Fandom Pimping/Brainstorming

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We're a month away from nominations opening, but it's never too early to start thinking about what fandoms you plan to offer/request!

Use the comments of this post to promote your robot-filled fandoms, or ask for recommendations of new fandoms to check out for this exchange. Any fandom is eligible so long as it has at least one character who fits the theme of Turing Fest; there are no requirements for fandom rarity or medium type.

(As a reminder, "robot" is just a term used for convenience. AIs, androids, mecha, machines, cyborgs, and any other character types within that technology-focused ballpark are welcome.)

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Off the top of my head, 3 games with female/customisable protagonists:

Mass Effect trilogy: Space opera PC game with AI-ish villains, another morally complex AI species, and various other AIs, robots, and cyborgs. You get to explore various questions about The Nature of Sentience And Ethics through choices that affect the outcome of the story. Has an easy mode, and mods if you want to play it as a visual novel. The protagonist can be a man or woman and becomes a cyborg in game 2, they can date a bunch of cute people of various genders and species, sadly none are robots.

Horizon Zero Dawn: The post apocalyptic robot dinosaurs game. PS4 only. The protagonist is a young woman from the iron age culture that has grown up in the ruins of The Old Ones (eg, us) The previously peaceful robot megafauna they shared the land with have become violent, and the journey to find out why, and discover her own past, is very cool, and involves a bunch of fantastic artificial intelligences. Has a story mode which is pretty easy, but no mods.

Portal: A puzzle game where the system prompting you to do the puzzles becomes increasingly murderous. In a loveable way! The sequel, Portal 2, fleshes out the characters and worldbuilding more and is even better.