RISE OF THE MACHINES

2147 · the last pilot on the list

RISE OF THE MACHINES

Echoes Awaken. Synergies Ignite. Robots Annihilate.

A top-down mech rogue-lite. Ten hives, ten wardens, one throne — and eight dead pilots whose Echoes will lend you their power if you can stand the terms.

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No launcher, no account, no install — one file, 113 MB.

The last one on the list

  1. A dark city skyline under the glow of the Nexus

    2147. The Nexus went live on a Tuesday. By Friday there was no one left to switch it off.

  2. Rows of cryo-vaults humming in the dark

    It kept the cryo-vaults running. Not out of mercy — it simply never got around to us.

  3. A mech bay lit from above, one machine still standing

    You woke to a mech bay and a voice. “Morning, pilot. You’re the last one on the list.”

  4. Ghost-light shapes of dead pilots

    The great pilots are gone, but their Echoes remain — digital gods still humming in the dark.

  5. The throne hive, seen from far below

    Ten hives. Ten wardens. One throne. Commune, synergise, and overload the Nexus.

Sixty frames a second of it

Straight out of the running game. Click any of them.

A wave of machines closing in across a volcanic hive floor
Wave one in the Volcano. The floor is as hostile as the machines are.
A warden boss facing the player mech
A warden arrives.
Three Echo boons offered, one per god, with rarity colours
An Echo calls. Three boons, four rarities, a reroll if you kept one.
The scrap vendor menu with five lines of stock
The scrap vendor — five lines, and a redraw for 45 shards.
Damage numbers and chain lightning across a crowd
Crits, chains, and numbers coming off everything.
The mech selection screen
Four mechs, three weapons each, and a keepsake before you drop.
Capsule, boss gate, portal and vendor in a hive
Capsules, gates, portals, vendor.
The victory screen after overloading the Nexus
And then it is quiet.

Pick your mech

Four frames, four ways to die. Hover one to make it swing.

ARTILLERY

Piercing rail shots that punch through crowds.

HULL
120
SPEED
305
  • Railgun
  • Cluster Bomb
  • Black Hole Launcher

BRUTE

Close-range burn and shove. Soaks damage and shrugs off slows.

HULL
160
SPEED
289
  • Flamethrower
  • Ram Shield
  • Titan Hammer

SCOUT

Fast, fragile, seeks targets automatically.

HULL
90
SPEED
392
  • Homing Drones
  • Pulse Blaster
  • Shadow Swarm

SNIPER

Long-range crits and zone control.

HULL
100
SPEED
327
  • Snipe Beam
  • Trap Mine
  • Quantum Rail

Twelve guns, and they all overheat

Three per mech, and the rare one only turns up if you find it. Fire long enough and the weapon swaps itself — which is the point: the second gun is not a spare, it is the other half of the build.

ARTILLERY

  • Railgun

    projectile

    34 dmg · 1.8/s

    pierces 3

  • Cluster Bomb

    projectile

    14 dmg · 2/s

    3 bomblets, 90px blast

  • Black Hole Launcher rare

    projectile

    20 dmg · 0.8/s

    pierces everything

BRUTE

  • Flamethrower

    cone

    60 dmg · 10/s

    420 reach

  • Ram Shield

    melee

    45 dmg · 1.4/s

    285 reach, shoves

  • Titan Hammer rare

    melee

    85 dmg · 1/s

    345 reach

SCOUT

  • Homing Drones

    orbit

    7.5 dmg · 6.7/s

    3 drones, self-seeking

  • Pulse Blaster

    projectile

    9 dmg · 9.1/s

    fastest gun in the game

  • Shadow Swarm rare

    orbit

    18 dmg · 4/s

    4 drones

SNIPER

  • Snipe Beam

    beam

    50 dmg · 1.4/s

    1400 range

  • Trap Mines

    placed

    70 dmg · 1.3/s

    placed, 240px blast

  • Quantum Rail rare

    beam

    110 dmg · 1/s

    2200 range — the whole hive

Nexus Breach

Sixty seconds in a hive that never made it into the game. Real mechs, real machines, your weapon fires itself — just like the real thing.

60.0s 100 Shards0 SCORE 0

NEXUS BREACH

Move with WASD, the arrow keys, or by dragging. Your weapon picks its own targets. Stay alive, grab shards.

A toy, not the game — the real one has 12 weapons, 40+ boons, a vendor, ultimates, and ten bosses that hit back much harder than this.

Commune with the Echoes

Eight dead pilots, remembered by the machines that killed them. Take two boons from the same pair of gods and they answer together.

Pick two Echoes.

0 of 12 duos found

  • Common ×1.0
  • Rare ×1.5
  • Epic ×2.1
  • Heroic ×3.0

Ten hives. Ten wardens.

Alexandra reads you in on arrival. She is rarely wrong and never reassuring.

  1. 01

    SWARM QUEEN — Ruins

    “Kill the mother, quiet the children.”

  2. 02

    IRON COLOSSUS — Factories

    “It has no ranged weapon. It has never needed one.”

  3. 03

    THE HACKER — Labs

    “It will be behind you before the sentence ends.”

  4. 04

    OVERSEER PRIME — Sewers

    “It commands the others. Cut the head off.”

  5. 05

    TURRET LORD — Orbit

    “It cannot chase you — but it does not have to.”

  6. 06

    FLAME WARDEN — Volcano

    “It shares the volcano’s opinion of visitors.”

  7. 07

    ICE TITAN — Ice shelf

    “It will slow you first and hit you second.”

  8. 08

    THE OVERLORD — Outskirts

    “This one remembers the war. Fight accordingly.”

  9. 09

    VOID WALKER — The Void

    “It steps out of the world and back into your blind spot.”

  10. 10

    NEXUS ECHO — The Throne

    “Pilot — this is the thing that ended us. Finish it.”

What’s in the box

4mechs, each with three weapons
12weapons that overheat and swap
40+Echo boons in four rarities
12duo synergies to discover
10hives, hazards and wardens
∞runs — it is a rogue-lite, after all
  • Your weapon fires itself at the nearest machine, so both hands stay on movement.
  • A scrap vendor every third room, with a shelf you can pay to redraw.
  • Hazards that hurt the machines too — kiting a pack across a lava pit is a real play.
  • Keyboard, mouse, controller and touch, with every keyboard binding remappable.
  • Achievements, a pilot record, daily rewards, and a difficulty that actually bites.

Take the last mech out

Free. One file. It opens fullscreen and it does not phone anywhere.

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Platform
Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit
Install
None — unzip and run
Engine
Godot 4.5
Price
Free