Planned Release Date: Feb 3, 2027

About This Game

Scavenge components in the scrapyard, build your first bot, and enter the fighting circuit on the Lunar Ringworld. Work your way into bigger arena events, attract sponsors, and keep your team running. Rise up the ranks and travel around the Ring with the Pro leagues – or fail, lose it all, and return to the lunar mining colonies.

Arena Bot Manager is a bot-building and team-management simulation. You design and program your bots, hire staff and plan their schedules, and risk everything in the arena.

GAME FEATURES

• Build bots with full creative freedom and billions of possibilities.

• Control the action or sit back and watch your bot’s programming take over.

• Every weapon is persistent and has its own integrity, durability, and life.

• Parts that other teams throw away can be scavenged at the scrapyard.

• Gain experience and improve your skills or just hire staff with better skills.

• Plan simulated machine-learning training sessions to upgrade your bots’ capabilities.

Reactive economy

Weapons and components live their own lives and remain persistent as teams repair and discard them. A Pro team might scrap an advanced weapon they custom built because it’s too worn for their standards. For you, it could change everything. Visit the scrapyard after a major arena match to get first pick of newly discarded equipment.

Machine learning

Even when you’re controlling your bot’s movement and targeting in the arena, every weapon is managed by advanced machine-learning behaviors that improve as your programming level increases. For teams who prefer a hands-off approach, your bot carries out its assigned strategy with reactive tactics that evolve in the arena.

Dangerous fights

Every hit lowers a component’s integrity, durability, and life; the part stops working when integrity hits 0, it’s destroyed when durability runs out, and losing life permanently lowers hitpoints. Enemy teams play by the same rules as you and carefully manage their inventory of bot components… You can ruin someone’s career by targeting their most precious parts.

Fame and sponsors

Every wrecked opponent or assist in destroying one yields fame. Every city on the Ring is different, and equipping your bot with crowd-pleasing weapons can help attract a sponsor that will come with bigger payouts and bigger expectations. Keep your sponsor happy, and their influence will put you first in line for arena-match invites and get you one step closer to the Pro 3, Pro 2, and Pro 1 leagues where you will travel to every city in the Ring to fight against the best of the best.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

SonderSoft uses generative AI for localization to make Arena Bot Manager accessible to more players worldwide. ABM features an optional AI voice-commentator for arena events that can be disabled as per player preference.

SonderSoft pays artists to participate in the creative process, and some artists may choose on their own to use generative AI as part of their workflow; SonderSoft respects the creative tools artists choose in order to realize their own artistic vision.

Whenever possible, SonderSoft prioritizes paying artists, creators, and actors.