Heart of the Machine (Arcen Games, LLC)

The Kinship DLC is released! Kinship brings a new doom set, four new overarching storylines, new setpiece battles, new capabilities, three new ending scenarios, & a lot more. I hope you enjoy these new storytelling avenues for Heart of the Machine. 💚 store.steampowered.com/app/4…

Update 92 incorporates lots of player feedback, including: 🤖 DLC setpiece battles now play battle music 🤖 Great AGI Debate project fails promptly if all researchers die 🤖 Fixed Ch. 1 contemplations being unavailable in new timeline setup Changelog: store.steampowered.com/news/…

Another day, another update for Heart of the Machine! 🤖 Changelog includes QoL and clarity changes, balance tweaks, and the usual bug fixes. Updates span both the base game and the new DLC, and are based largely off player feedback. store.steampowered.com/news/…

Update 90 brings lots of changes to both Heart's base game and the Kinship DLC. It touches everything from clarity and QoL to balance and performance. There's also a new mod to automate sledges going out and rescuing feral animals. Changelog: store.steampowered.com/news/…

Two updates have shipped in the last 24 hours for Heart of the Machine. Both include some fixes and tweaks based on initial player feedback. Thank you to everyone who has been playing and sharing their thoughts! 💚 Update 89 Changelog: store.steampowered.com/news/…

Heart is the culmination of many different ideas in my career about how to handle strategy & storytelling. Writing story arcs for the Kinship DLC was challenging, but I wanted to explore the world from new angles. More on that in this dev diary: store.steampowered.com/news/…

The Kinship DLC digs deeper into the criminal side of the city, rather than treating crime as something that exists only in its periphery. You could effect positive change. Or maybe end up in a very intense air battle! Kinship releases October 12. store.steampowered.com/app/4…

If you build the giant Silk Matriarch spider mech in the Kinship DLC, you'll gain serious long-range artillery firepower. 🕷️ But you might also get pulled into religious disputes that escalate into a full-blown crisis... Kinship launches October 12. store.steampowered.com/app/4…

The Kinship DLC for Heart adds multiple narrative arcs, and each one explores the idea of "kinship" somehow. For example, uplifted raccoons return in a new way that invites you to consider sapience from a different angle. Kinship releases October 12. store.steampowered.com/app/4…

Update 87 is on the smaller side, with some translation improvements and a few bug fixes. The Kinship expansion is less than a week away now! 🦋🤖 Changelog: store.steampowered.com/news/…

Excited to announce that Heart of the Machine is getting its first DLC: Kinship! Releasing October 12, it will include: 🤖 New doom set 🤖 Four new overarching storylines 🤖 Three new ending scenarios 🤖 New setpiece battles & capabilities 🤖 And more! store.steampowered.com/app/4…

Lots of updates in the latest patch for Heart of the Machine. Additional balance upgrade options for armor, new ways to steal neodymium, balance changes, bug fixes, all the hits! Full changelog: store.steampowered.com/news/…

It's been a hot minute since the last update for Heart of the Machine, but there's a lot of good stuff in this one! The headline changes are improved performance during war, and proper music during danger. Changelog: store.steampowered.com/news/…

Heart of the Machine and AI War 2 both get mentioned in this article. Thanks for the love, @AndWargaming! We'll try to keep making cool things. 💜 strategyandwargaming.com/202…

Update 83 is packed with some generalized player-requested changes, including: 🤖 Health bars no longer eat the screen 🤖 Hubs can produce infinite workers 🤖 Added "Free Timeline Deletion" mod 🤖 New options for ultrawide displays Changelog: steamcommunity.com/ogg/20010…

Update 82 brings quite a mix of things to Heart of the Machine -- including some cool new upgrade paths for mechs and vehicles, and a new Guide section to help with tricky parts of the game! Changelog: steamcommunity.com/games/200…

Update 81 incorporates more player requests, including crystallized emotion adjustments and worker clarity. There are also some QoL improvements for players who are using an OS keyboard that is a CJK language and uses an IME. 🤖 Full changelog: steamcommunity.com/games/200…

Update 80 brings a change to the rewards screen for inspiration in a given category. You can now spend creativity to re-roll your options, if there are any. But if you want to re-roll for free, there's now a mod for that too. 🤖 Full changelog: steamcommunity.com/games/200…