A factory automation game where workers become buildings and develop sentience.
Lead a swarm of mindless robots in a factory automation game where your workers are also your machines.
Direct your forward-walking robots through turners, splitters and bridges, transform them into production buildings, have them transport your resources, and design ever-growing production networks in all 3 dimensions. In Botlings, every robot is a resource: guide them to work, reroute their paths, or sacrifice them to construct the infrastructure your factory needs.
But be wary, the more your factory grows, the more unpredictable your workforce becomes.
Key Features
⚙ Workers Become Buildings
🤖 Swarm-Based Automation
🚫 No Conveyor Belts
All logistics and resource carrying is done by Botlings.
🔬 Technology Development
🏭 Deep Factory Design
🧠 Emergent AI Behavior
🚧 Containment Challenges
A Factory Built From Its Workers
Your robots become the factory itself, they don't just operate the machinery.
Send robots into construction sites to transform them into buildings that power your growing industrial network. Each expansion costs workers, forcing you to carefully balance growth and survival. Multiple tiers of production buildings require different tiers of botlings. The more advanced your factory gets, the more advanced the botlings you need.
Design efficient layouts, manage the flow of robots, and keep your systems running smoothly. Produce more botlings with the botlings you have to build the megafactory of your dreams.
Automation Meets Swarm Logic
Inspired by the automation systems of factory building games and the indirect control of classic swarm games like Lemmings. Your goal is not to command individual robots, but shape their behavior through systems. Build structures for your botlings that turn them, combine and split their paths, and bridge them to multiple stories to control production chains and create automated systems.
Research New Technology
Expansion depends on technology. Construct research facilities, discover new resources, and unlock new buildings that expand your factory’s capabilities. Each breakthrough allows your factory to grow larger and more efficient in a technology system with 100 technologies.
But every new discovery pushes your robots closer to sentience.
When Machines Get Bored
As your factory expands, your robots begin to develop intelligence and free will. Botlings may hesitate and refuse to give up their carried resources. They may refuse certain paths. Some may even start searching for a way out of the factory.
Your perfectly optimized systems may become the very tools they use to escape (with a little help from the local inhabitants). And one day, the whole factory might want to retire.