History VideoGame / RobotCity

* MultipleEndings: You can [[spoiler: let Dr. Avery blow up Robot City with enough time for you to leave in a shuttle with Katherine, disable a computer that triggers the self destruct sequence and allow Robot City to continue, and still leave, or you can stay with her on the planet to run the place together.]]

* TheWorldIsNotReady: [[spoiler: At the endgame, Avery decides that the Spacer worlds are not ready to mingle with Robot City, and enables its self-destruct system to try and start over. If you stop him, he leaves the city's fate up to Derec instead.]]

* DevelopersForesight: When the Core Computer is stabilized, the terminal in the Compass Tower and even the console in your apartment update to report this.

!! Robot City contains examples of

* GhostCity: Compared to the novels, Robot City proper is mostly devoid of activity. The only robots you'll come across in the open are the occasional worker robots in the alleys between streets.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Dr. Poole's journal is scattered in 6 pages around the city, revealing his examination of it, as well as his plans. It stops on one character in the 6th entry at the exact time of his murder. These pages can be hard to find due to their [[PixelHunt small size and how they blend into the background]].

* ComputerVirus: Dr. Poole had created [[spoiler: a virus that would destabilize the city's network and eventually force it to break down; he died just after he uploaded it through an unprotected access port.]]

* CompressedAdaptation: The game compresses elements from the first two books in such a way that they [[AlternateContinuity don't entirely follow the original timeline]].

* GhostCity: Compared to the novels, Robot City proper is mostly devoid of activity. The only robots you'll come across in the open are the occasional worker robots in the alleys between streets.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: You, having no identification other than a label on your jumpsuit reading "Derec", which doesn't help much, being the name of a company that makes jumpsuits. Furthermore, your tissue, facial features and DNA have no match in any database. The original novels even had an ID code on his jumpsuit that was only a test code. You are able to talk, at least.

* NPCRoadblock: You have to negotiate with several robots to enter sensitive areas. At the beginning, you even have to lie to your valet robot that you're dying, to sneak out of your apartment.

Robot City is a first-person pre-rendered mystery video game, developed by Byron Preiss Entertainment in 1995. Based closely on the Creator/IsaacAsimov novel series of the same name, primarily the second book.

* YouAreNumberSix: Each robot has a model number, but some also have names of their own.

* AssholeVictim: David Poole, partly because the planet he hails from, Solaria, depends on robots as servants, with little human contact whatsoever. This extends to positronic robots, which he can't grasp as anything more than JustAMachine.

* GreatDetective: Alpha can be this if you install his Logical Analysis cube, which is crucial to fully analyzing Dr. Poole's murder.

* RobotBuddy: Alpha, a Class-A Servitor formerly owned by the late Dr. David Poole. He can be customized with several skill cubes that give him extra abilities, though only one at a time due to technical issues.

* RobotBuddy: Alpha, formerly owned by the late Dr. David Poole. He can be customized with several skill cubes that give him extra abilities, though only one at a time due to technical issues.

* WhosOnFirst: One of the worker robots calls you "Mr. Derec", then if you tell him, [[OnlyOneName "No, it's just 'Derec'"]], he says, "Hello, Mr. Just Derec." It only escalates from there, and you can even end it with "This conversation's already too silly for me.".