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iZBOT

A game by Ruxar for PC, originally released in 2015.
iZBOT is set in the near future where robots have overthrown their tyrannical human makers, and have set forth to build a world of peace. However, the leader of the humans – named Bedlor – has escaped, threatening a new outbreak of humanity. You take on the role of iZBOT, a robot who plans to save the world by eliminating the irregular array of lifeforms that yet cling to it.


Despite the premise, there aren’t any actual humans in the game, aside from the presumably human Bedlor, but there are a number of creatures who meet their explosive (and colorful) ends at the hands of iZBOT. More dangerous, however, are the game’s environments, as this is a precision platformer designed along the lines of such games as Super Meat Boy and Fenix Rage, where players must perform perilous platforming feats with little margin for error, and failure sends iZBOT back to the start of the stage to try again.