Clanker Town

Raids from the yard

Clanker Town is a PC action game about defending an offline trailer from a town’s networked household robots. You fight through raids from the yard, keeping an old PC alive while waves of machines push toward its fence. If the PC goes down, the raid is lost.

The first fight puts you on a lawnmower minigun against 40,000 robots, and ends badly. DIAL-UP, the PC’s cranky modem, then suggests throttling the wifi so the robots arrive in smaller groups. You use the DIAL-UP map to pick each next raid. They grow from a dozen trash-can bots to crowds that can reach tens of thousands, with a full campaign involving millions of robots.