How Popular is

Heart of the Machine

Steam Youtube Update
2025
46 average hours
16 average in the last 2 weeks
92%
1181 reviews
$29.99
Players: Single-player. Steam Achievements. Steam Trading Cards. Steam Cloud. Family Sharing.
Tags: RPG. Simulation. Strategy. Early Access.
System: Windows. Mac. Linux. VR Only. VR Supported.
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9.2 days
3.1 days
Good game. Get it. Great concepts. Decent performance. No bugs to date. Should have a bright future. Dev. There are many turns where there is almost nothing you do while you wait for something to happen. One of the things I like about X4: Foundations i
213664456
5.5 days
4.8 days
I got the game just a few weeks ago, and I am honestly surprised by how much content it has. It is my first time playing a 4x strategy game, and I've come to learn it's such a fun genre. I also enjoy that there are a lot of meaningful alternate choices th
213739644
4.8 days
0 recent
This is honestly one of the most unique games I've ever played, being an insane mix of city builder, grand strategy, and a healthy dose of RPG mechanics thrown in too, leaving you with so many different routes and strategies to get to where you choose to
213587616
3.7 days
18 recent
TLDR: 10/10, would recommend to everyone who likes strategy games. HotM is a very good tactical turn based base-building strategy game. Highly recommended if you like these kind of games. You're basically a rogue AI waking up in a high-tech dystopian c
213688855
3.3 days
1 recent
New progress every week!
213705169
2 days
19 recent
Very unique city builder with a TON of stuff to do, including kidnapping innocent people and imprisoning them in a nightmare virtual reality to make yourself smarter and stronger. 10/10 would get nuked by Vorsiber again.
213162999
2 days
0 recent
A Narrative-Driven Cyberpunk 4X Strategy RPG that is unlike anything you've ever played. The developer is extremely active, with constant updates and even interacting directly with players on their discord. This is a game made with love and it shows. Don'
213076583
1.5 days
23 recent
Really good, and it just keeps getting better as dev has good pace on the updates.
213575415
1.4 days
1.4 days
I love the dry sarcastic humor, tool/text tips really makes it feel like its apart of "you" as an AI. Like a subroutine debating or pointing out something to another subroutine within the same intelligence.
213413016
1.2 days
1 recent
A truly fascinating, delightful game, which is just fiddly enough to keep my gears turning. It's also just super well-written and it's being updated as frequently as like, Prison Architect used to be back in the day, which is wild - especially considering
213804998
23 hours
0 recent
Is very good game. More than you expect. Be okay with losing, and then let it happen. You will learn something in the ending.
212939673
15 hours
8 recent
I enjoy the game, both the mechanics and the storyline. Very ambitious, but the creator is accomplishing said ambition. Have only gone the stealth route so far so my knowledge of the combat side is lacking, but so far it's great.
213322934
15 hours
0 recent
An amazing and amazingly weird hidden gem of a game. I lost contact with a T-1000 and it came back sad. You can build the matrix. You can make it a torment nexus. You can house cats. It's bizarre and engaging, and the dev is continually updating and liste
213652500
14 hours
14 recent
Just 8 hours in, and will update as I add more time over Christmas. Summary: Highly recommended. This game is unique and you can shape it in ways I've not seen in any other game to date. This will be Arcen's second "change how everyone thinks about ga
213115442
10 hours
3 recent
赛博太吾绘卷!
212952124
6 hours
1 recent
I haven't played much of this game, and I can already tell it'll be a special one. (Full review later when I've played enough of the game, but I already want to recommend it whole-heartedly to anyone who likes 4X, strategy games, or even just sci-fi.) I
213180931
5 hours
0 recent
Frequent support from developer
213476106
4 hours
0 recent
I have started this game twice, gotten a few hours in, got distracted, went away again, but I'm hesitant to play any more. The reason is the developer seems to be expanding and adding tons of things to the game at a frenetic pace, and I want to experience
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0 hours
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Its good.
213421788
0 hours
0 recent
Didn't even make it through the tutorial. Something is very wrong with the game engine or such. Everything in game is jerking around the screen. I'm getting over 300fps but there's constant pauses and jerkiness in all screen elements. Objects flying aroun