EVOTINCTION
Released Sep 2024
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility. Use a variety of hacking skills to overcome robotic threats and uncover the secrets that hold the key to humanity's survival or its potential extinction.
89% positive · 231 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Steam $29.99
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Evaluation
Evotinction launched on September 12, 2024 as a complete single-player stealth game. Following launch, the developer shipped one major content update on November 15, 2024, which added new simulation levels, a first-person aiming mode, minimap support in New Game+, and the official soundtrack. This represents the only major content drop post-launch. All five DLC items listed on the store are released — four cosmetic/utility packs that launched alongside the game on September 12, 2024, and the official soundtrack on November 15, 2024. None of these are unreleased. The developer continued issuing bug fix and polish patches through October 29, 2025, which is the most recent communication from the studio. The developer has never announced a roadmap, season pass, expansion, or future content beyond what has already shipped. The launch post from September 12, 2024 mentioned a commitment to "patching and optimizing the game over time," which is consistent with the post-launch maintenance activity observed — but contains no promise of additional story or gameplay content. With only one major content release post-launch, there is insufficient pattern to suggest an ongoing content cadence, and no future content has been announced. The game appears to have shipped as a complete narrative experience with post-launch polish support now winding down.
Evidence
First and only major post-launch update shipped: new simulation levels, first-person aiming mode, minimap for New Game+, and official soundtrack released.
Official soundtrack released as the final DLC item; all five listed DLC are now released with none remaining unreleased.
Content
5 of 5 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Astrolabe Games
Achievements
30
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
A Fruitless Pursuit of Eternity. A Glimpse of Evolution and Extinction. A Solemn Song of Life.
Near Future.
A virus of unknown origin breached the network of an isolated, self-sustained research facility and community named HERE.
Inevitably, the core unit of the highly-advanced AI system that runs the facility got infected.
As a result, those harmless service robots went out of control and started to attack humans.
Dr. Liu, Head of R&D at HERE and one of the architects of the system, decided to go back into this lost facility to search for possible survivors while attempting to identify and fix the underlying issue.
A one-man infiltration into an AI-controlled rampart.
Utilize the kaleidoscopic hacking skills the doctor masters to cope with adversaries.
Disable the security system remotely, rewrite IFF IDs, or manipulate rogue AI's behaviour...
Do what you can to avoid any unnecessary encounters.
Make your way in stealthily and neutralize all threats one by one.
Go deep into the heart of the facility to face the core crisis!
"Genie" - those everyday service robots will be your most common opponents.
Each of those service robots has its routine patrol, and the AI system behind their behaviours also coordinates the efforts of those robots to maximize their efficiency.
In addition, the doctor will encounter certain killer robots specially-engineered to neutralize any threats to the core system as he gets deeper into the facility.
Could the infected AI be to blame for everything?
Or perhaps there are additional unidentified reasons lurking somewhere?
All will be eventually revealed along with the doctor's investigation...
Not your traditional protagonist, Dr. Liu, an ordinary researcher who had absolutely zero combat training, will have to infiltrate the facility on his own.
Not a specialist in melee combat, nor a slick gunslinger, the doctor is just an average joe when it comes to "combat".
However, as a tech-savvy researcher, he is able to hack, disrupt, and manipulate all these rogue AIs to guide himself through this dangerous automated facility.
Long-Range Signal Disrupting, Radio & Electromagnetic Jamming, Hologram Illusion, Malware Implant, System Takeover, IFF Spoofing…
Make use of the doctor's full arsenal of gadgets to hack a way inside and out!
Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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