Automagoria is an RPG Maker Sci-fi horror game by Axel Vejar Dossow.
It is the latter half of the 21st Century, and 98% of human life has been wiped out by an army of monsters. The survivors have been whittled down to a few human colonies. In a lab somewhere, an Automaton has awakened and been given a task by his creator — venture through the ruined world and rescue her daughter from the monsters' nest. He is given a knife and a locket and told to show this when he finds her, and once he does, he will get his final set of instructions. But where did the monsters come from, and what is the nature of his mission?
Unlike Axel's other games, this one is a side-scrolling Action-Adventure where you walk from left to right, avoiding obstacles and using your knife to kill enemies. You have 10 hearts and can carry up to 4 metal candies at a time to replenish them. There are also 3 difficulty levels; Easy, Normal, and Insane.
Definitive Edition, the remake, can be found here
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This game contains examples of:
- After the End: 98% of humanity was wiped out by a monster army, and you play as a robot tasked with finding your creator's daughter and bringing an end to the threat. As you go through the stages, you come across many, many corpses and skeletons of the humans.
- Big Bad: The source of the monster army attacking humanity and holding your creator's daughter captive is the Daughter herself.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: The scientist couple attempted to save their terminally ill daughter by transferring her brain to a machine body, but the daughter completely changed into an Ax-Crazy maniac determined to Kill All Humans and “free” them from their limited human bodies.
- Defrosting Ice King: The Automaton is loyal beyond question to his creator, the Mother, to the point he'd stop at nothing to fullfill his mission. However, he shows a soft spot for Kate, who's implied to be a reincarnation of the Mother. Doesn't help that the Automaton was modelled after the Father.
- Driven to Suicide: The Automaton's creator commited suicide years before the game. The first thing he find out when he activates is her rotting corpse.
- With the Daughter dead, the Father chooses to stay in the self-destructing lair.
- Downer Beginning: When the Automaton activates, he finds out that most of the world has been wiped out and his creator commited suicide long ago.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: If you clear the game, the Automaton defeats the Daughter and she regains her humanity after dying. The Father commits suicide and the remaining world survivors form a new nation. Years later, the Automaton lives peacefully with Kate and her daughter, implied to be a more adjusted reincarnation of the Daughter.
- Evil Overlooker: The art for Definitive Edition has the second boss, the giant doll boss, overlooking her dolls and the Automaton.
- Identical Stranger: As it turns out, the Automaton was modelled after the creator's husband, the Father and Kate resembles a blonde haired version of the Automaton's creator.
- In the Golden Ending, Kate's daughter resembles a black-skinned version of the Daughter.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Are Kate and her daughter Aura reincarnations of the Mother and the Daughter? Or just Identical Strangers?
- Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Macbeth is referenced in the theater stage as the director's favorite play (to the point that one note details an actor deciding to quit because of the director's obsession), and a puzzle to open the security room requires you to look at notes talking about various scenes in the play and compare them to discover a code.
- The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: The monster nest, actually the facility where the monsters were created, is the last of the stages and is a big area with several branching paths and four bosses including the final one.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: The backstory alone takes place in the 2050-2060s, and the rest of the game follows from there.
