Taking place before the events of the first game, the story focuses on Amber's brother Flint and Ted E. Bear investigating Paper City, no different from the first game. Things later take a strange turn when they investigate the mysterious disappearances of robots, with the perpetrator still at large and its identity remains unknown.
The game was released on July 31, 2019 and is available on Steam
. Like the previous game, The Lost Robots features its iconic sarcastic bantering from all of its characters.
Tropes
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: Near the end of the game, Ted and Flint encountered Lifty talking to her right-hand men Barry and Harold about supplying the relays that Skinner ordered, where she's actually the one who caused the disappearances of all robots in the city. When Ted and Flint attempted to arrest her, Lifty dropped the disguise and revealed her true intentions as the perpetrator of the robots' disappearances, but she was not even fought as a Final Boss. Instead she was unceremoniously killed by Harold.
- Big Bad: Smiley G. Skinner, who is behind the ratchet relay shortage, as well as putting Paper City into the brink of financial crisis. Except he is not the main antagonist, but Lifty, since she is the one responsible for causing the disappearances of the robots in the city and is directly involved in the relay shortage since she's the one who kidnapped and gutted them with the help of Barry and Harold.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Smiley G. Skinner, the corrupt CEO of Illuminarium, is responsible for putting all of Paper City into a financial crisis, likely due to his questionable business practices including hoarding relays, leading to the relay shortage. But there's also Lifty Workofsky, the head of Robot Union who started off as a grouchy helper to Ted and Flint, before eventually turning out to be the real mastermind of the disappearances of every robot in the city.
- Covers Always Lie: The Steam banner of the game shows Ted holding a pistol. Never in the game we see him using that said gun, except in the original game once.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Similar to the first game, Paper City is all black-and-white to fit with the "film noir" vibe.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Lifty, the head of the Robot Union. At first glance she started out as a grump who wants to help Ted and Flint out to investigate Skinner's acts. Until it is revealed that she's actually involved in an Enemy Mine situation between her and Skinner, and she only uses both of them to eliminate him from the picture. That is also revealed that Skinner is not the mastermind of the robots' disappearance in the city, but she is the one who's doing it all along.
- Good All Along: At first we have Lifty Workofsky, who acts as a heroic companion to both Ted and Flint, wanting to put a stop to Skinner's plans in Paper City so they can retrieve the relay necessary to revive Robbie. Subverted when she isn't as good as she seems in the final part of the game, being the real Big Bad of the game as she is the mastermind of the disappearance of all robots in the city.
- Meaningful Name: The game's title "The Lost Robots" is a play to the game's main premise: solving the mystery of the lost robots around paper city.
- Period Piece: The game takes place in November 1937, as shown in the torn invoice that Ted puzzled altogether.
- Prequel: Taking place before the events of the first game.
- Trap Door: During the scene in Jungle Jazz Bar, Flint uses the trap door's switch in order to send Lily down so they can interact to Barry and Harold without the hassle.Ted: I'm sorry Lily...Flint: I hope she lands on something soft.
