Good Robot

Good Robot is a 2016 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Pyrodactyl Games. The game was released for Microsoft Windows on April 5, 2016.

Good Robot
Developer(s)	Pyrodactyl Games
Publisher(s)	Pyrodactyl Games
Director(s)	Arvind Raja Yadav
Designer(s)	Arvind Raja Yadav Ross Zevenhuizen III
Programmer(s)	Arvind Raja Yadav Shamus Young
Artist(s)	Mikk Luige
Writer(s)	Adam DeCamp
Composer(s)	Shamus Young
Platform(s)	Windows
Release	April 5, 2016
Genre(s)	Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Good Robot is a shoot 'em up where players assume the role of the last good robot of PyroCorp fighting on procedurally generated levels against the defective robots that decided to exterminate humanity. For each destroyed robot, the player earns money that can be used for upgrades or to buy hats that grant invulnerability for one hit.

Development

In 2013, Shamus Young made a prototype of a 2D shooter inspired by titles like Descent.^[1] However, Young decided to cancel the project in 2014. The following year, Pyrodactyl contacted him to finish the game.^[2] The game was released on April 5, 2016, on Steam.^[3] It was also planned to be released on GOG.com, but it was rejected.^[4] A Linux version was also in the plans, but it was cancelled.^[4] On August 3, 2020, Arvind Raja Yadav from Pyrodactyl Games released the source code for the game under the MIT License on GitHub.^[5]

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	67/100

Review scores

Publication	Score
4Players	65/100[6]
IGN India	8/10[7]
IGN Spain	6/10[8]

Reception

Good Robot received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN India gave it a score of 8/10, criticizing the lack of local multiplayer and an arcade mode.^[7]