The Fat Cat Mech firing its gatlings, a muzzle flash in the barrels, on an in-engine battlefield
In-engine frame · work in progress · Fat Cat Mech, twin gatlings

Full build $39.99 on itch.io · Free 5-minute demo · App Store all-machines bundle planned at $100 · Steam Dec 21, 2026

Five champions hunt you. Bring the right robot.

A third-person robot action shooter with RTS elements. Every machine in the hangar fires its own guns, moves its own way, and sounds like itself. Pick one, and hold out across six maps.

Buy the current build — $39.99 Play the free demo See the machines

Where Fat Cat Cruz is sold

Play now. Bring it everywhere.

The current full WebGL build is $39.99 on itch.io now. When the App Store arrives, its all-machines bundle is planned at $100. The other storefronts stay on the public roadmap — no invented launch links, no invented dates.

iPad & iPhone first

Apple App Store

Free download planned, with a $100 all-machines bundle or machines individually. Launch date to be announced.

Dec. 21, 2026

Steam

The macOS launch, with wishlists opening before release.

Later

Android

Google Play and Amazon Appstore are planned after v1.

Long-term goal

Apple Arcade

A target destination once the shipped game and agreement justify it. No date yet.

Captured in the current build

This is what the trigger does.

No trailer yet. These are frames from the game, not renders: every barrel, beam and muzzle flash is the thing you fire.

  • The Hero's shoulder guns firing, a muzzle flash on the barrels
    HeroEight barrels across two shoulder turrets
  • The Donut Dreadnought firing its rim emitters downrange
    Donut DreadnoughtRim emitters on the trigger
  • Close on a Robocopter wing-tip gatling pod as it fires
    RobocopterA wing-tip gatling pod, close up
  • A Colossus flown by the AI twisting at the torso to fire
    Colossus (AI)A rival champion firing on the player

Frames from the current build, work in progress; no trailer yet.

The hangar

Pick the machine for the fight.

Each card is the machine's own hangar portrait, and each role is the one the game's roster gives it.

Every machine

This week in the build

Finished in the open.

Every row below is merged into the game. The full log lives on /progress.

  1. The champions take turns on you

    Two rivals press you at kickoff, one more every two and a half minutes, all five by 7:30.

  2. Every robot earns its own rank

    Kills and damage promote each machine on its own, five promotions, worn as chevrons.

  3. Every machine fires its own trigger gun

    Twin gatlings, a shoulder cannon, twin arm cannons and a main gun now fire like themselves, on one damage budget.

  4. Cover on the long walks

    Boulders in Grand Valley, derelict hulls on Civil War, container stacks in The Forks and Fun City, hard cover on the Crater floor.

  5. The Robo Marine hovers

    A hover jet pack on A, and a plasma ball off the shoulder cannon.

Over the Hero's shoulder, its guns firing at a distant machine
Sep 26 capture from the current build: over the Hero's shoulder, mid-burst.

The battlefields

Six maps.

Names only for now: a map gets its screenshot the day it looks finished.

  • The Everything BagelFour lanes out from a central plateau
  • Grand ValleyHigh ground you fight down from
  • The ForksA river cut you fight across
  • Fun CityA street grid, blocks and a plaza
  • Civil WarA ridge you climb to win
  • The CraterA basin you must go down into

New Free browser mini-game

Fly the Pink Pony first.

Flying Unicorn is her pre-flight assignment: a bright, free sky game starring the Pink Pony from Fat Cat Cruz.

  • FlyThrough rings and build a combo
  • ZapStorm clouds with horn lasers
  • Meet herThen try the main robot demo
Play Flying Unicorn Play the robot demo

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