MONTREAL, QC – May 13, 2026 – North Side Inc. announces release of the official trailers for Bot Colony _Redux and details the game’s upcoming multilingual support.
Today, North Side is releasing the official trailer for Bot Colony _Redux.
A new extended gameplay trailer is also available now.
Language is one of the core gameplay mechanics of Bot Colony _Redux, and making the game playable in multiple languages — or even a mix of two languages — opens the door to creative, funny, and natural interactions for players around the world.
Bot Colony _Redux is a multilingual sci-fi adventure where you can speak or type naturally to robots in English or 10 other languages. Play entirely in English — or mix languages for fun. Want to interrogate a robot in Korean, flirt badly in Spanish, argue in Russian, or switch between Portuguese and English mid-conversation? Go for it. The robots can switch too, which has already created some gloriously weird and hilarious moments during testing.
North Side will be running another Steam Playtest (featuring all episodes of the game) soon, in preparation for Early Access. Players will be able to sign up through Steam and the Bot Colony _Redux Discord server. Note: multilingual dialogue is not shown in the trailers; players will experience it for the first time in the next Playtest.
The team has been hard at work preparing the game for larger-scale testing, including:
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Checkpoints across all episodes
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Improved streaming and responsiveness
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Humanity Tests with upgraded lip sync and facial animation
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Two playable missions in the “Intruder” episode
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Expanded “Arrival” episode content
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Stealth-shooter gameplay in the “Riot” episode
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Emotive AI-powered character voices
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Real-time lighting improvements
Bot Colony _Redux combines immersive storytelling, real-time conversation, and AI-driven characters in ways that players haven’t experienced before.
For press inquiries, please contact: eugene@northsideinc.com
About North Side
North Side is an independent game development studio based in Montreal. The company unveiled the original Bot Colony prototype at GDC in March 2009.
Bot Colony was the first video game to use situated language — language that references objects and entities in a 3D environment — as a core gameplay mechanic. North Side also pioneered a full natural-language-understanding pipeline for games, including parsing, disambiguation, coreference resolution, reasoning, and dialogue management to support more interactive conversations with virtual characters.
Other pioneering language-driven games such as Sony/Konami’s Lifeline, Sega’s Seaman, and Façade explored different approaches to conversational interaction.
Originally promoted with the slogan “AI that talks!”, Bot Colony was conceived as an immersive speech-driven adventure game for PC.
Today, the team is developing Bot Colony _Redux, a multilingual sci-fi experience that combines LLMs, speech-to-text, emotive text-to-speech, and Unreal Engine technology to create immersive conversational gameplay.
For more information, visit www.botcolony.com and www.northsideinc.com.