
I love giant robots, but so many of the mech-fighting video games out there are surprisingly bleak affairs – a trend that indie developer Olive Perry wishes to counter with her latest project.
FromSoftware’s Armored Core series, due to see its sixth mainline game release this August, takes place in a dystopia where mega-corporations vie for control of humanity’s dwindling resources. Armored Core 6 looks poised to follow this direction as it follows the brutal war for the resource-rich planet Rubicon 3. The MechWarrior series, too, offers a bleak picture of humanity fractured into warring factions.