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Press release:
[France] – February 24, 2026 – Out of Time and indie.io are thrilled to announce that AI.VI will release on Steam on March 18, 2026. Players don the shell of titular war bot, suddenly pulled out of their comfortable retirement mining batteries on the desert moon of Sohot. It’s high noon and high time to junk corporate robo-goons in industrial quantities in a genre-blending shooter!

The foe is the nefarious P.A.S.C.A.L. Gigacorporation, an intergalactic enterprise with one goal: Maximizing profits through whatever means necessary, such as an entirely voluntary merger under duress executed by lots and lots of corporate combat robots. Sohot was supposed to be just another entry in the ledger, a footnote in the endless campaign of acquisitions squeezed dry like a tube of servomotor lubricant – until they ran into AI.VI.

A war robot built in the good old days to unleash incredible violence and live to tell the tale, the invasion pulls him out of retirement and puts right in the middle of the corporate assault. With a pickbow in hand and a handful of trusted revolutionary workerbots, he sets out to set things right by turning hordes of P.A.S.C.A.L. shock troops into mountains of scrap.

Blending first person shooters with tower defense, AI.VI lets players decide on how to junk the incoming robotic hordes, from spilling oil with crushing melee attacks, through ranged attacks using a variety of weapons ranging from outlandish to ludicrous, to traps and defenses that turn corporate assets into second-hand parts – and anywhere in between!

The four basic elements of the robot world – fire, ice, acid, and electricity – add another layer of strategy, enabling players to mix and match to gain the upper hand over the endless stream of enemies. Naturally, the foes have their own strengths and weaknesses. What melts one robot will only make another one shrug – and finding the right way to dispatch them is at the core of AI.VI’s gameplay.

Beyond choosing the right loadout – weapons and defenses to bring along – players can also select permanent upgrades that give even more options for disposing of enemy robots. Each level also offers a string of temporary upgrades. Punch harder! Raise shields! Become invulnerable! Look into the minds of enemy robots to hear their final thoughts as they are sent to the great scrapyard in the sky!

Ready to retake the means of production? Kick a gigacorporation down a few notches? Corner the second-hand robot parts market? AI.VI will release on Steam on March 18, 2026!