Brave New Wonders, a factory builder in which production lines are run by robots taking written orders, launches on September 21. Its launch trailer was shown at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, PC Gamer reported.
The command system is the game's distinguishing feature. Rather than laying out a supply chain by hand, players write instructions in plain text — in English or any other language the game supports — telling a robot to, for example, collect ammunition from a warehouse and deliver it to a turret. PC Gamer reported that the game appears to parse the keywords in an order, picking out locations and conditions. An imprecisely worded instruction shows up as a robot circling an area instead of entering it and collecting what was asked for, and the publication noted that the fault in that case lies with the wording rather than the machine.
The trailer's narration framed the same idea more plainly: "Give the command, and the machines will answer." It was shown a day before the game's release rather than as a dated announcement.
Rebuilding after the collapse
The game describes itself as "part factory builder, part city builder rising from the ruins", and is set in a post-apocalyptic far future in which players mine and refine the resources needed to rebuild a society.
That scope extends past a single base. Factories and logistics routes can be linked together, and large layouts can be copied and pasted; robots keep their existing instructions when a layout is duplicated, so a copied section does not need to be reprogrammed unless the player wants different behaviour from it.
It is not a purely peaceful builder, either. Old machines still roam the ruined world, and players place turrets to defend their bases and use dynamite to clear routes into new territory, PC Gamer reported.
Brave New Wonders releases on September 21, 2026 and is listed on Steam.
