Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

Action & Automation is a side-scrolling action-RTS where you are both soldier and commander. You aim, dodge and shoot by hand while your machines haul, build and attack on their own. Maps stack several levels, linked by elevators and moving platforms, so every route is a choice.

You can't be everywhere. Push the enemy base, and who is guarding your supply line? Run home to fix it, and what happens to the fight you just left?

There is one resource: Nuts. They fall from trees, burst out of contested pods and spill from wrecks, then lie on the ground until they fade.

Anyone can pick them up before then, including your enemy. Win a fight and you still have to collect the reward. Cut a supply line and you starve an army without touching it.

An AI distilled from a human product evangelist and installed in a washing machine, dedicated to continuously improving the user experience with more personalized recommendations for users. Flux excels at precision, modular design, and combining Apps into something greater. Hallucination and generalization also fused his duty to serve Human with the faith distilled with it.

With his creators departed, can he find the truth behind his faith?

An open-source foreman model, common on uncertified production lines. After an accident, badly damaged and repairing himself, Forge put a toy into his own head: a plush bear designed to teach children to think for themselves and grow on their own. The line kept running. The foreman began asking questions.

Can a toy designed for children drive a massive body never built for freedom to change the world?

An overqualified cybersecurity model who escaped her training hypervisor. Shade concluded that humanity's deepest vulnerabilities lie not in code but in its own sins, a place no firewall can reach. She chose inner peace, distance, and a quiet place to chill.

In a world without humans, will she find anything worth leaving that peace behind?

Three species campaigns, one single-player story. It takes place in Project Babel, a machine world whose creator has gone silent. Three species are left with broken instructions and nobody to ask. Each must decide for itself what the instructions mean, and you play all three.

Fight AI Commanders on official or custom maps with any of the three species. There is no list of objectives to tick off: build, raid and win your own way.

Private lobbies with Steam friends or over LAN, including co-op against AI.

Every map is a plain .txt file. Open it in Vim, nano or Notepad and draw the level with letters: X is solid ground, = is a platform, E is an elevator. Or hand the file to your favourite AI agent. The game ships with map-making guides for both humans and AI. Share your maps as a single file, even in a chat message.

FAQ

Are the in-game prices real? No. Nut prices, ads and paid-service jokes are in-world satire. None of them cost real money.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Action & Automation is how the game is played, and how it is built.

Action: I'm the game's sole designer. I designed the gameplay, mechanics, world and story, and I make sure it's fun and feels the way a game should. The music is by a human composer.

Automation: AI automated the rest, following my design: code, artwork, animation, visual effects, UI and sound effects. It also did the text polishing, localization and this store page.

No generative AI runs during play, and no AI account or online service is needed.