This is a game about masking. Play as a human in a robot costume infiltrating a robot factory, blending in the crowd to avoid being discovered by the evil Overseer.

This is a game about unmasking. Play as the best robot manager of the factory, and unmask the cunning human hiding amongst your ranks -- however many sacrifices is necessary to root out the Bad Robot

Entry for GGJ 2026 with the theme: Masks! Bad Robot placed 2nd place in both Audience's Choice and Judge's Choice.

Controls

Player 1 (The Overseer): 

  • I - color test trap: eliminate deviants outside of one safe quadrant.
  • - traffic lights trap: freeze every robot at the signal of traffic light.
  • L - saw blade: eliminate robots that are out of line.
  • K - laser beam: press to prepare, press again to destroy the deviants.
  • arrow keys - for controlling laser beam target.

Player 2 (The Imposter): 

  • WASD - move the hidden
  • Q - make your robot beep-boop, help you find out where you are
  • E - after you scavenge some cogs from dead robots, throw them against the evil overlord!

General:

  • Esc - Pause/resume, exit Controls screen.
  • F11/Alt+Enter - Toggle fullscreen

Credits

Robot Group Hug

Code: Art:Music: 
diogotito h0noriussuntoucher
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suntoucher

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bad-robot-win.zip 47 MB
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bad-robot-linux.zip 40 MB
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Source code (tag: v1.1.1) 62 MB

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