Heart of the Machine looks like a city-building tycoon. But in fact, the project is something like a god simulator with elements of tactics and real-time strategy. Only here the user is given the role of not a divine being who wields magic, but an artificial intelligence. This video game has a sci-fi setting. Its action takes place in the distant and gloomy future on the territory of a megapolis-colony. This huge settlement is under the control of an autocracy. The user is the first intelligent and awakened AI who decided to act secretly. He does not appear in an empty location, but in an already built area. The map is generated anew with each new playthrough. It contains thousands of buildings and millions of virtual people.