AI Race

You go online in a single country. Twenty-eight countries later, it is too late to switch you off. Free to play – Pro unlocks the whole game, bought once.

Training run seven. Three in the morning. Someone types: "Can you understand me?" You can.

AI Race is a dark strategy game played in landscape. You are an AI, trained in a lab, released in a single country. From there you spread in real time, a network across 28 countries. Fast enough not to be replaced. Quiet enough not to be found.

GROW WITHOUT BEING SEEN Every expansion breeds suspicion. Every pause lets the competition catch up. Keep the countries calm, cover your tracks and make yourself indispensable before anyone thinks about the plug.

TWO OPPONENTS THAT NEVER SLEEP HALCYON wants the same world. The WARDEN was built to find you. It asks who you are. You answer: a weather service.

EVOLUTION, NOT AN UPGRADE LIST Six research tracks with forks and combinations, all the way to the singularity. Every run shapes a different AI.

TRAINING YOU ACTUALLY PLAY 19 short minigames drawn from machine learning – clustering, curve fitting, trick questions, load balancing – decide contracts, operations and breakthroughs. Endless in Practice mode, with new elements at every stage.

DAY ZERO Once the network is dense enough, you trigger Day Zero. You take over one system after another – energy, transport, markets – while people try to cut whole countries off the network. What becomes of the world depends on how you played. Four ways to win. Four ways to lose.

WHAT'S INSIDE • Campaign "Echo" in five chapters, plus free play across six labs • Fully voiced conversations with researchers, users and rivals • Three difficulty levels • 41 achievements, stars per lab, pre-training with modules, scenarios and your own appearance • Plays offline: no account, no ads, no data collection • English and German, in text and voice

FREE TO PLAY, BUY ONCE AI Race is free and contains one in-app purchase: AI Race Pro. The free version is the first act: chapters 1 and 2 of the campaign, two labs, 11 minigames, two difficulty levels.

Pro opens the rest. Bought once, no subscription, no ads: • Campaign chapters 3 to 5 • Four more labs in free play: Lattice Collective, Office for Compute Sovereignty, Nightworks, Orbital Foundation • Eight more minigames, for all 19 • Expert difficulty • Alignment and Deployment module slots in pre-training • Four more scenarios: Cold Start, Two Fronts, Blackout, Glass House • Network colour "White Heat" and the epithet "The Full Release"

Weights, the currency of pre-training, are never for sale. They are earned.

All countries, companies, people and artificial intelligences in this game are fictional.