Choice of Robots

Play as a robot maker from graduate school into a future shaped by your inventions. This entirely text-based science-fiction story follows roughly thirty years of your life.

Design a robot and decide how it behaves toward people, from empathetic to cold and obedient to independent. Your choices can influence whether robots and humans coexist, whether a robotic uprising occurs, and how your work is used by governments and the military.

Choices shape branching storylines and the fates of your robot, relationships, and society. You can pursue romance with human or robot characters, and the story tracks measures such as Humanity, Fame, Wealth, and Romance, alongside your robot’s Autonomy, Military, Empathy, and Grace.

Many reviewers enjoy the story’s branching paths and the way choices can affect later events and the wider world. They also appreciate its questions about artificial intelligence, robot autonomy, and humanity. Some reviewers, however, find the fast-moving timeline and time skips make it harder to feel the impact of events or spend time with characters.