Standalone tabletop adventure · Political satire
Midterms 2026
Battle for the Hill
Take a party of unlikely political heroes through a fantasy Capitol dungeon. Explore hidden chambers, roll combat dice, cast spells and defeat the three Hydra bosses in this fictional, satirical adventure.
Click to play · No installation
Play Midterms 2026
The browser edition runs locally in your browser. Use a desktop browser with a mouse and keyboard, and open fullscreen for the clearest view of the board.
Click Play to load the game. Your first launch downloads the game assets.
Free download · Standalone game
Install Midterms 2026: Battle for the Hill and play
Download the game for your computer. The game and its runtime are included; no Godot, Git, coding tools or RobOS installation needed.
Windows: open the installer, then leave “Play” checked to start. You can launch it again from your desktop or Start menu.
Portable: extract the ZIP and open the game. Linux: mark the game executable if needed. macOS downloads are unsigned. Windows and Linux builds are for 64-bit Intel/AMD computers.
Release notes & checksums · Also available on itch.io · Build from source
Storm the Capitol dungeon
Lead Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders through a fictional fantasy dungeon, with turn-based movement, fog of war, treasure and tactical combat. Defeat Talarixon, Brownsted and El-Rogers to complete Battle for the Hill.
This release opens directly into the election campaign and includes the game engine. It is a standalone edition of the campaign in RobOS Tabletop RPG.
Context engineering with RobOS
From knowledge graph to playable game
Midterms 2026: Battle for the Hill starts with a knowledge graph (KGraph) describing its Capitol dungeon, heroes, monsters, quests, combat rules and tests. RobOS uses that structured context to turn the graph into a playable game, minimizing AI work by giving coding agents the relevant context and reusing existing code and knowledge.
This is context engineering: describe how the game works, keep that knowledge connected, then use it to build, test and improve the game. Visit Rowbose.com to learn about KGraph context engineering and building or customizing apps with RobOS.
Open source, built with RobOS
A Godot game built with AI coding agents, generated visual content and synthetic character dialogue. No AI account or service is required to play. This is a development build and a work of political satire.
Browse the shared engine and campaign source