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

Rumu is a indie, emotional and female protagonist game developed by Robot House and published by Hammerfall Publishing.
Released on December 12th 2017 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 562 reviews of which 509 were positive and 53 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 (64 bit)
  • Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7800 or greater
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1200 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
MacOS
  • OS: OSX 10.10 (64-bit) or newer (10.11.6 for Metal)
  • Processor: 2.4 GHz or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Metal Compatible Hardware or Hardware with OpenGL 4.1 - (AMD Radeon R9 M290, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M, Intel Iris Pro Graphics, AMD FirePro D300, Radeon Pro Vega 56) or better
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012), iMac (21-inch, Late 2012), iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), Mac Pro (Late 2013)
Linux
  • OS: Any Linux distribution that can run Steam
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz or equivalent
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Graphics card that supports OpenGL 4.1
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
The in-game story about artificial intelligence is unforgettable. Please add chapter features so that I can revisit some day chapter in my literature class. Thank you so much.
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July 2024
A short, beautiful game, that clearly takes inspiration from Asimov (among other science fiction classics, quite literally quoted in-game), on the natural of artificial intelligence, what morals and emotions we may give or ascribe to them, and the potential ramifications of doing so. I'll never look at my Robo-vacuum, Daphne, in the same way ever again. Occasionally the interactions were clunky, but overall it was smooth and relaxing. I would definitely recommend, if you grab it on a sale , like I did.
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July 2024
This is REALLY hard to recommend, honestly. The good outweighs the bad if you get it on sale. I haven't gone that far, but it has some serious problems. Controller inputs aren't well designed, and don't even work for the main menu. Even though it says "save and quit", it actually makes you redo the whole chapter if you do that and relaunch the game. One of the few puzzles completely broke at the skateboard, becoming impossible to finish, as restarting the room doesn't actually restart the room, let alone undo the bug. So you have to restart the WHOLE CHAPTER. You can't skip any of the cutscenes or dialogue. The narrative itself is also severely lacking subtly, though that might hopefully change as I play more. The only thing keeping me going is the cute moments, lovely art direction and music, and unique gameplay design.
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July 2024
This game made me want to get a Roomba and put googly eyes on it. Sadly, my house is unfit for a Roomba at this moment, but once I move elsewhere, Rumu is coming. Fun game, great story. Less enthusiastic about the OST, but that's fine because by the end, you'll love Rumu, I'm sure.
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April 2024
I love Rumu! I loved my first playthrough. After playing the whole game trice and not getting the final three achievements to pop, was disappointing. Unfortunatelly there are still three achievements, which are buggy and yet to be fixed. In the current version, you will need to cheat (use console commands) to force the game to unlock them. Also in the final sequence, I discovered a couple bugs (like falling out of the level and being respawned in mid air - a death loop without escape, except restarting the game and playing the whole sequence anew). The other one is also nasty, since here too, you will need to restart your game. Sometimes Rumu's final dialog does not trigger and the sequence cannot be finished. But regardless of the bugs, the game, the story, the characters, everything is polished, interesting and emotion provoking. I never would have thought to be able to feel sympathy for a fictional, intelligent vacuum cleaner. I love you, developers, for reminding me, what it means to be a human! BbyWX
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Rumu
8.5
509
53
Online players
2
Developer
Robot House
Publisher
Hammerfall Publishing
Release 12 Dec 2017
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