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Rumu

Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

78 12 December 2017

Rumu is an adventure developed by Robot House, released 12 December 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Rumu is

Rumu is an adventure game developed by Robot House and released in 2017. It was published by Hammerfall Publishing. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are Rumu - a robot designed to clean, and to love. You awake in a fully automated Smart Home created by your eccentric Human's David and Cecily where you discover your only companions are Sabrina, the house AI, the always watching guide, and the home’s dysfunctional cast of semi-intelligent devices, as well as Ada the cat. After curiosity draws you away from your standard home maintenance duties, you’ll be faced with challenging moral dilemmas forcing you beyond your programming to uncover the the dark secrets kept from you by Sabrina.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Rumu holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Rumu launched on 12 December 2017, within three weeks of Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition and OKAMI HD. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition, OKAMI HD.

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When did Rumu come out?
Rumu was released on 12 December 2017 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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