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2013 · Freejam · Indie · Role-playing

Robocraft

Robocraft is a sandbox building and vehicular combat game where players get to create their own robots/vehicles and use them to fight others. The wide variety of components allows for many types of creations, including ground vehicles, planes and hover-tanks.

Released: 1 March 2013
Platforms: Linux Windows macOS
Genres: Indie Role-playing Shooter Simulation Strategy Vehicular combat
Developers: Freejam
Publishers: Freejam
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Science fiction Sandbox Warfare
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB E10+
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)

About

Robocraft was an online vehicular combat game developed and published by Freejam Games. The game is set on different planets, with players constructing robots to fight with and against others in battle. The game features contained garage bays in which players can build various functional vehicles with basic block-based parts, such as cubes and wheels, along with weapons that can be used for combat. The initial alpha build was released in March 2013, and gained over 300,000 players by the following year. It officially released out of beta on August 23, 2017.

A sequel, Robocraft 2, was released in early access on November 7, 2023. Months later, on February 2, 2024, Robocraft 2 was delisted from digital platforms due to receiving mostly negative reviews from players and as part of the studio's plan to rebuild the game from the ground up. On January 20, 2025, Freejam Games announced that they would be shutting down the servers for Robocraft and Robocraft 2 due to the studio's closure.

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Gameplay

Robocraft is a "build, drive, fight" game where players build their robots from building parts. Players have the option to play multiple game modes that offer different experiences, for example, Player Vs AI, Brawl and custom games.

Robocraft uses "Robits" and "Tech Points" as its currency. Robits are used to buy parts, community-made robots or new garage slots. Items are unlocked by spending Tech Points in the tech tree. Before June 19, 2018, players could also get items from crates.

Development

Robocraft uses the Unity engine and Yahoo Games Network.

A November update added EasyAntiCheat (EAC) software to the game's client, in order to counter various hacks such as zero reload time. Freejam has stated that the EAC team will focus on anti-cheating, allowing them to focus on new features. A major game update was released on December 9, adding Tank Tracks and Tesla Blades, a unique melee weapon, alongside several new features.