Robot House

Factsheet

Developer:
Robot House
Based in Sydney, Australia

Release date:
December 14th 2017 (Windows)

Platforms:
Windows (Steam)
macOS (Steam)
SteamOS / Linux (Steam)
macOS AppStore

Website:
https://www.rumugame.com

Regular Price:

USD

$9.99

Description

Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven single player adventure game where you play as a robot vacuum cleaner on it's journey in becoming a Sentient machine while under watchful eye of the house AI, Sabrina. You are RUMU - a robot designed to clean, and to love. You awake in a fully automated Smart Home created by your eccentric Human's David and Cecily where you discover your only companions are Sabrina, the house AI, the always watching guide, and the home’s dysfunctional cast of semi-intelligent devices, as well as Ada the cat. After curiosity draws you away from your standard home maintenance duties, you’ll be faced with challenging moral dilemmas forcing you beyond your programming to uncover the the dark secrets kept from you by Sabrina.

History

Robot House was founded to create original content games with heart. Rumu has been our "secret" project from day one, so we're thrilled to finally be sharing this story with you in our announce trailer.

Features

A heart wrenching narrative that takes you from basic robot vacuum cleaning duties to discovering the truth
Performances from Allegra Clark (Dragon Age), Larissa Gallagher (Firewatch), Grant George (Fire Emblem Echoes)
An engrossing original score by Matt Mclean (Orwell)
A Smart Home littered with semi-intelligent devices to befriend
Point and click puzzles to lead Rumu down forgotten paths
A cozy isometric dollhouse environment

Videos

Trailer YouTube

Images

Logo & Icon

Selected Articles

"... It's a delight. Equal parts sweet and sad, the game has you rolling around the house as Rumu the robot vac, solving puzzles, interacting with other appliances and interfacing with the house's AI while you try to work out what happened to your owners."
- Claire Reilly, CNET
"Taking inspiration from games like Firewatch and films like Ex Machina and Westworld, Rumu features an adorable little robot that could easily fit in Pixar's repertoire, a la Wall-E, but the story takes an arguably more serious bent as you discover the truth about RUMU's family."
- Johnny Lieu, Mashable
"... it exceeded my already-high expectations."
- Tegan Jones, Kotaku Australia

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About Robot House

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Robot House is a small Sydney-based team of developers. We set out to carve our own path in games and give players experiences they aren't expecting. From the ridiculous to the remarkable, quality and heart are the core of what we build.

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