A game where you're in a populated city where a riot has broken out and all the vehicles of the confused people trying to escape has caused heavy traffic jams so nobody can really go anywhere anymore. At the same time, the riot is still happening, so people are throwing area-of-effect molotovs around and looting buildings and cars, causing general chaos on a wide scale and making things inconvenient. The game starts with a short series of images showing that you were at home doing chores and watching the news when you saw the riots and the bridges out of the city jammed with traffic, and you decided you have to find a way out and ran to your car, as most other people did.

You start on your driveway, standing next to your car. The camera is a bird's-eye view, and you can walk/run omnidirectionally with the camera centered on you, enter vehicles and drive them if possible similar to running, vault over/under obstacles, and attempt to "use" - talking to a person, wedging a door open, using a radio, and so on.

The goal is to drive/walk/run/climb/crawl around the city, avoiding roadblocks and traffic jams and dodging the chaos, trying to find a way out of the city. You will probably have to abandon your car at some point, but you can hopefully find another one if luck smiles on you - not that you'll be able to get far much of the time in a vehicle.

The hazards and paths are randomly generated, but there will always be at least two or three ways out of the city. This can change over time, but there will always be at least two at any time, even if you get blocked off on one side of the city. Avoid the choking smoke, rioting populace, crowd control teams, and veering traffic/news vans to find your freedom from the carnage, or revel in it and throw a few molotovs at riot squads yourself.

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Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_Gridlock.jpg

A far-future game taking place in the nuclear winter following a devastating meteor shower which has extincted humanity. An abandoned robotics facility lies half-buried in the fallout, and inside its broken-down boundaries, forgotten machines stir...

The year is 21XX. Humanity as they knew it has been erased, and after an unknown amount of time, damaged robots inside the facility begin to wake up. The protocols are no longer relevant to these machines; survival is paramount, and everything is a target. As one of these robots, you must navigate the slightly randomly-generated ruins of the facility in a top-down tile perspective and extract power from sockets and appliances to replenish your own depleted resources, enabling you to continue moving. You may also scavenge parts and scraps from the facility's fittings, remains of dead robots you may find, and the other robots like you that roam the facility. To first recharge as much as you can, then upgrade yourself in deconstruction, longevity, or durability so as to be the surviving machine is the key. But beware: one of the other players may decide hunting the other robots more beneficial, so you may not have long before they appear from the fog of war to claim your fresh parts...

We all shut down sooner or later. But who will be the first to blackout?

Robot: pixeljoint.com "Massive Pixel Robot" by 01271

Background: forums.tigsource.com "Tower57" by tower57

Power meter: canstockphoto.com "Vector - Battery Energy Meter Icon" by herminutomo