Lobotomy Corporation (Game) (2024)

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Lobotomy Corporation 로보토미 코퍼레이션
Splash Art from Steam Page featuring Angela
Basic Info
Platform(s)	Windows
Developer(s)	Project Moon
Engine	Unity
Initial Release	December 16, 2016
Release Date	April 10, 2018

Lobotomy Corporation (Korean: 로보토미 코퍼레이션) is a roguelite monster-management simulator released on Steam Early Access in December 2016, leaving early access for an official release in April 2018. It is the first video game in the Project Moon franchise, Developed and published by Project Moon on Steam for Microsoft Windows.

In the game, the player plays as X, the main character employed as a manager in facility branch X-394 of Lobotomy Corporation, an energy production company. The player is tasked to meet the company's energy quotas, this done by performing work on Abnormalities which results in the creation of Enkephalin, a substance that is refined into energy and sold by the corporation.

The game was originally revealed to be in development on August 31, 2015 in a teaser trailer on the defunct "Moon Project" Youtube channel.

1 Gameplay
- 1.1 Employees
- 1.2 Work
- 1.3 Observation
- 1.4 EGO
- 1.5 Suppression
- 1.6 Qliphoth Meltdown and Ordeals
2 Story
3 Characters
4 Abnormalities
5 Version History
6 Development
- 6.1 Alpha
- 6.2 Beta
- 6.3 Legacy Version
- 6.4 Official Release
7 Staff
8 Trivia
9 Gallery
10 External Links
11 References

Gameplay

Lobotomy Corporation is a 2D side-view micromanagement roguelike where the player takes the role as a branch manager of the in-game company and directs employees, specifically agents, to do work. The goal is to optimally interact with the slowly-expanding roster of abnormalities in your collection to meet the daily energy quota.

Employees

Employees are divided into two categories: agents and clerks. Agents are the order-able employees who work on and suppress abnormalities. They have health, sanity, and four virtue stats: fortitude (health), prudence (sanity), temperance (work success), justice (speed). Each stat can be raised by doing the corresponding work. Clerks are expendable employees whose population gives the facility a minor boost, or a major penalty if every clerk in a department dies. When the day passes or is reset, all dead clerks are replaced freely. Agents however, must be hired for Lob Points. A dead agent cannot be revived, and their equipped EGO is lost.

Work

There are four types of work that can be acted on an abnormality: Instinct, Insight, Attachment, and Repression. Each abnormality has its preferences and extra conditions that often relate to the stats or mental/physical state of the working agent. Depending on the abnormality' preferences and the employee's stats, a random number of E-boxes are produced. Each positive box (signaling a good job) raises the facility's energy level by 1. Each negative box (signaling a bad job) deals a set range of damage to the working agent. The abnormality may be influenced by the quality of work performed on it. Often, an abnormality may breach if bad work is done on it too many times.

Observation

In addition to positive and negative energy boxes, abnormalities produce personal energy boxes for each positive one produced. Personal energy boxes are specific to each abnormality, and can be exchanged for information on the abnormality, its preferences, its damage type, its resistances when breaching, and production of its EGO armor and/or weapons.

EGO

EGO (External Object of Geometric Origin) is the primary form of defense and offense offered to Lobotomy Corporation's agents. When produced from an abnormality, the manager will be able to equip the various EGO armors and weapons they acquire onto their agents, altering their resistances and attack damage. EGO shares its rating system with abnormalities, with most armors and weapons sharing the same risk level as the abnormality that produced it. Additionally, EGO equipment may have stat requirements to be worn.

EGO gifts are a third kind of EGO that cannot be produced with PE boxes, but can be randomly granted to any agent who works on it, providing a small stat bonus. EGO gifts each take up a slot on an agent, and cannot be removed. If an EGO gift is given to an agent who already has a gift in the corresponding slot, the old one is replaced.

Suppression

Abnormalities are kept in containment via a Qliphoth Deterrence. Most abnormalities have a qliphoth counter, which signals to the manager how close they are to breaching containment. A lower counter indicates a breach-likely state, and 0 is an immediate breach. In the event an abnormality breaches, it may need to be suppressed. Unsurpassed abnormalities almost always have the ability to kill employees and clerks, and potentially upset other abnormalities and form a chain-reaction that can result in a game-over for that day.

Qliphoth Meltdown and Ordeals

Qliphoth meltdowns and ordeals are regularly occurring threats in Lobotomy Corporation that add randomness to each day. Each work ordered on an abnormality raises the overall qliphoth level, which is reset at the start of each day. When the qliphoth level fully raises, either a meltdown or ordeal occurs. A meltdown sees a timer appear over a certain amount of abnormalities' chambers. If the abnormalities are not worked on before the meltdown occurs, their qliphoth counter will instantly reach zero, causing them to breach or otherwise retaliate. An ordeal will summon abnormality-like creatures throughout the facility's rooms and hallways, attacking clerks and agents nearby. Ordeals are classified through both difficulty and theme, with the former ranging from dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight, and the latter being amber, crimson, green, and indigo. Defeating an ordeal by suppressing every summoned entity will provide a percentage amount of the daily quota in energy boxes.

Story

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Characters


Characters
Angela		X
Asiyah (Upper Layer)
Malkuth	Yesod	Hod	Netzach
Briah (Middle Layer)
Tiphereth A	Tiphereth B	Chesed	Gebura
Atziluth (Bottom Layer)
Binah		Hokma

Abnormalities

Abnormalities each have a designation, name, and assigned risk level and E-Box production amount. Stronger abnormalities will produce more enkephalin, allowing the daily quota to be reached easier.

Abnormality risk levels are rated in increasing levels of difficulty as follows: ZAYIN, TETH, HE, WAW, ALEPH. Some abnormalities are classified as objects, meaning they do not produce enkephalin boxes but may still be interacted with.

Abnormalities
No.	Name	Designation	Risk Level	E-Boxes
0	Standard Training-Dummy Rabbit	0-00-0	TETH	10
2	Scorched Girl	F-01-02	TETH	12
3	One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds	O-03-03	ZAYIN	10
4	The Queen of Hatred	O-01-04	WAW	22
6	Happy Teddy Bear	T-04-06	HE	15
8	Red Shoes	O-04-08	HE	16
9	Theresia	T-09-09	TETH	X
12	Old lady	O-01-12	TETH	14
15	Nameless Fetus	O-01-15	HE	18
18	The Lady Facing the Wall	F-01-18	TETH	14
20	Nothing There	O-06-20	ALEPH	33
27	1.76 MHz	T-06-27	TETH	12
30	Singing Machine	O-05-30	HE	18
31	The Silent Orchestra	T-01-31	ALEPH	30
32	Warm-Hearted Woodsman	F-05-32	HE	18
37	The Snow Queen	F-01-37	HE	18
40	Big Bird	O-02-40	WAW	20
41	All-Around Helper	T-05-41	HE	16
42	Snow White's Apple	F-04-42	WAW	20
43	Spider Bud	T-02-43	TETH	14
44	Beauty and the Beast	F-02-44	TETH	12
45	Plague Doctor	O-01-45	ZAYIN	10
46	WhiteNight	T-03-46	ALEPH	35
47	Don't Touch Me	O-05-47	ZAYIN	N/A
49	Rudolta of the Sleigh	F-O2-49	HE	18
50	Queen Bee	T-04-50	WAW	22
51	Bloodbath	T-05-51	TETH	14
52	Opened Can of WellCheers	F-05-52	ZAYIN	10
53	Alriune	T-04-53	WAW	22
54	Forsaken Murderer	T-01-54	TETH	14
55	Child of the Galaxy	O-01-55	HE	16
56	Punishing Bird	O-02-56	TETH	12
57	Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary	F-01-57	WAW	20
60	Fragment of the Universe	O-03-60	TETH	12
61	Crumbling Armor	O-05-61	TETH	12
62	Judgement Bird	O-02-62	WAW	24
63	Apocalypse Bird	O-02-63	ALEPH	12
64	The King of Greed	O-01-64	WAW	22
66	The Little Prince	O-04-66	WAW	24
67	Laetitia	O-01-67	HE	16
68	Funeral of the Dead Butterflies	T-01-68	HE	16
69	Der Freischütz	F-01-69	HE	18
70	Dream of a Black Swan	F-02-70	WAW	24
71	The Dreaming Current	T-02-71	WAW	20
72	The Burrowing Heaven	O-04-72	WAW	24
73	The Knight of Despair	O-01-73	WAW	22
74	The Naked Nest	O-02-74	WAW	22
75	The Mountain of Smiling Bodies	T-01-75	ALEPH	30
76	Schadenfreude	O-05-76	HE	18
77	The Heart of Aspiration	T-09-77	TETH	X
78	Notes from a Crazed Researcher	T-09-78	HE	X
79	Flesh Idol	T-09-79	WAW	X
80	Giant Tree Sap	T-09-80	HE	X
81	Mirror of Adjustment	O-09-81	ZAYIN	X
82	Shelter from the 27th of March	T-09-82	HE	X
83	Fairy Festival	F-04-83	ZAYIN	X
84	Meat Lantern	O-04-84	TETH	14
85	We Can Change Anything	T-09-85	ZAYIN	X
86	Express Train to Hell	T-09-86	WAW	X
87	Scarecrow Searching for Wisdom	F-01-87	HE	18
88	Dimensional Refraction Variant	O-03-88	WAW	22
89	CENSORED	O-03-89	ALEPH	32
90	Skin Prophecy	T-09-90	TETH	X
91	Portrait of Another World	O-09-91	HE	X
92	Today's Shy Look	O-01-92	TETH	12
93	Blue Star	O-03-93	ALEPH	33
94	You Must Be Happy	T-09-94	ZAYIN	X
95	Luminous Bracelet	O-09-95	TETH	X
96	Behavior Adjustment	O-09-95	TETH	X
97	Old Faith and Promise	T-09-97	ZAYIN	X
98	Porccubus	O-02-98	HE	18
99	Void Dream	T-02-99	TETH	14
100	Grave of Cherry Blossoms	O-04-100	TETH	12
101	The Firebird	O-02-101	WAW	24
102	Yin	O-05-102	WAW	20
103	Yang	O-07-103	WAW	X
104	Backward Clock	D-09-104	WAW	X
105	Il Pianto della Luna	D-01-105	WAW	20
106	Army in Black	D-01-106	ZAYIN	30
107	Ppodae	D-02-107	TETH	12
108	Parasite Tree	D-04-108	WAW	24
109	Melting Love	D-03-109	ALEPH	32
110	Clouded Monk	D-01-110	WAW	22
??	You're Bald...	Bald-Is-Awesome!	ZAYIN	6

Version History

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Development

Lobotomy Corporation had many changes through its development cycle, resulting in tremendous differences between the current version of the game and older versions. The most significant change was the transition away from the “Legacy” version.

Alpha

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Beta

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Legacy Version

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Official Release

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Staff

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Trivia

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Gallery

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External Links

References

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