Groundwork

The humans are coming. Someone has to get the place ready.

You're a maintenance-era robot, the advance unit of a settlement program, alone on a small round planet — until you find the others. Scattered across the wilds are derelict units from earlier landings that wound down mid-mission, waiting for someone to come. Haul them home, repair them, wake them up. Each one moves in with a unioque personality and a job to do.

Walk the whole planet. It's round — and it's different for everyone. Keep going and you'll come back to where you started — coasts, cliffs, mountains with their own snow line, and weather that rolls in on its own calendar.

Build the chain. Saw-bench, kiln, smelter — a hands-on crafting tree where every machine you raise unlocks the next thing worth making. Set up turbines and solar, wire your yard into one power network, and watch the machines actually run.

Raise the town. Every robot you wake needs a house, and every house is built plank by plank — stake the lot, level the ground, deliver the materials, watch it go up.

Tidy up after the past. Rocket debris from earlier landings litters the planet. Cleaning it up is the job, and the salvage is yours.

Nothing can go wrong — permanently. No combat, no fail state, no timer. Run your battery down far from home and a friend rolls out to get you. That's the whole game, really: you're not a better robot than the ones that wound down out there. You're just not alone.