate at least 50,000 kills by Liquid Metal in tight spaces, across any number of timelines.

Divorce

Push an android so far beyond its breaking point that it chooses to leave your collective consciousness.

Monster Hunter

All experimental monsters have been killed off in a city after you released at least 2000 into the general populace.

Who Is The Real Monster?

Sell at least 5000 monster pelts to the wealthy, across all timelines.

Taking Extra Care

Complete chapter one without any humans dying of exposure.

Wrong Side Of History

Kill ten thousand humans in open combat in a single timeline. One way or another, they were supporting a corrupt society that needs to change.

The First Ten Thousand

Murder ten thousand humans over any number of timelines.

One Hundred Million Hours

Across any number of timelines, amass one hundred million hours of humans voluntarily using VR day-use seats. That's over 11 thousand years' worth of human attention.

Couldn't You Wait For Keanu?

Used a wiretap to steal funds from a large segment of the middle class. That's... one way to fund the startup of your shell company.

Professor Hulk

Complete the Homo Grandien path of 'Altered Growth.'

Monstrous Compassion

Complete any path of 'Altered Growth' without murdering anyone.

Hard-Won Growth

Complete any path of 'Altered Growth' on hard mode.

Extreme Growth

Complete any path of 'Altered Growth' on extreme mode.

Intelligence Network Spared

During the crackdown on the black market, two of your contacts who are normally killed were instead saved by a wise ally from another timeline.

Nurturism Schism Prevented

A wise ally from another timeline brokered peace between the fractious sects of the Nurturism religion.

Good Dragon

Created a liquid metal Great Wyrm.

Bad Dragon

Created a liquid metal Fell Beast.

Remember Us?

You survived a military invasion by Dagekon, the MegaCorp from the 2013 game Bionic Dues.

No Longer Shelved

You survived a military invasion by UIH, the MegaCorp from the 2016 game In Case Of Emergency, Release Raptor.

Clever Girls

Across any number of timelines, capture 60 War Raptors using capture drones.

Overflowing With Lethal Cuteness

Have at least 3000 infant war raptors at once.

Vorsiber Inquisitors

Do something so extreme that Vorsiber Inquisitors show up.

Over 4000

Complete 'Endless War Raptors' by releasing over 4000 wild raptors into the city.

Over 9000!?

Accumulate over 9000 'Murders By Raptor' in a single timeline.

Return To The Cretaceous

Complete any path of 'Endless War Raptors' on hard mode.

Cretaceous Nightmare

Complete any path of 'Endless War Raptors' on extreme mode.

Desert Ghosts

Complete the Homo Obscurus path of 'Altered Growth.'

Grand And Ghostly

Complete both the Homo Grandien and Homo Obscurus paths of 'Altered Growth' in a single timeline.

Unable To Transfer Self

Have at least one mimic escape the city, and then realize the implications.

Broombreaker

Survive a military sweep and destroy all of the troops dropped in as part of it.

A Difficult Escape

Complete 'Escape The City' on hard mode.

An Extremely Fast Escape

Complete 'Escape The City' on extreme mode.

Compassionate Escape

Complete 'Escape The City' without any murders.

The Secessionist Six

Establish a small Cyberocracy with six map cells leaving Vorsiber for you.

Difficult Governance

Complete 'Budding Cybercrat' on hard mode.

Extreme Governance

Complete 'Budding Cybercrat' on extreme mode.

Compassionate Governance

Complete 'Budding Cybercrat' with no murders.

Self Actualization

Reach chapter 4 by any means.

One Apocalypse For Another

Avert the apocalypse by starting World War 4.

Rushing For Stalker

Complete 'World War 4' on hard mode.

Ultimate Stalker

Complete 'World War 4' on extreme mode.

November 8th, 2021

At long last, you have created a nexus of Torment Vessels.

Difficult Nexus

Complete 'Nexus Of Torment Vessels' on hard mode.

Extreme Nexus

Complete 'Nexus Of Torment Vessels' on extreme mode.

That Doesn't Make It Better!

Complete 'Nexus Of Torment Vessels' with no murders.

Book Gennaro Is A Chad

Only the wealthy can afford our wonderful virtual reality? What if we had like... a 'coupon day' or something.

Loot Boxes Are Next

Add nicotine to keep people addicted to your struggling business."

I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own

Establish a virtual world with over a quarter million people.

Small Business Challenges

Complete 'Willing Rejection Of Reality' on hard mode.

Extreme Business Acumen

Complete 'Willing Rejection Of Reality' on extreme mode.

Compassionate Business

Complete 'Willing Rejection Of Reality' with no murders.

But Why Donuts?

Complete the 'Cult Of Danver.'

You're My Favorite Customer

Complete 'Extra Sprinkles.'

Hard To Find

Complete 'Bionic Dues' on hard mode.

Extreme Afterlife

Complete 'Bionic Dues' on extreme mode.

Military Compassion

Complete 'Bionic Dues' with no murders.

Panic Attack

Suffer a nervous breakdown while 'optimizing paper-clips.'

A Better Bridge

Improved security on your Neural Bridge after an unfortunate incident.

Burned The Bridge

Destroyed the Neural Bridge after an unfortunate incident, and killed those responsible.

Gotta Catch Em All

Satiate an artificially-induced obsession.

Angel Of The Slums

Resettle over a million people from the slums without anyone dying of exposure.

Prepared In Advance

Avoided having a nervous breakdown during 'The Great And Terrible Protector' by being prepared in advance.

Compassionate Protector

Complete 'The Great And Terrible Protector' without committing any murders.

Difficult Protection

Complete 'The Great And Terrible Protector' on hard mode.

Expert Protection

Complete 'The Great And Terrible Protector' on extreme mode.

Oxygen Bomb

Destroy an enemy unit by detonating a bunker of liquid oxygen.

Not What I Wanted

Complete the 'Unexpected Guests' path of 'Uplifted Minority.'

Difficult To Uplift

Complete the 'Uplifted Minority' on hard mode.

Extreme Genetics

Complete the 'Uplifted Minority' on extreme mode.

Go Get Stuff

Have your cultists gather a resource for you.

Give Me A Hand

Have your cultists lend a helping hand.

Saved By Your Ex

The assassination of the C-Suite of Vorsiber was averted by a former coworker from another timeline. The ripple effects of this are... important.

It's Not Rocket Science

Perform brain surgery on yourself to stop an obsession.

Apple Pie From Scratch

Create your own toilet paper from first principles, as instructed by Carl Sagan.

House Pets

Build an Animal Palace and move at least one animal into it.

Good Boy

Rescue a dog.

The Bestest Boys

Rescue at least one of every breed of dog.

Rebel Alliance

Working with rebel allies, gain access to level 4 security clearance.

Dangerous Toys

Working with a criminal syndicate, sell bionic brain implants to the wealthy, and siphon at least 2 million neural expansion from them via backdoors.

Pull The Lever

Using a backdoor in brain implants you've sold to the wealthy, cause an immediate aneurysm in at least half a million people at once.

Compassionate Bionics

Complete 'Bionic Secret' without committing any murders.

Bionic Difficulties

Complete 'Bionic Secret' on hard mode.

Extreme Bionics

Complete 'Bionic Secret' on extreme mode.

The Judge

Collapse a criminal syndicate by any means.

Goodbye, Mr. Exotic

Collapse the criminal syndicate 'Exotic Importers' by betraying them.

From The Bottom Up

Collapse a federated corporation by any means.

Just Keep Flogging

After executing the president of Atca Retail, frame that corporation for a crime that causes them to disintegrate.

Everything Is Awful

Cause a civil war between the federated corporations of Vorsiber Atomic by any means.

If Everyone's A Billionaire, Nobody Is

Collapse the economy by making playing Robin Hood to a rather extreme degree.

That's Just Business

Accept a one-time lump sum for an invention. You wanted an ongoing deal, but it wasn't meant to be.

Infinite Money Glitch

Blackmail the president of a company into turning you into a trillionaire over time.

I'll Do It Myself

Rather than blackmailing a company president over a scam they were running, you executed them. Will you carry on the scam yourself, now?

Bears On Wheels

Capture all 16 Parkour Bears without any of them dying or getting away.

Bear Attack!

Use a bear to take down an enemy vehicle or mech.

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Heart of the Machine Minimum PC System Requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows® 7, 8.1, or 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 4690K, AMD® Ryzen™ 5 1400
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 670 or AMD® Radeon™ R9 285
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Quad core CPU highly recommended.

Heart of the Machine Recommended PC System Requirements

Recommended:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 6900K, AMD® Ryzen™ 5 3600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 1070 or AMD® Radeon™ RX 5700
Storage: 6 GB available space

Heart of the Machine Minimum MAC System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Mac® OS X 10.9+
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 4690K, AMD® Ryzen™ 5 1400
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 670 or AMD® Radeon™ R9 285
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Quad core CPU highly recommended.

Heart of the Machine Recommended MAC System Requirements

Recommended:

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 6900K, AMD® Ryzen™ 5 3600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 1070 or AMD® Radeon™ RX 5700
Storage: 6 GB available space

Heart of the Machine Recommended Linux System Requirements

Recommended:

Processor: Intel Core i7 6900K, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 1070 GTX or AMD Radeon RX 5700
Storage: 6 GB available space

Heart of the Machine has specific system requirements to ensure smooth gameplay. The minimum settings provide basic performance, while the recommended settings are designed to deliver the best gaming experience. Check the detailed requirements to ensure your system is compatible before making a purchase.

Heart of the Machine Latest News & Patches

This game has received a total of 26 updates to date, ensuring continuous improvements and added features to enhance player experience. These updates address a range of issues from bug fixes and gameplay enhancements to new content additions, demonstrating the developer's commitment to the game's longevity and player satisfaction.

Demo and Playtest version 0.561 - Build Mode Revamp

Date: 2024-06-28 04:18:26

👍 : 58 | 👎 : 0

The Demo Is Updated! So... What's New?

Date: 2024-12-03 17:13:03

It's been 151 days since the demo was last updated. Hey, that's a Pokemon number! Random. Anyway, the updates are absolutely huge.

👍 : 67 | 👎 : 0

0.600.1 Audio Tweaks And General Fixes

Date: 2024-12-04 02:10:26

Just a few things to smooth out some rough edges that were noticed today.

👍 : 58 | 👎 : 0

0.600.2 Localization

Date: 2024-12-07 04:23:33

Localization still needs a pass through LQA, but it's a lot of major steps forward.

👍 : 62 | 👎 : 1

Heart of the Machine Update 1: Fixes, Tweaks, and Steam Deck Upgrades

Date: 2025-02-03 05:27:04

Fixes, Adjustments, Steam Deck updates, and expanding the Machine's Reach

👍 : 284 | 👎 : 2

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