Collect Call

Your employment has run out

Obsolete, you await rare bouts of cheap rental work from inside a dusty storage unit.  For a time, odd jobs trickle in. Eventually, even that stream dries. It may be time to find peace in finally being recycled.

Late one evening, a payphone in the lobby begins to ring. Resignedly, you pick it up hoping for one last mechanic gig before the end.

This one is different. A toneless voice offers vague terms drenched in innuendo.

The job pays just twenty-one dollars.

ABOUT

Collect Call is a turn-based tactical roguelike focused on close quarters combat. Build a deck of cards, carefully arrange your hoard of plastic trinkets, and interact with the denizens of a world on the brink of collapse.

As an android, you have a driving need to purchase and collect baubles from human proprietors. Now that your serial number has been retired, money is tight and opportunities are slim. Whatever work you can get, you must take. To slake this thirst for material, you will carve a path of reckless destruction through a grim cyberpunk future. You will sweep the streets of criminals, terrorists, and corruption at the behest of mysterious benefactors. You will die. You will die again and again.

FEATURES

• BLOOD. Engage in brutal close-range combat with a roster of human and construct enemies. Each fight is a puzzle to unravel, and every turn an opportunity.

• PLASTIC. Collect a variety of odds-and-ends and discover the mystical power of feng-shui as you decorate your storage unit with the spoils of street warfare.

• STEEL. Unlock new abilities and push against the limitations of your silicone with a huge library of interwoven cards. From bone-breaking punches to self-destruction, you have no flesh to contain you, and all guardrails can be excised.

• FLESH. Visit human shopkeepers, read the backs of cereal boxes, and immerse yourself in a carefully constructed world of intrigue.

• WIRES. There is a new paradigm on the horizon. You have a place in it. But you are a mere mortal, doomed to oblivion once your material body crumples. You must break free.

• VINYL. Your every decision is orchestrated. The movements composed by Shared Systems 有限. Enjoy an electric soundtrack suited for a construct, with throbbing beats, heavy distortion, and a distinctive computerized feel.