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Robot-smashing puzzler Luddite earns the name

Loom eternal

Three red, projected figures each saying, "Congratulations, you have been made redundant from your position," in Luddite.
Image credit: RPS / Cotsworld Games

Calling a game "Luddite" was bound to get my attention, even if it's not about ambushing the mill owner who threatened you and shooting his dick off. You are a disgrunt engineer, cast out by the corporation once the robots you built became cheaper. So of course it's time to join a nascent revolutionary moment and use your skills to destroy the robots.

This means hacking puzzles. The utterly bewildering screenshots piqued my morbid curiosity, but like Dunc Imperium, it becomes comprehensible way sooner than you'd think. And I don't know why a dice-rolling puzzle game has such an excellently presented story, but it's a great motivator.

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