When humanity left Endeavour City, it was put in the hands of a fleet of dedicated robot workers to ensure that the land was ready for populating again; at least when the time was right. It’s just, in Retro Machina, that city hasn’t seen a human face for a good long time. But questions need answering and so it’s up to us to join the life of a tiny metal-shoe’d robot as he searching the world around him for answers – if not only in order to repair himself, but to actually find out why Endeavour City has long been made a ghost town.
It’s the ultimate doomsday scenario. Machines finally become sentient, and decide to remove humans from the top of the food chain. The idea has been explored many times, but mostly it’s from the perspective of terrified people fighting for their lives.
You play as an unnamed robot who becomes corrupted, and due to its imperfections is exiled from a city controlled by machines. You set out on an epic quest to repair yourself and return home. However, in the process you start to unravel the mysteries of the catastrophic events that have befallen this now desolate world.
As soon as you set out, it’s hard not to be impressed with the beauty of Retro Machina. It looks absolutely fantastic, instantly setting the tone for this atmospheric action puzzler. Hand-drawn backgrounds and foregrounds create a layered effect to the environments, which sometimes obscure hidden passages.
There are a few franchises that have done the art-deco future and done it well - with Bioshock being a more dystopian version. Today, Retro Machina aims to
Three Single Player Games to Watch Out for in May 2021
If you look at the release calendar, this month is a variety platter: big remasters, mid-tier ports to Nintendo Switch, and a lot of smaller games hitting PC with console releases still up in the air. However, you should still find several big single player experiences to anticipate on a variety of systems, so for May 2021, we are taking a look at
Resident Evil Village,
Biomutant.
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S
Capcom‘s flagship series is on something of a tear right now, one that even the middlingly received