Assignment 42
Arrible · 2021 · Puzzle, Robots, Programming, Logic, Singleplayer
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 37 📉 Recent reviews down 64%
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About Assignment 42
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a robot to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Use your robot to contain hazards and clear a path to various objectives. Each level poses a set of challenging puzzles for you to solve. Use your creativity to find new ways and guide your robot to its destination.
Reroute circuits and secure a path to any remaining survivors and help them exit the danger zone safely.
Program your robot to help you achieve your goals. Use a powerful node-based program editor to give your robot the brains to help you complete your assignments. Even if you have never programmed before you will pick up the basic concepts easily.
Each level poses a new set of interesting challenges and puzzles. Work together with your robot to solve even the trickiest conundrums.
Explore and pull back the plaster-board walls. The voice in your earpiece - Linnea - notices there’s something… off. Something extra behind the emergency, behind the thin interior walls and the servers. Something which might suggest this assignment... was no accident.
You are Marcus, and as you control him and his buddying robot, it’s your objective to clear the buildings and get everybody out. And fast! Preferably at least.
Strategize, check your map, and listen to your witty base operator – Linnea. Connect the nodes and program your pretty, mustard-coloured machine to extinguish the most inconvenient fires, reroute power, unlock doors and tear down walls all the while you round up anyone who is trapped and hastily guide their behinds out the exit.
Explore the innards of not one, but three of 2042 Stockholm’s most impressive superstructures in this little serious, lots hilarious, self-aware near-ish future.
London, Singapore, New York – when all eyes and all bets were on those bigger cities, Stockholm rose. And now… it’s beginning to fall.
Use your robot to contain hazards and clear a path to various objectives. Each level poses a set of challenging puzzles for you to solve. Use your creativity to find new ways and guide your robot to its destination.Reroute circuits and secure a path to any remaining survivors and help them exit the danger zone safely.Program your robot to help you achieve your goals. Use a powerful node-based program editor to give your robot the brains to help you complete your assignments. Even if you have never programmed before you will pick up the basic concepts easily.Each level poses a new set of interesting challenges and puzzles. Work together with your robot to solve even the trickiest conundrums.Explore and pull back the plaster-board walls. The voice in your earpiece - Linnea - notices there’s something… off. Something extra behind the emergency, behind the thin interior walls and the servers. Something which might suggest this assignment... was no accident.You are Marcus, and as you control him and his buddying robot, it’s your objective to clear the buildings and get everybody out. And fast! Preferably at least.
Strategize, check your map, and listen to your witty base operator – Linnea. Connect the nodes and program your pretty, mustard-coloured machine to extinguish the most inconvenient fires, reroute power, unlock doors and tear down walls all the while you round up anyone who is trapped and hastily guide their behinds out the exit.
Explore the innards of not one, but three of 2042 Stockholm’s most impressive superstructures in this little serious, lots hilarious, self-aware near-ish future.
London, Singapore, New York – when all eyes and all bets were on those bigger cities, Stockholm rose. And now… it’s beginning to fall.
What Steam players say
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"Assignment 42" was a promising looking adventure puzzle game. It had a lot of potential so in this case it's a shame the developers abandoned it. The game has a few different kinds of puzzles and themes which is welcome... you get to control a robot and guide it to rescue people, which means solving various puzzles (colour matching, lightweight Node Red style programming etc)... I even think if they managed to finish this they could have made quite a bit of money off it. The developers abandoned this 2 years and 4 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low qualit…3 found this helpful
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so unbeliavably annoying to listen to the lady talk that I couldn't even bring myself to start the first level
Bad. It needs a LOT of polish. There is barely a game here at all - not just in the content, but the interface and mechanics. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I've seen Game-Jam games with more content and polish. Given the time frame that this has been in development, it is kind of shocking.
This note is purely for the developer and not really a review. I get to the point of the game where I am supposed to control the robot and (I assume) put out the fire. O.K. I have the screen where there are listed actions (1,move, 2.turn left, 3. turn right). O.K. I drag the move icon and set it to 2 steps. Then, I am done. It seems nothing else is possible. Obviously, I am missing something here but for the life of me I am unable to progress, very frustrating. I get the idea and the game looks really well done otherwise, but I am stuck. Is there a tutorial or guide that I missed? I really wish to dive into this game but right now I've kind of "idiot locked" myself out of it. I don't think this is a bug, I just think I am doing something wrong.
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