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You dodge robot lasers in a weird isometric factory, rescuing hostages while slamming levers—then suddenly you're in a chaotic spaceship escape where everything wants to kill you. Classic janky DOS charm.
Game Overview
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters is one of those weird, clunky-but-charming MS-DOS games that somehow sticks with you. You're dropped onto this alien factory planet where lizard people are forcing humans to build killer robots—classic '80s sci-fi nonsense, complete with a scientist named Dr. Bellum (yes, really).
The isometric view makes everything feel a little disorienting at first, but once you get the hang of dodging robot fire while hunting for hostages, it clicks. Half the challenge is figuring out which levers open which doors while energy blasts whiz past your head. And just when you think you've got the rhythm, the game throws you into these frantic spaceship escape sequences where one wrong move sends you spiraling into space debris.
It's janky, it's unfair sometimes, and the controls take some getting used to—but there's something weirdly satisfying about blasting through waves of robots to rescue groaning pixelated hostages. Definitely a product of its time, but in a way that makes it more interesting than polished modern remakes.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
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