HEx808

A tactical noir shooter about disabling rogue machines, not scrapping them.

You are the Department of Alignment's android detective. Each case is a facility gone wrong, entered one room at a time. Shoot a machine's systems apart, close the room by realigning what is left, and repair yourself with limbs from the robots you beat.

CASE 2056-0808: Holloway Assembly, Plant 12. A car plant gone dark. The general-purpose robots on its line have stopped building cars, and the Department has sent you in.

Deep damage model. Every bullet matters.

Pick a limb, a sensor or a plate and shoot that. A broken leg changes how a machine can flank you, a shot-out arm drops its weapon, a cracked plate opens the way to its core.

Position buys time. Exposure buys precision.

Use cover, peek, settle your aim, and decide how long you can afford to be seen.

Realign or scrap.

Preserve the core, get an overclock buff. Or shoot to kill and save the limbs.

Become the patchwork.

Graft salvaged limbs onto yourself and become a Detective of Theseus.

How to play

1. Press START. The first time, the game offers a short tutorial. Take it.
2. Enter the room and read it: the cover, the sightlines, what each machine is carrying.
3. Aim at a part, fire, reload, use cover. When the room goes quiet, realign.
4. At the mule, choose a loadout and repair, then take the next room.

Firing Range on the title screen is a free practice room.

Controls

Keyboard and mouse

WASD	move across the room and in depth
Click a part	select the limb, sensor or plate to shoot
Space	fire at the selected part; with nothing selected, shove a nearby unit
RMB	clear the selected part
R	reload
C	crouch / peek
Shift + direction	run; into low cover, vault it
Ctrl + direction	dive or roll
Q, 1, 2	swap, holster or draw your carried weapons
F or click	pick up a gun off the floor
Hold F	realign a downed machine; open the mule
Esc	pause

Prefer free aim? Settings has a Precision mode: hold RMB to aim at any part, LMB to fire.

This build

HEx808 is in active development. This build plays the whole first case, all eight rooms of Plant 12, so expect rough edges and changes between updates.

• Downloads for Windows, macOS and Linux. Unzip it and run HEx808. No installer.
• The builds are not code-signed yet, so your system may warn you the first time. On macOS, right-click the app and choose Open. On Windows, choose More info, then Run anyway.
• Best with sound on. Settings has a Display row for windowed, borderless or fullscreen.
• Keyboard and mouse. Game controllers are not supported yet.
• Found a bug, or have a thought? Write to contact@goodhart.dev. Tell us your system and what happened.
• A phone version is planned.

Terms

HEx808 is all rights reserved. You may play and share the game, but its art, audio and code are not licensed for reuse.

Privacy

The game collects no data. It sends nothing to the developer or anyone else: no analytics, no telemetry, no account, no ID, no cookie. Your settings and progress stay in a file on your computer.

A Goodhart game.